Andre Stewart, stepfather of Danesha Cooper – a 14-year-old Jonathan Grant High student, who died in the Kingston Public Hospital from stab wounds on Monday – said he had tried to prevent the relationship she had with her alleged 21-year-old kil...

WESTERN BUREAU: As hundreds of athletes vie for medals in the first staging of Boys and Girls’ Champs in the COVID-19 era, mega businesses and small traders alike are already counting their losses from the empty stands that will ring hollow in the...

In his first public comment on the controversial endorsement of vigilante justice by Senator Lambert Brown, Opposition Leader Mark Golding has rejected that declaration but sought diplomatic cover by saying the People’s National Party (PNP)-aligne...

During her hot streak, Andrea Gordon transferred $7,278,234.36 from the accounts of National Commercial Bank (NCB) in four months, from December 2019 to April 2020. And it was that series of transactions that drew heat from the police and bank...

Tamesha Dixon, a fifth-form student at Dunoon Park Technical High School, is grateful for the opportunity to attend face-to-face classes as she gears up to sit exit examinations. “When I’m at home, it is very distracting. In the community,...

A brother of the businessman who was gunned down at his Old Hope Road bar on Monday said that a history of violence has haunted the family, with Robert Fletcher being the third relative killed at the location. The murder trail led the police to the....

Parents are being encouraged to support their children with special needs by maintaining their regime as best as possible. Routines are a grounding force for many children, and those living with special needs, especially, become very attached to a....

WESTERN BUREAU: Irate residents of All-Side in southern Trelawny yesterday protested the killing of a man, who was allegedly shot dead by his best friend after being invited over for drinks. The deceased has been identified as 27-year-old Kimorlay.....

WESTERN BUREAU: The outrage sparked by the exposure of tens of thousands of files on the JamCOVID web portal that triggered a government probe was overblown, says Matthew Samuda, the minister under whose purview oversight falls. While acknowledging....

WESTERN BUREAU: While 24 public educational institutions in western Jamaica remained closed yesterday, 129 welcomed students in a partial reopening of schools to help students in grades six, 11, 12 and 13 to prepare for exit examinations. The day......

An eight-year-old boy missed out on Sunday’s Mother’s Day celebration after his 29-year-old mom was hacked to death overnight in a suspected case of jealous rage by her elderly common-law partner in Clark’s Town, Trelawny. When lawmen accompa...

WESTERN BUREAU: As Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ laughter reverberated through the airwaves last Tuesday in Parliament, wedding event planners across the island cringed in dismay. The prime minister quipped that he was getting no pushback from......

WESTERN BUREAU: A New York-based bride says her dream wedding planned for Jamaica has not only been her biggest mistake, but has now turned into a nightmare, putting her at risk of losing an additional US$75,000 to US$80,000 if forced to cancel...

Looking to the clock and waiting for distances in the jumps and throws to be posted were once the picture-perfect frame of anxiety that captured an athlete’s wonder at placement. Now, athletes from dozens of schools are anxiously awaiting the...

The usual celebratory spirit that traditionally comes with Mother’s Day was replaced with grief this year for Irene White Williams. Williams lost her 79-year-old mother, Violet Pinnock, on February 4 and was plunged into deeper mourning again when...

Off the back of a February increase, Jamaicans will have to fork out more money for flour and flour-based products. The Jamaica Flour Mills announced on Sunday that flour prices will increase between eight and 11 per cent. The increase will take......

Madria Wellington* was at a bus stop near downtown Kingston waiting on public transportation to get home after a long day at work. It was close to 7 p.m. on a Wednesday evening last month, and the 23-year-old supervisor would soon get into a car...

The closure of the embattled, privately operated Western Hospitality Institute (WHI), which gets 90 per cent of its revenue from the education ministry, is being considered as questions mount over how it came to enjoy such close financial ties with...

Acknowledging that there are challenges with its network, Digicel CEO Jabbor Kayumov says, if the company is able to get more spectrum, customers across the island could see an immediate fix to Internet connectivity issues. Over the past year, the.....

Guardsman Ltd and the police have launched separate probes into the alleged beating of a female market vendor by a security guard in Montego Bay last Thursday, in the wake of national outrage over violence against women and an assault scandal that.....