Nearly a year after Hurricane Melissa devastated sections of Jamaica, a new Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) report has raised questions about the country’s ability to turn disaster donations into timely assistance. The report cited del...

Western Bureau: Nearly a year after Hurricane Melissa battered western Jamaica, students at Petersfield High School are still attending classes just twice a week, leaving parents worried about lost learning time and prompting calls for a rethink of ...

Children involved in crime may themselves be victims of human trafficking, but the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) says no suspected child trafficking case brought to its attention is specifically identified as involving minors f...

The People’s National Party (PNP) is questioning whether the Government’s ban on official overseas travel is a genuine cost-cutting measure or a public relations exercise, given millions of dollars committed to the newly established National Age...

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett left the island on Friday for a five-city tour of Canada aimed at wooing more Canadian visitors to Jamaica in the upcoming winter tourism season. Bartlett will visit Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Montreal ...

Heavy rainfall triggered a major landslide that left 15 students and several teachers stranded at Johnson Mountain Primary School in St Thomas on Friday, as blocked roads, fallen trees and flooding disrupted sections of the parish and the Meteorolog...

Government senator Marlon Morgan has called for the reintroduction of criminal sanctions for defamation in Jamaica. Making his contribution to the State of the Nation Debate in the Upper House on Friday, Morgan took aim at the parliamentary Oppositi...

A second justice of the peace (JP) on Friday testified that Andre Ruddock voluntarily gave police a statement in which he allegedly confessed to cutting Taneka Gardner’s throat. The witness corroborated earlier testimony from a colleague that Rudd...

The People’s National Party (PNP) has taken another step in the legal battle over the leadership of the Clarendon Municipal Corporation (CMC), filing an application in the Supreme Court to have Councillor Scean Barnswell joined as a party to ongoi...

AP: The language that’s known as the backbone of the Internet is now subject to what experts describe as one of the most notable vulnerabilities in recent memory. PHP is a widely used general-purpose scripting language that is geared toward web de...