With the Ministry of Education unable to account for how $124 million in taxpayers’ money was spent by the Cecil Cornwall-chaired Joint Committee on Tertiary Education (JCTE), Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has recommended that Portfolio...

Acting Permanent Secretary Dr Grace McLean has sought to provide an explanation for the education ministry’s handling of more than $100 million paid to the Joint Committee of Tertiary Education (JCTE) without reportedly knowing specifically how th...

Growing advocacy for the implementation of mandatory vaccination should be resisted by Jamaicans because it trespasses on their constitutional rights, says controversial leader of Jamaica’s fledgling third registered party, Joseph Patterson....

The dreadlocked couple who were last year dealt a blow after the Supreme Court ruled that Kensington Primary School did not breach their child’s constitutional rights when it reportedly denied her access in 2018 on account of a similar hairstyle.....

Sharing horrific anecdotes in an address to Parliament on Tuesday, State Minister Robert Morgan described child abuse as “one of the biggest threats to Jamaica today”. Morgan, whose portfolio responsibility in the Ministry of Education, Youth an...

The brother of retired police chief Owen Ellington is recovering from injuries he sustained in a confrontation with a man who was fatally shot during a reported break-in at the former commissioner’s Glengoffe, St Catherine, home. Crime-scene tap...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands has appointed new management for the Westmoreland-based Clifton Boys’ Home in the wake of an abuse scandal that has rocked the 60-year-old facility. The home is to be headed by...

WESTERN BUREAU: Although murders in St James have increased by more than 38 per cent year-on-year, Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers, the commander for Area One, says more people would have been killed in the parish had the zone of....

Dhaima Facey’s knees buckled as she collapsed in a doorway at her Foster Lane, Kingston, home as she beseeched for the safe return of her 25-year-old son Garth Williams, who has been missing since Saturday. “I was actually in my room cleaning an...

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Leeroy Williams has said that despite many notable achievements over the last four decades, the Second City is being held back from realising its true potential by challenging social issues. Montego Bay, which is......

Months before he was cut down in an alleged firefight with the police on Monday, the days appeared to be numbered for reputed gangster Christopher Linton as the noose tightened around his inner circle of cronies who sought to resurrect his reign of....

The August Town police are on high alert following the shooting death of feared gangster Christopher ‘Dog Paw’ Linton on Monday, suggesting that it is unlikely his cronies will turn a blind eye. Sub-officer in charge, Inspector Stephen Taylor...

Joseph Patterson’s United Independents’ Congress (UIC), Jamaica’s third registered political party, has unveiled a far-reaching social agenda, including the championing of abortion rights. Patterson explained that his party is anchored to the....

Transport and Mining Minister Robert Montague is to face questions from the parliamentary Opposition as to whether he still has confidence in the board of the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) after it dispensed with government regulations and......

WESTERN BUREAU: Players in the island’s global services – formerly business process outsourcing (BPO) – sector are aiming to generate some 7,500 new jobs by March 2022, bringing the total numbers of persons employed to upwards of 50,000. Glori...

Portland businessman Kevin Sudeall has been fined $1 million or 30 days’ imprisonment for interfering with the administration of justice. Supermarket operators Garfield Sinclair and Lynsetta Sinclair had filed an application on July 7 seeking a......

An alleged member of the Easy Scream Gang who was last year arrested and charged for reportedly firing at a policeman was found not guilty of gun and assault charges in the Gun Court on Friday. Ian Sommerville, 28, otherwise called ‘Buju’, of.....

Declaring that he was not in favour of mandatory COVID-19 shots, Opposition Leader Mark Golding has inveighed against calls for mandatory vaccination, arguing as well that the absence of indemnification by the Government or manufacturer of the...

While not yet out of the woods, residents of Unity and Fern Hill in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew, have been breathing a sigh of relief as they now have access to a more regular supply of water flowing through their pipes. The waterflow, which is...

Despite a vigorous defence of the academic integrity of The University of the West Indies (UWI) by its vice-chancellor, lecturers and students have said that the culture of cheating extends beyond examinations to essay-writing and other work. A...