A Jamaican man who was a state witness in a high-profile gang trial has got himself in trouble with the law in the territory to which he was dispatched under the Government’s witness protection programme but claims he is being shunned by local...

THE SUPREME Court has ruled that the state-owned bus entity Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) should pay more than J$18 million to former conductor Joy Murray for injuries suffered on the job in 2002. Murray’s lawyer, Andrea Walter-Isaacs, told...

The ex-crony of the One Don Gang testified on Monday that one of the 33 alleged members of the gang now on trial had told him that he had murdered a policeman in Portmore, St Catherine, but faced withering cross-examination questioning the...

In the wake of a rare disease that has decimated watermelon farms in St Elizabeth and Manchester, lettuce cultivators in the southwestern region of the so-called Breadbasket Parish are facing huge financial fallout from a similar scourge. Akeem...

Although an increase in patrols by the security forces gave them some relief as they were no longer forced to confine themselves in their homes in fear of marauding gunmen, residents of Sunlight Street in Kingston Western are tempering their...

Shirley McIntosh, the mother of Rastafarian teen Nzinga King who alleged that her dreadlocks were trimmed by a corporal while she was in custody, is furious about the pace of the investigation into her daughter’s claims. King’s story sparked...

WESTERN BUREAU: While business leaders in western Jamaica have embraced the decision by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to declare states of emergency (SOEs) in the Hanover, Westmoreland, and St James police divisions, they are concerned as to...

Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has described the late O.D. Ramtallie as a public servant with a record of distinction during his six-year tenure as minister of construction and housing. At the same time, president of the People’s National......

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....

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....

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...

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 ...