Professor Donald Jasper Harris will be this year’s only inductee into the Order of Merit, Jamaica’s third-highest honour, for his outstanding contributions to national development. He will be among 144 Jamaicans who will be given National Honou...

Jumping over zinc fences and bearing the weight of old tyres as he ran up and down the hill of Cashew Lane in Port Morant, St Thomas, may have all contributed to the crowning of Hansle Parchment as the newest 110m hurdles Olympic champion....

Jamaica’s health officials are banking on an upswing in COVID-19 vaccinations as new survey data are emerging suggesting a softening of the high levels of hesitancy that have stymied the pace of inoculation. That news is likely to be a fillip for...

In every career, there comes an accomplishment that makes one complete. For coach Fitz Coleman, that defining moment glistened on an Olympic gold medal-winning performance, delivered by Hansle Parchment in the men’s 110m final at the Tokyo 2020......

TOKYO, Japan: Jamaica’s male and female sprint relay teams will be on the hunt for gold medals in their respective events at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium today as the Tokyo 2020 Games nears its end. The women’s 4x100m team of Briana Williams,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Prominent members of the Rastafarian community in western Jamaica and sympathisers of the movement staged a peaceful demonstration in Sam Sharpe Square, Montego Bay, on Thursday to protest what they have described as state-...

A Westmoreland fisherman who was sentenced to life in prison for holding up a woman with a knife and raping her near a police station has had his sentence reduced to 20 years. Ian Wilson was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of......

The Jamaica Employers’ Federation (JEF) has started drafting a proposal for mandatory vaccination of workers amid growing concern about the island’s low rate of inoculation against the coronavirus disease. Those overtures, yet to be dispatched t...

TOKYO, Japan: As her powerful strides ate up the Tokyo Olympic Stadium’s Mondo track, pulling in the Great Britain and United States’ anchor-leg runners in the women’s 4x100m relay heats, one couldn’t help but wonder the heroics Shericka Jac...

Three men were savagely slain by gunmen on Wednesday at a house located off Brooks Level Road in Stony Hill, an area that has recorded five murders in less than a month. The trio were killed with high-powered weapons about 11:45 a.m. The deceased....

The management of the Nature Preservation Foundation (NPF) and the union representing workers at the non-governmental organisation (NGO) are on a collision course over a worker who was made redundant in June. The National Workers’ Union (NWU) has....

Opposition Leader Mark Golding is chiding the Andrew Holness administration for “dragging its feet” on a Constitution (Amendment) (Impeachment) bill that was tabled in Parliament in April. Golding said that he met with the prime minister at Jama...

Five functionaries of the People’s National Party (PNP), including a former prime minister, are scheduled to be questioned in the Trafigura bribery case over five days in March next year, ending a decade-long wait. Director of Public Prosecution...

Mining company Windalco says it is not responsible for Sunday’s fish kill in the Rio Cobre, for which it has been blamed by the Government’s chief environmental regulator. The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) conducted tests and....

CROSS KEYS, Manchester: One week since taxi operator Dalton Greenwood was bludgeoned along Caledonia Road in Mandeville by another cabbie, relatives who have viewed a viral video of the attack continue to relive the ordeal each time they visit the.....

Andre Lowe/Sports Editor TOKYO, Japan: For fast-rising quarter-miler Candice McLeod, the sky is simply a destination, never a limit. And as the world gets familiar with the ever-improving 24-year-old 400m promise, the Jamaican is eager to continue....

WESTERN BUREAU: A fast-food vendor and a customer became the latest victims of gun crime in Hanover on Tuesday as they were killed at a cook shop just metres away from the Kingsvale Police Station, near the Hanover-Westmoreland border. The deceased....

Surging admissions of COVID-19 patients have sparked a bedspace crisis at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) — a snapshot in a montage of malady threatening healthcare services across Jamaica which is in the throes of a third wave o...

TOKYO, Japan: Jamaican sprinter Rasheed Dwyer says he is looking to deliver a strong performance in the men’s 200 metres final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, after booking a somewhat surprising qualification, which he has dedicated to his coach,...

West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) is to be charged for breaches under the Wild Life Protection Act after an investigation by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) found that the bauxite company is responsible for Monday’s fish.....