Former Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) head, Professor Gladstone Hutchinson, has described much of the furore over Jamaicans migrating to seek better opportunities abroad as noise. There is currently a high level of concern over attrition...

After more than three decades as an educator in Jamaica, former Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Owen Speid is now working in the United States. Like many of his colleagues who ditched local classrooms for more lucrative opportunities...

Frustrated by the daily struggles to make ends meet and the uncertainties that surround the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill, Castella Bennett*, a literary specialist with more than 18 years of experience, is now preparing to leave the island...

The police have revealed that an alarming number of women are being raped or robbed on their first date with men they meet on social media platforms; however, the true extent of the problem remains unknown because some women are too fearful or...

For seven years, she lived at the Fletcher’s Land Police Station in Kingston; its barracks served as her bedroom, the two guardrooms her living and dining quarters. Seats in the reception area served as her sofa. Fate has been topsy-turvy for...

At least seven persons have been killed across Westmoreland since Monday, renewing concerns over the level of crime in the island’s westernmost parish, which is home to one of Jamaica’s major tourist resort towns. The latest in the string of...

A near 12-hour search yesterday for two young girls swept away by a raging river during heavy rainfall in sections of St Mary on Thursday resulted in the recovery of the body of one of the cousins as raw emotions and unbearable grief consumed...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said that the Government will be moving to put an end to squatting and the illegal capture of public lands. While admitting that there are challenges in accessing affordable homes, Holness said that there are....

In its drive to make more housing solutions available, the Government is committing to complete all the housing projects which have been lagging on for years without being actualised. “We have made a commitment that all the projects that have been...

WESTERN BUREAU: Industrial arts students and teachers from some eight high schools across the island have been tasked by the education ministry to manufacture furniture to meet demand ahead of the reopening of schools. Leighton Johnson – principal...

The children of the Port Royal Primary and Infant School were fêted on Friday by the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) as the state entity formally adopted the Kingston-based educational institution ahead of the new academic year. The day’s events we...

Maryland’s highest court on Friday ordered that Jamaica-born sniper Lee Boyd Malvo be resentenced because of a 2012 US Supreme Court decision barring mandatory life sentences for juveniles. The now-37-year-old Malvo was convicted, along with John....

WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie, who last year chided the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) for its tardiness in commencing construction on the new Negril food and vegetable market, was...

WESTERN BUREAU: Proponents of child-based special needs assessment are backing a call by Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison for more assessment centres to be established across Jamaica. While addressing the JTA’s 58t...

BUFF BAY, Portland: Forty-four retired educators, along with 48 students, were recognised and awarded trophies and cash during a special ceremony at Lunch Park in Buff Bay, West Portland on Wednesday. The event was conceptualised by West Portland.....

The chief executive officer of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) has stared down a rebellion and rejected as overblown the noisy resistance to draft legislation governing the licensing of teachers. Dr Winsome Gordon, who broke her silence in a...

When Kimone Rowe received a call about her five-year-old, Tray Graham, in July, the last thing she had expected to hear was that her beloved son had been murdered. The boy, who is believed to have been beaten to death, allegedly by his father,...

When an aunt of 16-year-old Narando Boothe heard gunshots ring out around 10:30 p.m. on Water Lane, Kingston, on Wednesday, she never thought the boy could have been the target of the explosions. But that reality has sunk in as gloom hovers over...

There are now tears of joy for Nickeisha Singh Smith, whose pleas for a transfer of her 12-year-old son to nearby Vere Technical High have finally been answered. The 32-year-old mother’s dilemma, published in Monday’s Gleaner, bared the...

The family of Garvin Yapp, the Jamaican farmworker who was fatally injured while operating tobacco-harvesting equipment in Ontario, Canada, may be entitled to compensation. Yapp was employed under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Programme (.....