Clive Campbell, captain of the 18-foot ill-fated boat the Kahder, which set out on a spearfishing expedition in which Donovan Haywood returned to land without an arm, described Saturday’s battle with a seven-foot shark as a harrowing nightmare. â...

Jonielle Daley/Staff Reporter August Town has for long been a hotspot of gun violence, but one particular spot, Ivy’s Corner, has cast a haunting spell over the crime-ridden St Andrew community. At 21, Randall Robinson was shot at the bus stop at...

Wayne Wright swayed back and forth to try to soothe the sorrow that threatened to overwhelm him as he recounted readjusting to life on crutches in August Town after getting shot three years ago. The 26-year-old was shot in the ankle on the night......

An intended ice cream break for Veronique Pitter and her autistic son, five-year-old Aiden Watt, proved to be a devastating reminder of the battles the mother fights daily to provide her child with a normal life. Feeling overwhelmed and sleep...

WESTERN BUREAU: Travel classifications on the basis of national COVID-19 vaccination take-up have been condemned as unfair and shocking by stakeholders in the tourism-dependent Caribbean. The objection comes in the wake of proposals in the United......

Seventeen-year-old Reajean Bennett bowed her head and said a prayer as she laid a wreath on the Secret Gardens Monument in downtown Kingston on Sunday in recognition of Child Month. The monument bears the sculpture of a child crying and the base.....

The Westmoreland police have launched an investigation to determine whether a party boat that capsized in the vicinity of Rick’s Cafe in Negril on Saturday afternoon was in breach of the Disaster Risk Management Act. Reports are that the boat,...

The Cecil Cornwall-led Western Hospitality Institute (WHI), which has campuses in three parishes and received millions from the education ministry to deliver programmes, only declared two employees per year for 2017-2019 in payroll taxes to the...

Students matriculating as undergraduates at the tertiary level are increasingly presenting with skill gaps not consistent with their qualifications obtained in high-school exit examinations and many are unprepared for the intensity and academic...

Although shying away from disclosing whether it would assess school-based assessment (SBA) submissions from Jamaica with a sterner measuring stick, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has tagged the practice of teachers making significant...

Despite their different political affiliations, former members of parliament for Westmoreland Central, Dr Karl Blythe and Russell Hammond, are united in their support for calls for the incumbent, George Wright, to resign. Wright, who was elected to....

A prosecutor would have virtually no chance of pinning a charge of assault on a man seen viciously attacking a woman in a viral video without help from the victim on the receiving end of the brutal beatdown, according to legal experts. It appears......

The pain was palpable for Dennis Carter as he mourned the loss of his beloved daughter. Incapacitated by a stroke earlier this year, Carter, who worked as a newspaper vendor, said it would have been better if they had killed him and spared his...

The establishment of an offshore school of medicine at the St Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago is among several initiatives The University of the West Indies (UWI) will be implementing as it aggressively pursues funding on the capital market....

Opposition Senator Lambert Brown has withdrawn his controversial pronouncement that he would push jungle justice if the rule of law breaks down and females in his immediate family were sexually abused or assaulted. In a statement during Friday’s....

Chargé d’Affaires at the United States Embassy in Kingston, John McIntyre, says he has advocated for Jamaica, and the Caribbean to receive supplies from the 60-million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine which the US Government will share with other...

As there are moves now afoot to inject energy into the tourism industry, Opposition Senator Damion Crawford yesterday knocked the Government for not being proactive in getting it ready for life after COVID-19. Presently, bookings at the country’s...

WESTERN BUREAU: Agriculture Minister Floyd Green says he is confident that the construction of a hot-water treatment plant, which is slated to be completed during the current financial year, will help to open more doors for Jamaica in the mango-...

The efforts of pre-school operator, Annette Wynter-Hill, who has been accommodating children daily for online classes, has been bolstered by food donation from the Optimist Club. For the past three years, the educator has been managing Kings and......

Unions serve claims on China Harbour to represent workers on Highway 2000 project The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) and the Union of Clerical, Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE) have served claims for bargaining rights on....