Karen Barnes has been trying for at least four years to have her daughter registered under the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), a state welfare initiative administered by the Minister of Labour and Social Security (MLSS....

The Police High Command has launched a top-level probe to determine how two prisoners went missing from the Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay, St James, on Saturday. “It would seem as if they were released by someone,” a highly placed polic...

With a rise in COVID-19 cases at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre and no yield to calls for the release of some low-risk inmates, Carla Gullotta, president of Stand Up For Jamaica, is urging reluctant inmates and correctional officers to.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Without a well-stocked ark or a shepherd to tend to their needs, several animals abandoned after a deadly ritual and police raid at a Montego Bay church last weekend were left unattended for days. The situation has triggered a call.....

Despite a wave of condemnation from all spheres of society over the reported bizarre religious practices of controversial leader Dr Kevin O. Smith, some members of his Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James are adamant...

A month after he registered an entity with the same name as the Government’s Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) that he led, Cecil Cornwall told his executive to get its house in order because they could be audited, meeting records have...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the unvaccinated population continues to burden the country’s coffers, effectively limiting Government’s spend in other areas of national importance. Speaking at Friday’s handover of a genome sequencing mach...

Like other Comrades weary of the political enmity dogging their political movement, former Vice-President Mikael Phillips is longing for an end to the long winter of internal discontent that has beleaguered the 83-year-old People’s National Party ...

Danville Walker, one of two members named by the Government to sit on the board of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), has dismissed claims by the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) that it was unaware of the theft-deterrent programme...

At 23, Sherika* says she has been raped by five different men on different occasions. And that number of offences would be higher if repeated encounters with her biological father – the first to defile her at nine years old – are counted. Now, s...

Plans for the deportation of Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, one of the key suspects behind the July 7 assassination of then Haitian President Jovenel Moise, were in train when they were serendipitously scuttled when the high-profile target in one....

Rallying a call to action in the face of Jamaica’s “vaccine crisis of gargantuan proportions”, public-health specialist Dr Alverston Bailey has urged the Ministry of Health and Wellness to offer AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses to the estima...

A policeman attached to the National Intelligence Unit (NIB) Area One Division has been reassigned owing to his membership in the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries. The police inspector and his wife, a teacher, and their...

WESTERN BUREAU: Flamboyant alleged cult leader Kevin O. Smith was a picture of humiliation on Thursday as he was transported to his Ironshore, St James, home in handcuffs by a police team to facilitate a search of two of his properties located in......

WESTERN BUREAU: Eleven-year-old Jada Wright is no ordinary child, having passed four Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects with distinction, the latest two racked up in this year’s June sitting. Jada, who lives in Junction, St....

For her sixth birthday celebration on December 10, kidney cancer patient Nyla Simpson hopes to have a mermaid party on the beach. However, she first needs to keep her chemotherapy treatment on track at some $140,000 per month, which her family is......

Forty-two year-old Levi Chambers condemned the separate abductions of two girls in St Thomas last week and expressed a desire for the perpetrator to be brought to justice. But in a cruel twist of fate, Chambers was attacked and fatally stabbed,...

Relatives of the elderly Jamaican-Canadian couple who was gruesomely murdered in Retreat, St Thomas, three years ago, say they have forgiven the killer and are thankful that he confessed. The 29-year-old farmer, Fabian Skervin, who had pleaded...

A three-month-pregnant woman and an anaemic colleague who is reportedly preparing for surgery are among five women who have filed a constitutional challenge against Cari-Med Group, a leading pharmaceutical company, over its mandatory COVID-19...

WESTERN BUREAU: Taneka Gardner became so bewitched by her cultish pastor that she tried to remove her son and mother from her life insurance policy, making Dr Kevin O. Smith her beneficiary. Smith had the power to get his congregation to fund his......