Sue-Ann Ebanks wallowed in grief outside her home in Spring Village, Old Harbour, on Monday, oozing regret that she had persuaded her sister to attend a community football match that descended into a killing field a day earlier. As Ebanks huddled....

WESTERN BUREAU: Romaine Welds hid from the Taliban in Afghanistan; swam at the beach in Mogadishu, Somalia, with armed bodyguards; and hoisted the Jamaican flag with pride at Babylon Gate in Iraq. The Jamaican, who said he has visited 195 countries....

Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has called for the Government to include a referendum ballot to remove King Charles III as Jamaica’s head of state in the upcoming local government elections. The municipal polls are constitutionall...

Fresh fears now exist in central Kingston following a daring attack in which masked men travelling on foot opened fire at a group of people, killing one man, in full view of a team of police officers sitting in a service vehicle. The man killed in.....

Dr Fenton Ferguson, the former People’s National Party (PNP) ‘Six-Star General’, whose half-dozen consecutive general-election winning streak in St Thomas Eastern was halted in 2020, has resigned as chairman and caretaker of the constituency. ...

Defence lawyer Lynden Wellesley on Monday accused the two main witnesses in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial of swapping the truth to save themselves from prosecution. Addressing the court as defence lawyers maintained their attack on the witnesses.....

WESTERN BUREAU: A Westmoreland-based general surgeon is lamenting that the high number of trauma cases – especially victims of crime and accidents – at the Savanna-la-Mar Public Hospital in Westmoreland is affecting the facility’s ability to t...

Three persons were killed and six wounded in a daring gun attack on an in-house football match at the Jamaica Broilers playing field in Spring Village, Old Harbour, Sunday afternoon. Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey described the drive-by.....

President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Mark Golding, wants the current maternity leave arrangements to be extended in keeping with the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Maternity Protection Convention, which mandates a minimum o...

Acknowledging that there is significant work to be done to regain state power, People’s National Party (PNP) stalwarts and long-time members believe that the 84-year-old out-of-favour movement will peak at the right time, rejecting assertions that...

It wasn’t the customary fanfare associated with pre-pandemic People’s National Party (PNP) annual conferences, but hundreds of hopeful Comrades eager to see the political movement back at the zenith of Jamaican politics filed on to the grounds o...

Mark Golding, president of the People’s National Party (PNP), has chided Prime Minister Andrew Holness for straying from democratic traditions. Referencing the administration’s string of constitutional cock-ups, Golding took aim, saying: “Some...

A teenager was hospitalised after being shot by police patrolling an area known as Gulf in Gregory Park, St Catherine, Sunday morning. The shooting triggered backlash from residents disputing the police account of the incident. Separate probes...

Weva Nunes, the proprietor and former contractor whose business produced millions of dollars in uniforms for the Jamaica College Old Boys’ Association (JCOBA), is calling on the school to settle its debt to her company. While addressing a meeting....

Divulging what he calls a new philosophical framework, People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding says the party’s clear mission going forward is to focus on the quality of life of the Jamaican people and to build a more equitable soci...

An agreement is in place for the Government to reimburse Jamaica College’s (JC) portion of the $23.3-million severance payment to Ruel Reid to secure his resignation as principal, the attorney for the school board has claimed. This assertion by......

The widening gap between the haves and the have-nots is just one of the reasons armed thugs will turn their backs on a pending gun amnesty, a St Andrew community leader has cautioned. Another critical issue, he said, is that it is “impossible” f...

“Hi, I am Dickon Mitchell,” he said with hand outstretched at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, arriving with no fanfare, airs or stuffiness. Just three months after taking the reins of government in Grenada, Mitchell engaged in a wide-ranging discussi...

Charismatic retired People’s National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller is sorely missed by the man she appointed a senator in 2007 and who now heads the 84-year-old political movement she then led. Simpson Miller, whose political capita...

A St Catherine woman is beside herself in grief after her two-year-old daughter perished in a blaze on Friday morning after falling from her arms as she fled their burning house, moments after gunmen invaded the dwelling and killed her partner...