Three persons were killed and six wounded in a daring gun attack on an in-house football match at the Jamaica Broilers playing field in Spring Village, Old Harbour, Sunday afternoon. Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey described the drive-by.....

President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Mark Golding, wants the current maternity leave arrangements to be extended in keeping with the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Maternity Protection Convention, which mandates a minimum o...

Acknowledging that there is significant work to be done to regain state power, People’s National Party (PNP) stalwarts and long-time members believe that the 84-year-old out-of-favour movement will peak at the right time, rejecting assertions that...

It wasn’t the customary fanfare associated with pre-pandemic People’s National Party (PNP) annual conferences, but hundreds of hopeful Comrades eager to see the political movement back at the zenith of Jamaican politics filed on to the grounds o...

Mark Golding, president of the People’s National Party (PNP), has chided Prime Minister Andrew Holness for straying from democratic traditions. Referencing the administration’s string of constitutional cock-ups, Golding took aim, saying: “Some...

A teenager was hospitalised after being shot by police patrolling an area known as Gulf in Gregory Park, St Catherine, Sunday morning. The shooting triggered backlash from residents disputing the police account of the incident. Separate probes...

Weva Nunes, the proprietor and former contractor whose business produced millions of dollars in uniforms for the Jamaica College Old Boys’ Association (JCOBA), is calling on the school to settle its debt to her company. While addressing a meeting....

Divulging what he calls a new philosophical framework, People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding says the party’s clear mission going forward is to focus on the quality of life of the Jamaican people and to build a more equitable soci...

An agreement is in place for the Government to reimburse Jamaica College’s (JC) portion of the $23.3-million severance payment to Ruel Reid to secure his resignation as principal, the attorney for the school board has claimed. This assertion by......

The widening gap between the haves and the have-nots is just one of the reasons armed thugs will turn their backs on a pending gun amnesty, a St Andrew community leader has cautioned. Another critical issue, he said, is that it is “impossible” f...

“Hi, I am Dickon Mitchell,” he said with hand outstretched at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, arriving with no fanfare, airs or stuffiness. Just three months after taking the reins of government in Grenada, Mitchell engaged in a wide-ranging discussi...

Charismatic retired People’s National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller is sorely missed by the man she appointed a senator in 2007 and who now heads the 84-year-old political movement she then led. Simpson Miller, whose political capita...

A St Catherine woman is beside herself in grief after her two-year-old daughter perished in a blaze on Friday morning after falling from her arms as she fled their burning house, moments after gunmen invaded the dwelling and killed her partner...

Two days ago, Phillip ‘Dolphus’ Bennett was having a party with his relatives in the Walkers Hill area of Red Hills, St Andrew, celebrating the visit of a brother from overseas. Today, the family is planning his funeral. Described as a quiet and...

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has launched a probe into an incident where a police officer allegedly pushed a man from a wall in Red Hills, St Andrew, on Friday. INDECOM Assistant Commissioner Hamish Campbell told The...

The 34-year-old man who was convicted for the gruesome 2019 murder of a Negril businessman and his Italian wife yesterday angrily chastised the judge, labelling him as “bias” and “poppy show” before he was slapped with two life sentences. �...

Residents of the Hope River Bridge area, Constitution Hill, Dallas, and other communities in St Andrew East Rural are calling for urgent road repairs in their districts, especially along thoroughfares they traverse daily to get into the capital...

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is expected to present two pivotal resolutions to its annual conference on Sunday which, if approved, will change the way the leadership corps of the 84-year-old organisation is selected. The Mark...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton and PAHO representative Ian Stein have raised concern about the declining rate of vaccination in the Americas at a time when New York in the United States has announced a state of emergency in the.....

Cheers filled the air in the deep rural St Elizabeth community of Quickstep last week Friday as international charity Pencils4Kids and students cut the ribbons to open a newly built basic school. It was bright smiles all around as parents,...