While he was in Jamaica, Colombian fugitive Mario Antonio Palacios voluntarily gave statements to United States (US) law-enforcement authorities about his involvement in the plot to assassinate former Haitian President Jovenel Moϊse, a senior...

If battling sickle-cell disease was not tough enough, a nine-year-old boy’s family is eager for him to be discharged from The Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew after being admitted on New Year’s Day with a gunshot wound. The boy,......

James Moss-Solomon, the private sector and trade advocate whose voice commanded attention in the realms of business and politics but who charmed common folk, died on Tuesday morning at hospital. The manufacturing and philanthropic stalwart was 70......

Against the backdrop of an emerging COVID-19 fourth wave and Monday’s resumption of face-to-face classes, Education Minister Fayval Williams has said that the Holness administration has not established an infection or positivity rate benchmark tha...

The family of 88-year-old Kenneth Brown, the senior citizen from Bent Town in Mulgrave district, St Elizabeth, who went missing from his home since December 18, say they are unable to come up with $500,000 to pay residents to remove a decomposing......

WESTERN BUREAU: Morland Wilson, member of parliament (MP) for Westmoreland Western, wants stronger penalties for convicted murderers. “Three hundred years in prison, I think, is quite acceptable for persons who are going around slaughtering others...

JUST THREE days after the first double murder of the year was recorded in the parish, there was more tragedy in Westmoreland as two brothers were killed in the quiet community of Carawina Tuesday morning. They have been identified as 43-year-old...

Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson is calling for an urgent push by the education sector to rescue thousands of Jamaican students negatively impacted by the fallout in learning since the onset of COVID-19. He said that these students......

St Andrew West Rural Member of Parliament Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn has described the COVID-19 vaccination take-up in her constituency as disappointing – a snapshot of the limping inoculation campaign that has left Jamaica second from bottom, in per-....

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 Jam...

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...