There are fresh calls for the Holness administration’s welfare housing initiative to be wholly managed by state agencies to preserve the programme’s integrity. Political representatives do not ratify the beneficiaries but play a role in...

WESTERN BUREAU: THE JAMAICA Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) will engage in a massive drive to ramp up employment by thousands across the country with looming fear that the workforce deficit could undermine visitor experience during the winter.....

Residents of Comfort Castle, Portland, are calling for the Government and other relevant authorities to impose an extended ban on fishing in the Rio Grande in their community as the treasured black janga/black Betty crayfish may soon become extinct....

The shock announcement that residential units have been yanked from the J$7-billion, multistorey luxury Residences at Terra Nova has left stakeholders puzzled, with the lead realtor on the project insisting that he had bankable offers on half of...

As mourners prepared to lay to rest six-year-old drowning victim Jevanie Kidd, St James South Member of Parliament Homer Davis cast the country as “doomed for failure” because of the erosion of positive family values and the coarsening of Jamaic...

“Right now, mi heart a bleed.” That was the gut-wrenching declaration by a close relative of 55-year-old Randolph McBean, one of three men slain in a drive-by shooting on Lincoln Crescent, Kingston, Friday night. Residents of the community were....

A senior citizen who stole a portion of her friend’s property and later subdivided the land and gifted it to herself, her children, and ex-husband was on Friday taken into custody after her sentencing was postponed in the Home Circuit Court. The.....

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...