While staunchly defending the reimposition of states of emergency (SOEs) on Sunday, a combative Prime Minister Andrew Holness argued that his administration would not stand by and do nothing in the face of a tidal wave of deadly crime. In...

COMFORT, Manchester: Her reconstructed arm with 13 pins and a hand with three missing fingers are the macabre reminders of the hellish ordeal 69-year-old Deslyn Gordon survived 10 years ago in Comfort at the hands of man who tried to kill her and.....

Amid a pending ruling on the constitutionality of specific detentions under states of emergency (SOE), the Government insisted Sunday that it has the power to hold persons without preferring charges as a pre-emptive mechanism to prevent crime. The....

The Government may encounter difficulties in the Senate from its opposition counterparts when it seeks an extension to the states of public emergency (SOEs) declared in seven police divisions on Sunday. Already, several opposition senators have...

A Jamaican man who vacationed with his spouse and young daughter at the RIU Ocho Rios hotel in St Ann believes he was profiled and badly beaten by staff after returning to a room to retrieve an item after checkout. Raymond Henry booked his stay at.....

Telecia Gay struggled to hold back the tears as she recounted the final moments she had with her father, 75-year-old Vassel ‘Coolie Man’ Gay. The deadly shooting that silenced her father forever occurred in the vicinity of Love Lane in the...

The scowls and furrowed eyebrows said it all. The steam is rising in Port Royal - but it isn’t from the fish. Residents of the southern Jamaica seaside village expressed frustration at the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) on Sunday at the slo...

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.....