Despite a vigorous defence of the academic integrity of The University of the West Indies (UWI) by its vice-chancellor, lecturers and students have said that the culture of cheating extends beyond examinations to essay-writing and other work. A...

WESTERN BUREAU: In the last 48 hours, Caribbean Airlines passengers were forced to walk on the ramp and carry their hand luggage up the stairs of the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) owing to no access to the jet bridge. Passengers also.....

As a raging fire swept through the Newport West warehouse and offices of Seprod on Saturday night, CEO Richard Pandohie said he parked his car in front of the Facey Pharmaceutical Division of the manufacturing and distribution conglomerate. He...

Former Carmax used-car salesman Ian Lyn Muhammad has expressed shock and sadness that he is still flagged by the International Police (Interpol) as being wanted by Jamaican law-enforcement authorities. Lyn Muhammad said that the designation has its....

The Government may shelve, for the immediate future, the full rehabilitation of the Junction main road in St Mary, four years after Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced a $600-million project to remedy the problem-plagued thoroughfare. Chief......

WESTERN BUREAU: With increasing queries by prospective visitors on the COVID-19 immunisation status of tourism workers, a survey by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) has revealed resounding support by industry stakeholders for...

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite facing major health challenges as she battles through several courses of treatment for breast cancer, 55-year-old Hope Johnson is facing her difficulties with a smile while seeking to be the poster girl for survival. The...

The incidence of electricity theft among mainly poor inner-city and squatter communities has been diagnosed as a deep cultural crisis that cannot be addressed by technology alone. That is the view of Anthony Clayton, Alcan professor of Caribbean...

Both the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) and the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) have offered Michael Reid, the 21-year-old youth who took to social media to lament his trying circumstances recently, free courses of study to...

Karen Cross’ expulsion from the People’s National Party (PNP) last month comes 67 years after Marxist Richard Hart and three others were booted from the political movement in 1954 for their alleged communist views. Also expelled with Hart were.....

The National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) may not be prepared to call it, but researchers at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) are standing behind a study that suggests alcoholism is on the rise locally and that the pressures of COVID-19 are.....

There is still no word from the Office of the Prime Minister as to whether it will heed to the plea for help from Montego Bay businessman Gordon Baldie to save his business. Nonetheless, 51-year-old Baldie, CEO of Inter-Caribbean Automotive Parts......

The Senate has passed two bills that will grant limited right of appeal to the prosecution in criminal proceedings in the Parish Court and the Supreme Court. The Judicature (Appellate Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Act 2021 and the Judicature (Parish......

Penelope Singleton* turned up for work at Qualcare Jamaica Limited in St Andrew last week knowing she had not complied with the new COVID-19 vaccination policy put in place by her employers. The policy, which was outlined in a memo Qualcare...

Kenyan diplomat Dr Monica Juma is hoping to become the consensus candidate for the position of Commonwealth secretary general after heads of government of the 54-country bloc rejected attempts to have the incumbent serve an automatic second four-......

The People’s National Party (PNP) is entering the week of its 83rd annual conference fresh from a battering in opinion polls, public bickering and its application of the strongest disciplinary measure in recent years with the expulsion of former.....

Donovan Samuels, who is among five persons brought over from the board at the centre of the scandal gripping a government company that feeds poor children, says his retention was due to Education Minister Fayval Williams exercising her judgement.......

A planned multibillion-dollar tourism investment for the prime oceanfront in Little Bay, Westmoreland, is hanging in the balance as a group of investors are being frustrated with efforts to evict hundreds of squatters from the property. The...

The Government’s development of Falmouth as a premier tourism destination is being matched by millions of dollars in private investment throughout Trelawny, but indigenous stakeholders are not satisfied with the involvement of locals in planning.....

Buffeted by criticism of the flagship legislation used to contain the coronavirus outbreak, the Holness administration will face an acid test when the first constitutional challenge against the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) is to be mentioned....