Jeffery Bowen, who braved crocodile-infested sewage water on the night of July 31, 2020, to rescue a drowning young boy, said he would not have been able to live with himself if he had turned a blind eye to the boy’s plight and he ended up dying.....

Days ago, when a spiritual leader strolled between the zinc fences in the community of Frog City, St Andrew, trying to warn residents of dreadful violence that would soon befall the area, some persons reportedly threw water on her and chased her...

The Integrity Commission says a document outlining the incomes and assets of Prime Minister Andrew Holness has not been published because it has not yet been certified. “The Commission is not in a position to certify it, and in the circumstances,...

WESTERN BUREAU: THE NATIONAL Solid Waste Management Authority’s (NSWMA) Western Parks and Markets Waste Management Limited (WPM) continues to face an uphill battle with waste collection across St James, with the parish having a collection backlog....

Anaheim, California: As the clean energy landscape around the world changes, countries are being encouraged to invest in suppression systems to guard against the impact of fires. Engineering Manager at Firetrace International Brian Cashion argued......

ANAHEIM, California: Professionals in the renewable energy sector have asserted that recent developments in state policies and utility targets for energy storage are creating the market conditions for innovative long-duration energy storage...

WESTERN BUREAU: AMBASSADORS OF the Population and Housing Census were out in the field with their sensitisation programme, rallying citizens through schools and on the street corners in St James about the importance of the data-collection exercise.....

The fallout from the “massive” ransomware attack on Massy Jamaica Distribution Limited could be “catastrophic” for swathes of Jamaican consumers and companies, particularly those who are still unaware that their confidential data were left w...

Organised criminality continues to spread across Jamaica, as the gang culture extends its tentacles far and wide, even as law enforcement has been at pains to keep it under control. Last week’s much-publicised land scam in Clifton, St Catherine is...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding and his family had asset holdings worth over $117 million at the end of last year, his latest statutory declaration has revealed. Golding, an investment banker and attorney, also reported US$1.3 million and £1,660 in...

The General Legal Council (GLC) has thrown out the request by House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert to dismiss the case of professional misconduct brought against her by some of the children of the late Clinton Clarke regarding what they...

Jamaican-Canadian billionaire Michael Lee-Chin cannot, without contradiction, be described as a hard-nosed businessman, but his knack for picking winners and his golden business touch have created worldwide footprints – and he seems to be just......

The Transport Authority and its agents have come under judicial fire for “woeful dereliction” of duty for the more than five years they took to inform transport operator Marlon Parker where his minibus was being kept after it was seized in Novem...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding said he will seek dialogue with the Government with a view to averting the impending eviction of several families now occupying lands handed down to them in Pleasant Hill, St Catherine. The 65 families, some of whom......

Three alleged gangsters who were sentenced to 20 years in prison for their involvement in the brazen 2011 daylight $50-million jewellery heist at Tropical Jewellers on Constant Spring Road in St Andrew have had their sentences significantly reduced...

WESTERN BUREAU: FINALLY! A date has been set for the unveiling of the statue of legendary sprinter and son of Trelawny, Usain Bolt, in his native parish. Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager revealed the date for the installation of the statue of the double....

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay North East Division Councillor Charles Sinclair is asserting that if adequate laws were in place to ensure law and order and strict enforcement being practised over the years, the ongoing Operation Restore Paradise...

Thirty-two-year-old Nickiesha Bygrave of Bucknor, Clarendon, just wants one main thing to make her life complete: surgery to repair a hernia that has been a major disruptor in her life. Unable to afford the fees to have the operation done, she has.....

As she gazed into the distance at the home in which Michael ‘Mikey’ Graham once lived, Shantal Thomas was at a loss as to how she would carry on in caring for her three children, two of whom were fathered by him. Speaking with The Gleaner on Fri...

When the new $40-million Sister Susan Frazer, R.S.M. Educational Complex was officially opened recently at the St John Bosco Boys’ Home in Hatfield, Manchester, the 74-year-old nun in whose name the building is dedicated cried tears of joy. Afte...