Thursday’s discovery of Scot Bamburry’s body more than a day after the stevedore fell overboard at Berth 8 of the Port of Kingston has put the safety regime under scrutiny as parallel probes get under way into the shock death. The family of the ...

Months after a Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) contractor died after being electrocuted in Trench Town, the power company is reporting that protocols were breached in the execution of his duties. The revelation was made during Thursday’s...

St Catherine councillors have been left fuming after the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development decided to put the brakes on a tablet-distribution programme for students in the parish. Joy Brown, the Jamaica Labour Party-aligned...

St Ann’s Bay Mayor Sydney Stewart has been given five days to resign or face a no-confidence motion that appears to be gaining support even from discontented members of his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) majority in the St Ann Municipal Corporation......

The glorification of ‘chopping’ in popular dancehall songs is being blamed as a factor fuelling the rise in lottery scamming in western Jamaica. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, who made the pronouncement, said it is also....

It was a tearful affair yesterday as hundreds of friends and relatives of 27-year-old Shanice Dean said goodbye to a young woman whose life was cut short by gunmen weeks before she began training to become a police officer. Shanice, the eldest...

The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has pledged to pump millions of dollars of investment into a renovation project for St William Grant Park. It is in alignment with other upgrading projects taking place across the island in......

ROK Hotel Kingston – the awaited Tapestry Collection by Hilton – will officially be opened on July 19. That announcement was made during the monthly sitting of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation’s (KSMAC) on Tuesday. ROK Hotel....

The Integrity Commission of Jamaica (ICJ) has sought to distance itself from a Radio Jamaica news report citing embattled Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Councillor Kim Brown-Lawrence’s claim of being cleared of fraud and corruption charges stemming......

Jamaicans have been cautioned to exercise extreme care in sending their children overseas to parents and guardians amid growing concerns over transnational custody battles. The trend of children being retained without parental consent is gravest.....

The paternity policy to be introduced across the public sector later this year is not expected to set off a chain reaction in the private sector, the Jamaica Employers Federation (JEF) has indicated. President David Wan said while there are...

A year after Clarendon car washer Scot Bamburry longed for a dream job in the shipping industry, family and friends in his home town Wood Hall are fearing the worst after the stevedore fell overboard Tuesday night, disappearing without a trace...

July 24 will mark one year since the mystery disappearance of reputed Park Lane strongman Shadari ‘Kishi’ Bryan and ongoing bloodshed between factions, which investigators theorise was at the root of Wednesday’s double killing. Dead are 63-yea...

“I feel like I would do it again.” Those were the words signed by 16-year-old deaf student Rolando Grant, moments after he completed a flight experience across sections of Kingston and St Andrew on Wednesday. Rolando’s story was highlighted b...

While agreeing that customer service across the public sector is of a lower-than-desirable standard, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday encouraged workers in the government service to always empathise with Jamaicans and strive to meet or...

WESTERN BUREAU: AS JAMAICA shifts from analogue television to the new ATSC 3.0 digital technology, one broadcast consultant is cautioning that transition be managed carefully with consideration for the effect on cost and the local environment. Gary....

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...