Despite the soaring fortunes of the global services sector in Jamaica, business process outsourcing outfits (BPOs) are haemorrhaging hundreds of jobs monthly, stoking concerns among some sector interests about companies’ retention rates. Many of.....

Kimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter St Thomas Western Member of Parliament (MP) James Robertson has poured scorn on People’s National Party (PNP) councillors for their “distasteful” quest for power following the sudden death of Lenworth Rawl...

Attorney-at-law Michelle Thomas, who is representing Rushane Patterson, the person of interest in the murder of social-media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, is accusing the police of breaching due process after her client was reportedly....

Gang warfare originating in Salt Spring, St James, is believed to have crossed borders and created mayhem in Lauderhill, Florida, with law enforcers there determined to clamp down on the crime syndicates. Jamaican dancehall stakeholders are...

Having been repeatedly trapped inside their community following heavy rainfall and perennial flooding from the overflowing Negro River, residents of River Head in St Thomas said they are weary of state neglect and are demanding swift intervention......

After more than a month of delay, the Housing Agency of Jamaica Limited (HAJ) has secured a permit from the Portmore Municipal Corporation to begin construction of 148 homes at Sandown Palms. The corporation had issued a stop order on the...

Seventy-six-year-old Gladstone Grant, whose vision is clouded by cataracts, has found the night-time trip along the Mount Vernon Gap breakaway in St Thomas particularly challenging. Since the roadway crumbled under the weight of torrential rain...

A mother is relieved to have her teen daughter return home alive after her bid to land a job at a Portmore call centre morphed into a nightmare after she was allegedly abducted after the interview. The 19-year-old was reportedly abducted for two......

The Government is seeking to curb an influx of Cubans who appear to be using Jamaica as a transit point to Central America in an attempt to illegally gain entry into the United States. Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang confirmed in a......

As the economy continues to bounce back from the ravages of the pandemic, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is lamenting that these strides are not being matched in other areas of national life, pointing to the education sector, the escalating crime...

Shane Lawson missed the opportunity to graduate with his wife, Vergie Lee, in 2019 as he had a course left to complete, but on Saturday, the two will walk across the stage at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, to accept their awards. He....

After a couple was brutally murdered in Toll Gate, Clarendon, on Tuesday night, the Clarendon police sought to offer reassurance during a walk-through of William Lane and Duke Street on Wednesday, but the area was deserted, with just one man around....

The police are probing whether the parents of the man held for the murder of former Portland Eastern Member of Parliament Dr Lynvale Bloomfield played a role in his disappearance yesterday ahead of the start of his trial in the Home Circuit Court......

As Jamaica was placed under tropical storm watch earlier this week, elderly couple Basil and Mavis Solomon stood in their crack-riddled house in Zion Hill, St Mary, praying and hoping that it would not slide away if pelted by heavy rains and winds.....

Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang on Tuesday announced a 14-day gun amnesty, as the penalty regime for the new Firearms Prohibition and Restriction Act comes into effect. The amnesty is to begin on November 5 and end on November 19,...

WESTERN BUREAU: The haphazard decentralisation of mental-health care has been blamed for the incidence of deadly violence committed by mentally ill people in Jamaica, one of the island’s leading consultant psychiatrists has said. Professor Wendel....

Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has indicated that the country is recording an abnormally high number of hospital admissions of children with respiratory illnesses. Tufton, who was addressing parliamentary colleagues in the......

Matriculation to university is not a routine rite of passage in his hometown of Frankfield, says Stephen Richards. In fact, he says he can count on one hand the number of youth from the rural Clarendon community who he knows have attained higher.....

The National Parenting Supporting Commission (NPSC) has expressed grave concern at the “deep level of apathy” among Jamaican parents. The disinterest in the lives of children was flagged in a recent survey conducted by the NPSC. The majority o...

The full extent of the damage caused to roads by Tropical Strom Ian in September amounts to $889 million. Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who made the disclosure on Tuesday in Parliament, said that Clarendon bore the brunt of the effects of the...