A father has lost his negligence claim against the State over the death of his son, who collapsed during a physical assessment for recruitment to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) five years ago. Supreme Court Justice Sonya Wint-Blair dismissed t...

Following the Industrial Disputes Tribunal’s landmark ruling in favour of doctors in their long-running allowances dispute with the State, senior trade unionist Lambert Brown says the medical practitioners are ready to meet with the Government to ...

A call is being made for greater investment in teacher training institutions, with Dr Ashburn Pinnock, president of The Mico University College, arguing that while teacher preparation is evolving, it is not always keeping pace with the complexities ...

A judge on Monday did not allow the absence of defence attorney Hugh Wildman to delay the resumption of the oft-delayed fraud trial involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid. Wildman is the attorney for one of Reid’s co-accused, former Caribbe...

The evidentiary phase of the Pathways murder trial is currently on pause as Justice Leighton Pusey considers whether to admit a caution statement containing a reported confession by accused Andre Ruddock. A voir dire, or trial within a trial, began...

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett want Jamaica’s Agricultural Linkages Exchange (ALEX) to be expanded into a Caribbean-wide platform as part of a broader push to build a regional agricultural logistics network capable of supplying ...

WESTERN BUREAU: Just days after lamenting in Parliament about the unsatisfactory state of the roadwork being done in her constituency under the SPARK programme, Hanover Eastern Member of Parliament Andrea Purkiss halted work by a crew in Hopewell la...

Former Jamaica College (JC) Manning Cup footballer Alton Allen has travelled a long way from the streets of Denham Town where he grew up, but nearly three decades after leaving Jamaica for the United States, the community and the people he knew ther...

The Global Afrikan Congress (GAC) is demanding an apology from parliamentarian Everald Warmington for his “uninformed assertions” that Black Africans who sold people into the transatlantic slave trade should be held more accountable than Europe...

WESTERN BUREAU: A representation dispute has erupted in Jamaica’s tourism ground transportation sector, with the more than 2,000-member JUTA Montego Bay declaring that a government-recognised umbrella organisation has no authority to speak on its ...