Passage of a resolution for the entire membership of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) to vote in internal elections could mark a tectonic shift in political party governance and potentially diminish the influence of bribery and...

Despite calls by fuming critics for the board of Merl Grove High School to be sacked for suspending principal Dr Marjorie Fullerton, the executive director of the National Council on Education has warned that such action requires a high threshold......

Eighteen months after the COVID-19 pandemic threw the education sector into disarray after the first case of the coronavirus was confirmed on the island, some parents are concerned that their children remain at a disadvantage as their inability to.....

Three weeks ago when the first shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Jamaica, 11-year-old Coniesea McFarlane was excited. Having wrapped up her primary school journey, she was anxious to get inoculated against the coronavirus, hoping that....

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay-based medical cannabis dispensary Outlier has joined the effort to get Jamaicans vaccinated against COVID-19 with the novel ‘Weed for Vaccine’ campaign, which it hopes will push smokers to line up for the jab. But one...

It was another day of disappointment for small traders in Ocho Rios, St Ann, as they failed to land a single sale despite making preparations to cash in on yesterday’s Carnival Sunrise cruise call. On its third visit to the island in a month, none...

Members of the United Church have been left in shock following the passing of the Reverend Norman Francis, lecturer and warden at the United Theological College of the West Indies. The adjunct lecturer at the International University of the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Waterlogged soil has caused a further delay in the construction of the 36-bed field hospital on the grounds of the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland. The field hospital, which should have started more than a month ago, only...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is searching for a new leader of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) after Chief Executive Officer Peter Thompson was reportedly issued with an ultimatum to resign, be fired, or accept a...

The bloodstained floor and mattresses bore the gruesome reminder of gun violence that claimed the lives of the parents of an eight-year-old boy and two others in southwestern Clarendon on Sunday. The child’s father, 25-year-old Michael Solomon; hi...

WESTERN BUREAU: Not even the death of two close relatives and the hospitalisation of his spouse, owing to the COVID-19 virus, has convinced a hesitant Seventh-day Adventist pastor in Montego Bay, St James, to embrace vaccination. The revelation...

Gunmen have been on a murderous rampage, killing at least 18 people over a 48-hour period on the weekend. Seven of the murders occurred over an eight-hour period on Saturday, while 11 killings happened on Friday. A two-year-old infant was shot and.....

Shanice Hawthorne telephoned a relative from her hospital bed at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James on August 29 complaining that her complexion had turned “black and blue” and she was “stifling” - signs she believed signalled ...

Despite a whirlwind controversy bedevilling Merl Grove High School in Kingston, board Chairman David Hall has defended the decision to suspend principal Dr Marjorie Fullerton and insisted that everything is being done to ensure that the students......

The deaths of two nurses from COVID-19 over the weekend has triggered anguish and despair among hospital workers, with senior healthcare personnel exasperated by the failure of the lockdowns to drive down infections fast enough. The latest victims.....

After 10 months, the Gordon Town main road in St Andrew has been fully reopened to vehicular traffic, bringing relief to residents who hassled to travel to work and move goods and construction material to their homes. Cabinet approved a $187-...

An official of Airports Authority of Jamaica’s (AAJ) finance committee in March 2021 said he was not convinced that “proper due diligence” was done before the group pumped almost a half a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money in start-up First...

The Carnival Sunrise cruise ship is set to dock in Ocho Rios, St Ann tomorrow, a designated no-movement day in Jamaica. Approximately 1,700 cruise passengers are on board. However, arrangements have been made to open a few attractions to accommodat...

Investors across several sectors are calling on the Government to rethink its infection control strategies employed to counter the rapid spread of COVID-19, as the no-movement days are sending them to the brink of bankruptcy. A sharp increase in...

Shanon Stephenson, a Jamaican living in the United States (US) illegally, and Audrey Johnson, an American citizen, got ‘married’ in a seemingly normal ceremony held in the state of New York on March 1, 2012. Days later, Stephenson applied to the...