Both the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) and the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) have offered Michael Reid, the 21-year-old youth who took to social media to lament his trying circumstances recently, free courses of study to...

Karen Cross’ expulsion from the People’s National Party (PNP) last month comes 67 years after Marxist Richard Hart and three others were booted from the political movement in 1954 for their alleged communist views. Also expelled with Hart were.....

The National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) may not be prepared to call it, but researchers at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) are standing behind a study that suggests alcoholism is on the rise locally and that the pressures of COVID-19 are.....

There is still no word from the Office of the Prime Minister as to whether it will heed to the plea for help from Montego Bay businessman Gordon Baldie to save his business. Nonetheless, 51-year-old Baldie, CEO of Inter-Caribbean Automotive Parts......

The Senate has passed two bills that will grant limited right of appeal to the prosecution in criminal proceedings in the Parish Court and the Supreme Court. The Judicature (Appellate Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Act 2021 and the Judicature (Parish......

Penelope Singleton* turned up for work at Qualcare Jamaica Limited in St Andrew last week knowing she had not complied with the new COVID-19 vaccination policy put in place by her employers. The policy, which was outlined in a memo Qualcare...

Kenyan diplomat Dr Monica Juma is hoping to become the consensus candidate for the position of Commonwealth secretary general after heads of government of the 54-country bloc rejected attempts to have the incumbent serve an automatic second four-......

The People’s National Party (PNP) is entering the week of its 83rd annual conference fresh from a battering in opinion polls, public bickering and its application of the strongest disciplinary measure in recent years with the expulsion of former.....

Donovan Samuels, who is among five persons brought over from the board at the centre of the scandal gripping a government company that feeds poor children, says his retention was due to Education Minister Fayval Williams exercising her judgement.......

A planned multibillion-dollar tourism investment for the prime oceanfront in Little Bay, Westmoreland, is hanging in the balance as a group of investors are being frustrated with efforts to evict hundreds of squatters from the property. The...

The Government’s development of Falmouth as a premier tourism destination is being matched by millions of dollars in private investment throughout Trelawny, but indigenous stakeholders are not satisfied with the involvement of locals in planning.....

Buffeted by criticism of the flagship legislation used to contain the coronavirus outbreak, the Holness administration will face an acid test when the first constitutional challenge against the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) is to be mentioned....

The Government is hoping to deliver one million COVID-19 jabs by the end of November, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said. “That is not impossible and not necessarily a very difficult task,” Holness said of the million-mark goal...

WESTERN BUREAU: The 10-year-old girl who was shot in the head as gangsters unleashed deadly gunfire in downtown Montego Bay on Wednesday afternoon is reportedly battling for life at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH). The child and her mother...

The absence of adequate legislation and limited cooperation from the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) are hampering efforts by the police to clamp down on electricity thieves, a senior lawman has argued. The contentious matter, which has...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaican hotels ranked among the Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards’ top 10 in the Caribbean and 12 of the island’s resorts among the 40 best in the...

As the dreaded sound of gunfire sent chills down the spine of Cary Ambersley-Salmon, her 12-year-old daughter alerted her to the sound of her younger sister apparently vomiting. But they faced their worst fears when they realised that five-year-old....

WESTERN BUREAU: Tessa Atkinson’s father, his twin sister, her uncle, grandfather, and grandmother all lost their lives to cancer, evidence that the day would come when her genetics would reveal the deadly disease to her. By age 38, the high-school...

The family of an eighth-grade student at Tacky High has accused school authorities of barring her from attending online classes because she has no uniform. Teachers in most schools require the camera feature to be turned on during lessons and have....

Brazen criminals in inner-city neighbourhoods are renting captured or abandoned premises, fully loaded, free of utility charges for electricity and water, to interested persons and are profiting from encroachment on Jamaica Public Service Company (....