Residents of New Haven and other business interests along Washington Boulevard have expressed fears of displacement in the proposed roadway redevelopment, which their parliamentary representative has dubbed “suspicious”. But the Government’s c...

“Love lives in the hearts of those who are brave.” Eighty-year-old Deyon Madge Thompson has lived most of her life by those profound words. At the age of 20, Deyon eloped with her then 23-year-old partner, Willard Thompson Sr, despite the...

University lecturer and social commentator Nadeen Spence has issued a call to action against domestic violence in the wake of Friday’s killing of a 34-year-old woman in Berkshire Hall, St Catherine. The stabbing death of Nickesha DaCosta-Walters,....

Hassanah Al-Saba said she always knew she would have achieved the rare feat of being a locally trained female Muslim pilot in Jamaica. On August 25, she completed enough flight time to receive her private pilot’s licence, 10 days after her 22nd......

Stakeholders in eastern St Elizabeth are pressing for the relocation of the Goshen Early Childhood Institution (ECI), arguing that its proximity to the community cemetery has spooked parents and driven away students who could be placed at the...

The family of a Kingston courier who was fatally shot on Marcus Garvey Drive Friday is accusing the police of killing the 21-year-old in cold blood and is demanding justice. Shamar Stewart, of Allman Town, Kingston 4, was killed a day before a big....

WESTERN BUREAU: Approximately six months before local government elections are due, the Opposition People’s National Party is reporting that its 30 candidates in Manchester and St Elizabeth are ready to take control of those municipal corporation...

Former Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) head, Professor Gladstone Hutchinson, has described much of the furore over Jamaicans migrating to seek better opportunities abroad as noise. There is currently a high level of concern over attrition...

After more than three decades as an educator in Jamaica, former Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Owen Speid is now working in the United States. Like many of his colleagues who ditched local classrooms for more lucrative opportunities...

Frustrated by the daily struggles to make ends meet and the uncertainties that surround the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill, Castella Bennett*, a literary specialist with more than 18 years of experience, is now preparing to leave the island...

The police have revealed that an alarming number of women are being raped or robbed on their first date with men they meet on social media platforms; however, the true extent of the problem remains unknown because some women are too fearful or...

For seven years, she lived at the Fletcher’s Land Police Station in Kingston; its barracks served as her bedroom, the two guardrooms her living and dining quarters. Seats in the reception area served as her sofa. Fate has been topsy-turvy for...

At least seven persons have been killed across Westmoreland since Monday, renewing concerns over the level of crime in the island’s westernmost parish, which is home to one of Jamaica’s major tourist resort towns. The latest in the string of...

A near 12-hour search yesterday for two young girls swept away by a raging river during heavy rainfall in sections of St Mary on Thursday resulted in the recovery of the body of one of the cousins as raw emotions and unbearable grief consumed...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said that the Government will be moving to put an end to squatting and the illegal capture of public lands. While admitting that there are challenges in accessing affordable homes, Holness said that there are....

In its drive to make more housing solutions available, the Government is committing to complete all the housing projects which have been lagging on for years without being actualised. “We have made a commitment that all the projects that have been...

WESTERN BUREAU: Industrial arts students and teachers from some eight high schools across the island have been tasked by the education ministry to manufacture furniture to meet demand ahead of the reopening of schools. Leighton Johnson – principal...

The children of the Port Royal Primary and Infant School were fêted on Friday by the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) as the state entity formally adopted the Kingston-based educational institution ahead of the new academic year. The day’s events we...

Maryland’s highest court on Friday ordered that Jamaica-born sniper Lee Boyd Malvo be resentenced because of a 2012 US Supreme Court decision barring mandatory life sentences for juveniles. The now-37-year-old Malvo was convicted, along with John....

WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie, who last year chided the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) for its tardiness in commencing construction on the new Negril food and vegetable market, was...