Students poised to sit a range of exit and external examinations are set to return to school for face-to-face engagement, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced. The declaration covers the Primary Exit Profile (PEP), the Caribbean Secondary...

A three-vehicle crash on the Chapelton main road in Clarendon has left a little boy an orphan. His father, Hector Mowen, a taxi operator who plies the May Pen to Chapelton route, was flung from his vehicle into a culvert on Tuesday afternoon and...

Four days after Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) Director General Leslie Harrow departed the disaster-relief agency, he stoutly denied reports of a tumultuous tenure and allegations of political interference from the....

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has been asked to probe the farm work programme after allegations surfaced on Tuesday that there was a parallel illegal scheme operating out of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security which has responsibility.....

Jay-Anne Johnson was initially bothered by the fact that she was the only black student in her classes at the Virginia-based university she attended. But on Sunday, the Jamaica-born 21-year-old will become the first black female student to graduate....

The Home Circuit Court on Tuesday heard that the prosecution has found new evidence in the murder case involving popular Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, who is accused of orchestrating the murder of his two wives. The ...

Several residents of Caymanas Bay in St Catherine have been without an income since the closure of Nature’s Paradise, the major attraction in the area. The river, which is also used as an event venue, has been shuttered because of COVID-19...

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has nudged judges to issue longer prison terms to convicts, as a strong signal to the country amid howls from certain groups over perceived light sentences being handed down from the Bench. In making his contribution.....

Two soldiers who are facing sex charges following an alleged attack on a female trainee at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Up Park Camp headquarters in St Andrew are to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on June 25. Private Michael....

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......