Despite strong public sentiment that dancehall music fuels criminal behaviour in Jamaica, an Anglican priest and human-rights advocate is insistent that proponents of that view are scapegoating the popular genre. Father Sean Major-Campbell has...

Doctors at two of the island’s premier hospitals told Bilal Abayomi to forget about completing medical school because he was dying. The 22-year-old had been rushed by his mother to Andrews Memorial Hospital in St Andrew in August last year after....

WESTERN BUREAU: Clinical psychologist Georgia Rose believes that incidents of violence will continue to plague schools when students return to the classroom for the new academic year as a result of the emotional toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) will review the Vision 2030 targets that have been projected as milestones on the journey to developed-country status. Currently, about two-thirds of the targets are on track or met, while one-third are...

WESTERN BUREAU: A school administrator is lamenting that the Ministry of Education lacks the gall to confront a system likened to “a kind of apartheid” which has taken root in Jamaican secondary schools. Jamaica Association of Principals of...

St Elizabeth farmer Robert Myrie is ruing yet another devastating fire, which has resulted in him suffering hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. The Flagaman-based farmer, who was doing business in the nearby town of Black River on Tuesday......

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) announced Thursday its eighth straight increase in the policy rate it pays on deposits parked by deposit-taking institutions (DTIs) at the central bank, effectively sending loan rates higher for borrowers at financial...

President of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Steven Golding, is lobbying the Holness administration to pursue reparation by imposing a special tax on foreigners from countries with a history of trading in chattel slavery. The...

WESTERN BUREAU: School administrators are bracing for impact after an anticipated mass exodus of teachers over the summer holidays as hundreds of educators are reportedly headed overseas to seek out better employment opportunities ahead of the new.....

For the first time in three years, Evan Reader Clarke was looking forward to a vacation in Jamaica that had nothing to do with death. Arriving in the island on Monday, the only glitch for her was the funeral of a cousin who had died in England. She....

Distributors and whole-salers of liquor and non-alcoholic beverages are being forced to put added pressure on customers to return empties in order to purchase drinks as the global glass bottle crisis persists. Clement Stevens, director of Papine...

Jamaicans have been urged to temper optimism that the price cut on chicken meat announced by Jamaica Broilers Wednesday signalled a definitive pullback from skyrocketing inflation. Chicken is the most popular source of affordable meat protein, and.....

The point-blank-range shooting of a teenage boy Tuesday has sparked a probe by the St Andrew South police to ascertain whether the killing was in reprisal for the murder of reggae singer ‘Tabby Diamond’. The deceased, 16-year-old Janio Ellis, w...

A call has been made to amend the 2011 Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms to guarantee Jamaicans protections afforded by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR), which the country ratified in 1975. The ESCR....

Urging the Ministry of Education to address what he claims is a serious shortage of rental books for the new academic year, Opposition Spokesman on Education Damion Crawford said the Government should spend $2 billion to replenish that stock....

There has been a 35 per cent plunge in public confidence in states of emergency (SOEs) as an effective crime-fighting tool, a dramatic collapse of faith from three years ago. Just over half of Jamaicans (or 53 per cent) described the crackdown...

A tailwind of excitement in Crofts Hill, northern Clarendon, over the discovery of presumed gold traces and pyrite is being met with caution by local and international companies that are insisting that nothing conclusive has come of exploratory...

The family of Jamaican farmworker Dopson Wynter is awaiting details of a post-mortem after a golf cart in which he was travelling reportedly collided with an SUV in New York on the weekend, The autopsy is expected later this week, according to...

Citing the significant prospects of wooing tourists to enjoy Jamaica’s rich cultural heritage, Canadian High Commissioner Emina Tudakovic believes that the country has missed opportunities to gain more from the hospitality dollar. The Canadian...

As Jamaica’s monkeypox case count inches up weekly, hospitals and other healthcare facilities have bolstered efforts to stem the virus’ spread. Dr Michael Bent, regional technical director at the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA), said t...