WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie says he is “deeply disappointed” with the construction quality of the relatively new male ward Savanna-la-Mar Infirmary in Westmoreland, which sustained major damage during Hurricane...

Managing director of the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) Dr David Lowe says the first phase of the institution’s M5 Business Recovery Programme will be launched in the fourth quarter of the current financial year, between January and March 2026,...

Defence attorney King’s Counsel Larry Smith on Thursday raised the possibility that Donna-Lee Donaldson was trafficked, during cross-examination of the Crown’s final witness in the Noel Maitland murder trial. Smith questioned a detective inspect...

There were several tense moments during Thursday’s sitting of the Sagicor fraud trial as defence attorneys aggressively questioned a former banker who returned to the stand for cross-examination. The trial involves former bank manager Tricia...

WESTERN BUREAU: Western Jamaica’s health sector has received a critical boost with the arrival of China’s Navy hospital ship Ark Silk Road, which began a three-day medical mission in Montego Bay, St James, on Thursday before it heads to Falmouth...

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...

Two years after losing her first-born child, something inside Millicent McCurdy still feels shattered. Yet the 50-year-old Westmoreland businesswoman believes that the very grief that once threatened to consume her pales in comparison to the...

As music rips through the different parties during the festive season, a new alcoholic concoction is bubbling on dance floor - high-proof rum mixed with electrolytes. Slowly creeping up in the Jamaican party scene, the mix is done to avoid...

The split in this family, once fuelled by questions about a child's hair type, has finally reached its end after DNA results confirmed that both children belong to the man who had long denied one of them. For Margaret*, the mother, the...

If anyone was still doubting that Christmas is creeping up on us, last week's surprise visit to the STAR offices by Eve Campbell should erase all doubt. Known as Jamaica's very own 'colour woman', Campbell has made it a ritual to strut into the.....

Trelawny farmer Cynthia Watt says she is paying a painful price after opening her land to the National Works Agency (NWA), who cut a temporary road through her property when Hurricane Melissa destroyed the main road. Watt, who has worked the land....