Simeon Ramsay, the “teddy bear”-like son who became increasingly reclusive and is alleged to have slain his parents in St Catherine last Friday, wrestled with psychological turmoil from a controlling father who ruled the household with an iron f...

Janet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer WESTERN BUREAU: The hours of travel between Sandy Bay, Hanover, and Kingston weekly to earn a university degree, while juggling vending in the popular Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, have paid off...

Muted celebrations at the Trench Town Culture Yard museum on Saturday, the eve of the birthday commemoration of late reggae legend Bob Marley, was a stark contrast to the busloads of tourists that the Kingston attraction usually attracts. That was.....

The historic former home of late reggae icon Bob Marley remains a crumbling shell in Trench Town, Kingston, after fire gutted the top floor of the building last September. Still living at the Second Street house are 47-year-old Yvette Gordon and...

Antigua and Barbuda’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Anthony Armstrong, says he will not resign from the post after Jamaica’s General Legal Council (GLC) last Monday found him guilty of professional misconduct. Armstrong, a Jamaican who...

There is mounting unease among several Jamaican students pursuing tertiary studies in Ukraine who are without the relevant visas required to leave on short notice, as tension between the Eastern European country and Russia heightens. The students.....

In-limbo education ministry permanent secretary Dean-Roy Bernard is threatening legal action against Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis over alleged defamatory statements made in her damning report on the Joint Committee on Tertiary Education (......

Human rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has welcomed the move by the Access to Information (ATI) Appeal Tribunal to overrule the withholding and redaction of documents related to the deadly May 2009 fire at Armadale Juvenile Correctional...

WESTERN BUREAU: Local authorities say they are now cooperating with their international counterparts after a Jamaican policewoman attached to the Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) was jailed in the United States on accusations of being a major...

Education Minister Fayval Williams says efforts are being made to appoint a permanent president of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) by August, amid concerns from key stakeholders over the near two-year wait for the position to be...

Timar Jackson grew up in Bull Bay, St Andrew, and recalls that as a teenager he and his family once fled the community as the vicious cycle of gun violence raged and took with it several of his innocent young peers. But the super-private, high-...

An autopsy has returned inconclusive into the death of a newborn girl allegedly buried by her 13-year-old mother and grandmother in St Thomas, an eastern parish in which half the persons most wanted by police are suspected sex offenders. At least......

Hundreds of Jamaican children are being held hostages of gang violence, not only as homicide and trauma victims but also as innocent onlookers of their guardians’ criminal and deadly deeds, noted the State’s child protection agency. Up to late.....

Child-rights campaigner Betty Ann Blaine believes that despite some progress on the legislative front and the formation of more protection agencies over the last two decades, the nation’s children are in more danger today with heartless attacks......

When crashing sounds jolted some residents of Christian Meadows in Portmore, St Catherine, out of their sleep about 4:30 yesterday morning, they could not fathom the ghastly reality which would greet them after two members of their community were.....

A St Mary man who was convicted for having sexual intercourse with his 12-year-old cousin when he was 29 years old had his prison sentence halved to nine years yesterday by the Court of Appeal as a result of a trial judge’s error. The sex offender...

Government Senator Charles Sinclair is batting for the holding of local government and general elections at the same time in order to channel scarce resources to help the country recover from the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. His...

Residents of Cherry and surrounding communities in St Catherine West Central are frustrated that there seems to be no end in sight to their decades-long struggle to access water, with a planned initiative still yet to get off the ground. With...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr on Wednesday disclosed that the Government has been engaging in talks with overseas investors to shake up the agricultural sector and make it more competitive. Addressing fish farmers in...

Police officers were left in wonderment yesterday after dancehall entertainer Rytikal, who was arrested for an illegal gun found in his rented car, was freed of gun charges. “I am puzzled,” a senior officer, who seemed lost for word after the ca...