Philmore McCarthy, treasurer of the Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) for more than four years, declared on Wednesday that he is willing to open the books of the advisory board for an investigation into the transfer of $124 million from....

Sidelined Permanent Secretary Dean-Roy Bernard has charged that the privatisation of the controversial Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) was effected shortly after his exit as chief accounting officer of the Ministry of Education and...

There is seething discontent among rank-and-file police personnel about the lack of specialised training in interfacing with the mentally ill. Recent violent confrontations involving mentally ill persons have seen two assailants killed by the...

A 17-year-old accused contract killer is among four males reputed to be members of a Clarendon gang who have been charged with murder and illegal possession of firearm. The teen, who cannot be named because he is a minor, is charged alongside...

With two recent cases of persons with mental illnesses reportedly killing two men within the public space and other persons escaping serious injury after being attacked, the health ministry is moving to boost its community-based intervention...

Disaster management specialist Ronald Jackson is lamenting the ad hoc approach to addressing environmental issues without deliberate, long-term planning in many developing countries, saying that it is already wreaking havoc on their economies. In......

Lawyers for the self-proclaimed Nazarene couple, whose child was refused a place at Kensington Primary School because of her dreadlocks hairstyle, yesterday argued that the Full Court erred in finding that the child’s constitutional rights had not...

The Government has allocated an additional $5 billion in the Supplementary Estimates to cushion the impact of the pandemic on the most vulnerable Jamaicans. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke announced a number of CARE packages valued at $3.75...

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...

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 a...

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....

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...