WESTERN BUREAU: A St James couple is accusing both their private obstetrician and the public hospital staff of causing the death of their baby boy, who was scheduled to be born on April 11. Further, 33-year-old Lishae Brown and 51-year-old Lawford.....

Education Minister Fayval Williams says she will not be quick to jump at the recent recommendations from the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) to sack three principals heading government-operated institutions over their “flagrant disregard” for t...

Residents in Tivoli Gardens are stocking up on salt. However, it is not for cooking. The West Kingston-based community is battling a surge in the maggot population in some areas as uncollected garbage piles up. When The Gleaner visited the area...

The Church is demanding a greater role on the board of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC), arguing that denominational institutions make up more than 35 per cent of schools across the island. The group, comprising members of the Ecumenical...

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the Government is closely monitoring hospitalisation and deaths as a result of the increase in the COVID-19 positivity rate over the past week, but noted that he was not harbouring regrets over the...

Seven-month-old twins Kaile and Kaila Mason have spent much of their short lives apart. When she was just a day old, Kaile was whisked away from the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in downtown Kingston to the nearby Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC.....

Jamaica has expressed satisfaction with the decision by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) to acquiesce after pleas by Education Minister Fayval Williams for the regional authority to delay by three weeks the start of the exam period which...

The Early Childhood Commission (ECC) has recommended the dismissal of three principals heading government-operated institutions over their “flagrant disregard” for the established standards of the Ministry of Education. The ECC has also asked....

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) will be formulating a policy to allow for continued assessment and flexibility in the administration of its examinations. That declaration was made as the organisation yielded to pressure from Jamaica and...

Several administrators leading the more than 200 early childhood institutions (ECIs) in Portland, St Mary, and St Thomas that scored below 50 per cent in an industry review have blamed inadequate resources for the unfavourable ratings. Nearly 80...

The Toll Authority of Jamaica is pushing for legislative authority to impose fines on pedestrians who encroach on toll roads and to penalise motorists for tailgating. An agency of the Ministry of Transport and Mining, the Authority also wants...

Wayne Smikle said he regrets dodging a cop’s bullet, which damaged a step, which caused him to retreat from patrolling police – the prelude to the final time he saw his son alive Tuesday night. When he darted inside, the elder Smikle said that ...

Students preparing to sit regional examinations expressed relief after the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) pushed back sittings by three weeks. The announcement was made Wednesday afternoon at a press conference hosted by CXC, which...

The taxi man who is at the centre of an alleged case of misconduct and corruption by three policemen broke down in tears on Tuesday and retracted his statements in which he had accused the cops of recording him in a compromising position with a...

A staggering number of early childhood institutions (ECI) in eastern Jamaica have failed to meet the standards required to ensure the proper development of the nation’s children, the latest assessment by the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) has......

“I shop for food far less. I can’t buy fruits for my kids, and that hurts. My kids are hungry most of the time … ; can’t afford gas and electricity bills. Sometimes we sleep in darkness. First in my life I have to be living like this.” Tha...

The murder of 64-year-old Jamaican Dolet Hill and three other family members in London, England, has left a trail of tears and devastation in her home town of Lyssons, St Thomas. Dolet and her partner, 58-year-old Denton Burke, were stabbed to...

Professor Fritz Pinnock, who is battling criminal charges, resigned two months ago as president of the government-owned Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), but there has been no disclosure of whether there was a financial settlement. The...

Some 1,056 of the 2,373 early childhood institutions (ECIs) across Jamaica are in need of substantial support from stakeholders to be certified, having earned below 50 per cent in their most recent inspections. The infant schools and departments,.....

WESTERN BUREAU: The storming of a medical ward by men demanding the release of a patient has sparked calls for the ramping up of security at Cornwall Regional Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department. Dr Derek Harvey, senior medical officer,.....