Businessman Norton Hinds helped to set up the political fundraising entity that was used to funnel a controversial $31-million donation to the People’s National Party (PNP), but knew very little about its operations, according to his evidence. The...

The Court of Appeal has urged firearm holders not to ignore the statutory remedies available to them in the event of disagreements with the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) over the revocation of user licences. The available remedies are first to.....

Incarcerated dancehall artiste Tommy Lee Sparta has been transferred from the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre to a St Catherine prison after suffering injuries in a February 21 bust-up with warders. Another entertainer, Sean Storm, who is......

Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey testified on Monday that he made a judgement call not to charge a former top-tier member of the Clansman-One Don Gang as he was of the view that the ex-gangster would not have cooperated with the police and....

Social development practitioner Tishauna Mullings of Seaforth, St Thomas, is, simply put, a force to be reckoned with. A Chevening scholar, recipient of the Prime Minister’s Youth Award for being a stalwart in community and nation-building, named...

There is a thin line between life and death for residents of Trench Town in the Kingston Western Police Division, as even mere association can have fatal outcomes as a gang war between the enclaves of ‘Angola’ and ‘Zimbabwe’ heats up. The l...

As Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke opens the 2022-2023 Budget Debate in Gordon House this afternoon, Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) President Michael Leckie is appealing for action by the Government on two...

WESTERN BUREAU: There were broad smiles and joyful reunions among students and teachers as full-scale engagement of in-person classes resumed islandwide on Monday, with only shift-system schools being allowed another two weeks for complete...

While schools in St Thomas report high student turnouts for the first day of the full resumption of in-person teaching since 2020, there is a common concern among administrations: the lack of sufficient seating. The administrators shared that much....

Opposition Leader Mark Golding is backing his predecessor Dr Peter Phillips to remain as member of parliament for St Andrew East Central despite his continued treatment for colon cancer, insisting that he is “still able to provide solid...

Every year, on March 5, Britni Berry would gift her son toys from his long wish list. Berry still plans on buying her son toys this year, but she will place them atop his grave. Eight-year-old Xavier Phillips, nicknamed ‘Bojo’, was shot dead o...

Pandemic-related depression, the death of an infant son, job loss, and family feuds have rendered a couple homeless, forcing Anakay Thomas Peart and her husband, Parnel Peart, to pitch a tent along the shore of Bob Marley Beach in Nine Miles, Bull.....

Ahead of the global celebration of International Women’s Day on Tuesday, gender and development practitioner Judith Wedderburn has expressed disappointment with Jamaica’s women legislators, who she accuses of not doing enough to tackle fundament...

WESTERN BUREAU: The full complement of immigration officers, plus 45 kiosks during peak hours, complemented by the online C5 immigration card accessible at www.enterjamaica.com, are among the measures Sangster International Airport will implement......

Kadie-Ann Witter Domville remembers well the eager anticipation that would seize her when her dad, Winston Witter, was coming to visit at her maternal grandparents’ home in Ocho Rios, St Ann. Invariably, she would fall asleep before he arrived,......

With the full resumption of face-to-face classes today, some schools are still being handicapped by furniture shortage. Violet Thomas-Thompson, president of the Primary and Infant School Principals Association disclosed that the challenge has...

WESTERN BUREAU: One of Jamaica’s first black women to capitalise on the tourism industry, catering to the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Lady Mountbatten, and Princess Margaret, has died. Dorothy Vendryes, nee Gourzong, whose 1950s beauty salons...

During the return of full face-to-face classes today, Tracey Ann Holloway Richards will not be surprised if 100 fewer students than the number originally enrolled will turn up at Maxfield Park Primary School in Kingston. On Jamaica Day, which was.....

Jamaicans will never hear from Portia Simpson Miller what she knows about a controversial $31-million payment made by the Dutch firm Trafigura Beheer to the People’s National Party (PNP) while she was prime minister and leader of the political...

Former Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips has signalled that he is not ready to step down as member of parliament (MP) for St Andrew East Central, amid reports that he is facing a new round of cancer treatment. There are reports, too, that the...