Jamaica Zoo, where a lion recently ripped off the finger of a taunting employee, does not have a licence to operate as an attraction, the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has confirmed. In fact, the state agency said that zoo owner Paul....

Two Jamaicans who reportedly acted as money couriers in a “sophisticated” international scam that laundered more than US$6 million in drug-trafficking proceeds from Colombian cartels are to be extradited to the United States (US), while a third....

If Nicole Williams could turn back the hands of time, she said she would not have engaged in daredevil driving that sparked a police chase across the Corporate Area last month which was captured in a viral video. Faced with humiliation and an...

WESTERN BUREAU: She was poised to ace all nine Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams and would have sat the first of them today. But Shevanae Besley drowned last Friday, days ahead of her 18th birthday. The 17-year-old Green Island High......

David Minott was remembered by academic staff and fellow students of Wolmer’s Boys’ School as an exemplary human being and a ‘man of God’ who never missed an opportunity to encourage or use his infectious smile to brighten the faces of other...

The Supreme Court is to rule on Friday whether it will grant an injunction order for a St James man to shut down his businesses – a restaurant, car rental accessories store and grocer – that are reportedly in breach of the Planning Act and Town ...

UVALDE, Texas (AP): An 18-year-old gunman opened fire on Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said, in the latest gruesome moment for a country scarred by a string of......

Citing its small footprint and underwhelming state, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that Nelson Mandela Park may be relocated to a more spacious venue befitting the honour of the late South African anti-apartheid agitator. The park,...

In blistering criticism of Mayor Norman Scott and the St Catherine Municipal Corporation, lawmaker Kerensia Morrison accused the local government authority of keeping her in the dark about the official parish Labour Day project in her constituency.....

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr is unfazed by a threat by his opposition counterpart, Lothan Cousins, to take the Government to task for not doing enough for the sector when Parliament sits today. Speaking at the People’s...

Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland has urged integrity watchdogs in the Caribbean to be resolute in the war against corruption, which she said undermined the social and economic fabric and was one of the biggest impediments......

Christopher McKay of Rhodes Hall in Kellits, Clarendon, is thanking God after surviving a motorcycle crash on Monday while he was volunteering. McKay, who was knocked down by a bike Monday morning as he painted a kerb, said he lost consciousness...

Randy Finnikin says that 23 years ago, God gave him a vision to build up the desolate areas surrounding what is today the Institute of Vocational and Professional Training (IVPT), the training arm of the St Catherine-based Spring Village...

Jamaica’s Forestry Department CEO Ainsley Henry has cautioned against the growing practice of tree-chopping by protesters, classifying the troubling incidence as “wanton destruction”. Not only are demonstrators hauling on to thoroughfares old ...

WESTERN BUREAU: While the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has embarked on a $5-million upgrade for the main market district in Montego Bay, vendors are hoping problem areas will be addressed at the completion of the two-week exercise to...

The head of the island’s chief lobby against animal cruelty has criticised the culture of provocation at Jamaica Zoo in Lacovia, St Elizabeth, as “reckless endangerment” after a worker’s finger was apparently ripped off by a lion. Managing...

As Oblique Seville cruised through the finish line in a scorching 9.86 seconds on a cool night at the National Stadium, he celebrated with his manager, Norman Peart, trackside and wondered aloud about the possibility of running 9.6 seconds in the......

A Clarendon school operator has slammed national training agency HEART/NSTA Trust for crushing the future of many at-risk youths by terminating a partnership with Meadowlands Centre of Excellence in Bushy Park. Sharon Minott, director of...

As the Atlantic hurricane season nears, householders of Kintyre in Kingston 6 have heightened fears that their homes, precariously sited along the banks of the Hope River, may be washed downstream in the event of torrential rainfall. That concern.....

Amid a ferment of labour protests in recent weeks, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie and Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) Commissioner Stewart Beckford have signalled their commitment to improving worker welfare after firefighters staged two...