Australian authorities say a criminal investigation that was opened after Jamaica’s music ambassador Richie Stephens was accused of sexual abuse in 2019 is closed, despite an insistence by alleged victim Elaine Lim that she was raped by the reggae...

Sunday’s dramatic stand-off between the police and an angry crowd, and an enraged 69-year-old man accused of abusing his adult son, serves as a wake-up call that sufficient staffing and other resources must be pumped into mental-health care, a......

When Patria Baugh spent over a decade taking care of her autistic daughter, Leah, she thought she was facing the greatest battle of her life. However, it was only preparing her for a tougher challenge: breast cancer. The Jamaica-born Baugh now...

“I am pained.” Those words capture the magnitude of the test the Rev Karl Johnson faces as he assumed the pastorate of the historic Phillippo Baptist Church in Spanish Town, the former Jamaican capital that is seized with mob crime and endemic....

Several business owners and other stakeholders in St Thomas have lamented the dust bowl conditions of the Lyssons to Port Morant main road following the start of remedial works. The construction, which forms part of the Southern Coastal Highway...

Factories Corporation of Jamaica Limited (FCJ) is rejecting as “erroneous” and “deceptive” claims by businessman Gordon Baldie that he was unfairly evicted from the rented warehouse space he operated in Trelawny. On Sunday, FCJ released a.....

Danny Roberts new deputy chair of IDT Labour law and trade unionism expert Danny Roberts is heading to the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) as its deputy chairman. A highly placed government source confirmed Roberts' appointment to the IDT, a.....

A businessman facing millions of dollars in losses after being evicted from a warehouse had leased from the state-owned Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) after falling behind in payments is calling for the intervention of Prime Minister Andrew...

The instalment of a board member of the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) as human resource (HR) manager of the public entity is stirring disquiet at the agency with the reality that the post was being advertised weeks after the board official took....

If you get the feeling more Jamaicans have been dying in recent years, you may be on to something. But while records for the last decade have reflected an overall increase in local morbidity numbers, the unpredictability of the looming COVID-19...

Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) Chairman Ian Dear has declined to say whether directors considered the Petrojam-scandal-scarred past of Lionel Myrie before agreeing to appoint him as interim executive director of the state agency...

With some 60,000 doses of the island’s cache of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines having expired on Friday, Professor Peter Figueroa has called into question the manner in which the Government distributed the jabs as some Jamaicans were denied shots.....

More people are turning to alcohol and drugs to cope with the onslaught of the coronavirus, but with the pandemic decimating most face-to-face interactions, it may not be long in coming before local researchers know just how hard Jamaicans are...

A number of Jamaicans who have emigrated to Ethiopia decades ago, heralding what they call a return to the motherland continent, are living a nightmare in the East African country, which many Rastafarians still wish to one day call home. The...

Car thieves are running rampant in Portmore in St Catherine, and homes, malls, and make-do parking spots outside the Portmore Tax Office on Braeton Parkway seem to be their preferred hunting grounds. It is a worrying reality that has forced police.....

PORT MARIA, ST MARY Eventually, protection from COVID-19 will have to be a personal responsibility, as the Government cannot continue the containment protocols forever, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared. “The Government cannot continue....

The Opposition People’s National Party says the decision to appoint Lionel Myrie as the interim head of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) is alarming and should be rescinded. In a statement on Friday, Spokesperson on Tourism Janice.....

When 77-year-old Beryl Bryan did not return from a trip to secure her goats in Drewsland, St Andrew, as it rained heavily on Thursday afternoon, Lorraine Shaw had an intuitive sense of unease. Bryan was accustomed to venturing out to secure her...

WESTERN BUREAU: Two weeks after discussions with the United Kingdom (UK) government on the acceptance of AstraZeneca vaccine codes not recognised by that European country, Jamaica is yet to see a change in status. The island is among a group of...

Sidelined former People’s National Party (PNP) parliamentarian Kern Spencer has chastised dissident members for sowing discord in the beleaguered political movement. He has also urged rival factions to stop inflicting wounds and accept that they.....