Construction on the St Thomas leg of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project has been a torment for several major distribution companies, significantly impacting logistics and other operational activities. But National Works Agency (NWA).....

National Workers Union (NWU) General Secretary Granville Valentine says the Ministry of Education’s announcement that bursars will not be impacted by the new payroll system to be implemented in schools is a “smokescreen”. Valentine, in a Glea...

FranÇois St Juste, whose baritone voice and trademark “Good moooorning, Jamaica!!!!” roused morning radio audiences and whose steady hand transformed FAME 95 FM, has died. He forged a sterling career in media, spanning 38 years, and co-hosted ...

Fleet Street and the community of Southside in central Kingston are mourning the tragic death of Tarcia ‘Tanney’ McLean-Lysius, who was shot in the head, reportedly by another woman, outside a party in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday. McLean-Lysi...

As the new school year beckons, tailors and seamstresses are contending with the mounting pressure from last-minute back-to-school orders as parents struggle with finances. Surging prices for food and other commodities have eroded household incomes....

Despite termites damaging the benches at the McIntosh Memorial Primary School in Williamsfield, Manchester, Principal Vyonnie Whynes is hesitant to dispose of them, just in case students have to resort to reusing them when the new academic year...

When Shamoui Glaves enrolled at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) in 2008 to read for a Bachelor in Education degree, he had all intention to mould young minds as an educator. However, despite graduating a decade ago with a BEd in...

A $500,000 reward is being offered by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development for information leading to the arrest of the killers who set a homeless man on fire on Monday. Lionel Johnson died Monday morning at the Kingston Public......

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...