A St James woman who was taken into custody on Tuesday morning in connection with the death of her seven-year-old son has been charged with child neglect and was remanded until July 6. The accused woman, 29-year-old Queen-Ann Spence, of Johnson...

The University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) on Tuesday advocated for the inclusion of a psychological evaluation for teachers as part of the fit-and-proper requirements set out in the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill currently under review by.....

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: With his head bowed, Andre Bromfield’s posture evoked defeat as he was sentenced to 18 years and five months in prison for killing his lover, 24-year-old Shantell Whyte, more than two years ago. The former delivery...

Before shooting down a last-minute attempt by the prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial to keep one of the defendants in the case, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes emphasised on Tuesday that the fate of an accused must be determined by current...

With the return of face-to-face classes and pre-pandemic idealism, anti-drug advocates in Jamaica are lobbying for more support as they fight against not only tobacco smoking but the use of methylenedioxymethamphetamine – a stimulant commonly know...

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn says a recent jury conviction in lottery scamming and money laundering sends a strong message to criminals that there is a critical mass of civic-minded Jamaicans determined to stand for justice....

Urging the Court of Appeal not to disturb her client’s sentence, attorney-at-law Dionne Meyler Barrett has argued that the judge was not compelled to consider life imprisonment for murder convict Lindell Powell. Powell pleaded guilty to the...

Opposition Spokesman on Industry, Investment and Logistics Anthony Hylton has criticised the Government for failing to outline specific solutions to the supply-chain challenges that have contributed to the elevated prices of consumer goods and...

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...