Western Bureau: Acting Commissioner of Police Clifford Blake is warning criminals against confronting members of the security forces after two policemen and a policewoman were shot and a wanted man killed during an early-morning operation in Mount S...

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Cacoon in Hanover have established a Community Development Committee (CDC) office to open new doors of opportunities for them in the rural district. The office, which is expected to benefit adjoining districts as well, w...

Repairs to more than half of the schools severely damaged by Hurricane Melissa should be completed by the end of the year, Dr Kasan Troupe, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, has disclosed. Addressing ye...

WESTERN BUREAU: Law student Wayne White of Salt Spring, St James, who had asked Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon for $20,000 to help him clear an outstanding law school bill, got more than he bargained for. White was recently presented with a $100,0...

Lorraine Narine was at a grave digging in St Mary yesterday when she was jolted by a loud sound and given the news no mother wants to hear – her son had been shot. Her son, 22-year-old Sazaree Clarke, whom she described as a “mama’s boy”, wa...

WESTERN BUREAU: One week after the tragic death of engineer Clifton James, who was killed on the new Montego Bay Bypass Road, Works Minister Robert Morgan says the public will be notified whether the project, which is now on pause, will meet its end...

Jamaica’s primary regional referral facility, the 579-bed University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), is urging members of the public to seek alternative care as a massive influx of patients overwhelms its emergency services. The hospital, in a...

Children’s advocacy group Fi Wi Children Foundation (FWCF) has chided Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness for suggesting that Jamaican students forced to learn under trees following Hurricane Melissa are “learning closer to nature”. Speaking at T...

The Supreme Court has imposed an injunction that temporarily blocks the country’s environment regulatory authority from evicting at least 40 people from the Jacob Taylor Beach lands in Duncans, Trelawny. Justice Andrea Thomas granted the injunctio...

Four years after Jamaica implemented the Disabilities Act, structural and communication barriers continue to hamper members of the disabled community, according to inclusion advocate Alister McLean. McLean said inconsistencies in public infrastructu...