The thousands of mourners who swarmed Chapelton on Sunday to bid a sombre farewell to the butchered Cocoa Piece family of five offered an outsize national rebuke to Jamaica’s crisis of domestic crime. But for six-year-old Beulah All-Age student....

A day after residents protested against a chemical spill that killed hundreds of fish in the Rio Cobre, de facto Environment Minister Matthew Samuda has threatened to hit bauxite mining company Windalco with financial penalties. The Government has.....

As the relatives of the Cocoa Piece five sought closure with the final rites at Sunday’s funeral, organisers and mourners were engaged in a battle of wills as Clarendon College convulsed with emotion. A sea of humanity flooded the school compound....

President of the People’s National Party, Mark Golding, has dismissed suggestions that the lawsuit filed by anti-fee crusader Fitz Jackson against Scotiabank could trigger a fallout in campaign funding. Jackson, opposition member of parliament for...

Shereka Bryan held her eight-year-old son closer to her as she pondered the plight of what had happened to her friend, 31-year-old Kemesha Wright. Trying to make sense of the carnage that led to Sunday’s funeral of Wright and her four children in...

As Jamaica’s Court of Appeal celebrates its 60th anniversary, Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck has reaffirmed his belief that the body is capable of serving as the island’s final appellate court. Currently, the Judicial Committee of the Privy.....

The Government is having difficulty selling millions of dollars’ worth of real estate forfeited under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) as buyers shy away from purchasing a former gangster’s paradise. “We have well over a billion dollars’ wor...

Looking at the country’s current murder rate, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has admitted that in hindsight, he would have cautioned Prime Minister Andrew Holness against promising Jamaicans that they would be able to sleep with their....

Preparing the bodies of a slain mother and her four young children for burial today has been the most difficult task veteran mortician Trevor Witter has faced in his life. It has left him very emotional and heartbroken. “The process was lengthy,....

Chantal Blake McCalla vanished almost seven months ago, leaving four young children without a mother. Similar to the case of missing social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson, her last known contact was with her husband, businessman Shane...

His résumé could cause one to believe that Danville Walker has had nomadic tendencies since returning to Jamaica in May 1997 to head the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ). But truth be told, he does not believe in hanging around once his expertise...

Sandra Gipson stands today as a resilient woman who survived trafficking and child sexual abuse at the hands of relatives. With hopes for a better life, the then-14-year-old left Jamaica on a three-month visa for Florida in January 1979 to live...

Senator Don Wehby has called for the swift deployment of more traffic cameras to bring rogue motorists to book, urging the Government to make it a top priority as the Senate yesterday approved the Road Traffic Regulations. The regulations will,...

Efforts to secure bail for the cops who have been charged for being part of the Clarendon-based Ranko Gang were scuttled in the Supreme Court yesterday after the bail hearing failed to get under way. The plea and case management hearing has been...

Major towns in Manchester were painted in black, green and gold as scores of residents donned the national colours to join the Manchester float parade on Thursday as celebrations kick into gear to mark Emancipation Day and the island’s 60th...

After being staged virtually for the past two years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Emancipation Jubilee returns to the Seville Heritage Park in St Ann on Sunday, July 31, with special guest performers from Nigeria as part of the Jamaica 60......

Embattled police constable Noel Maitland, who has been detained in relation to the probe into the disappearance of Donna-Lee Donaldson, will spend the weekend in custody after his legal team’s bid to argue a habeas corpus application in the...

National rapporteur on trafficking in persons, Diahann Gordon Harrison, has asserted that though gains have been made, more needs to be done in the fight against human trafficking. In 2018, about 50,000 human trafficking victims were detected and......

Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding believes that having pumped more than $500 billion into the education sector in the last two decades to boost outcomes, the country has not received bang for its buck. “What has caused our dismal performance in....

Fifty students graduated on Friday after completing a month-long coding camp funded by reggae artiste Chronixx and aimed at further opening their eyes to the possibilities in the world of technology in spurring development. Staged between July 4...