Charging that numerous members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force are involved in the island’s underworld today, former Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams said he is not surprised by yesterday’s arrest of four members of the force, alle...

Earnest prayers were made for the protection of the residents of Maverley in St Andrew Friday morning, a little more than 12 hours after a brazen gun attack by gangsters who shot six people, leaving three dead, on Thursday night. Old-time gospel...

Schools across Jamaica have been directed to utilise metal detectors daily, as part of measures to improve the safety of students and staff. This directive from the minister of education, Fayval Williams, follows Monday’s fatal stabbing of Khamal...

WESTERN BUREAU: With the impact of COVID-19 still fresh in their minds, key players in the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ), formerly known as the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ), are urging their business...

WESTERN BUREAU: OMAR SWEENEY, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), is urging beneficiaries of the fund’s grant projects not to sell the equipment they get from programmes meant to bolster their businesses if they no...

Defence lawyers in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial are fuming over its seven-week adjournment for which they will not be paid although they have a mountain of work to do, and are calling for the intervention of Justice Minister Delroy Chuck. The...

Decoy Royal recounts his years as a teen selling okra in the May Pen market in Clarendon as the most difficult years of his life. The 28-year-old, now an agriculture teacher and supervisor for the crop production department at the College of...

Her story is one of a changed woman with an unwavering faith in God who is reaching out for help to assist her two kids, a bright 10-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy who has never been to school. In her first year at Kemps Hill High School......

“God, why You give me them and tek them back just so?” a grief-stricken Micey Walters asked amid a flood of tears yesterday after her infant daughters – Kayla, 4, and Abigail, 3 – perished in a fire that gutted their Clarendon home. “God, ...

The mother of the first child abducted last October, allegedly by Davian Bryan, is elated at Wednesday’s detention of the fugitive but would rather he be dead than be fed and cared for in prison. That is a view shared by residents of Airy Castle.....

The mother of 24-year-old Tascian Copeland, the pregnant woman among two persons murdered while travelling on a bike taxi in Westmoreland on Wednesday night, is calling for the Government to resume hanging. Copeland was returning home from work...

Shame and regret are sentiments that sum up the last five months for the Bath, St Thomas, woman who invited Davian Bryan to stay with her as condition of his bail pending his judicial fate in neighbouring Portland. What began as acceptance of a...

Jamaica is reporting a significant decline in the take-up of COVID-19 jabs and a “very slow increase” in full vaccination – trends that have triggered concern for health officials, with the country well shy of its end-of-March 67 per cent tar...

Joseph Joel John, the former Haitian senator linked to the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, has one wish before he is whisked off to America on an extradition request: for his family to remain in Jamaica. An application for refugee status...

DURHAM, Portland: Sighs of relief have been echoing throughout Portland following Wednesday night’s arrest of Davian Bryan in the hills of Durham in the Hope Bay Valley after being on the run for five months. Bryan, who was facing firearm and rape...

Controversial entertainment figure Horus ‘LA’ Lewis says he is giving Culture Minister Olivia Grange 43 hours to apologise for reportedly assaulting him during an incident on Tuesday at Culture Yard in Trench Town, Kingston, when he was escorted...

Chastened by public protests against Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade and centuries of colonial exploitation, Prince William expressed regret Wednesday night on the Jamaica leg of a Caribbean tour for the atrocities of the black...

A Jamaican prisoner is believed to be the mastermind of a recently discovered overseas job scam in which about 30 persons from several parishes who were promised customer-service jobs in The Cayman Islands were scammed of nearly $1 million. The...

The Government’s decision to exempt lithium-ion and lithium ferrophosphate batteries from general consumption tax (GCT) is being hailed by one player in the solar energy sector as a positive move. Alex Hill, president of the Jamaica Renewable...

Culture Minister Olivia Grange says she has been vindicated by an Integrity Commission (IC) report that has cleared her of allegations of nepotism and conflict of interest in the award of a $15-million Grand Gala contract in 2016. “The findings o...