With the cost of electricity for Jamaican households being ranked among the top five globally, industry experts believe that the country’s sole provider, the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), can do more to reduce losses to ease the burden on....

Two persons, including a popular entertainer, were shot and killed yesterday morning, as heavily armed men, said to be members of rival gangs, traded bullets in sections of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland. Those killed have been identified as 41-year-....

The Ministry of Education is yet to respond to Jamaica College after the board of the St Andrew-based high school sent it three recommendations on how to settle the imbroglio with the in-limbo Principal Ruel Reid, whose special leave is set to...

The Education Regulations (1980), which detail the procedures and processes to all aspects of the governance of school life in Jamaica, is outdated and long overdue for an overhaul, according to former Education Minister Maxine Henry Wilson. The...

It seemed that whoever wrote the sign had made a huge blunder. “Vaccination warning!! Do not enter this premises if you are vaccinated!!! Please understand! No dis!,” it read. Certainly, they meant ‘unvaccinated’. After venturing inside to ...

The St Andrew Central Police are now probing the murder of district constable Okeeno Haughton.  Haughton, who worked with the Detention and Courts Division in Kingston, was found murdered in his motor vehicle in Mona, St Andrew...

WESTERN BUREAU: Workers at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security offices in Montego Bay were forced to catch water from a leaking roof in buckets during heavy rains earlier this week after more than half a billion dollars was spent in 2017 to.....

A social media post from a People’s National Party account dubbed “Parliament disabling persons with disabilities” has reportedly left the staff of the legislature fuming. President of the Senate Tom Tavares-Finson told his colleagues in the U...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information’s (MOEYI) newly implemented Sixth Form Pathways Programme (SFPP) is gaining traction among the parent population as they recognise numerous benefits of their children staying in school for an...

WESTERN BUREAU: On its way to a strong recovery, Jamaica will have for winter 2022 almost 10 per cent more airline seats than it did in 2019, with expectations for visitor arrivals reaching 1.2 million for the period December 2021 to April 2022.......

The ex-member of the One Don Gang yesterday told the Home Circuit Court that although he had been the don of a St Catherine community, he had never owned a gun nor had he benefited from the “donmanship”. The prosecution’s second star witness ...

Jamaican women who are victims of domestic violence will be able to receive free legal services following the signing of a memorandum of understanding yesterday between the Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR) and Woman Incorporated. The partnership.....

Opposition Senator Donna Scott Mottley yesterday made an impassioned plea for Jamaicans to report human trafficking, a scourge she said that too many in Jamaica have turned a blind eye to. The International Labour Organization has reported that 25.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Peter Figueroa, professor of public health and epidemiology at The University of the West Indies, Mona, is asserting that while natural remedies and the body’s natural immune system are useful for fighting the COVID-19 virus,......

Councillors of the Manchester Municipal Corporation (MMC) on Thursday expressed their strong disapproval of what they consider to be the health department’s unwarranted opposition to the reopening of the Melrose Yam Park. The facility, which was....

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has further hit back at councillors of the Portmore Municipal Corporation after they alleged that the entity was politicising garbage collection. The councillors made the charge during their...

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...