The death penalty, which was being sought for the man guilty of the Clarendon massacre of a woman and her four children, may no longer be on the table. That is despite Rushane Barnett, the 23-year-old who pleaded guilty Thursday, having inflicted.....

Administrators at Kingston Technical High School (KTHS)have recalled missing social-media influencer Donna-Lee Donaldson as a “beautiful soul” and a model student who displayed much potential for a successful future. Haydria Stewart, vice-......

Asserting that Jamaica’s “biggest” failure since Independence is the education sector, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the nation’s future lies in the services industry. Golding said the opening up of the education sector in the 19...

Education and Youth Minister Fayval Williams has committed that the Government will begin the process of developing policy for the homeschooling sector in Jamaica. The pledge came Thursday as homeschooling parents appearing before a joint select...

A defence lawyer in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial yesterday raised questions about the whereabouts of the extortion money that one of the prosecution’s witnesses had testified he had safeguarded for the gang. The witness, who said he was the......

The killing of two men whose decomposed bodies were found in bushes along a canal behind the Spanish Town motor vehicle examination depot on Job Lane are believed to be gang related. The police are yet to disclose details of how they were killed...

Senior attorney-at-law Patrick Bailey was on Thursday struck off the roll of attorneys eligible to practise in Jamaica for failure to hand over US$17,640 to a client. The Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council (GLC) made the decision......

“Lines of enquiry have opened up” around several persons of interest beyond the police boyfriend of missing social-media influencer Donna-Lee Donaldson who has been arrested by law enforcers in a dramatic twist in the high-profile case that has....

Days before the nation marks its 60th anniversary of Independence, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has acknowledged the failure of successive administrations to fully advance Jamaica’s interests. “Politicians have their fair share of blame....

Executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Audley Gordon, has denied a claim by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis that two senior employees were transferred to the company’s head office after internal auditors.....

A defence lawyer in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial argued Wednesday that the prosecution’s expert witnesses, including the ballistic expert, did not strengthen the Crown’s case. “The expert witnesses who should have been deemed or found to b...

WESTERN BUREAU: A SAINT he ain’t. That’s the police’s view on Tommy Thompson, a prime suspect in the murder of two Chinese business operators last December who was fatally shot in an alleged confrontation with cops at his home in Newmarket, St...

Jamaicans will have to wait longer to get answers on the money spent by the Government to fund Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s campaign for the post of Commonwealth secretary general. The contest ended in defeat for Johnson Smith i...

It’s been a long, rough journey for Shakira Bryan Davis, the mother of two sons who have been diagnosed with autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). That sacrifice includes the 36-year-old mother quitting her job as an early.....

The last thing Juanita Allison said to her son, 16-year-old Demaro Gibson, before he died is that he would be receiving a beating for “tiefing out the meat”. She clung to that memory as she tried to come to grips with the fact that he was among ...

More than a decade since gangsters challenged the security forces in defence of strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has called the hiring of United States lobbyists to circumvent the extradition process his �...

The contract of a regional operations manager of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) was not renewed and an accountant and procurement officer were transferred to the agency’s head offices in a shake-up following glaring anomalie...

The lawsuit filed by Fitz Jackson against Scotiabank over cheque-cashing fees could result in a drop in campaign contributions from financial institutions to prospective candidates of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), former General......

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) often clamours for more resources to run its operations, but Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has found that what the agency needs to operate effectively has not been quantified. According to....

While labelling the prosecution’s two main witnesses as “bad” and “unreliable” attestors, the lead attorney for reputed Clansman-One Don Gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan asked the judge on Tuesday to reject the self-confessed ex-gang...