When Esther Joy Thomas took to the streets of Kingston with her mom and two younger sisters last Saturday, it was the first time she was venturing out of her home since escaping Ukraine and reuniting with her family on February 20, three days...

While she accepts some credit for having the foresight to purchase a return ticket for her daughter to start medical school in Ukraine last November, Keisha Ann Thomas is convinced that divine intervention had a much bigger hand in getting Esther......

WESTERN BUREAU: The freak death of a landscaper has triggered a caution to homeowners to ensure that their properties are free of occupational hazards. The warning comes after 59-year-old Shane Lee fell to his death into a pit that was covered only....

Maxine Henry-Wilson, chairman of the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Unity Committee, is not surprised by a Bill Johnson-Mello TV poll finding that the party’s president, Opposition Leader Mark Golding, has a favourable rating of 17 per cent,....

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes was stunned on Monday by a claim from a police witness that one of the alleged Clansman-One Don gangsters had been supplying him with intelligence since 2014 but that he had never shared that “gold mine of information”....

WESTERN BUREAU: Private-sector interests have been urged to end the discrimination against poor youth living in Westmoreland’s squatter settlements. The call has been made by Senior Superintendent of Police Robert Gordon, head of the Westmoreland...

The murder of a farmer in Bakers Ridge in Brandon Hill, St Andrew, on Sunday night has dealt a blow to the rural district, dampening the spirits of community youth who had been inspired by him to chart a path in agriculture. Relatives and friends......

The National Water Commission (NWC) has made another commitment to residents of eastern Hanover that supply will be restored to their communities by March 10. This pledge comes on the heels of a second major demonstration in five days staged by...

Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will today begin to consider a critical protocol that could pave the way for members of the regional bloc to implement key aspects of the single market and economy ahead of those countries...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres was scathing in his review of policymakers and government officials, describing the findings of the latest Inter-Governmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) report as an “atlas of human suffering” a...

Less than 48 hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the military to activate its deterrence forces, which include nuclear weapons, Moscow’s man in Kingston sought to downplay a nuclear conflict as the war in Ukraine escalates. Putin...

As Marcia Taylor examined the charred ruins of her dreams, she sank into spiralling despondency as she pondered her next move. The 55-year-old is one of 66 vendors in the Oxford Mall Arcade whose goods, equipment, furniture, and livelihood went up.....

The Russian Government has urged Jamaicans to remain calm about the future of UC Rusal, seeking to give the assurance that sanctions imposed by the West over the military conflict in Ukraine were unlikely to undermine the operation of its bauxite......

A Clarendon father whose two-year-old son was badly bitten, allegedly by a neighbour’s dog, is livid and is demanding that owners do more to keep their animals leashed and confined within their homes. Gregory Bryson, who lives in the central...

WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright was unceremoniously thrown out of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Area Council Four meeting held in Savanna-la-Mar in his constituency on Sunday. Wright, who resigned from the.....

A recent landmark ruling by the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court against the publication of the identity of a person under investigation by a regulatory body could strengthen the Government’s insistence on maintaining the gag clause in the local.....

The killing of 62-year-old Delroy Walters in Long Acre, St Elizabeth, has prompted rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) to call for the Government do more to educate society about how to care and engage with vulnerable groups. Walters, who was.....

The late Guiseppe ‘Pino’ Maffessanti has been praised for his integral role in the development of the architecture of Jamaica’s tourism industry. For more than five decades, through his companies, Maffessanti Builders and Maffessanti Bros, he ...

A member of parliament, at least 10 current and former permanent secretaries and 10 senior local government officials are among more than 150 names that the Integrity Commission (IC) submitted to two financial institutions last year for key...

Omar Anglin swears that if his eyes did not stray to the computer screen of the Wexford Court Hotel general manager who was about to interview him for a job to wash pots in the hotel’s kitchen, he may have been condemned to a short life expectancy...