The Early Childhood Commission (ECC) has recommended the dismissal of three principals heading government-operated institutions over their “flagrant disregard” for the established standards of the Ministry of Education. The ECC has also asked....

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) will be formulating a policy to allow for continued assessment and flexibility in the administration of its examinations. That declaration was made as the organisation yielded to pressure from Jamaica and...

Several administrators leading the more than 200 early childhood institutions (ECIs) in Portland, St Mary, and St Thomas that scored below 50 per cent in an industry review have blamed inadequate resources for the unfavourable ratings. Nearly 80...

The Toll Authority of Jamaica is pushing for legislative authority to impose fines on pedestrians who encroach on toll roads and to penalise motorists for tailgating. An agency of the Ministry of Transport and Mining, the Authority also wants...

Wayne Smikle said he regrets dodging a cop’s bullet, which damaged a step, which caused him to retreat from patrolling police – the prelude to the final time he saw his son alive Tuesday night. When he darted inside, the elder Smikle said that ...

Students preparing to sit regional examinations expressed relief after the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) pushed back sittings by three weeks. The announcement was made Wednesday afternoon at a press conference hosted by CXC, which...

The taxi man who is at the centre of an alleged case of misconduct and corruption by three policemen broke down in tears on Tuesday and retracted his statements in which he had accused the cops of recording him in a compromising position with a...

A staggering number of early childhood institutions (ECI) in eastern Jamaica have failed to meet the standards required to ensure the proper development of the nation’s children, the latest assessment by the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) has......

“I shop for food far less. I can’t buy fruits for my kids, and that hurts. My kids are hungry most of the time … ; can’t afford gas and electricity bills. Sometimes we sleep in darkness. First in my life I have to be living like this.” Tha...

The murder of 64-year-old Jamaican Dolet Hill and three other family members in London, England, has left a trail of tears and devastation in her home town of Lyssons, St Thomas. Dolet and her partner, 58-year-old Denton Burke, were stabbed to...

Professor Fritz Pinnock, who is battling criminal charges, resigned two months ago as president of the government-owned Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), but there has been no disclosure of whether there was a financial settlement. The...

Some 1,056 of the 2,373 early childhood institutions (ECIs) across Jamaica are in need of substantial support from stakeholders to be certified, having earned below 50 per cent in their most recent inspections. The infant schools and departments,.....

WESTERN BUREAU: The storming of a medical ward by men demanding the release of a patient has sparked calls for the ramping up of security at Cornwall Regional Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department. Dr Derek Harvey, senior medical officer,.....

Minister of Labour and Social Security Karl Samuda has lamented the failure of some members of parliament (MPs) to submit the names of 300 elderly people in their constituencies who stand to benefit under the Government’s Social Pension Programme....

A parent has threatened legal action against Kingston College (KC) and the Government if her son performs below par in upcoming external exams following the lockout of students in a grooming firestorm on Tuesday. Her child was among scores of...

Preliminary reviews by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) have shown that all Jamaican sites being monitored for the air pollutant, PM2.5, have exceeded the World Health Organization’s (WHO) limit of 5 micrograms per cubic metre (...

At least two major construction companies and developers have signalled that they intend to throw their hat in the ring as they jostle to win the multibillion-dollar contract to construct Jamaica’s new state-of-the-art Parliament edifice at Heroes...

Several workers in the construction industry have warned Prime Minister Andrew Holness against opening the floodgates to imported labour, arguing that hundreds of skilled tradespeople are market-ready though most have not received formal training......

From as early as 3:30 a.m. yesterday, scores of angry residents in Cavaliers, St Andrew, reportedly began cutting down sections of the woodland and blocking the main road with felled trees and other debris to register their frustration at the poor.....

The trial of three policemen accused of extorting a taxi man of $50,000 after allegedly videotaping him engaging in what appeared to be a sexual act with a male sex worker started on Monday in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The accused,......