Lascelles Anderson was not home on Thursday morning when his house was set alight. Its burnt-out shell now stands among more than a dozen razed by gunmen since Tuesday in the tense Mexico area of Gregory Park in Portmore, St Catherine. “Everything...

The independent state of Jamaica wasn’t the only gem that was born on August 6, 1962. So, too, was Topaz Kirlew - one of 224 native babies who share their birthday with Jamaica’s statehood. Her mother, Sylvia Kirlew, knew that her baby was...

A 27-year-old Jamaican man who travelled to Mexico on Monday but who was denied entry by immigration officers has determined that he was wrongfully detained and sent back to the island as the number of Jamaicans being rejected by the North American....

Twenty-two-year-old Sutanya Ellington, who was on Monday crowned National Farm Queen at the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show, is aiming to get more women and youth involved in agriculture. Acknowledging that she was heartened to see......

Lawmakers will today converge on Gordon House, the seat of Jamaica’s bicameral legislature, for a joint sitting of the Senate and the House of Representatives in commemoration of Jamaica’s 60th anniversary of Independence. The special sitting wi...

The Government is now seeking contractors to undertake a massive overhaul at the Spanish Town Hospital amid rising demand for services and a boom in road and housing construction projects across St Catherine. “It’s been a long journey that we ha...

Culture Minister Olivia Grange has vowed to revive the flagging fortunes of Jamaica’s traditions amid mounting concerns that cultural practices are at risk of drifting into oblivion. Grange said she would be courting support from global agency...

In a twist of fate, Vanacia Johnson-Lee, the 33-year-old St Andrew businesswoman who has been charged with the attempted murder of her husband, Edward Lee, had been pushing for his arrest for reported assault when she was, in turn, taken into...

The Government is banking on the newly opened US$17-million Kingston Logistics Park (KLP) to boost economic growth as the island positions itself as a global destination in cargo trans-shipment and logistics services. At Wednesday’s opening of the...

Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) President Adrian Saunders has argued that the fundamental reason for the paucity of Jamaican cases that go to the Privy Council was the crippling expense that acts as a barrier to many. He said that the filing fees.....

The General Legal Council (GLC) is being hauled over the coals over its “unconscionable” policy of withholding the practising certificates of senior lawyers who are said to be facing “extreme” challenges in completing its Continuing Legal......

WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy House Speaker Juliet Holness is holding on firmly to her stance against corporal punishment as a means of disciplining children despite criticism since she first voiced her position in 2016. “In my observation over the years...

Jamaica-born civil-rights activist Roy Hackett has been lauded for his unwavering commitment to ensuring that black and Asian minorities in the United Kingdom had equal opportunity in employment and that they were spared discrimination on the...

The family of Donna-Lee Donaldson, the 24-year-old social media influencer who investigators believe has been murdered by her police boyfriend Constable Noel Maitland, is pleading with the accused to disclose where her body has been disposed of. �...

Lucretia Wilmot, the girlfriend of Hymnrancon ‘Bob’ Lewis, helped to push off a red and blue vessel from Yallahs Beach in St Thomas around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday and watched as her boyfriend and his co-worker, Franklin Campbell, set sail for White....

A mother is desperately calling for warring factions in Gregory Park, Portmore, to end a series of gunfights as her home narrowly missed ruination in a wave of arson attacks on Tuesday that destroyed three houses. In a prolonged gunfight which...

Decrying the sharp increase in road fatalities in the last four years, a senior opposition lawmaker in the Upper House has described the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch (PSTEB) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) as “an abject...

At least one cop has been reassigned over the unauthorised visit of murder accused Constable Noel Maitland by a popular dancehall entertainer and a former beauty queen. The visit, which was reportedly not documented in the station diary, occurred......

“We are not out of the woods.” That’s the warning from president-elect of the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ), Dr Leslie Meade, as the nation on Tuesday recorded subvariants of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5. Omicron is a variant of SARS-CoV-2, ...

WESTERN BUREAU: AHEAD OF this weekend’s upcoming Jamaica 60 Grand Gala and other Independence celebrations, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is urging citizens to take responsibility for their safety and personal property. That caution was...