A 12-year-old girl and her 15-year-old sister, who were raped, stabbed and chopped multiple times in a predawn attack at their home just over a week ago, are recovering in hospital while their family ponders their next move. The accused man, who...

The National Workers Union (NWU) has accused the Passport, Immigration Citizenship Agency (PICA) of prolonging an “unethical” practice of suspending a number of employees without disciplinary hearings, calling it “unfair and unjust”. In a G...

As he lay on his deathbed, 18-year-old Tyrone ‘TJ’ McDonald expressed forgiveness to the policeman who shot him, but made one final request of his family to seek justice on his behalf as he maintained his innocence. Tyrone succumbed to injuries...

President of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) O’Neil Grant says the union has placed the issue of duty concessions on motor vehicles on the “back burner” as they work to reach an agreement with the Government on the restructuring o...

As part of yesterday’s commemoration of World Mental Health Day, the Convent of Mercy (Alpha) in Kingston received a symbolic wellness bench, representing a safe place for students of the all-girls institution to unburden themselves from the...

A 73-year-old law introduced in Jamaica when there was no cure for leprosy is to be repealed. The Leprosy Act of 1949 makes provision for, and regulates, the custody and treatment of persons with leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease. In 2011,.....

Homeless people in the Corporate Area will soon have the opportunity to gain technical or vocational skills training from the State’s leading human capital development agency, HEART/NSTA Trust. Registration began yesterday as the Kingston and St....

In its bid to strengthen integrity assurance across government agencies, the Major Organized Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) launched its first polygraph examiner’s course on Monday. Speaking at the launch at the National Police College in...

A bail application for two foreigners arrested in connection with the seizure of 21 firearms and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition at a warehouse at the wharf in Kingston in March is to continue in the Gun Court on Thursday. Lawyers...

While President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) John Mahfood is lamenting the high-energy prices that continue to significantly impact the manufacturing sector’s electricity and transportation costs, former energy...

Executive director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC), Vitus Evans, says Jamaica’s gaming industry can reap more benefits by realising operational efficiencies from the merger of three regulatory bodies, but, eight years after....

WESTERN BUREAU: Local COVID-19 researcher Dr Christopher Ogunsalu, a lecturer in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI), believes that scientists should have referred to previously published medical information......

Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres yesterday urged the Security Council to consider as a matter of urgency the request by the Haitian government for the immediate deployment of an international specialised armed force to...

WESTERN BUREAU: As a struggling single mother caring for her nine-year-old son Elijah Street, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Kameale Ellis is anxious to do her best to ensure her child’s well-being, having had to give up several.....

WESTERN BUREAU: As World Cerebral Palsy Day was observed on October 6, many people around the world, including Jamaica, used the opportunity to turn the spotlight on this medical condition that affects between two or three babies out of every 1,000....

A Jamaican drug boss who amassed a $1-billion portfolio of assets that included more than two dozen luxury homes and cars has lost half of it to the Government. And financial investigators have already gone to court and obtained a restraint order......

Jamaica was never slated to be part of a controversial survey that was to be administered to secondary students in several schools across the Caribbean, the local education ministry has said. But following last week’s uproar in Barbados over the.....

The Montego Bay-based St James High School was once considered a den of lawlessness, where future gangsters and young criminal minds passed the time. The wanton disregard for authority in the many inner-city communities surrounding the tourist...

Shoddy investigations by the police, coupled with lengthy delays in taking accused persons before the court after they have been arrested and charged, could cost the Government millions of dollars in damages for false imprisonment and malicious...

Adam Stewart has under his leadership portfolio 10 major companies, and with Sandals 2.0 a reality, the executive chairman of the luxury-included resort brand is dominating prime time when it comes to creative innovativeness. The Sunday Gleaner...