WESTERN BUREAU: Local authorities say they are now cooperating with their international counterparts after a Jamaican policewoman attached to the Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) was jailed in the United States on accusations of being a major...

Education Minister Fayval Williams says efforts are being made to appoint a permanent president of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) by August, amid concerns from key stakeholders over the near two-year wait for the position to be...

Timar Jackson grew up in Bull Bay, St Andrew, and recalls that as a teenager he and his family once fled the community as the vicious cycle of gun violence raged and took with it several of his innocent young peers. But the super-private, high-...

An autopsy has returned inconclusive into the death of a newborn girl allegedly buried by her 13-year-old mother and grandmother in St Thomas, an eastern parish in which half the persons most wanted by police are suspected sex offenders. At least......

Hundreds of Jamaican children are being held hostages of gang violence, not only as homicide and trauma victims but also as innocent onlookers of their guardians’ criminal and deadly deeds, noted the State’s child protection agency. Up to late.....

Child-rights campaigner Betty Ann Blaine believes that despite some progress on the legislative front and the formation of more protection agencies over the last two decades, the nation’s children are in more danger today with heartless attacks......

When crashing sounds jolted some residents of Christian Meadows in Portmore, St Catherine, out of their sleep about 4:30 yesterday morning, they could not fathom the ghastly reality which would greet them after two members of their community were.....

A St Mary man who was convicted for having sexual intercourse with his 12-year-old cousin when he was 29 years old had his prison sentence halved to nine years yesterday by the Court of Appeal as a result of a trial judge’s error. The sex offender...

Government Senator Charles Sinclair is batting for the holding of local government and general elections at the same time in order to channel scarce resources to help the country recover from the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. His...

Residents of Cherry and surrounding communities in St Catherine West Central are frustrated that there seems to be no end in sight to their decades-long struggle to access water, with a planned initiative still yet to get off the ground. With...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr on Wednesday disclosed that the Government has been engaging in talks with overseas investors to shake up the agricultural sector and make it more competitive. Addressing fish farmers in...

Police officers were left in wonderment yesterday after dancehall entertainer Rytikal, who was arrested for an illegal gun found in his rented car, was freed of gun charges. “I am puzzled,” a senior officer, who seemed lost for word after the ca...

With a plethora of challenges ranging from climate change, diseases and a constantly dwindling youthful workforce to stiffer competition on the world markets affecting the local coffee industry, John O. Minott, general manager of Jamaica Standard......

A day after 13 guns, including 10 high-powered rifles, were seized by cops in Florence Hall, Trelawny, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has appealed to Jamaicans to support the Government’s latest ‘Operation Get Every Illegal Gun’ campaign. Speak...

The Government is still working to determine how many, if any, Jamaicans are among the close to 40 persons presumed dead after a suspected human-smuggling boat heading from The Bahamas to Florida in the United States capsized two weekends ago....

WESTERN BUREAU: AFTER living in less-than-ideal conditions for decades as neglect, poverty and gang feuds held their community in a chokehod, some residents in sections of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, are set to benefit from the Government’s...

The Kingston labourer charged for the murder of 10-year-old Jezariah Tyrell has been remanded for a bail application on February 25 in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The 22-year-old accused, Tommy Powell, otherwise called ‘Red Head’,...

POLICE ARE describing the man at the centre of Thursday’s big gun find in Trelawny as a known “violence producer” who has strong links with criminal gangs in western Jamaica. The man, 36-year-old Kevin Carpenter, was shot fatally after alleged...

Ethical hackers who find vulnerabilities on government or private websites in Jamaica could face a $3-million fine and three-year prison sentence if a provision in the Cybercrimes Act, 2015, remains and receives the nod from Parliament. That...

Placard-bearing supporters of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in St Ann North Eastern protested against incumbent Member of Parliament Marsha Smith on Thursday, calling for their party’s leader, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, to remove her a...