WESTERN BUREAU: Some Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillors in the St James Municipal Corporation on Thursday chastised Spanish Town Mayor Norman Scott for pledging legal support for illegal occupants of lands on the outskirts of Clifton in St...

Ascot High Principal Shannel Talbert said he has been left disappointed after one of his students was physically assaulted by a parent in the vicinity of the Portmore, St Catherine-based cool on Wednesday. According to Talbert, the incident took......

High Court judge Justice Vinette Graham on Thursday accused Constable Noel Maitland of using his nine years of experience in the police force to assist him in covering up and getting rid of possible evidence in the murder of his girlfriend. The...

Eight years ago when Kayon Samuels went to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) for laser eye surgery, she thought it was the saving grace she needed to restore her vision. However, it did the total opposite. The mother of boys at the time said she......

The management of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) will have to work to avert three days of industrial action by the country’s immigration officers, who are said to be restive over poor treatment and unpaid special allowanc...

There was a clash of legal opinions on Thursday between Solicitor General Marlene Aldred and Albert Edwards, legal consultant to the Ministry of Health and Wellness, on the question of whether members of the security forces should be captured in...

Twenty-year-old Celine Sitladeen, who hails from Manchester, took a leap of faith when she applied to the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) in Portland to pursue an undergraduate degree in general agriculture. She had worked for.....

The National Works Agency (NWA) came under fire at Thursday’s monthly sitting of the Clarendon Municipal Corporation as the councillor for the Hayes Division blasted their poor work in the parish. Scean Barnswell said that the state agency’s...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday declared that he has passed the stage of needing to win political popularity and favour. “It doesn’t matter to me any more. I have to start to think about legacy: What will Jamaica be? Will it be the sa...

The Government has doubled down on the Broadcasting Commission’s policy to ban songs it says glorify criminality from the airwaves, arguing that radio stations cannot continue to breach their licences. Minister without Portfolio in the Office of....

Wednesday’s sitting of the House of Representatives got under way without a quorum, in breach of the Standing Orders, which are the rules of Parliament. When Leader of Opposition Business Phillip Paulwell pointed out the blunder and noted that th...

Declaring that there is an “evil taking over” in schools, Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison says divine intervention is needed to help stem the tide of violence sweeping many institutions. “I call on righteous m...

Four years after marauding gangsters opened gunfire on a group of mostly teens in the Matthews Lane area of West Kingston, Shinardo Wilson, the most critically injured from the lot, is on his way to a bachelor’s degree in electrical technology on ...

Joshua Mattis believes that the sport of skateboarding has saved his life, offering him an avenue to break free from his abusive past and set him on a course for a brighter future. “It changed my life a lot because if it wasn’t for it, me woul...

“Enough is enough!” Rocked by an increase in murders in his constituency, St James Souther Member of Parliament Homer Davis has declared it time for Jamaicans to stop protecting criminals. He said that many families have been robbed of their......

A St Catherine businessman, who was allegedly caught trying to ship approximately ship three pounds of ganja to St Lucia in two bike seats, was on Wednesday freed of the charges when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. William......

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has defended the action of the Government to demolish 10 incomplete structures on reserved lands adjacent to the Clifton community in the Greater Bernard Lodge Development Area in St Catherine, charging that if left...

Persons whose unfinished houses were demolished last Thursday on land owned by the Sugar Company of Jamaica Holdings (SCJH) have been encouraged by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to provide statements to the police on how they purchased the lots. In....

Attorney-at-law Matthew Royal believes that the Broadcasting Commission’s move to impose an immediate ban on the playing of music glorifying lottery fraud, the use of illegal substances and illegal firearms raises a number of potential...

Residents of Grants Pen in St Andrew were sent scampering for cover on Tuesday morning as two cabbies reportedly challenged each other in a shootout reminiscent of a scene from the Wild West, leaving one dead and the other on the run. Dead is 28-......