The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has pulled the covers off its election machinery, conducting canvasses and fielding candidates for more than 200 divisions months ahead of the February deadline for local government elections. Chairman...

Medical and scientific professionals believe that the time is right for Jamaica to frontally discuss the ethical dilemma surrounding the right to die amid a growing global lobby for euthanasia to be legalised. With November 2 recognised as World......

Pummeled by storm surges and compromised by other environmental hazards, there’s hardly a sliver of sand between some shops and the sea at Hellshire Beach in St Catherine. Kingsley Johnson, operator of Any Money One Stop, has been doing business....

More than 50 persons, or a quarter of those who turned up for Sunday’s incentive-laden vaccination drive of free chicken and phone credit, declined the jab because their preferred brand, Pfizer, was not among the available options. That developmen...

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Chairman Robert Montague says there are no plans to change the party’s voting mechanism in internal elections following moves by the People’s National Party (PNP) to open up ballots to its wider membership. Montague t...

A downed telephone line in Aberdeen, northeast St Elizabeth, robbed centenarian Muriel Crosse of the usual calls she is accustomed to receiving on her birthday, dampening what would have been an otherwise perfect celebration she had planned. Crosse....

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP): The United Nations climate summit, known as COP26 this year, brings officials from almost 200 countries to Glasgow to haggle over the best measures to combat global warming. Here are some of the terms and key issues that...

A breakaway from the local Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church denomination has established a commune in the deep bowels of St Mary, preparing for the Second Coming, with little to no plans of interfacing with the Government or the rest of the...

He has been out 17 months now, but 74-year-old George Williams, a schizophrenic who spent more than 50 years in prison without a trial, continues a life of incarceration and poverty. These days, the illusions of his mind, coupled with the rickety......

Convicted sex offender and former religious leader, Kevin O. Smith, who is now deceased, had some of his first footprints in Jamaica at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, where he operated a mentorship programme involving over three...

Management consultant Dr Henley Morgan has admitted opening doors for Pastor Kevin O. Smith to access the corridors of power locally. Morgan does not recall participating in a seminar Smith hosted at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona,.....

While the eyes of the nation have been focused on the bizarre and deadly religious practices at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James for over two weeks, noted theologian, the Reverend Dr Ronald Hamilton, is among...

The board of Jamaica College (JC) says it is now awaiting a response from Education Minister Fayval Williams, after approving three recommendations regarding a request for a five-year extension of special leave to principal, Ruel Reid, who has been....

The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service and 11 members of the Joint Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) inked a one-year wage agreement yesterday on behalf of some 50,000 public-sector workers. Yesterday’s signing represents about 50 per.....

Keith Darien, principal director of the Financial Investigations Division (FID), on Friday served notice that investigations have commenced into the operations of at least six institutions operating in the financial sector that are not in...

With growing concerns over poor water distribution by the National Water Commission (NWC) throughout the central region without satisfactory responses to their issues, some customers are fast becoming agitated, with plans to boycott the system if......

The family of a 28-year-old Jamaican who was killed in Trinidad and Tobago over a week ago is not ruling out the possibility that his death could have been related to a deadly gang war in his Bentley Lane, Kingston, community, although they have...

A former top commander in the One Don Gang yesterday testified that reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan had reportedly given orders for some of the gang members to be executed. The former gangster, the second top-tier member to be testifying...

Nearly a year after the Gordon Town main road in St Andrew suffered a major breakaway during heavy rainfall last November, the roadway was officially reopened yesterday with stakeholders singing praises that it was completed within budget....

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: The chairman of the Finance and Planning Committee of the Manchester Municipal Corporation (MMC) yesterday resigned with immediate effect, dispraising the leadership style of Mayor Donovan Mitchell. “ ... I am unable to...