University of the West Indies lecturer Dr Herbert Gayle is insisting that paternity leave for public-sector workers not be compromised by unwieldy middle-class markers. It should be purely based on an employee fathering a newborn, he said. Full...

As thick plumes of smoke billowed into the darkening skies over the Riverton City dump in western St Andrew Tuesday, a woman named Sister Pinky looked on with relief that she had, just last week, sold her cache of plastic bottles stored there....

WESTERN BUREAU: Tiffany Ellis and her 14-month-old son Xien, who was denied a British visa at five months, are booked to depart Jamaica this evening, arriving in London Thursday morning on a Virgin Atlantic flight. The two will be reunited with...

President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), Helene Davis Whyte, says that while progress has been made on the public-sector compensation review, workers who have been hit hard by sharp increases in inflation are anticipating a...

Retired Justice Seymour Panton has shot down suggestions from former Minister of National Security Peter Bunting that he had a conflict of interest involving the Integrity Commission’s (IC) special report on the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA).....

With 24 days left before the island’s milestone 60th Independence celebration, the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) passed a resolution to seek the intervention of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to repair hundreds of....

A testimonial from Lashawnda Bailey Miller was strong enough to raise patrons’ hopes for a successful eighth staging of the annual Christmas in July trade show on Tuesday. Functioning as normal during the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic was no......

The Clansman-One Don Gang trial, which was adjourned last Thursday after Chief Justice Bryan Sykes contracted COVID-19, has been delayed for another week and is to resume on July 18. The proceedings failed to resume as the judge was still out of......

The British Home Office is reconsidering its “ridiculous” decision to bar an ill 14-month-old boy from entering the country after his mother, a United Kingdom resident, delivered him while stranded in Jamaica at the height of the coronavirus...

Louise Stoddart is now wallowing in grief and regret after her 10-year-old grandson – for whom she had cared since birth and was recently relocated from her Clarendon home to live with his father – died after being found unresponsive in an oven....

Some motorists who traverse the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 are firm in their decision to boycott the toll road, as pressure grows for operators to roll back rate increases that took effect on Saturday. The pushback has primarily come from...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has signalled that the time has come for the decades-old regional health authorities (RHAs) to be restructured, noting that Jamaica was too small to have almost semi-autonomous zones operating with....

Leroy Jagasar and his two nephews Suresh and Sanjay are doing everything they can to keep the Hosay Festival tradition going in Clarendon. Held in August each year, it takes months of preparation to pull off the big event as they have to build the.....

The long-awaited annual general meeting (AGM) of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) slated for Wednesday has been postponed indefinitely. This follows a Supreme Court decision on Monday setting a new hearing date for the case brought by Ian...

Television Jamaica (TVJ) switched on its second NextGenTV transmitter on Sunday as it continues rolling out the latest global standard in television transmission, ATSC 3.0. The second site was commissioned into service at Flower Hill in Montego Bay....

People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding is demanding that the Government increase the amount of social spending allocated for low-income groups struggling with a cost-of-living crisis and spiralling global inflation. He put the price...

Neither Wednesday’s announcement of Jamaica’s first monkeypox case nor the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was enough to stop carnival revellers from transforming Kingston’s streets into a festival of colour Sunday. The summertime carnival was the...

Hours after Saturday’s shooting death of 50-year-old Denise Bell in Seaforth, St Thomas, Rashelle Bennett was still in disbelief that her mother would never return home. Although the 50-year-old businesswoman’s blood stained the road, Bennett wa...

The stained glass windows of the 1664 church shimmered in the Half-Way Tree summer sun as history unfolded inside last Tuesday. For the first time in the Anglican Church in Jamaica, a dreadlocked priest celebrated his first Eucharist. The Rev...

Nathaniel McCreary was fascinated with the thought of becoming a pilot since he was a child, but, as he grew older, the dream seemed more far-fetched because of limited financial resources. The 22-year-old, who hails from Oracabessa, St Mary, said....