Approximately 457,786 customers of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) with monthly electricity consumption of up to 200 kilowatt-hours (kWh) will benefit from a 20 per cent contribution to their bills by the Government, over a four-month...

Kimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter Protests continued to follow Britain’s Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge on the couple's tour of the Caribbean as scores of anticolonialism protesters converged metres away from the British High......

A far cry from the scorching protest against their arrival that took place outside the British High Commission earlier, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge received a warm welcome in Trench Town on Tuesday afternoon as they entered Culture Yard,...

Government Senator Charles Sinclair sought clarity on Tuesday concerning fit-and-proper requirements for licensed firearm holders to maintain their permits, arguing that licences are sometimes revoked by the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA)...

Children raced home from school and changed out of their uniforms to witness the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as hundreds thronged sites in Trench Town on Tuesday. “Miss, you know how long mi deh here! Mi school over 3:15 and mi deh down yah,”....

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica-born English footballer Raheem Sterling will be the global face of destination Jamaica through various engagements and public-relations opportunities as the island kick-starts celebrations for the 60th anniversary of...

Security has been beefed up at the Sutton Street civil division of the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court after a bomb threat by an anonymous caller disrupted hearings on Tuesday. There will be limited access to proceedings at the court today and.....

Until Tuesday, there were about one or two Braille machines assigned to each class at the Salvation Army School for the Blind, which, at times, had up to 40 students in each session. The lack of consistently working Braille typewriters at the...

A school administrator has sounded the alarm about children’s growing obsession with occult practices in the wake of a deadly fight between students over a guard ring. Audrey Steele, acting principal of William Knibb High in Trelawny, said the...

As the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge prepare to visit Jamaica today on the second stop in a three-country Caribbean tour, local vendors have called for the renaming of streets and places honouring the monarchy in the capital. Royal visits have long....

Being an orator for royal visits is no easy task, says Fae Ellington, one of Jamaica’s most embraced broadcasters. On Monday, while gearing up for the arrival of Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and...

During his interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Opposition Leader Mark Golding intends to convey that many Jamaicans are seeking an apology for the role played by their family in slavery in the island. Prince William and his wife,......

Donnette Dowe, manager of Trench Town Culture Yard, hopes the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will inspire tourists to start visiting the home of the legend Bob Marley in large groups again. While she and 40 other persons swept First...

WESTERN BUREAU: William Knibb Memorial High School Principal Linvern Wright is calling for more resources to be made available to tackle the problem of violence and other delinquent behaviour in schools following the deadly dispute between two...

1. Was the first future British king to be born in a hospital, after arriving at the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in London. 2. Made his first trip overseas when he was nine months old, joining his parents on an official visit to Australia an...

WESTERN BUREAU: Unlike villagers in Belize who caused the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to cancel a scheduled stop, the Rastafarian community in western Jamaica has pledged that it will not stage protests against the royal couple, who are expected....

Talk of Jamaica’s allies in North America and Europe possibly easing sanctions against oil-rich Venezuela to avert an energy crisis amid global sanctions levied against Russia could lead to the Holness administration rekindling the island's...

Despite at least two CARICOM nations imposing sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukriane, Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith has indicated that Jamaica will continue to be guided by the United Nations Security Council on whether to.....

Police targeting of gang activities in the crime hotspots of Newland, Naggo Head, Gregory Park, and Central Village has paid off with a reduction in murders, says Senior Superintendent Christopher Phillips, who commands the St Catherine South...

With the Government’s withdrawal of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) orders last Friday, faithful participants in the annual Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run hope the new freedom will be a silver lining that will allow thousands of persons to......