Chief Justice Bryan Sykes and Justice Minister Delroy Chuck have reaffirmed that there are no legal hurdles to the usage of electronic tracking in monitoring individuals charged with serious crimes who receive bail. Calls for the widescale use of.....

While residents of the Glengoffe hometown of alleged Montego Bay cult leader Kevin O. Smith expressed outrage at the reported death ritual that transpired at his Pathways International church last Sunday, family members say they will stick by him......

Approval has been granted for infants zero to five years to return to face-to-face engagement amid the COVID-19 pandemic which has shuttered most schools since March 2020. The education ministry’s bulletin dated Friday, October 22 is good news fo...

WESTERN BUREAU: Faith Temple Assemblies of God’s Bishop Conrad Pitkin is warning Jamaicans to recognise the signs of Satanism. “Anywhere there is a gathering and there is the shedding of blood – whether it be animal or human – that’s a cro...

Slow reporting and lack of awareness on the part of communities have been cited as major factors negatively impacting the search for missing children across the island. That is the assessment by Novelette Grant, retired deputy commissioner of...

When Jodi-Ann Blackwood Maxwell’s 27-year-old mother died from cancer when she was nine, she said life was hard. But the experience of growing up without her mother is what is fuelling her own fight with the dreaded disease. “I am not going to...

WESTERN BUREAU A project geared towards building out Jamaica’s first underwater sculpture park commenced in Montego Bay on Saturday. The initiative began with the benevolence of Smileozone Waste Management Company, which donated the first of...

Karen Barnes has been trying for at least four years to have her daughter registered under the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), a state welfare initiative administered by the Minister of Labour and Social Security (MLSS....

The Police High Command has launched a top-level probe to determine how two prisoners went missing from the Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay, St James, on Saturday. “It would seem as if they were released by someone,” a highly placed polic...

With a rise in COVID-19 cases at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre and no yield to calls for the release of some low-risk inmates, Carla Gullotta, president of Stand Up For Jamaica, is urging reluctant inmates and correctional officers to.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Without a well-stocked ark or a shepherd to tend to their needs, several animals abandoned after a deadly ritual and police raid at a Montego Bay church last weekend were left unattended for days. The situation has triggered a call.....

Despite a wave of condemnation from all spheres of society over the reported bizarre religious practices of controversial leader Dr Kevin O. Smith, some members of his Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James are adamant...

A month after he registered an entity with the same name as the Government’s Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) that he led, Cecil Cornwall told his executive to get its house in order because they could be audited, meeting records have...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the unvaccinated population continues to burden the country’s coffers, effectively limiting Government’s spend in other areas of national importance. Speaking at Friday’s handover of a genome sequencing mach...

Like other Comrades weary of the political enmity dogging their political movement, former Vice-President Mikael Phillips is longing for an end to the long winter of internal discontent that has beleaguered the 83-year-old People’s National Party ...

Danville Walker, one of two members named by the Government to sit on the board of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), has dismissed claims by the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) that it was unaware of the theft-deterrent programme...

At 23, Sherika* says she has been raped by five different men on different occasions. And that number of offences would be higher if repeated encounters with her biological father – the first to defile her at nine years old – are counted. Now, s...

Plans for the deportation of Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, one of the key suspects behind the July 7 assassination of then Haitian President Jovenel Moise, were in train when they were serendipitously scuttled when the high-profile target in one....

Rallying a call to action in the face of Jamaica’s “vaccine crisis of gargantuan proportions”, public-health specialist Dr Alverston Bailey has urged the Ministry of Health and Wellness to offer AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses to the estima...

A policeman attached to the National Intelligence Unit (NIB) Area One Division has been reassigned owing to his membership in the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries. The police inspector and his wife, a teacher, and their...