Administrators of Papine High School have launched a work-to-earn and mentorship programme to refocus at-risk teenage boys and loosen the influence of gangs that have historically infiltrated the school population. The strategy is reportedly...

Teenager Adrianna Laing, who sustained severe burn wounds in a Westmoreland house fire that killed her three brothers last week, has undergone a series of life-saving operations at a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Stephen Josephs, the project...

As he cleared plastic and other waste from a Kingston beach on the weekend, GraceKennedy Foundation scholar Alexander Crooks was fuelled by inspiration and gratitude to give back to his corporate sponsors and country. Crooks was among more than 200....

WESTERN BUREAU: Friday’s unveiling of a $12-million Negril welcome sign in the resort town has stoked a clash of opinions on social media, with agitators declaring it a waste of money while advocates have defended the spend as justified for Jamaic...

Charging that youth development needs to be prioritised meaningfully with a joint government approach, Senator Natalie Campbell Rodriques has called for the National Youth Service (NYS) to be revamped to include persons ages 21-28. This, she said.....

The commissioning of the Red Mud and Post/Pond Road pipeline replacement project in Wood Hall, Clarendon, has reignited the hopes of residents, many of whom did not have running water for decades. The commissioning was done by Senator Matthew...

As the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) bolsters its efforts against corruption in Jamaica, members of the private sector and other stakeholders continue to press for the cutting of ties between politicians and criminals,...

It’s abnormal. It is untenable. And except for drastic interventions as early as the kindergarten level, there seems no end is near for Jamaica’s runaway crime problem, some educators believe. There are also long-standing calls for the severance...

Love him or hate him, Father Sean Major-Campbell says what he means and owns what he says. Considered among the most controversial clergymen in Jamaica, some even call him the “gay people preacher” because he has invited to church those society....

It’s a welcome new experience for users of the public thoroughfare in the city of Montego Bay, St James, following an intense multi-agency initiative to restore law and order in the popular tourist resort. The brainchild of Senior Superintendent o...

Puzzlement and disbelief are now swirling in legal circles about an unprecedented case of a man who was tried and convicted for murder and wounding with intent by a seven-member jury all bearing the same last name. In fact, several senior attorneys....

With little or no disposable income from his monthly salary after meeting his obligations, senior teacher Bancroft Mullings* has spent the past four summers working as a labourer on farms in the United States to shore up his earnings. A specialist.....

WESTERN BUREAU: The agony gripping 58-year-old Delroy Thompson is causing him to ponder whether fate would have treated him differently had he been the one transporting his mother in a frantic effort to reach the hospital on Thursday night after...

The administrators at a number of Corporate Area schools are planning to integrate classes and hire part-time teachers to accommodate the influx of students expected under the Sixth Form Pathways Programme (SFPP) as resource concerns linger. Tivoli....

A Manchester councillor has suggested that had streetlights in his division been speedily repaired by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), gunmen would have possibly been deterred from killing a security guard at a gas station in Chudleigh on.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Citing what he deemed to be the poor performance of the National Works Agency (NWA) in Hanover, Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels on Thursday said that he wants the state agency to be kicked out of the parish and its roles,...

Tit-for-tat murders and shootings between warring factions in the Angola and Top Jungle sections of Arnett Gardens, St Andrew, this week have left some residents fearful and resorting to mounting blockades along the roadways to prevent more drive-.....

LONDON (AP): King Charles III vowed in his first speech as monarch Friday to carry on Queen Elizabeth II’s “lifelong service” with his own modernising stamp, as Britain entered an uncertain new age under a new sovereign. Charles, who spent muc...

The Government has launched an initiative dubbed Operation Birthright under the National Identification System (NIDS) project targeting Jamaicans who do not possess a birth certificate. The $50-million drive will see free birth certificates being......

Government Senator Natalie Campbell-Rodriques has hit back at critics of the contentious Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill, saying there is nothing for teachers to fear. “There should be no fear of large penalties for pretending to be a teacher....