The Government is moving to expand its ban on single-use plastic bags and polystyrene foam amid large corporations’ engagement in unethical but legal practices to sidestep restrictions while maintaining profits. The expansion is expected to come....

The St Catherine South police are probing if the daring murder of a pump attendant at the Petcom service station on Passage Fort Drive on Tuesday is linked to a feud in Central Village. Chevelle Lewis, 31, of a Compound, Central Village, address,.....

Hilroy Anderson and Berris Thomas, two homeless men living on the streets of Kingston, wished they had other alternatives than the cold concrete sidewalks or benches at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) to sleep at night. Safety is a major...

Residents and business persons in Spanish Town have clamoured for increased investment in safety and security as well as greater infrastructural development before an Emancipation Park-style recreational space is established in the Old Capital....

WESTERN BUREAU: United States-based dental technology company SprintRay, which partnered with track and field icon Usain Bolt for a healthcare initiative in his hometown Sherwood Content, has trained 10 local doctors to utilise the company’s 3D......

The Jamaica Food and Drink Festival – one of the island’s premier foodie events whose promoters fought endlessly for it to remain afloat annually during the COVID-19 pandemic – has been shortlisted for the international World Culinary Awards 2...

WESTERN BUREAU: While some retired teachers are willing to return to the classroom to fill the void created by migrating educators, others have decided to ignore the call. According to Ceila Grant-Francis, president of the Jamaica Retired Teachers.....

Adam Stewart, Orlando Patterson to receive UWI honorary degrees Businessman Adam Stewart and Professor Orlando Patterson are among 16 persons who will be awarded honorary degrees during this year’s graduation ceremonies across the five campuses....

Construction on the St Thomas leg of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project has been a torment for several major distribution companies, significantly impacting logistics and other operational activities. But National Works Agency (NWA).....

National Workers Union (NWU) General Secretary Granville Valentine says the Ministry of Education’s announcement that bursars will not be impacted by the new payroll system to be implemented in schools is a “smokescreen”. Valentine, in a Glea...

FranÇois St Juste, whose baritone voice and trademark “Good moooorning, Jamaica!!!!” roused morning radio audiences and whose steady hand transformed FAME 95 FM, has died. He forged a sterling career in media, spanning 38 years, and co-hosted ...

Fleet Street and the community of Southside in central Kingston are mourning the tragic death of Tarcia ‘Tanney’ McLean-Lysius, who was shot in the head, reportedly by another woman, outside a party in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday. McLean-Lysi...

As the new school year beckons, tailors and seamstresses are contending with the mounting pressure from last-minute back-to-school orders as parents struggle with finances. Surging prices for food and other commodities have eroded household incomes....

Despite termites damaging the benches at the McIntosh Memorial Primary School in Williamsfield, Manchester, Principal Vyonnie Whynes is hesitant to dispose of them, just in case students have to resort to reusing them when the new academic year...

When Shamoui Glaves enrolled at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) in 2008 to read for a Bachelor in Education degree, he had all intention to mould young minds as an educator. However, despite graduating a decade ago with a BEd in...

A $500,000 reward is being offered by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development for information leading to the arrest of the killers who set a homeless man on fire on Monday. Lionel Johnson died Monday morning at the Kingston Public......

Residents of New Haven and other business interests along Washington Boulevard have expressed fears of displacement in the proposed roadway redevelopment, which their parliamentary representative has dubbed “suspicious”. But the Government’s c...

“Love lives in the hearts of those who are brave.” Eighty-year-old Deyon Madge Thompson has lived most of her life by those profound words. At the age of 20, Deyon eloped with her then 23-year-old partner, Willard Thompson Sr, despite the...

University lecturer and social commentator Nadeen Spence has issued a call to action against domestic violence in the wake of Friday’s killing of a 34-year-old woman in Berkshire Hall, St Catherine. The stabbing death of Nickesha DaCosta-Walters,....

Hassanah Al-Saba said she always knew she would have achieved the rare feat of being a locally trained female Muslim pilot in Jamaica. On August 25, she completed enough flight time to receive her private pilot’s licence, 10 days after her 22nd......