WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the resort town of Negril were not surprised at Wednesday’s police crackdown at Rick’s Café Negril, many telling The Gleaner that it was long overdue. The residents contend that flouting the Disaster Risk Management...

The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) on Wednesday handed down a $12.5-million award to Dr Sandra Williams-Phillips, a consultant cardiologist who was unjustifiably dismissed some 11 years ago from the Bustamante Hospital for Children. In arriving....

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Herbert Gayle, social anthropology lecturer at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, says that boys should not be expected to act like girls in emotional expression or communication style and must be trained in how to...

Political representatives and guests gathered yesterday to honour the life and legacy of Jamaica’s fifth prime minister and longest-serving member of parliament, Edward Seaga. Seaga, who was head of Government from November 1980 to February 1989...

Glowing tributes were paid to retiring Court of Appeal Justice Hilary Phillips yesterday during a special sitting of the court as the curtain came down on her 47-year legal career. President of the Court of Appeal Patrick Brooks, who led the...

Egeton Newman is hoping that, given the experience racked up by members of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), which he leads, they should have a seat at the negotiation table when the Office of Utilities Regulation (.....

A St Thomas mom is fearing the worst after her son, a cab driver, has been missing for nearly two weeks without any substantive leads. “As a mother, I just feel like somebody kill him because I am nervous in my stomach … . I just feel like they....

The report of the Joint Select Committee reviewing the Sexual Harassment Bill is to be tabled in the House of Representatives, along with a raft of amendments, on June 8, the same day Gender Affairs Minister Olivia Grange is scheduled to make her......

Dr Dayton Campbell may have survived as general secretary amid a developing scandal but the decision to retain him in the People’s National Party’s (PNP) senior ranks has sparked a smouldering conflict that could further torch a deeply divided....

Popular western Jamaica tourist hotspot Rick's Cafe has admitted to breaching the island's COVID-19 safety laws after videos emerged on Thursday of beachgoers frolicking at a Mocha Fest party. Strategist in the tourism ministry, Delano Seiveright,....

“They said that my name is on a bullet.” That is the chilling warning reportedly relayed to Rosalie Hamilton, the sitting Jamaica Labour Party councillor for the Rae Town division, who has observed rising tensions between rival gangs that have.....

At 49 years old, Joan Edwards, a Jamaican in Livingston, New Jersey, is a happy, accomplished woman. She is the mother of two grown children and has just graduated with a doctoral degree in nursing practice from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix.....

A dump. That’s the long and short of the No. 5 Cemetery in Spanish Town, metres away from the blighted high-rises of Tawes Pen in the distance. Situated at the vertex of Manchester Street, Chambers Lane, and Wellington Street, the burial ground ha...

Attempts to derail criminal investigations by falsifying, concealing, destroying or disposing of documents or items relevant to a probe could land offenders in serious trouble with the law. The proposed penalty, if new provisions in the Criminal......

Investigators are probing the circumstances leading to the death of an elderly woman, whose body was discovered by a gardener at her Gardenia Boulevard home in Mona, St Andrew, on Tuesday. The deceased, Ruth DeCasseres Murray, 76, is a retiree and....

WESTERN BUREAU: Lolleta Scarlett, the mother of a Hanover woman scorched in an alleged fit of rage by a jealous boyfriend last week, was in tears as she watched Nicola Clarke being wheeled out of the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St...

Embattled People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell has asserted that sex crime allegations levelled against him are part of an ouster plot This development could open up fresh wounds in an internecine conflict between...

A 22-year-old Kingston baker who was last week convicted for having sex with a minor, impregnating her, has expressed remorse for the crime and is urging other men not to commit the same offence. In January, Andre Frame pleaded guilty to two...

WESTERN BUREAU: With Jamaica lacking a burn unit to adequately treat her severe injuries, Nicola Clarke, the Hanover woman who was allegedly doused with gasolene and set on fire by her jealous boyfriend last Wednesday, is to head to the United...

Yielding to intense lobbying from teachers, governments, and UNICEF, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has made adjustments to this year’s examinations in the wake of COVID-19 displacement as well as volcanic activity in St Vincent....