With the start to the Atlantic hurricane season less than 24 hours away, farmers and householders in New Haven, St Andrew, are fearing the worst should another tropical storm sweep the island. It’s a painful refrain for the residents, who have fo...

Mystery continues to shroud the death of 74-year-old developer Horace ‘Randy’ Mair more than a week after he was killed at his Gwendon Park Avenue home in the upscale neighbourhood of Norbrook. Heightened curiosity has attended the investigation...

WESTERN BUREAU: St James Central Member of Parliament (MP) Heroy Clarke is appealing to criminals to stop killing the Second City’s youth, following last Wednesday’s triple murder at a birthday party in Rose Heights in Montego Bay. “We notice ...

WESTERN BUREAU: Thousands of workers at the lowest end of the public sector salary scale with annual incomes of up to $600,000 will benefit significantly from the compensation reform now under way, according to Finance and the Public Service...

As Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn appeals the “unduly lenient” sentencing of murder convict Lindell Powell, she has asserted that the judge “misdirected himself” when he did not impose life imprisonment. Powell pleade...

Hope Taylor confesses that as a young child, she found it funny as her mom, Leanora Commock Taylor, would get up at daybreak to pray for the entire village and then utter the names of her 12 children one by one, getting emotional with each name....

Fire doors for the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) upscale Ruthven Towers complex in St Andrew are to be installed by July, the entity has said, a move that could get the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) closer to giving the okay for the building to be.....

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes put defence lawyers in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial on notice that the argument that the Crown had failed to establish their clients’ criminal antecedents under the anti-gang legislation would not wash and was...

WESTERN BUREAU: STUDENTS OF the St James-based Anchovy High School had a lengthy wait to sit their Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)-administered tests on Monday morning, as auxiliary staff padlocked the front gate as they called for the removal....

It appeared to be just another Friday afternoon for 55-year-old Fay Desgoutte as she prepared jerk pork and chicken meals for sale at the Kingston 10 premises that double as home and business on Newleigh Avenue, Cassia Park. But May 27 was anything....

Residents of Treadlight in central Clarendon say they feel like they are on a ticking time bomb. Days before the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, they say even a light shower of rain is cause for panic because of the unfinished state of a...

Ladley Hamilton, who helped rescue a motorcyclist whose bike careered over a precipice in Andrew Hill, Clarendon, two weeks ago, has called for works and municipal authorities to take action after what he described as an avoidable accident. The...

In the wake of an autopsy indicating that he was murdered, friends of Chieftin Campbell, the victim of a mob attack in Mandeville in May, are demanding that the perpetrators face justice in the courts. The 62-year-old, who was pointed out by an...

A St Ann man who was reportedly caught on surveillance camera leaving a bar with a woman who was later found dead has been detained by the police. As a result, the police say the suspect, of Mount Arafat, St Ann, is expected to be charged for the.....

One word describes the whole being that is Carla Seaga, and it’s loyalty. It’s a characteristic her late husband and former Prime Minister Edward Seaga revered in his public and personal life. Three years after his passing on May 28, 2019, she h...

After months of searching for thousands of students missing from the classroom via its Yard to Yard Find The Child initiative, the Government is considering legal action against negligent parents and guardians to get the minors back in school....

Persons approved for mortgages of up to $40 million for units at the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) upscale Ruthven Towers development cannot get to move into their new homes because an occupancy certificate is yet to be granted for the complex.....

As the Ministry of Education and Youth continues its countrywide search for thousands of students who have not returned to the classroom, its safety and security in schools unit has revealed that millions of dollars allocated to the initiative has.....

The education ministry has turned back a recommendation of the board of Jamaica College (JC) for the provisional appointment of Wayne Robinson as principal of the St Andrew-based all-boys institution. In a memorandum dated May 24, the ministry’s....

Droves of Jamaican students have relinquished their right to an education, lured away by meagre earnings they have clung to since hustling illegally during the postponement of face-to-face classes because of COVID-19 some two years ago. Some are...