WESTERN BUREAU: The agony gripping 58-year-old Delroy Thompson is causing him to ponder whether fate would have treated him differently had he been the one transporting his mother in a frantic effort to reach the hospital on Thursday night after...

The administrators at a number of Corporate Area schools are planning to integrate classes and hire part-time teachers to accommodate the influx of students expected under the Sixth Form Pathways Programme (SFPP) as resource concerns linger. Tivoli....

A Manchester councillor has suggested that had streetlights in his division been speedily repaired by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), gunmen would have possibly been deterred from killing a security guard at a gas station in Chudleigh on.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Citing what he deemed to be the poor performance of the National Works Agency (NWA) in Hanover, Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels on Thursday said that he wants the state agency to be kicked out of the parish and its roles,...

Tit-for-tat murders and shootings between warring factions in the Angola and Top Jungle sections of Arnett Gardens, St Andrew, this week have left some residents fearful and resorting to mounting blockades along the roadways to prevent more drive-.....

LONDON (AP): King Charles III vowed in his first speech as monarch Friday to carry on Queen Elizabeth II’s “lifelong service” with his own modernising stamp, as Britain entered an uncertain new age under a new sovereign. Charles, who spent muc...

The Government has launched an initiative dubbed Operation Birthright under the National Identification System (NIDS) project targeting Jamaicans who do not possess a birth certificate. The $50-million drive will see free birth certificates being......

Government Senator Natalie Campbell-Rodriques has hit back at critics of the contentious Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill, saying there is nothing for teachers to fear. “There should be no fear of large penalties for pretending to be a teacher....

Lorenzo Hume, the chief public health inspector for Portland, has said that the amount of uncollected garbage in several communities across the northeastern parish is now a source of major concern. Making his contribution to the monthly sitting of.....

The death of Queen Elizabeth II will break the sentimentality with which Jamaicans hold the British crown and likely make it easier for the Caribbean nation to sever ties with the monarchy, a cultural studies scholar has said. The Queen, who is...

WESTERN BUREAU: The last Jamaican equerry, or aide, to Queen Elizabeth II while she visited Jamaica, describes her as an excellent conversationalist who was very knowledgeable about military protocols and parades. “She would know what to do at th...

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) ex-servicemen who had the honour of meeting Queen Elizabeth II were saddened by news of the passing of the monarch on Thursday as the news spread around the globe. The Queen, who made six trips to Jamaica during her.....

The People’s National Party’s (PNP) 84th annual conference slated for September 16 to18 will still take place despite the period of mourning from September 8 to 19 declared by the Government to observe the death of Queen Elizabeth II. PNP Gener...

Clarendon centenarian Julia Rose-Campbell burst into tears on Thursday upon learning that the Queen had passed away, emphasised her undying love for the monarch. Now 105 years old, Rose-Campbell recalls receiving a special card from Queen Elizabeth....

There are hopes for the full recovery of a one-year-old infant who was yesterday found in bushes in St Catherine with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the abdomen, close to the body of her deceased father, who is believed to have committed...

Thursday’s death of Her Majesty The Queen, who was Jamaica’s head of state, has resulted in immediate changes to Jamaica’s court system. No longer will the phrase ‘God save The Queen’ be used in the courts islandwide. Instead, it will be �...

A former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, Jamaica-born Bishop of Dover Rose Hudson-Wilkin, paid tribute to Her Majesty following the announcement of her passing. Rose described the longest-serving monarch in British history as “the mother of our...

When Michael Fennell heard of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch and Jamaica’s head of State, on Thursday, it weighed heavily on his heart. Fennell is one of very few Jamaicans who got the opportunity t...

Many Jamaicans are not impressed with the job being done by Peter Bunting in his role as opposition spokesman on national security and have voted him the worst-performing shadow minister. Opposition Leader Mark Golding also struggled...

Manchester High has revised its rules to allow for schoolgirls to wear hair extensions to classes, a rare concession in Jamaica’s long-running culture clash over grooming. The compromise, which Manchester’s Dean of Discipline Sigrid Miller said...