Travis DeSouza is now trying to process the fact that his 77-year-old grandmother is dead, allegedly at the hands of one of her grandsons in an incident he describes as “pure foolishness”. Recalling the events leading to the tragedy in Kemps Hil...

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has emphasised the importance of collecting, analysing and presenting digital evidence that can stand up to scrutiny in court. Speaking at the launch of three training videos dubbed ‘Digital......

Several children are singing the praises of a makeshift classroom created by sister teachers in the hills of Bull Bay, St Andrew, to release them from the frustrations of online schooling. Kimberlee Woods and Karen Wright are at the heart of the...

The lead investigator in the Clansman-One Don Gang case yesterday dismissed a suggestion that his investigation was shabbily done. Attorney-at-law Kimani Brydson, who is representing defendants Tomrick Taylor, Owen Ormsby and Daniel McKenzie, made....

Residents of Cassava Piece in St Andrew are remaining tight-lipped about a shooting incident in the Grant Lane area of the St Andrew community on Thursday night, which left a 13-year-old girl and a man injured. According to Detective Inspector...

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Garth Anderson, dean of the Teachers Colleges of Jamaica, is warning that the Government could be going down a slippery slope in its approach to the current Jamaica Teaching Council Bill, which is before Parliament, by not...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) is expected to announce its next move in regard to its ongoing wage negotiations with the Government today, following a meeting with its members. Yesterday, NAJ President Patsy Edwards-Henry......

Alliance Investment Management Limited (AIML), Alliance Financial Limited (AFL), their President Peter Chin and Vice President Robert Chin are facing a raft of charges for alleged breaches of the Bank of Jamaica Act, the Banking Services Act and...

What started out as a friendly challenge from a concerned member of the public who believed Bahja Bent possessed some level of artistic and visionary skills to solve her problems has now spawned a fledgling business venture for the Negril,...

Twelve aspiring educators at The Mico University College in St Andrew were on Thursday awarded a total of $1.2 million by past students from Batch 146, the institution’s graduating class of 1984. “They, graduates who left her 41 years ago, have....

Winston Burrowes has been left heartbroken after the mother of his one-year-old son disappeared with the infant just over a year ago from their St Catherine home. He claims to have only successfully contacted her by telephone once. She vowed never....

The detective sergeant who led the One Don Gang investigation has defended the police’s decision not to charge the former top-tier gang member who had outed his alleged ex-cronies, claiming he was never wanted in the St Catherine North Police...

Government lawyers have signalled that remedies under contract law for the breaches triggered by mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies may not be sufficient to compensate affected employees, raising the possibility for constitutional redress. On....

Senior statesman and former head of government, P.J. Patterson, has issued an impassioned plea to Prime Minister (PM) Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding to transcend partisan borders and capture a historic landmark by relinquishing......

Tears flowed from Shamoya Smith’s eyes midsmile as she walked the stage last Thursday during the International University of the Caribbean (IUC) graduation ceremony at Hope United Church in St Andrew. It was a moment of immense gratitude when she....

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the existence of established smuggling routes in which guns and drugs are trafficked between Haiti and Jamaica, the Holness administration is in no rush to forge an extradition treaty with its French-speaking neighbour. The.....

Even if businessman Delroy Dyah had a crystal ball, he could not have forecast the myriad of hardships that overtook him since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020. But failure was never an outcome that Dyah was prepared to accept, as he drew on...

Some 180 at-risk youth living in hotspot communities within Kingston, St Catherine, Clarendon and St James are now being targeted under an initiative geared at improving their social, educational and economic opportunities. The FHI 360’s Local...

A high-level corruption probe has been launched into the mysterious disappearance from police custody of a Jamaican fugitive wanted in St Lucia for murder and gun crimes, with preliminary indications that lawmen might have been complicit in the...

Jamaica’s public-health system may open doors to its only burn unit by 2023, closing a yawning deficit in burn wound care that is too costly for most patients. The upshot of the game-changing investment will offer a lifeline to hundreds of...