Agricultural interests have vigorously opposed the planned repurposing of 3,000 acres of prime farmlands in Innswood, St Catherine, for the development of housing solutions by investors led by billionaire business mogul Michael Lee-Chin. The...

When gunshots rang out on Friday night, Doreen Jackson-Smikle began gathering her family members, frightened by the unknown of what was occurring beyond the walls of her residence in Pleasant View, Eight Miles. But when she called out to her 50-...

Two months after a freak storm ravaged sections of Aberdeen High in St Elizabeth, administrators say they are ready for the new school year though rehabilitation works are yet to be completed. On Thursday, work was still under way to repair a...

Kerry Phipps was a shadow of herself, during sips of a hot beverage on Saturday, mere hours after the controversial killing of her 26-year old son by the police in an alleged early morning shoot-out. The incident occurred around 6 a.m. in the...

Melvyn Tennant believes he and his team can save an extra 3,000 turtles a year. The 2018 Gleaner Honour Award winner and 2021 inductee as Member of the Order of the British Empire has been duly recognised for his nearly 20 years of rescuing...

The Portland police say they are on high alert to intervene if public transport operators carry out planned roadblocks that could cause major disruptions to the start of the 2022-2023 academic year, which starts today. Cabbies and busmen have been.....

Education Minister Fayval Williams says the Government will focus on implementing the recommendations of the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission during the new academic year, which starts today. Recommendations were made public during the.....

Two years into the second term of the Holness administration – and just over six years since the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) took the reins of power – Jamaicans remain lukewarm about the performance of the Government and that of the prime ministe...

The death of veteran broadcaster Francois St Juste sent shock waves throughout Jamaica and the diaspora last week, news which heralded shed and unshed tears, gut-punching pains of grief and sorrow, and none more evident than the on-air sadness of......

The horror stories pop up on social media from time to time, but senior members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are dispelling reports that frantic late-night calls for help to emergency lines and police stations are being turned away or...

At age 40, Andrew Gillings has given up on calling police emergency lines. He took the decision three years ago after he tried calling 119 for the first time to report that thieves were breaking into a neighbour’s car outside his gate in Pembroke....

If current sentiment among People’s National Party (PNP) diehard supporters in Trelawny Northern is anything to go by, communication specialist, business owner and university lecturer Suzette Brown could be a shoo-in as the party’s new standard-...

Mico University College President Dr Asburn Pinnock is advising the Government to regularise teacher migration by training and exporting the services as an income-earner, amid the challenges facing the sector. Pinnock’s proposal comes on the heel...

WESTERN BUREAU: Everald Warmington is urging the country’s parliamentarians to adopt the approach being taken by independent Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright to the management of their constituencies. Wright, who was......

Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Andrea Martin-Swaby has said that CARICOM is deeply concerned about the threat of cybercrimes, and called for the region to be included in the development of a multilateral convention to address the global...

WESTERN BUREAU: Onecia Williams, a 21-year-old mother from Flankers in St James, is crediting her one-year-old daughter, Emma Ewers, for giving her the motivation to complete the Institute for Workforce Education and Development’s (IWED) Youth...

There are sighs of relief in St Elizabeth after the Goshen Early Childhood Institution (ECI) was relocated from beside the community cemetery. Two Thursdays ago, Goshen Primary School Principal Natalee Roper-Allen and Goshen ECI Chairman Desmond...

After decades of living in squalor within the shantytowns of Kingston Western, some residents are now banking on a new housing development in the area to improve their living conditions. Ground for the Victoria Palms development was broken on...

Jamaica is exploring a partnership with the Canadian province of Manitoba on matters of health to tackle a nursing shortage and other human resource challenges as well as the digitising of the health system in the island. Jamaica’s health and...

Low levels of parental involvement in education and general inadequacy of resources and equipment are among issues identified by educators as contributing to low levels of motivation. But the majority – or 87 per cent – of educators said they.....