WESTERN BUREAU: “Untenable!” That’s how Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison has described the security crisis in rural schools where she said principals have assumed the role of guards quelling flare-ups in viole...

Despite her high-flying, flamboyant image, late social-media personality Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend has been hailed as a down-to-earth friend and committed mother. The last photo Townsend posted on her Instagram page at a popular restaurant was...

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament Juliet Holness delivered a stinging rebuke of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) on Sunday, declaring that it has continuously supported the siting of Comrades on unsafe, marginal lands.......

As Corporal Oliver Mullings prepared to head to work last Thursday afternoon, he asked his wife, Josephine Parker-Mullings, if she had lunch money for the children for Friday. She recounts him pledging to return home in time to provide the funds......

WESTERN BUREAU: “I could not stand to be sitting in the church, so I do apologise. It is very hard for me to know that my three boys are there, Little Man, Dre, and Biggs.” Those were the emotion-laced words of Adrian Laing as he struggled to....

WESTERN BUREAU: MORELAND WILSON, the member of parliament for Westmoreland Western, is vowing to push for greater awareness of fire safety in schools against the backdrop of the deaths of three young siblings in a house blaze in his constituency...

Former United States President Donald Trump threatened journalists with prison rape Saturday, suggesting that the federal government use violence to combat leaks to the media, Yahoo! Entertainment has reported. “You take the writer and/or the...

WESTERN BUREAU: THREE FEMALE members of one family are now dead and three relatives were injured in a tragic crash in Ironshore, St James, Sunday morning. The deceased have been identified as 59-year-old Sandra Lee, an airline hostess of Minneola,.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Maroon Chief Richard Currie has defended the rollout of an identification card for Accompong Town and insisted that it was not meant to clash with the implementation of the National Identification System, which has been pitched as.....

The public was kept in the dark about a 2020 data breach of a Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) billing platform that left confidential customer information wide open on the Internet, a whistleblower has revealed. The platform was developed by......

The night before the bulldozers rolled in with a battalion of police and soldiers, a helicopter hovering overhead, Suelyn Ward-Brown was on a roadside in the Clifton community in St Catherine, expressing concerns to news teams about the fate of...

The partially decomposing body of a woman that was retrieved from the sea in Reading in Montego Bay, St James, on Friday morning has been positively identified as popular Kingston-based social media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend. Her.....

WESTERN BUREAU: “I AM asking, ‘God, did I fail him as a mother? Should I have let him stay home?’ Something has to be wrong, I kept him so long, almost two years.” Those are the bitter thoughts swirling in 24-year-old Desrine Malcolm’s min...

From child soldiers in some African nations to forced marriages of girls, some as young as eight years old, in the Middle East, United Nations Special Representative for Violence Against Children, Dr Najat Maalla M’jid, believes the current world....

Erlene Melbourne was relying on a 2013 Supreme Court judgment to support her case that Jamaican Infrastructure Operator Limited (JIO) was liable under the Occupiers’ Liability Act for an accident on Highway 2000, which claimed the life of her...

Residents of Third Street in Trench Town are experiencing a heightened level of anxiety as mere hours after a shootout claimed the life of Corporal Oliver Mullings and 26-year-old Shemar Fletcher, a second fatal incident occurred, taking the life......

“Jamaica has enabled me and for that I’ll be forever grateful.” These are words of gratitude spoken by Jamaican billionaire businessman Michael Lee-Chin, shortly after he was inducted into the the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) ...

WESTERN BUREAU: Relatives of a popular social media personality are today expected to view the body of a woman found with what appeared to be gunshot wounds on Friday morning in Reading, St James, as the police seek confirmation of the victim’s.....

Vanessa Clarke should have been celebrating her birthday on Friday, but in a cruel twist of fate, the mother spent hours in the pews of Pentecostal Tabernacle mourning the death of her 16-year-old daughter, Michion Campbell, who was stabbed to...

A young woman who was infected with HIV after being raped more than two decades ago is seeking assistance to cover her medical bills after a recent bout of illness cast uncertainty over her life and depleted her savings. The woman, who told The...