“God, why You give me them and tek them back just so?” a grief-stricken Micey Walters asked amid a flood of tears yesterday after her infant daughters – Kayla, 4, and Abigail, 3 – perished in a fire that gutted their Clarendon home. “God, ...

The mother of the first child abducted last October, allegedly by Davian Bryan, is elated at Wednesday’s detention of the fugitive but would rather he be dead than be fed and cared for in prison. That is a view shared by residents of Airy Castle.....

The mother of 24-year-old Tascian Copeland, the pregnant woman among two persons murdered while travelling on a bike taxi in Westmoreland on Wednesday night, is calling for the Government to resume hanging. Copeland was returning home from work...

Shame and regret are sentiments that sum up the last five months for the Bath, St Thomas, woman who invited Davian Bryan to stay with her as condition of his bail pending his judicial fate in neighbouring Portland. What began as acceptance of a...

Jamaica is reporting a significant decline in the take-up of COVID-19 jabs and a “very slow increase” in full vaccination – trends that have triggered concern for health officials, with the country well shy of its end-of-March 67 per cent targ...

Joseph Joel John, the former Haitian senator linked to the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, has one wish before he is whisked off to America on an extradition request: for his family to remain in Jamaica. An application for refugee status...

DURHAM, Portland: Sighs of relief have been echoing throughout Portland following Wednesday night’s arrest of Davian Bryan in the hills of Durham in the Hope Bay Valley after being on the run for five months. Bryan, who was facing firearm and rape...

Controversial entertainment figure Horus ‘LA’ Lewis says he is giving Culture Minister Olivia Grange 43 hours to apologise for reportedly assaulting him during an incident on Tuesday at Culture Yard in Trench Town, Kingston, when he was escorted...

Chastened by public protests against Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade and centuries of colonial exploitation, Prince William expressed regret Wednesday night on the Jamaica leg of a Caribbean tour for the atrocities of the black...

A Jamaican prisoner is believed to be the mastermind of a recently discovered overseas job scam in which about 30 persons from several parishes who were promised customer-service jobs in The Cayman Islands were scammed of nearly $1 million. The...

The Government’s decision to exempt lithium-ion and lithium ferrophosphate batteries from general consumption tax (GCT) is being hailed by one player in the solar energy sector as a positive move. Alex Hill, president of the Jamaica Renewable...

Culture Minister Olivia Grange says she has been vindicated by an Integrity Commission (IC) report that has cleared her of allegations of nepotism and conflict of interest in the award of a $15-million Grand Gala contract in 2016. “The findings o...

Accusing the prosecution of being sloppy in its management and collation of vast amounts of material in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes warned on Wednesday that all future such cases will only start once a significant...

Moments before Prince William and Duchess Catherine arrived at the Shortwood Teachers’ College in St Andrew yesterday, several students and teachers excitedly began lining the various corridors in anticipation of their arrival and of greeting the....

The Duke of Cambridge Prince William has expressed “profound sorrow” for slavery saying it has forever stained Britain's history. There have been calls for the British to say sorry for slavery and provide reparations for countries...

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...

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,”....