Rohan Hall, a ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor, has questioned the grounds for denial of a gun licence by National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang, who also presides over the party’s vetting systems that approved him as a candidate.....

History-making army chief Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman is facing her first leadership acid test since rising to the helm in January as allegations of sexual assault mount against a high-ranking member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF)....

Administrators at Kemps Hill High have come under fire for allegedly failing to inform his mother of a football injury amid subsequent mounting hospitalisation and treatment expenses she has had to shoulder. Eugennie Brown said that her son, Raheem...

With eight years left to achieve the targets of the 2030 Agenda, Jamaica’s poverty prevalence has declined from 19.3 per cent in 2017 to 11 per cent in 2019, with rural areas recording the highest rates. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 – on...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said that the increasing incidents of demonstrations against poor road conditions have not escaped his attention but urges Jamaicans to be patient as the budgetary resources are not in place to carry out widespread....

The last time Phillip McCarthy saw his two girls, ages eight and nine, was on December 29, 2021, when he handed them over to their mother, who was awarded visitation rights on holidays after he won custody of them in court. McCarthy said that out......

WESTERN BUREAU: Several commuters were left stranded on Monday as taxi operators in Westmoreland withdrew their services in their continued pushback against the Public Order Reset campaign, claiming that they are being penalised for finding...

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: MORLAND 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...