There were no last-minute attempts by Haitian authorities to secure the extradition of Mario Antonio Palacios, one of the key suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, from Jamaica to the French-speaking country on Monday......

Officials from The University of the West Indies (UWI) are due to appear before the Jamaican Parliament next week amid news that Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles is investigating the chancellor, Robert Bermudez, the ceremonial head of the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Richard Currie, colonel of the Accompong Maroons, has said that the Government’s decision to grant Noranda Bauxite permission to mine 1,324 hectares of their lands in the protected area of St Ann is in direct violation of the right...

WESTERN BUREAU: The halving of the isolation period for COVID-19 positive patients from 10 to five days is being hailed by president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), Clifton Reader, as a game changer. The new regulation,...

As the legislative year draws closer to an end with the expected tabling of the Estimates of Expenditure for the 2022-23 fiscal year in February, the Government is yet to push through some critical pieces of laws it promised to promulgate during...

Having been out of school for almost two years, last week’s late notification that face-to-face lessons would have resumed on Monday resulted in several students in Portland missing the first day of the Easter term as dressmakers were not able to....

On Saturday, while many Jamaicans were taking things easy, relaxing and entertaining friends and relatives for the first day of the new year, over in Trench Town, preparations were under way for the semi-finals and finals of the Dream League...

The Clarendon chapter of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has said that educators in the mid-island parish are enthusiastic about the reopening of schools for face-to-face learning this term despite being on tenterhooks in light of the...

The Government may have to revert to its work-from-home (WFH) mandate, which ended last week for the public sector, amid heightened uncertainty around the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus which causes COVID-19, but stakeholders.....

Like many other parents and guardians, last week’s announcement that schools across the island would reopen today for face-to-face classes has surprised Diedrie Gordon, an unemployed sole caregiver of two granddaughters living in Dumfries, St Jame...

Although concerned about the rising COVID-19 infection numbers locally, several of the island’s principals are happy that their students will be able to return to their physical classrooms, starting this week, although the eleventh-hour...

WESTERN BUREAU: Leading the country’s economic recovery, Jamaica’s tourism sector is being credited as the linchpin for the island’s three consecutive quarters of growth, which the economy is now experiencing. The Statistical Institute of Jama...

Lloyd Barrett admits that prior to suffering the debilitating stroke which changed his life more than a decade ago, there were some warning signs which he did not recognise, and so he ignored them. He admits to being always hypertensive and...

The officiating pastor at the funeral for reputed gangster Christopher Anthony ‘Dog Paw’ Linton was last Friday prevented from delivering a sermon as the time allotted for the proceedings by the security forces had been exhausted. The service,.....

Former Manchester High School head girl Trevonae Williams is anticipating the start of her mission to change the world through journalism, and her passion for theatre, when she graduates from Howard University in the United States in the spring of.....

MIAMI, Florida: National Air Cargo Holdings of South Florida. has donated 80,000 gowns to Jamaica’s Ministry of Health and Wellness for distribution in hospitals across the country. The donation was part of a total shipment of some 300,000 gowns.....

PATSY EDWARDS HENRY President of the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) The year 2021 was one of great uncertainty, anxiety and dread, yet at some point there was hope and optimism that this dreaded pandemic would come to an end and life as we....

Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles is investigating the ceremonial head of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Chancellor Robert Bermudez, using a committee that reports to him, as a rift between the top two leaders enters unprecedented and “....

Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, who is set to be deported from Jamaica tomorrow, was reportedly inside the private quarters of Jovenel Moise, along with a band of mostly heavily armed ex-Colombian soldiers, when the Haitian president was...

Sarah ‘JetSetSarah’ Greaves-Gabbadon, a Miami, Florida-based travel writer and influencer, has had to travel for work. Since November 2020, she has flown to the Caribbean 18 times and cruised four times. Greaves-Gabbadon beams whenever she spea...