Tuesday’s curtain call on the life and career of Leonie Forbes kindled rousing applause for the quintessential doyenne of Jamaican theatre and broadcasting. She was 85. The cause of her death was not disclosed. Forbes was born on June 14, 1937, an...

The British Government has called on international partners of Jamaica to redouble their efforts in stemming the flow of illegal firearms into the country. The charge came from Jesse Norman, the UK’s minister for the Americas and overseas...

WESTERN BUREAU: PARTY PROMOTERS in Westmoreland are being warned that no permits will be issued in crime hotspots between now and the Christmas holidays. The caution has come from Senior Superintendent Wayne Josephs, whose Westmoreland Police...

Director of investigations at the Integrity Commission, Kevon Stephenson, has recommended that the minister of agriculture and fisheries give serious consideration to removing Olive Downer Walsh from the board of directors of the Rural Agricultural....

The image of Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend’s partially nude, decomposing body floating in the sea at Reading, St James, still haunts her uncle, Rohan Lennard. It was the last one he saw of his fashionista niece who took so much pride in her...

Responding to a crescendo of appeals for an overhaul of Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton said on Tuesday that he is establishing a task force to oversee the renovation of the more than 200-year-.....

Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman has sought to defend her leadership of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) as a sexual assault scandal dogs the military. “Since assuming office in January 2022, I have been strident against any act of sexual...

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...