Upcoming artiste Prince Ikeem is a broken man. His best friend, confidant and son Jahiem Bogle yesterday succumbed to injuries he received on Thursday after being shot in his head while riding his bicycle in Arnett Gardens. Prince Ikeem, birth...

Western Bureau: The opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP) long-running internal strife churned out more turmoil yesterday with the resignations, with immediate effect, of vice presidents Damion Crawford, Dr Wykeham McNeill, Mikael Phillips ...

Chairman of the Integrity Commission Justice (ret’d) Seymour Panton has described as “false” claims that the anti-corruption oversight body was carrying out a witch-hunt in relation to senior civil servants including permanent secretaries. A.....

The Government of Jamaica is seeking to assure consumers that the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC), for which a merger is close to completion, are the invisible hands working to ensure value for money. State.....

This year’s performance in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination has dipped when compared with the overall results last year. The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information reported a 52.2 per cent pass rate this year, compared to 60 per......

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s Ministry of Health and Wellness is not averse to helping the Chinese to import their state-owned COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm into the island if asked to assist. Director of Family Health Services at the health ministry, Dr...

Western Bureau Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang, the member of parliament (MP) for St James North Western, says the practice of distributing plyboards and zinc to the poor by politicians is helping to keep many Jamaicans trapped in...

Opposition senator Gabriela Morris has recommended that the education ministry accelerates the coding in schools programme, to deliver basic information technology and coding in all secondary institutions. The programme was launched on May 7 and......

Jamaica’s business process outsourcing (BPO) sector is set to expand with the creation of nine new sites across the island by existing players in the market. In his State of the Nation Debate at yesterday’s sitting of the Senate, Aubyn Hill,......

The vaccine shortage that has seen Jamaica trailing many of its Caribbean counterparts in per-capita immunisation against COVID-19 will be eased shortly with the Boris Johnson administration poised to announce, in a matter of days, a significant...

Winston Jarrett’s life of crime began at age 19 when he was first convicted for a minor infraction. Now, after racking up 16 other convictions – the last two for murder – the 62-year-old watchman could die in prison. Jarrett got numerous chanc...

Keisha Hall is a broken woman as she tries to come to terms with the death of her 22-year-old son, Mickael Reid. Hall had refused to speak with her son during a two-week-long dispute over a car. She admits to repeatedly walking past him inside the....

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Mandeville Mayor Donovan Mitchell’s dramatic resignation may have been spurred by opposition from councillors to his June 30 decision to lay off more than a dozen municipal police following an altercation between one cop an...

WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie got in a fit of rage during his tour of Westmoreland on Thursday after discovering that a matron’s quarters and male ward at the Savanna-la-Mar Infirmary were still incomplete despite...

Ten of the 15 Honduran fishermen who went missing at sea since last week have been rescued. They were aboard the Rainforest Seafood-owned Fallen Star fishing boat en route to Jamaica from Honduras when signals to the vessel were lost. The 10...

A study has found that an alarming number of foods in Jamaica are high in trans and saturated fats, with some products on local shelves registering traces despite being labelled as free of the substances. The findings are troubling for health...

Mother of 17-year-old Kayland Dowdie, who was last November battered within an inch of her life and has been hospitalised since, says her daughter will not be able to give the police a statement as she has lost her memory. “Kaylan has no...

Many of the neediest Jamaicans did not access state welfare to cushion the blows of the COVID-19 pandemic because they live on the fringes of the informal sector or do not have official identification, a study by the Caribbean Policy Research...

Funeral home operators contracted by the Government to carry out pauper burials say they are owed in excess of $25 million, but the Institute of Forensic Science and Legal Medicine (IFSLM), which has been fingered for blame, says that funding is...

The abduction of dozens of street people by government workers in 1999 remains a stain on the conscience of Montego Bay, a former mayor of the resort city has said. On the eve of today’s commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the human-rights.....