A teacher accused of repeatedly engaging in sex acts with underage female students at two high schools where he was employed has been jailed on over a dozen sex-related charges, The Sunday Gleaner has confirmed. In addition, investigations have......

Staff at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) are becoming increasingly agitated over health risks at the New Kingston building from which they work and are fixing to file a lawsuit against the agency seeking redress....

A plan to evict squatters living along the old train track between Montpelier and Montego Bay in St James is facing strong resistance from the New Ramble residents, many of who captured portions of the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) property and....

A grave “miscarriage of justice” resulted in the conviction of a hotel worker, who spent four years in prison before he was freed this month by the Court of Appeal. “I have been robbed of four valuable years of my life because of a flawed just...

WESTERN BUREAU: Powered by the feats of their nationalist grandfather, the late Cecil Hugh Donaldson, four of his grandchildren committed to carrying on his legacy as torchbearers during a thanksgiving service at the St James Parish Church...

Growing up in one of Kingston’s toughest neighbourhoods, Waterhouse, 19-year-old Jamaica College honour student J’Voughnn Blake has defied every stereotype of young people born in such communities, blazing a glorious trail in both the sporting a...

WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has spurned the Opposition’s latest call for a rollback of the gas tax amid what it dubbed a worsening cost-of-living crisis, noting that this would affect revenue targets. “The Government considered...

NEW YORK: Maurice Gordon Sr believes his son did not receive justice after the family was blindsided by a grand jury decision this week not to file criminal charges against a white New Jersey state trooper who shot and killed their unarmed Jamaican....

Despite a shortage of nurses islandwide, several recent nursing graduates are expressing frustration at being unable to land jobs in the public health sector. A group of 2021 University of Technology, Jamaica graduates, who have also been...

MANCHESTER: Mining Minister Audley Shaw is again calling for focus to be placed on the diversification of mining and extraction activities in the island, to sustain the industry beyond the bauxite era, which is projected to come to an end in the...

Kingston Wharves Limited (KWL) showcased the benefits and efficiencies of the port community system (PSC) to a high-level public-private sector delegation from Barbados on Friday, with CEO Mark Williams using the occasion to impress upon them the ...

The alleged robbery-turned-murder plot mastermind, whose girlfriend and uncle were convicted in the same scheme for the murder of businessman Roger Chang, is to return to the St Mary Circuit Court on July 14. The accused, Gaveen Hurd, who hails...

The fraud trial involving two former Petrojam executives was prematurely adjourned in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday after an administrative assistant who had worked with Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh, who was expected to take the...

While many youth from rural Jamaica are shying away from continuing in a legacy of farming, which has sustained their communities, 18-year-old former ward of the state Rohane Grey is glad to accept the call. The Hanover native is in his second year....

At least one government senator has cautioned against moving too quickly to promulgate new legislation aimed at protecting the elderly, noting that an assessment of existing legislation must first be considered. Speaking on Friday in the Lower...

WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has indicated that the Government will be reintroducing a mask mandate as the island sees an uptick in COVID-19 cases, a month after this and other restrictions were fully lifted. “It is going to be a....

Jamaicans are expected to pay higher prices for medication as the pharmaceutical industry reels from skyrocketing freight charges for prescription and non-prescription drugs. Stakeholders have said that the logistical nightmare stemming from the...

It has been a week of torture and sleepless nights for 29-year-old Jameal Mendez, Sr since the mystery disappearance of his only child, a two-year-old boy named after him. While the family, concerned neighbours and the police have combed multiple......

More than 2,000 educators are expected to be impacted by the Jamaica Teaching Council Bill currently before Parliament’s joint select committee following a requirement of at least a bachelor’s degree to satisfy qualification. Representatives of...

Junior Health Minister Juliet Cuthbert Flynn has said that the Government will be revisiting customer service experience in public-health facilities and is partnering with a business process outsourcing (BPO) outfit to improve public confidence in.....