Insisting that the Government was on a bad legal footing and accusing the Holness administration of “selling out” the country as it sought to have China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) build the Montego Bay Permit Road Project, Opposition Lea...

Jamaica has recorded its lowest COVID-19 infections, positivity rate, and hospitalisation numbers since the late March weekend lockdowns. The health ministry reported that on Monday, 39 samples tested positive, reflecting a 3.3 per cent positivity....

The 14-year-old girl who was slain in a jealous rage by a 20-year-old who obsessed over her had engaged in acts of self-mutilation and even went missing in an apparent cry for help. That is the account of Cooper’s stepfather Andre Stewart, who tol...

The internal audit unit of the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service has admitted to errors in a report of the Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) which was tabled in Parliament in April. In a letter to members of Parliament’s Public Accoun...

WESTERN BUREAU: Stenneth Wilson, the 62-year-old Trelawny farmer who allegedly chopped his 29-year-old partner, Nickeisha Keeling, to death on the weekend, has now been formally charged with murder. Commanding officer of the Trelawny Police...

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WESTERN BUREAU: The security guard who allegedly used a piece of wood to beat a vendor at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, last Thursday turned himself in at the Freeport Police Station in the western city on Tuesday. Winston...

Jonielle Daley/Staff Reporter Daniella Anglin was sitting at the edge of her seat last March when Jamaica’s most popular track and field competition, the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Champs, was cancelled because of the pandemic. The Herb...

The public has been responding positively to an appeal by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) to desist from the ad hoc distribution of meals to the homeless in the Corporate Area. Mayor of Kingston Delroy Williams said that......

Andre Stewart, stepfather of Danesha Cooper – a 14-year-old Jonathan Grant High student, who died in the Kingston Public Hospital from stab wounds on Monday – said he had tried to prevent the relationship she had with her alleged 21-year-old kil...

WESTERN BUREAU: As hundreds of athletes vie for medals in the first staging of Boys and Girls’ Champs in the COVID-19 era, mega businesses and small traders alike are already counting their losses from the empty stands that will ring hollow in the...

In his first public comment on the controversial endorsement of vigilante justice by Senator Lambert Brown, Opposition Leader Mark Golding has rejected that declaration but sought diplomatic cover by saying the People’s National Party (PNP)-aligne...

During her hot streak, Andrea Gordon transferred $7,278,234.36 from the accounts of National Commercial Bank (NCB) in four months, from December 2019 to April 2020. And it was that series of transactions that drew heat from the police and bank...

Tamesha Dixon, a fifth-form student at Dunoon Park Technical High School, is grateful for the opportunity to attend face-to-face classes as she gears up to sit exit examinations. “When I’m at home, it is very distracting. In the community,...

A brother of the businessman who was gunned down at his Old Hope Road bar on Monday said that a history of violence has haunted the family, with Robert Fletcher being the third relative killed at the location. The murder trail led the police to the....

Parents are being encouraged to support their children with special needs by maintaining their regime as best as possible. Routines are a grounding force for many children, and those living with special needs, especially, become very attached to a....

WESTERN BUREAU: Irate residents of All-Side in southern Trelawny yesterday protested the killing of a man, who was allegedly shot dead by his best friend after being invited over for drinks. The deceased has been identified as 27-year-old Kimorlay.....

WESTERN BUREAU: As the nation awaits the findings of an investigation into the exposure of thousands of files on the JamCOVID web portal, Jamaicans have been cautioned that no government database is impenetrable.

WESTERN BUREAU: While 24 public educational institutions in western Jamaica remained closed yesterday, 129 welcomed students in a partial reopening of schools to help students in grades six, 11, 12 and 13 to prepare for exit examinations. The day......

An eight-year-old boy missed out on Sunday’s Mother’s Day celebration after his 29-year-old mom was hacked to death overnight in a suspected case of jealous rage by her elderly common-law partner in Clark’s Town, Trelawny. When lawmen accompa...