Dr Dayton Campbell may have survived as general secretary amid a developing scandal but the decision to retain him in the People’s National Party’s (PNP) senior ranks has sparked a smouldering conflict that could further torch a deeply divided.....

“They said that my name is on a bullet.” That is the chilling warning reportedly relayed to Rosalie Hamilton, the sitting Jamaica Labour Party councillor for the Rae Town division, who has observed rising tensions between rival gangs that have.....

At 49 years old, Joan Edwards, a Jamaican in Livingston, New Jersey, is a happy, accomplished woman. She is the mother of two grown children and has just graduated with a doctoral degree in nursing practice from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix.....

A dump. That’s the long and short of the No. 5 Cemetery in Spanish Town, metres away from the blighted high-rises of Tawes Pen in the distance. Situated at the vertex of Manchester Street, Chambers Lane, and Wellington Street, the burial ground ha...

Attempts to derail criminal investigations by falsifying, concealing, destroying or disposing of documents or items relevant to a probe could land offenders in serious trouble with the law. The proposed penalty, if new provisions in the Criminal......

Investigators are probing the circumstances leading to the death of an elderly woman, whose body was discovered by a gardener at her Gardenia Boulevard home in Mona, St Andrew, on Tuesday. The deceased, Ruth DeCasseres Murray, 76, is a retiree and....

WESTERN BUREAU: Lolleta Scarlett, the mother of a Hanover woman scorched in an alleged fit of rage by a jealous boyfriend last week, was in tears as she watched Nicola Clarke being wheeled out of the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St...

Embattled People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell has asserted that sex crime allegations levelled against him are part of an ouster plot This development could open up fresh wounds in an internecine conflict between...

A 22-year-old Kingston baker who was last week convicted for having sex with a minor, impregnating her, has expressed remorse for the crime and is urging other men not to commit the same offence. In January, Andre Frame pleaded guilty to two...

WESTERN BUREAU: With Jamaica lacking a burn unit to adequately treat her severe injuries, Nicola Clarke, the Hanover woman who was allegedly doused with gasolene and set on fire by her jealous boyfriend last Wednesday, is to head to the United...

Yielding to intense lobbying from teachers, governments, and UNICEF, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has made adjustments to this year’s examinations in the wake of COVID-19 displacement as well as volcanic activity in St Vincent....

A St Andrew man is now dead after a dispute over a stool at a wake being held in violation of COVID-19 regulations in Stony Hill, St Andrew, last Saturday. The deceased has been identified as 40-year-old Leonard ‘Lenny’ Campbell of a Hilltop, Ai...

WESTERN BUREAU: The 15-year-old boy charged in connection with last week’s shooting death of his six-year-old cousin in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, was remanded when he made his first court appearance on Wednesday. Following the hearing in the.....

WESTERN BUREAU: First out the door to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has embarked on a strategic growth plan for its Jamaica operations, breaking ground for two multibillion-dollar resort investments...

Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Morais Guy made a strong case on Wednesday for community health aides to be given security of tenure. Guy claimed that the majority of community health aides employed by the Government for more than a decade held......

The Government has modified the Special Mining Lease (SML) 173 to Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II to mine 8,335 hectares of land in the Cockpit Country. Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague announced on Wednesday that the Holness...

The scandal surrounding People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell has intensified with the submission of statements from three females who are alleging that they had sexual relations with the politician when they were...

Simmering tensions at the state-run Maxfield Park Children’s Home in St Andrew erupted on Tuesday after angry staff protested the arrest and charge of a co-worker accused of using a piece of board to slap a student in the head for sleeping in...

Eight months after defeating the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate Dr Walton Small to take the St James South seat, Homer Davis is lamenting that he and his office are still being denied access to a training centre in the community of...

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang railed against the ease with which suspected criminals could be granted bail as he called for laws to reflect Jamaica’s crime crisis. His soundings are bound to further rattle criminal attorneys already.....