Jamaicans have been cautioned to exercise extreme care in sending their children overseas to parents and guardians amid growing concerns over transnational custody battles. The trend of children being retained without parental consent is gravest.....

The paternity policy to be introduced across the public sector later this year is not expected to set off a chain reaction in the private sector, the Jamaica Employers Federation (JEF) has indicated. President David Wan said while there are...

A year after Clarendon car washer Scott Bamburry longed for a dream job in the shipping industry, family and friends in his home town Wood Hall are fearing the worst after the stevedore fell overboard Tuesday night, disappearing without a trace....

July 24 will mark one year since the mystery disappearance of reputed Park Lane strongman Shadari ‘Kishi’ Bryan and ongoing bloodshed between factions, which investigators theorise was at the root of Wednesday’s double killing. Dead are 63-yea...

“I feel like I would do it again.” Those were the words signed by 16-year-old deaf student Rolando Grant, moments after he completed a flight experience across sections of Kingston and St Andrew on Wednesday. Rolando’s story was highlighted b...

While agreeing that customer service across the public sector is of a lower-than-desirable standard, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday encouraged workers in the government service to always empathise with Jamaicans and strive to meet or...

WESTERN BUREAU: AS JAMAICA shifts from analogue television to the new ATSC 3.0 digital technology, one broadcast consultant is cautioning that transition be managed carefully with consideration for the effect on cost and the local environment. Gary....

University of the West Indies lecturer Dr Herbert Gayle is insisting that paternity leave for public-sector workers not be compromised by unwieldy middle-class markers. It should be purely based on an employee fathering a newborn, he said. Full...

As thick plumes of smoke billowed into the darkening skies over the Riverton City dump in western St Andrew Tuesday, a woman named Sister Pinky looked on with relief that she had, just last week, sold her cache of plastic bottles stored there....

WESTERN BUREAU: Tiffany Ellis and her 14-month-old son Xien, who was denied a British visa at five months, are booked to depart Jamaica this evening, arriving in London Thursday morning on a Virgin Atlantic flight. The two will be reunited with...

President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), Helene Davis Whyte, says that while progress has been made on the public-sector compensation review, workers who have been hit hard by sharp increases in inflation are anticipating a...

Retired Justice Seymour Panton has shot down suggestions from former Minister of National Security Peter Bunting that he had a conflict of interest involving the Integrity Commission’s (IC) special report on the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA).....

With 24 days left before the island’s milestone 60th Independence celebration, the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) passed a resolution to seek the intervention of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to repair hundreds of...

A testimonial from Lashawnda Bailey Miller was strong enough to raise patrons’ hopes for a successful eighth staging of the annual Christmas in July trade show on Tuesday. Functioning as normal during the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic was no......

The Clansman-One Don Gang trial, which was adjourned last Thursday after Chief Justice Bryan Sykes contracted COVID-19, has been delayed for another week and is to resume on July 18. The proceedings failed to resume as the judge was still out of......

The British Home Office is reconsidering its “ridiculous” decision to bar an ill 14-month-old boy from entering the country after his mother, a United Kingdom resident, delivered him while stranded in Jamaica at the height of the coronavirus...

Louise Stoddart is now wallowing in grief and regret after her 10-year-old grandson – for whom she had cared since birth and was recently relocated from her Clarendon home to live with his father – died after being found unresponsive in an oven....

Some motorists who traverse the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 are firm in their decision to boycott the toll road, as pressure grows for operators to roll back rate increases that took effect on Saturday. The pushback has primarily come from...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has signalled that the time has come for the decades-old regional health authorities (RHAs) to be restructured, noting that Jamaica was too small to have almost semi-autonomous zones operating with....

Leroy Jagasar and his two nephews Suresh and Sanjay are doing everything they can to keep the Hosay Festival tradition going in Clarendon. Held in August each year, it takes months of preparation to pull off the big event as they have to build the.....