One word describes the whole being that is Carla Seaga, and it’s loyalty. It’s a characteristic her late husband and former Prime Minister Edward Seaga revered in his public and personal life. Three years after his passing on May 28, 2019, she h...

After months of searching for thousands of students missing from the classroom via its Yard to Yard Find The Child initiative, the Government is considering legal action against negligent parents and guardians to get the minors back in school....

As the Ministry of Education and Youth continues its countrywide search for thousands of students who have not returned to the classroom, its safety and security in schools unit has revealed that millions of dollars allocated to the initiative has.....

The education ministry has turned back a recommendation of the board of Jamaica College (JC) for the provisional appointment of Wayne Robinson as principal of the St Andrew-based all-boys institution. In a memorandum dated May 24, the ministry’s....

Droves of Jamaican students have relinquished their right to an education, lured away by meagre earnings they have clung to since hustling illegally during the postponement of face-to-face classes because of COVID-19 some two years ago. Some are...

Administrators at the Petersfield High School in Westmoreland are actively seeking to re-engage a 15-year-old, third-form male student who they fear could be lost if allowed to be away from school and exposed to the influence of criminals. “I need...

Educators are expressing concern that, although the figures are low, there are still dozens of students in Portland who have not returned to school following the resumption of face-to-face classes earlier this year after a two-year hiatus because......

Persons approved for mortgages of up to $40 million for units at the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) upscale Ruthven Towers development cannot get to move into their new homes because an occupancy certificate is yet to be granted for the complex......

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett yesterday blamed pilot error for Thursday morning’s incident in which Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas cruise vessel crashed into the dock at Historic Falmouth in Trelawny, but the Port Authority of Jamaica ...

St Andrew East Rural Member of Parliament Juliet Holness has suggested that people are being paid to facilitate dumping of garbage and other waste in the Hope River, a situation which has caused concern for residents of Kintyre, who fear it places.....

The fraud trial involving two former Petrojam executives was yesterday adjourned and will resume on November 21 for three weeks in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Dr Perceval Singh, the state refinery’s former chairman, and former Genera...

Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Winston Smith yesterday urged his colleague educators to make taking care of themselves a priority as he led them in a service of prayer and reflection in the wake of the deaths of several persons amon...

Former May Pen Mayor Scean Barnswell has criticised the Government for not extending COVID-19 restrictions when the orders under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) expired a few weeks ago, citing this as the reason for the current fifth wave......

Angry protesters yesterday staged a demonstration at the entrance to the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, registering their opposition to an attempt by the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) to close a popular food outlet at....

“A fitting name and a symbol of hope.” That is how Prime Minister Andrew Holness described the Desmond McKenzie Transitional Centre for the Homeless on King Street in downtown Kingston, as it was being officially opened on Friday. Ground was......

Jamaica’s vibrant tourism sector is critical to lifting the country out of any potential economic pitfalls caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and any hiccups in the global supply chain which led to disruptions in manufacturing and others sectors, say...

United Kingdom-based author Cecil Browne has made history for his native country of St Vincent and the Grenadines by being the first to win a regional prize in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He had entered the competition three times prior and....

After spending five years and five months in prison in connection with his alleged involvement in the Clansman-One Don Gang, Damaine Elliston’s main wish as a free man is to reunite with his six-year-old daughter. “Mi wah send fi her ‘cause a ...

WESTERN BUREAU: As intra-gang warfare deepens in St James, Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers has admitted that it has been difficult to break criminals’ stronghold in a grinding war of attrition. That grim analysis came hours aft...