Seventeen special-needs students who attended the Adonijah Group of Schools in St Andrew have been displaced following a dispute between administrators and the Ministry of Education over unpaid fees. The matter came to a head two weeks ago when...

An online petition against the recently announced extension of high-school years for local students is likely to fall flat as it was not placed on the Government’s official platform hosted by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM). There has been....

Former Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell says the role of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) is being called into question as customers of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) are still waiting to benefit in a meaningful way from lower...

Saidian Townsend had her dreams of a relaxing vacation dashed when she suddenly began feeling ill just days after landing in Trinidad and Tobago in 2019. With the illness persisting and experiencing excruciating head pains and signs of having a...

With the pandemic creating new challenges for war veterans, Jamaicans are being urged to offer their support as retired servicemen seek to live out their golden years. Chairman of the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA) Jamaica, Major (Retired)...

WESTERN BUREAU: With Jamaica trending as the most searched by tourists globally and the country’s name being kept alive in the marketplace due to the new James Bond movie, tourism officials are looking to boost their aggressive marketing campaign....

A former top lieutenant of the One Don Gang yesterday admitted that he did not mention the reputed leader’s brother and another defendant in any of his multiple statements to the police despite testifying in court that they were members of the gan...

The defence for Pathways International murder accused Andre Ruddock was yesterday instructed to officially write to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to enquire whether his wallet could be returned to him, following a request yesterday....

WESTERN BUREAU: There is growing agitation in the Accompong Town Maroon enclave in St Elizabeth, where some residents are up in arms over what they describe as the dictatorial style of Chief Richard Currie. They alleged that persons close to the......

St James Central Member of Parliament Heroy Clarke’s proposal for a law mandating paternity testing of newborns has been rubbished as simplistic and dangerous.. Making his State of the Constituency Debate address in Parliament on Tuesday, Clarke...

Residents of Wakefield in St Catherine have resorted to robbing the water supply from the local primary school after going more than a month with dry taps at their homes. Principal of Wakefield Primary School, Tameca Riley-Powell, told The Gleaner....

In his first presentation in Gordon House, controversial Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright, who resigned from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) earlier this year, proposed on Wednesday that Prime Minister Andrew...

Controversial football manager Craig Butler is being hauled before the court over alleged unpaid rent amounting to $660,000. The matter is expected to be mentioned in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court (Civil Division) on Sutton Street today.....

Despite claims by the National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica that there has been no recent consultation on the controversial Sixth Form Pathways Programme (SFPP), the Ministry of Education has insisted that sensitisation sessions have been.....

As neglected families in hospitals continue to deprive patients of critical bed spaces, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the Government is taking steps to initiate legal action against their relatives who have abandoned them.....

Shermott Facey, the father of 16-month-old Charlotte, could not contain his joy. His daughter is among 13 Jamaican children currently benefiting from cardiac catheterisation, a non-surgical procedure, through the first medical mission to...

Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has criticised Education Minister Fayval Williams’ decision to allow the board of Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) to examine the findings of a performance audit that revealed its own serious breache...

After months of deafening silence over the scandal bedevilling the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ), Transport and Mining Minister Robert Montague told Parliament on Tuesday that he had dissolved the board of the public body over the FirstRock.....

Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Morais Guy has alleged that there is an ongoing scam involving polymerase chain reaction (PCR) COVID-19 testing with whirlwind turnaround of results in a matter of minutes. He made the claim during Tuesday’s...

A hairdresser brutally attacked in downtown Kingston last Thursday died at the hands of a gunman who, it is theorised, mistakenly pumped bullets into her as she sat in front of a wholesale attired in clothing similar to their intended target’s.......