A Manchester maintenance contractor who was mauled by two pit bull terriers at a company’s premises in August 2010 has been awarded $1.2 million in general damages, plus interest and special damages, after the Supreme Court found the company...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s general aviation sector is in steep decline, weakened by outdated regulations, high operating costs and what industry stakeholders describe as a policy environment that has failed to recognise the sector’s economic and...

For 21 years, Liston Morrison has been living in a world that has slowly faded into darkness. The 60-year-old Spanish Town resident, once a proud and hard-working chef who spent years preparing meals in Cuba, never imagined that the same job that......

National Integrity Action (NIA) Principal Director Dr Gavin Myers wants the Government to urgently roll out critical anti-corruption legislative reforms such as the long-proposed unexplained wealth order (UWO) regime. His call comes at a time when.....

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillors staged a walkout from Tuesday’s meeting of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) after Councillor Lorraine Dobson of the Springfield Division was elected deputy mayor. The walkout followed....

Jamaicans across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom have begun voting in elections for the Global Jamaica Diaspora Council (GJDC), amid concerns from some leaders about what they describe as disappointingly low voter registration –.....

As the country continues to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa last October, the Government is moving to provide tax relief to companies that offered financial assistance to employees affected by the Category 5 storm. Finance.....

A resident of the usually quiet Glenmuir Drive in May Pen, Clarendon, is still shaken after recalling the horrifying moment a terrified 12-year-old boy came tearing through the streets late Sunday night, crying out that his mother had been killed,.....

Two of the six policemen on trial in the Home Circuit Court in connection with the January 2013 fatal shooting of three men along Acadia Drive, St Andrew, had reported that they did not fire their weapons during the deadly encounter. A detective...

Fourteen-year-old Dontae Daley has defied the odds, moving from reading at grade-one level to becoming one of the top performers in his third-form class at New Forest High School – a transformation that educators say highlights the value of early...

WESTERN BUREAU: Luxury Resort Excellence Oyster Bay, in keeping with its long-term commitment to Jamaica, has announced a massive US$25-million (J$4.02-billion) expansion programme, alongside a further US$8-million (J$1.28-billion) investment in...

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, says some sections of the facility have been restored to pre-Hurricane Melissa functionality following repairs. Fray’s...

Two joint owners of several businesses in Tivoli Gardens, Kingston, have been denied compensation for losses allegedly suffered during the 2010 security forces operation, including cash said to total nearly $1.7 million and cell phones, after the......

WESTERN BUREAU: A 10,000-square-foot medical dome capable of housing up to 100 hospital beds is to be installed at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, providing critical interim relief as the long-delayed reconstruction......

At the young age of 23, Oberlene Smith-Whyte’s world as she knew it shattered. Her husband, Errol Whyte, was shot and killed along with then member of Parliament Roy McGann, to whom he was assigned as close protection officer, both victims of a.....

After 52 years, Kemps Hill High School in Clarendon is not merely commemorating longevity; it is celebrating survival, growth, and a quiet, but determined rise. This year’s anniversary is being observed under the theme, ‘Resilient and Shining’...

Senator Professor Floyd Morris, opposition spokesman on housing and sustainable living, has given notice that he plans to move a motion to effect changes to how the National Housing Trust (NHT) is being operated at the next sitting of the Senate.......

A man, allegedly using a fictitious identity, got a total of $352 million in mortgage loans from four financial institutions over a one-month period in 2024, the proprietors of a privately owned firm have charged in a lawsuit. The loans were made......

A Jamaican farmworker has joined a legal challenge to New York’s Farm Labourers’ Fair Labour Practices Act (FLFLPA), raising concerns that unionisation – while promising higher wage rates – could ultimately leave farmworkers with less money ...

WESTERN BUREAU: In classrooms across western Jamaica, empty desks still tell the unfinished story of a hurricane whose most lasting damage may not be measured in roofs lost, but in children still unable to find their way back. Principals, guidance.....