WESTERN BUREAU: A Westmoreland family is struggling to come to grips with a deadly home invasion on Thursday night, which left a 17-year-old boy dead and other relatives injured as gunmen lit their board dwelling and opened fire at the occupants,......

As the Government’s states of emergency (SOEs) come to a screeching halt tonight, President of the People’s National Party (PNP) Mark Golding has indicated that he is willing to pay a political price for defending the constitutional rights of......

WESTERN BUREAU: With the next local government elections drawing nearer, two new political aspirants have declared their intent to battle for the Petersfield division, which has been vacant since former councillor George Wright was elected to...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Former Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding is calling for greater focus to be placed on the resocialisation of citizens who have fallen victim to moral decay to tackle the country’s high crime rate. Golding, who was speaking....

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton on Thursday indicated that a number of health facilities are set to have long-standing issues addressed, now that the COVID-19 pandemic is not currently having a significant....

The prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial yesterday suffered another blow after efforts to admit into evidence one of the two illegal guns and several rounds of ammunition it had seized from an ex-member of the One Don Gang were blocked by....

Veteran livestock geneticist Jasmine Holness has called for stringent monitoring and evaluation systems to be put in place, supported by accurate record-keeping, to enable the recently launched National Livestock Genetic Improvement Programme is to....

Members of Heavens Charity Foundation on Thursday donated boxed lunches to Poor Relief Department of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation in efforts to assist with the feeding of the homeless in the downtown Kingston. Kerry Ann McAnuff....

BRUSSELS (AP): Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world raced Friday to contain a new coronavirus variant potentially more dangerous than the one that has fuelled relentless waves of infection on nearly every continent. A World Health....

Jamaica is now on a “knife-edge”, according to Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson, following a legislative deadlock in the House of Representatives late last night, effectively putting a halt to the seven-police division states of emergency (SO...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) is planning to step up its advocacy for the police force and the army to discontinue their practice of asking applicants to take HIV tests even as it pushes for other organisations to stop...

“Dem a pay thief and nuh want pay police!” were the words shouted repeatedly by a female cop at the entrance to the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston yesterday as hundreds of disgruntled police officers protested while awaiting news on their 40...

The developers of a Corporate Area housing project have been forced to invest heavily in beefing up security with children being among thieves targeting the development, making off with windows and doors. William Lai, president and CEO of World...

Ear-piercing screams from mourners echoed in Havannah Heights, Clarendon, on Thursday as the bodies of three victims of the September 12 quadruple murder arrived at the Dynamic Church of God in the community. The sight of the two red and white...

The prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial yesterday succeeded in getting one of the three cellular phones used to secretly record the conversations of alleged members of the gang, including its reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan,...

Gender State Minister Alando Terrelonge yesterday called for more men to join efforts to eliminate violence against women in the society and be willing to participate in discussions about women’s protection. He lamented that toxic masculinity “r...

The Union of Clerical Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE) is reporting that the dispute with the Caribbean Cement Company Limited over its profit-sharing scheme has now been resolved. At a conciliatory meeting at the Ministry of Labour....

A number of commanders have said that since the Government imposed states of emergency (SOEs) in seven police divisions two Sundays ago, more residents have been feeding them with information as the gangsters flee the space. The disclosure was made....

Fraud and corruption charges against Kim Brown-Lawrence, councillor for the Brown’s Town division in the St Ann Municipal Corporation, have not immediately disqualified her candidacy for the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as it fine-tunes...

WESTERN BUREAU: Calyssa Walker, the 10-year-old child who suffered a bullet wound during a major shooting incident in downtown Montego Bay on October 6, is desperately in need of financial help to secure the US$50,000 (J$7.8 million) needed for...