Phillip Paulwell’s yet-to-be-written book will detail the feverish, closed-door negotiations for the exit of former People’s National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller from the helm of the party in 2017 following its electoral defeat i...

Up to the date of the last general election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his family had assets worth approximately J$192 million with those held in US dollar continuing along an increasing trend, based on the finally published statutory...

Jamaican authorities are now hammering out a way to deal with John Joel Joseph, a Haitian politician and key suspect in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last July, who was captured by local law enforcement on Friday evening in the...

Despite the threat that they could lose funding support from the Government, descendants of the Maroons across the island have said they are unwilling to give up their indigenous rights. However, their counterparts in Scotts Hall, St Mary, are...

The University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) will have to explain, following a court ruling, why it has not awarded a master’s degree to a former student who claims she has paid off outstanding tuition fees. The case also has implications for......

They are tasked with taking care of households and their occupants, but for many Jamaican housekeepers, the homes they serve are increasingly becoming perilous dens of sexual abuse and maltreatment, especially since the onset of the coronavirus...

After spending 22 years in prison in the United States because he was wrongfully extradited in 1991, Richard ‘Storyteller’ Morrison says that since his return home, he has been facing “a whole heap” of injustice. “Right now, I am basically...

Mandeville, Manchester: The fourth wave of COVID-19 has left the Mandeville Regional Hospital and the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) struggling to cope with a sharp surge in the number of patients battling the highly transmissible......

Jamaica’s already frightening murder figures of more than 1,400 last year could have skyrocketed closer to 2,000 had it not been for the efforts of the police in intercepting nearly 400 attempts at committing homicides, head of the Jamaica...

Opposition Senator Donna Scott-Mottley on Friday renewed the call for the identities of persons listed on the Sex Offenders Registry and the crimes for which they were convicted to be made public, citing the case of disgraced deceased pastor Kevin.....

The recall of Floyd Green to the Cabinet without any conclusive pronouncement by the police on the alleged no-movement day violation over which he resigned his portfolio as minister of agriculture and fisheries sends a very dangerous signal to the.....

Glenmuir High School has been announced as the top value-added traditional/secondary school in the island based on a recent study conducted by the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission. On Thursday, the Jamaica Education Transformation...

New head of the Kingston Central Police Division, Superintendent Beresford Williams, told residents and stakeholders during a street meeting yesterday inside the Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) that the divisional murders should be held under 20.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Custos Rotolorum of Westmoreland Hartley Perrin has bemoaned the level of fear that is gripping residents of the crime-torn parish. “We are here, and we fraid like hell, when I leave here to go where I live I am going to be lookin...

Government Senator Kavan Gayle has urged the administration to amend a number of labour-related pieces of legislation and establish an unemployment insurance scheme, based on the lived experiences of Jamaicans since the onset of COVID-19. In an...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Winston Smith is calling for mutual collaboration between schools, parents, and communities for the development of students, as the absence of any one of these stakeholders will result....

Jamaica’s National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Police Commissioner Antony Anderson are under mounting pressure to curb a tidal wave of murder that has swept the country, with an average of five homicides committed every day in 2022. The...

WESTERN BUREAU: Departing COVID-19-positive visitors who are asymptomatic will no longer need a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test in order to be released from isolation, says Jamaica’s Ministry of Health and Wellness. This is in keeping with th...

Queen’s Counsel Tom Tavares-Finson, who represents the embattled Alliance duo Peter and Robert Chin, has signalled intentions to have the court subpoena top government officials, including Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke. Alliance Finance Limite...

Former Education Minister Ronald Thwaites yesterday expressed satisfaction with the findings of the Professor Orlando Patterson-led Jamaica Education Transformation Commission as its long-awaited report was launched after a comprehensive review of.....