More than 2,000 complaints of abuse or breaches of employment policies have been filed against employers under the Seasonal Agricultural Work Programme, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has said. But of that figure, only 43 per cent....

A frenetic hunt for a child which ended in a showdown between a mother and stepmother at a Corporate Area primary school last Thursday has reportedly resulted in emotional trauma for the grade three student whose father allegedly breached custodial....

Hundreds of former colleagues, relatives, friends, and admirers turned out on Wednesday to salute the man who they say impacted not just their lives, but changed how radio is perceived in Jamaica: the late François St Juste. The broadcaster died on...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison on Wednesday said that three weeks into the new school year, educators were doing their best to cope with staff, furniture, and textbook shortages. Addressing Wednesda...

Days after the killing of three people in a mass shooting at a football match, Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson announced a beef-up in manpower and other resources to tackle crime in the St Catherine South Division. A contingent....

Portland Eastern Member of Parliament Ann-Marie Vaz came to Gordon House on Wednesday armed with a shopping list of things she wants to be done urgently in her constituency, ranging from schools to be rehabilitated to care and shelter for the...

An ex-inmate who developed a penile disorder in prison, which resulted in him becoming impotent, left the Supreme Court Wednesday a disappointed man after a judge found that the State was not at fault for his condition. The court, however, awarded....

KYIV, Ukraine (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilisation of reservists Wednesday to bolster his forces in Ukraine, a deeply unpopular move that sparked rare protests across the country and led to almost 1,200 arrests. The....

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has set its sights on St Ann North Eastern amid mounting resentment towards Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament (MP) Marsha Smith, only two years after receiving her mandate for the high-......

The Police Civilian Oversight Authority (PCOA) has released a damning report on the state of a number of lock-ups in the four parishes that form Area One in western Jamaica. The geographic zone comprises Trelawny, St James, Westmoreland, and...

Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago are only paying a fraction of the sum agreed on to fund The University of the West Indies (UWI), owing the regional institution approximately US$48 million as at July 31, 2021. The disclosure, based on a......

In high school, Javon Smith’s friends nicknamed him ‘Merchant’ because of his penchant for sales. As he grew older, Smith sought job stability and took on a 9-5 job as an information systems manager. That entrepreneurial spirit fuelled his.....

Seeking to gin up support for cashless transactions, Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has cast the digital economy as the future for Jamaica. Speaking at the launch of a Lynk ABM feature on Tuesday, Clarke recalled a trip to London on which he...

A former inmate who suffered a penile disorder which left him impotent while he was in prison in 2006 is to find out today whether the Supreme Court will accept that the Department of Correctional Services had been negligent in getting him...

A mother’s warning to her targeted 22-year-old son, who on two previous occasions was shot and injured by gunmen in their Delacree Lane community, came to pass after the third and fatal attack Monday night. Novelette Forsythe and her family...

Manchester North Western Member of Parliament (MP) Mikael Phillips has described as “a travesty” the allocation of $20 million for the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), a sum similar to the amount he received when he was first elected in 2012...

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.....