The top brass of the Jamaican army “protected” a senior officer after he was accused in 2006 of sexually assaulting a female colleague, multiple sources have charged. The claim comes as a senior officer is now at the centre of sex assault...

The unanimous not guilty verdict in a case in which a 17-year-old schoolgirl testified that she was raped three times in one night and her head dunked in a bucket of water in an attempt to drown her has left her asking, “Where is the system of...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has scoffed at the call by the opposition People’s National Party for him to resign over the deaths of 14 babies over a four-month period from a bacterial outbreak at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital...

Dr Jennifer Mamby-Alexander suspected she had breast cancer three years before she was officially diagnosed. During self-examination one day, she discovered a tiny grain in her breast and was sent to do a mammogram in the same United States-based......

Six years after the Government promised to rehabilitate the Broadgate, St Mary, thoroughfare, linking it to other corridors in the parish, the project is still in limbo and a constant source of frustration for residents and motorists. The major...

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has hailed Friday’s historic verdict in her office’s first sentencing appeal as a victory for victims of crime. The Court of Appeal on Friday quashed a 12-year sentence that was imposed on.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Land clearance for the building of a church in Orchard Gardens in Hopewell, Hanover, has put more than 1,100 students and teachers at Hopewell High School literally on edge as a dangerous precipice has been created between the...

Education Minister Fayval Williams says her ministry will be advancing plans to establish protocols that will govern devotions in schools despite church leaders cautioning the Government that it should not micromanage such religious observances. “...

Four decades is a long time to serve in an organisation. But according to Albert Brown, executive superintendent and director of security at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), the time seems shorter when you are doing what you love. “...

Senator Charles Sinclair wants a reform of Jamaica’s local government landscape to increase the autonomy of municipal corporations. In his presentation to the State of the Nation Debate in the Senate on Friday, he said the Local Governance Act of...

WESTERN BUREAU: SEVERAL PARENTS got a serious scare on Friday morning when they received news that nine students and one teacher at the John Rollins Success Primary School in Barrett Town, St James were experiencing episodes of fainting and...

WESTERN BUREAU: Senior Superintendent Wayne Josephs, head of the Westmoreland Police Division, says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is having a challenge finding suitable young people to enlist among its ranks. He shared that position while...

Eighteen months into the execution of a five-year multimillion-dollar project, Portmore is said to have slashed non-revenue water losses by a third, a move which it is hoped will help to turn around the financial fortunes of the National Water...

Opposition senator Lambert Brown is bemoaning the “state of fear and trepidation” in which Jamaica finds itself, calling for effective action from the Government to reduce the high murder rate. He said since the start of the year up to October 2...

While not calling for the sacking of Dr Christopher Tufton in the wake of revelations about the deaths of 14 newborns over four months from a bacterial outbreak at Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH), former health minister Dr Fenton Ferguson said the.....

Donovan Reid, a director in The Woof Group, the company developing a US$200-million luxury resort in St Thomas, is hitting back at critics of the project who, he said, have bandied about “a significant amount of false information”. Reid, in a.....

Ministry of Education officials have been warned to tread carefully on religious rights and freedoms as it seeks to establish protocols to govern devotional exercises in the wake of bizarre scenes on Wednesday at Oberlin High School where dozens of....

Junior National Security Minister Zavia Mayne wants the courts to mandate that convicts participate in rehabilitation programmes offered by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), rather than leave it to them to voluntarily enrol. “If a ma...

The global services sector is pumping roughly US$890 million (J$136 billion) into the Jamaican economy annually, equivalent to six per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), says the industry’s leading lobbyist Anand Biradar. Biradar, who is...

The Government and private sector are being urged to partner on asset-building programmes and index-based agricultural and livestock insurance for Jamaicans, especially women. Index-based agricultural and livestock insurance is said to be a...