It appeared to be just another Friday afternoon for 55-year-old Fay Desgoutte as she prepared jerk pork and chicken meals for sale at the Kingston 10 premises that double as home and business on Newleigh Avenue, Cassia Park. But May 27 was anything....

Residents of Treadlight in central Clarendon say they feel like they are on a ticking time bomb. Days before the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, they say even a light shower of rain is cause for panic because of the unfinished state of a...

Ladley Hamilton, who helped rescue a motorcyclist whose bike careered over a precipice in Andrew Hill, Clarendon, two weeks ago, has called for works and municipal authorities to take action after what he described as an avoidable accident. The...

In the wake of an autopsy indicating that he was murdered, friends of Chieftin Campbell, the victim of a mob attack in Mandeville in May, are demanding that the perpetrators face justice in the courts. The 62-year-old, who was pointed out by an...

A St Ann man who was reportedly caught on surveillance camera leaving a bar with a woman who was later found dead has been detained by the police. As a result, the police say the suspect, of Mount Arafat, St Ann, is expected to be charged for the.....

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....

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.....

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......

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....