Eight-year-old Xavier ‘Bojo’ Phillips had plans to call his father yesterday, but that is a call his father will never get as an early morning attack by gunmen left the child dead. Little Xavier was shot and killed in the Howells Content area of...

Four board members of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) were dumped in July, weeks after a meeting they insisted on to get the position of president advertised and a forensic audit done of more than $300 million worth of...

As the Government prepares for the possibility of the full resumption of face-to-face education in September, public-health experts and educators are expressing concern about the health and safety of students, the majority of whom commute via...

As COVID-19 cases continue to climb across the island, plunging the country into a third wave of the virus, the Ministry of Health is reporting that all large hospitals are now over their capacity for admissions. According to Permanent Secretary in....

Audrey Smith Facey was known as the strongest of the three councillors Portia Simpson Miller had in her political arsenal in St Andrew South Western for nearly two decades, and she was widely expected to replace the member of parliament (MP) when......

CLARENDON: Nurse Sandra Lindsay, who made history on December 14 in the United States by being the first person to take the COVID-19 vaccine in New York, is appealing to Jamaicans to join in the fight against the debilitating virus by also taking......

MANDEVILLE, MANCHESTER: At its 98th commencement and graduation ceremony yesterday, where over 500 students were presented with degrees, the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) conferred an Honorary Doctor of Liberal Arts Degree on veteran...

Permanent Secretary in the Health Ministry Dunstan Bryan is reporting that all large hospitals are now over their capacity for COVID admissions. According to Byran in the west, where the situation is especially bad, some medical staff are being...

A Jamaican farm worker remains in critical condition under intensive care at a Canadian hospital after being stabbed by a colleague on Friday. The names of the injured worker and his attacker have not been released. The circumstances that led...

Jamaica's COVID worry deepened over the weekend with more deaths, hospitalisations and infections across the country. According to the Ministry of Health, there were three deaths on Saturday. Latest COVID deaths 1. A 62-year-old female...

TOKYO, Japan: Nine medals on paper show Jamaica’s lowest haul at the Olympic Games since the 2004 installment in Athens, but, in reality, it represented significant success for a transitioning Jamaican team, highlighted by the coronation of Elaine...

There is no room for remorse if you are a Jamaican scammer. On the best days, such feelings could jeopardise one’s loot, while on the worse, it may cause a slip-up that ends in a prison sentence or death. That’s the resolve of some scammers who...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Good Samaritan who gave taxi fare to Olympic gold medallist Hansle Parchment in Japan, allowing him to secure his place in history, is being invited to Jamaica by the Government. The woman who literally saved Parchment from...

The Reverend Merrick ‘Al’ Miller could not believe what he had just heard after he answered his telephone while relaxing at home with his family last Monday. The caller disclosed that he had been selected to receive a national honour, Commander ...

President of the Medical Association of Jamaica, Dr Andrew Manning, believes that Jamaica is now in the midst of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. On Thursday, the country recorded 326 new cases, which is the second-highest number of cases...

TOKYO, Japan: Jamaica will be looking to close out the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on a positive note after enjoying success in the women’s 4x100m relay inside the Tokyo Olympic Stadium as the island celebrated its Independence on Friday. The team o...

Two criminals awaiting sentencing at the Hunts Bay Police Station lock-up made a pre-Independence Day jailbreak and are still on the run. Yesterday, the leadership of the station held an emergency meeting to, among other things, ascertain how the......

An 11-year-old girl, who just passed her Primary Exit Profile examination to attend Westwood High in September, has been left traumatised after gunmen shot and killed her mother at their home in Tank Lane, Oracabessa, St Mary, on Thursday night....

Trench Town residents claim that their community will never return to the days of peaceful living and enjoyment following Thursday night’s senseless attack that left six persons, including a woman, nursing gunshot wounds after a drive-by shooting....

St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has been released from a Barbados hospital where he underwent several tests yesterday morning. Gonzalves was hit on the head with a stone near the Parliament on Thursday as he made his...