The 16-year-old ward who succumbed to gunshot injuries yesterday after he was shot while trying to escape from the Metcalfe Street Secure Juvenile Remand Centre reportedly told his mother that a staff member had encouraged him to abscond, telling......

National Security State Minister Zavia Mayne has asserted that the correctional officers involved in a bust-up with dancehall artiste Tommy Lee Sparta at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre this week will not be removed from duty. The...

While incarcerated, an alleged top lieutenant in the Clansman-One Don Gang was caught on tape revealing plans to rob a businessman of his licensed firearm and to demand $500,000 for its return because he felt that the man was handing over extortion....

Constable Cleon Porter joined the Jamaica Constabulary Force some 16 years ago with one motive: to make a meaningful impact at all levels of the society. The seed for this worthwhile dream to make a difference in the lives of others was planted by.....

A World Bank study has concluded that education spending at the early childhood level in Jamaica is pro-poor, while at the tertiary level it favours the rich. The findings were borne out in the study – A Public Expenditure Review of Jamaica’s......

The Ministry of Education and Youth is encouraging students to take advantage of some 20,000 unused spaces in tertiary institutions that the Government is prepared to fund under the Sixth Form Pathways Programme. Education ministry officials...

Eighteen young men from three Corporate Area inner-city communities on Tuesday embarked on a new chapter in their lives, having been equipped with skills training in areas such as mechanical and electrical engineering as well as behaviour...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a military operation in Ukraine, warning other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to “consequences you have never seen”. Several...

Kingston hoteliers are anticipating an increase in business and leisure travellers with the abolition of mandatory quarantine as well as an end to the JAMCOVID travel authorisation. The change becomes effective March 1, Prime Minister Andrew...

Chairman of the Minimum Wage Commission, Ronald Robinson, has signalled that plans are afoot to start the process of achieving a liveable wage for Jamaicans earning at the minimum level. Speaking at yesterday’s virtual press conference where...

Ninety-eight per cent of public sector workers have now signed on to the Heads of Agreement for wage increase and improved benefits. The latest group to accept the terms of the agreement is the Jamaica Police Federation, which inked the deal...

More than four years after he was fired from the position of chief executive officer (CEO) of the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB), agriculturalist Hugh Graham has been vindicated by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) which ruled...

Western Bureau: TRAGIC MOTOR vehicle accidents accounted for the loss of four lives on roadways in the western thoroughfare of Trelawny, St James and the Manchester-St Elizabeth border yesterday, leaving families in grief and prompting Assistant...

After almost four years since the last increase, yesterday Labour Minister Karl Samuda announced that low-income earners would receive a national minimum wage increase from $7,000 to $9,000 per 40-hour workweek, just a thousand dollars short of...

Reputed leader of the One Don faction of the Clansman Gang had reportedly given an order for one of his soldiers, whom he believed was a police informant, to get the first shot from the brand-new handgun that he had bought for the gang. Yesterday.....

Sixty-one-year-old Sandra Williams is one of hundreds of needy Jamaicans who are in dire need of housing but who, unfortunately, are unable to benefit from Food For The Poor Jamaica’s housing programme, because they have no documents to prove that...

Dane Coburn and Evadnie Smith, a couple who recently received a house from Prime Minister Andrew Holness, are not only elated about the dwelling gifted to them, but especially his announcement that there will be full resumption of face-to-face...

An alleged top-ranking member of the Clansman-One Don Gang known as ‘Lucifer’ reportedly bragged that he had instructed gangsters to shoot up the Spanish Town Police Station following the death of the founding gang leader Donovan ‘Bulbie’ B...

An atmosphere of unease blanketed the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre on Monday after a bloody mid-morning bust-up between correctional officers and incarcerated dancehall artiste Tommy Lee Sparta. Tommy Lee Sparta, whose birth name is Leroy....

With the acquisition of six Bushmaster protected mobility vehicles, the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has boosted its capabilities to conduct security operations in volatile situations and to rescue persons in the event of disaster. The powerful...