Monday’s chilling discovery of the body of an apparent full-term baby on Temple Lane in downtown Kingston has caused the police to theorise that the infant was dumped at the location on Sunday, the day mothers across the country were being...

In the next five months, 22-year-old Torian Elliott would have graduated from Knox Community College with a bachelor’s degree in primary education, but that dream was crushed on Sunday when she and her unborn child died in a traffic crash. Family....

Wahkeen Murray, former acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology, was yesterday pressed to establish whether she knew that Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh resided in the United States at the time of his appointment and while...

The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) handed down a $15-million award in April 2022 to Catherine Allen for her unjustifiable dismissal by Guardian Life Limited, the entity with which she worked as an actuary. But the quasi-judicial body rebuked...

An alleged gang feud in Rocky Point is causing unrest in the southeastern Clarendon fishing village. Last Saturday, two men were killed and two others injured in a brazen daylight gun attack as tension grew. The deceased have been identified as 32-....

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James police’s new operations boss, Deputy Superintendent Eron Samuels, has credited the increase in high-intensity searches in the western Jamaica parish for the recent arrests, gun finds, and gang disruption. In...

Another box of what is believed to be human skeletal remains has been discovered at the Loyal James Lodge premises in Morant Bay, St Thomas. The additional discovery was made by staff of the St Thomas Municipal Corporation, who began demolition...

A Mother’s Day domestic dispute is at the centre of an arson attack early Monday that has left 13 people homeless, four families displaced, millions in cash destroyed, personal belongings damaged, and victims nursing injuries. When gunshots raine...

An alleged member of the Clansman-One Don Gang was heard in one of the secret records boasting how the gang had struck at Fisheries in St Catherine where a couple was shot and killed and their house set ablaze. “Chargie, a mash we mash up Fisherie...

The St Thomas police have halted a demolition exercise and commenced a probe after the morbid discovery of skeletal remains, believed to be of humans, at a derelict building in Morant Bay. The discovery was made about 9 o’clock Sunday morning...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has warned that an infusion of government subventions was not the solution to Jamaica’s food-security concerns, asserting instead that the mobilisation of investment capital into big agricultural projects was crucial....

MOORE TOWN, Portland: Emboldened by the aborted challenge by an 18-year-old upstart that aimed to loosen his decades-old grip of the Moore Town Maroons, Colonel Wallace Sterling has threatened to root out dissidents in the Portland settlement,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Boasting a 173 per cent increase in visitor arrivals from the United States amid the withdrawal of COVID-19 restrictions, Jamaica has secured one million airline seats from that North American country into the island this summer.......

WESTERN BUREAU: Early childhood institutions (ECIs) within Region Four have the highest ratio of compliance with industry benchmarks, outpacing the rest of the island, and educators have credited consistency for the achievement. With a compliance......

Finding a decent free or low-cost public bathing beach anywhere in Jamaica is not for the faint-hearted. There are 76 public beaches scattered across all parishes, except Kingston, that are either free or cost up to $500 for entry, according to the....

They are listed as public beaches by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), but newcomers are warned against venturing on to their sands as it could quickly end in robbery or death. These are said to be the funnels through which...

The dilapidated concrete structures that still stand upright along the shoreline of the Prospect Public Beach in St Thomas bear testament to the tales of residents of it once being the pride of the parish. Among the ruin is a building which,...

While Jamaicans continue to enjoy full access to the popular Seven-Mile Beach in Negril, vendors claim reports have been circulating about a plan to stop them from selling on the popular waterfront by next year. But president of the Negril Chamber.....

Rebecca Hayle is the mother of five and grandmother of 12, but on any given Sunday morning at the Church of Pentecost in Kingston, it’s easy to believe all adults between 30 and 50 years are her children because they all call her “Mama Becca”....

The result of the pregnancy test was like a death sentence for Otisa Wilmoth. A few weeks from her 15th birthday, she confirmed her greatest fear. And not only would she be facing a judgemental community and disappointed relatives, but a...