When heavily armed attackers began firing indiscriminately at a party in Franklyn Town, Kingston, on Sunday night, many thought men from the community were engaging in an illegal gun salute as Aidonia’s Badman Salute (Real Killa) blared through th...

Principal of Dunrobin Primary, Sacheel Grant-Henry, has walked back the contents of a warning letter issued last Wednesday to a grade five student for an offending hairstyle, saying the threat was not meant to bar him from school but to be a note......

Debate has intensified about plans by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service to discontinue the 20 per cent duty concession on motor vehicles and weave it into travelling officers’ salaries, with one major union expressing concern about th...

Ever since she was a student at Solid Base Preparatory School, Jhaneille Esson’s responsible demeanor and go-getter attitude always made her a favourite for youth leadership roles. So it came as no surprise to her, or her parents, Jhann-Marie and ...

Grocers in Portmore, St Catherine, are embracing the new multimillion-dollar PriceSmart club set to open today, bringing an enhanced home-shopping experience to the largest residential city in the Caribbean. Despite the expected competition...

WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has raised concern that nearly half of the island’s 9,600 justices of the peace (JPs) seem to be missing in action. Their disappearance has come at a critical juncture when their services are needed fo...

Senior Parish Judge Lori-Anne Cole-Montaque is expected to rule today on whether one of the policemen linked to the Clarendon-based Ranko Gang will be released. Attorney-at-law Richard Lynch, who is representing the detainee, made a habeas corpus.....

An imminent transatlantic knowledge-sharing agreement will lay the design groundwork for the revival of the railroad from downtown Kingston to Three Miles, which could soon be woven into the fabric of everyday life for a modern commute to work,...

After years of battling eviction threats and desperately seeking a new home, the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA) is gearing up to engage in “creative accounting” and to “beg, borrow, and plead” as it prepares...

In one of the biggest housing development projects to be announced for local shores by foreign investors, the London-based Wots Hot Energy is to pump $4.5 billion into the Mahogany Hill development in Chester, St Ann. Founder of Wots Hot, Craig...

David Stimpson was attacked and stabbed nine times in his back while working at the Institute of Jamaica in downtown Kingston. He is now unable to walk and needs assistance to carry out normal human activities that were second nature to him for his....

WESTERN BUREAU: Miami-based QCAS Aero will operate a first-class-only charter service into the Ian Fleming Airport in St Mary from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as of Thursday, June 16. The aviation management company will operate an Embraer 145...

WESTERN BUREAU: With a price tag of approximately $175 million and a timeline of just over two years, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has expressed disappointment that the 5,300-square-foot new Little London Police Station will take that long to be......

FIREARM SEIZURES by the St Catherine South police led to two convicted Portmore men being each hit with sentences exceeding five years in separate Gun Court cases last week, sending what cops hope will be a strong message to criminals. The...

Jamaicans have largely turned their backs on a $100-million fund that was created nearly five years ago to reward persons assisting law enforcement in efforts to recover illegal guns. Although a few have taken advantage of the initiative, some are.....

The Webster Memorial United Church on Half-Way Tree Road in St Andrew has defied the odds by maintaining capacity congregations when other established churches are struggling with membership in an increasingly secular society. It may be because the....

For the next 12 weeks, criminal networks in western Jamaica are expected to face more intense anti-crime measures that Police Commissioner Antony Anderson is confident will significantly reduce the number of murders in the region. Speaking to the.....

In their world, nothing is safe or certain, and it is always wise to have a suitcase packed and ready for relocation. To be otherwise could be deadly. This is life for some 326 Jamaicans in the island’s witness protection programme – the majori...

St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves remains hopeful of consensus on a candidate for the post of Commonwealth secretary general, after Andrew Holness, the Jamaican prime minister, threw a spanner in the works with his...

At least 1,500 of the nation’s children reported missing in the last five years have not been found, even as the number of reports continues to trend down. Data from the Child Protection...