WESTERN BUREAU: Six months after the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, residents of the small coastal community of Parottee in St Elizabeth say their most urgent needs are the restoration of electricity and access to water, as recovery continues at ...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is expected today to respond to mounting concerns over the proposed National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA) bill, a sweeping piece of legislation that has drawn criticism from civil society groups, a...

WESTERN BUREAU: Seventy-year-old Parotte fisherman Basil Bennett said he stood in stunned disbelief and watched his home collapse under the brutal force of Hurricane Melissa’s Category 5 winds as it ripped through St Elizabeth last October. “It ...

The image of his house being submerged in floodwaters still plagues 79-year-old Leebert Campbell, even haunting him in his dreams. His home – located on Gibson Close, off Ward Avenue in Mandeville, Manchester – was one of three that were swamped...

After experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of primary school students will tomorrow sit the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations just six months after the catastrophic Category 5 Hurricane Melissa brought another abrupt pause to their pr...

Jamaica is on track to record its deadliest month of fatal shootings by the security forces in more than three years, with 36 people killed up to April 27, the highest monthly tally recorded over the past 40 months. Some 112 people were killed by s...

A former police constable who processed the scene of a fatal police shooting in St Andrew in January 2013, yesterday testified that he did not see any car documents at the scene where three men were killed. The former scene-of-crime officer, who tes...

WESTERN BUREAU: Restoring communities devastated by Hurricane Melissa could cost billions of dollars, with Montego Bay’s mayor warning that the country lacks the financial capacity for full mitigation and must instead focus on adaptation. Mayor Ri...

WESTERN BUREAU: Ten-year-old Enrique Aiken speaks with quiet confidence, the kind that comes from finally understanding the work in front of him. “I get to learn more stuff – things we did before and new things – for PEP,” said the grade-fou...

WESTERN BUREAU: Six months after Hurricane Melissa, residents of Westgreen and Catherine Hall remain gripped by fear, fleeing at the first sign of rain as trauma persists and recovery challenges continue to undermine confidence. For some, returning ...