Six months after he assumed leadership of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Director General Leslie Harrow has quit the relief organisation in apparent displeasure over interference by an overbearing local...

WESTERN BUREAU: The party boat that capsized in Negril last weekend was not licensed to carry visitors, says the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), an agency of the Ministry of the Tourism. And the operators are to be charged by the...

Melody Francis, the fiancée of 66-year-old George Smart,who was rescued after three days from a 55-foot pit in the Jones Avenue section of Spanish Town, St Catherine, is ready to tie the knot as soon as he recovers from an ordeal in which he dodged...

Ian Dawson, 64, has come face to face with sharks too many times to count. But the secret to survival, he says, is to show no fear. “Sharks, like most living things, move based on your fear ... . Once you face them, them haffi think twice,” the ...

As two cases of violent sexual assault on minors spoil the start of Child Month in St Ann, parish leaders have expressed outrage, calling for greater protection of the nation’s most vulnerable citizens. In the first instance, the police reported.....

Jamaica has served notice of its plans to restrict travel from Trinidad and Tobago following a new spike in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and the discovery of the troublesome Brazilian variant there. That country’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley......

Seamen who spearfish have been warned of the danger of shark attacks, with a marine expert saying that traditional practices transform the hunters into bait. But the rising concern over increased shark sightings in Jamaica’s territorial waters ma...

The more than 1,500 employees of the HEART/NSTA Trust are expected to get some clarity on the troubled leadership of the national training agency today when senior officials speak to them on “strategic matters”. Concerns have been mounting amon...

SEATTLE (AP): Bill and Melinda Gates said on Monday that they are divorcing but would keep working together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in the world. In identical tweets, the Microsoft co-...

A man who was in January taken into custody as a suspect in the brutal slaying of three homeless men in Kingston is again being questioned following Sunday’s attack on four homeless men in the same parish. The men, who were attacked during their....

WESTERN BUREAU: Anthony Ricardo Bailey, the 34-year-old Trelawny butcher who allegedly launched a near-fatal knife attack on his former girlfriend Stephina Ralston, was remanded when he appeared in the Trelawny Parish Court on Monday. Bailey, who......

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. �...

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...