WESTERN BUREAU: When 24-year-old Ashli McCarthy arrived in Guyana four years ago, she knew almost nobody, had no local currency, and carried little more than her ambition to become a doctor. “All I had was my Scotiabank card and a dream,” she re...

A tribunal has ordered the government’s principal training agency to hand over the full, unredacted and authenticated minutes of all board meetings held between 2020 and 2023 to the attorneys for a senior manager facing disciplinary charges.

Questions are being raised about the circumstances surrounding Friday’s deadly confrontation between police and men at a house off the Sligoville main road in Six Miles, St Catherine, with residents offering accounts that challenge aspects of the ...

A 10-year-old child was allegedly used as bait by gunmen on Friday morning to lure police officers into a deadly ambush during an operation in the Five Miles area of St Catherine. According to reports, the confrontation began about 5:15 a.m. in Moun...

The People’s National Party (PNP) caucus in the Clarendon Municipal Corporation (CMC) has described a court injunction barring motions of no confidence against May Pen Mayor Joel Williams and Deputy Mayor Clive Mundle as a “threat on democracy�...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Male students at Little London High School no longer have to be jealous that the girls' restroom is nicer than theirs. Last Friday, a group of alumni called Global Humanity Network Incorporated (GHNI) dona...

Today is the 102nd day of 2022. There are 263 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space, orbit the Earth and make a safe landing. OTHER EVENTS1606: Great Britain ad...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's Parliament on Monday elected Opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the new prime minister, following a week of political turmoil that led to the weekend ouster of Premier Imran Khan.Sharif took the ...

While the journey of entrepreneurship has been anything but smooth sailing for small grocery store owner Arlene Swaby, she is proof that with the right focus, and a little support, small business owners can thrive."I started out after m...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Programme director, Community Renewal Programme, Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Charles Clayton says the answer to the nation's crime problem is definitely not the resumption of hanging.In fact, Clayton poi...

Commissioner of Police Dr Kevin Blake has confirmed that one police officer was killed and another left in critical condition after officers came under heavy gunfire during an operation in Sligoville, St Catherine, this morning.

A heated argument that allegedly escalated into a bottle-and-stone fight has landed a 27-year-old St James labourer in hot water after a man’s two-bedroom house was later found engulfed in flames.

The ISSA Walker Cup KO final will go ahead as scheduled today at Stadium East. However, an unresolved appeal by Jamaica College (JC) will cast a shadow over the showdown between Kingston College (KC) and Mona High.