Justice Minister Delroy Chuck is hoping that the Sexual Harassment Bill that was passed on Tuesday will send a clear signal about new norms of engagement with women, but he has serious concerns that the tribunal established to review cases will...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has warned party goers flouting the government’s COVID-19 rules that tighter containment measures could be reimposed.

WESTERN BUREAU: With several state agencies now under the microscope amid allegations of sexual abuse at a private children’s home, Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison is calling for more rigorous background checks on prospective staff....

The Government is fast-tracking plans to amend Section 24 of the Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA) that will bring an end to the practice of placing children deemed “uncontrollable” in penal institutions. Section 24 of the CCPA indicates that...

Constituents of Portland Eastern are clamouring for the naming of standard-bearers to fill the power vacuum in the Fellowship and Fairy Hill municipal divisions since the deaths of councillors Irvin Brown and Derron Wood, respectively. Residents of....

WESTERN BUREAU: A common-law couple was shot and killed in their sleep as gun-toting gangsters invaded their home in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, on Tuesday. Those killed have been identified as 21-year-old Anthony ‘Tansuh’ Godfrey and his 19-y...

WESTERN BUREAU: Oyster farmers in Westmoreland who depend heavily on the fortunes of the tourism industry are lamenting an anaemic market that has left them with a stockpile of approximately 21,600 molluscs valued at $3.6 million. Demetrius Samuels....

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that the increasing number of COVID-19-related fatalities is a concern for public-health experts, but the worrying numbers have been blamed on an emerging trend of self-medication and late...

Torrington Park residents are thankful that an attack on the lives of at least three females Monday night did not end fatally. Two women, however, remain hospitalised after the attack, which took place sometime after 8 p.m. Reports are that a...

The woman who was found with an abducted five-week-old baby in 2019 after reportedly agreeing to adopt the infant for $500,000 is to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on July 30. The accused, Anneisha Ramsay, who is in her early...

A 48-hour curfew imposed in Naggo Head, Portmore, since 6 p.m. Monday has not calmed the fears of residents, who believe that more violence will arise from two killings on the weekend. In the first attack, 69-year-old Paulette Brown of West Bank,......

A St Catherine pastor is on the run after he allegedly raped an 11-year-old last Thursday. The victim had been residing with her aunt in the rural community since April to facilitate online classes. The aunt of the pre-teen told The Gleaner that.....

Always wary of living in penetrable board houses during upsurges in gun violence, Sherray Barr and her infant child had sought refuge away from their Sunlight Street, Kingston 13, home that is in the cross hairs of gang violence. Barr and the child....

A St Andrew family is heartbroken after 37-year-old Joseph ‘Jojo’ Smith was killed on Saturday, allegedly by his nephew. The distraught family is pleading with Germaine ‘Kareem’ Richards, 20, who has been identified as the suspect, to turn h...

David Bloomfield was just 10 years old when he went on his first fishing expedition, but despite being robbed on the high seas by gunmen and several frightening encounters with sharks, he says he still feels much safer in the ocean than he does on.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Deploying branches and boulders and seething with rage, protesters transformed the John’s Hall and Spring Mount roads in St James into an obstacle course on Monday, forcing police and soldiers to patrol the corridor as work crews.....

The judge-alone murder trial of the man charged with the murder of then Portland Eastern Member of Parliament Dr Lynvale Bloomfield suffered yet another delay and was on Monday pushed to April 20 next year in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston....

WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland’s shortage of medical doctors has been described as a crisis, with a vocal municipal councillor charging that the parish is short of 250 physicians. Citing that Westmoreland had a population of approximately 150,000,.....

Deadly gun violence that erupted in Hermitage, St Andrew, on the weekend, has driven fear into a grieving family and forced the abandonment of a peace march in August Town. Dadrian Shaye, 33, was reportedly shot in the head and his one-room wooden....

Twenty-year-old Whitney Sinclair just can’t wait for the next crisis to conquer. The Glengoffe, St Catherine, native has bounced back better from just about every adversity and is carving out niche global markets in Africa, Europe, and North...