The public was kept in the dark about a 2020 data breach of a Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) billing platform that left confidential customer information wide open on the Internet, a whistleblower has revealed. The platform was developed by......

The night before the bulldozers rolled in with a battalion of police and soldiers, a helicopter hovering overhead, Suelyn Ward-Brown was on a roadside in the Clifton community in St Catherine, expressing concerns to news teams about the fate of...

The partially decomposing body of a woman that was retrieved from the sea in Reading in Montego Bay, St James, on Friday morning has been positively identified as popular Kingston-based social media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend. Her......

WESTERN BUREAU: “I AM asking, ‘God, did I fail him as a mother? Should I have let him stay home?’ Something has to be wrong, I kept him so long, almost two years.” Those are the bitter thoughts swirling in 24-year-old Desrine Malcolm’s min...

From child soldiers in some African nations to forced marriages of girls, some as young as eight years old, in the Middle East, United Nations Special Representative for Violence Against Children, Dr Najat Maalla M’jid, believes the current world....

Erlene Melbourne was relying on a 2013 Supreme Court judgment to support her case that Jamaican Infrastructure Operator Limited (JIO) was liable under the Occupiers’ Liability Act for an accident on Highway 2000, which claimed the life of her...

Residents of Third Street in Trench Town are experiencing a heightened level of anxiety as mere hours after a shootout claimed the life of Corporal Oliver Mullings and 26-year-old Shemar Fletcher, a second fatal incident occurred, taking the life......

“Jamaica has enabled me and for that I’ll be forever grateful.” These are words of gratitude spoken by Jamaican billionaire businessman Michael Lee-Chin, shortly after he was inducted into the the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) ...

WESTERN BUREAU: Relatives of a popular social media personality are today expected to view the body of a woman found with what appeared to be gunshot wounds on Friday morning in Reading, St James, as the police seek confirmation of the victim’s.....

Vanessa Clarke should have been celebrating her birthday on Friday, but in a cruel twist of fate, the mother spent hours in the pews of Pentecostal Tabernacle mourning the death of her 16-year-old daughter, Michion Campbell, who was stabbed to...

A young woman who was infected with HIV after being raped more than two decades ago is seeking assistance to cover her medical bills after a recent bout of illness cast uncertainty over her life and depleted her savings. The woman, who told The...

A Jamaican man has been arrested by the Florida state election police in the United States and charged with voting illegally in two special elections in the Sunshine State. The accused, Alfred Samuels, is reportedly living in the United States...

OSAKI, Japan: Since 2015, successive administrations have spent millions of dollars in training and certifying community wardens to assist with Jamaica’s failing garbage disposal problem. However, the country continues to experience significant.....

The Rollington Town Health Centre in Kingston on Friday became the 39th facility to be adopted under the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ Adopt-a-Clinic Programme. The 43-year-old type-two health centre will benefit from an injection of more than...

Senator Aubyn Hill has charged that more focus must be placed on exports if Jamaica is to achieve economic independence. Citing 2021 data, Hill, the minister of industry, investment and commerce, said Jamaica imported goods and services valued at.....

Portfolio minister Fayval Williams has issued a fact-finding directive to a team within the education ministry to determine the scope and extent to which persons are appointed to multiple school boards and for “inordinate” periods. Williams’.....

If Justice Leighton Pusey had his way, the cold-blooded and unrepentant Cocoa Piece killer who snuffed out the lives of five family members would be a distant memory and only be recalled by the judiciary for legal...

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid a rise in cases of gastro-enteritis in St James and St Andrew, doctors at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay have confirmed that a two-year-old boy who was admitted to the medical facility Tuesday night with...

Pamelleta Williams held her stomach and broke down in tears on Thursday upon seeing the team of police officers and officials entering her home in Maxfield Park, St Andrew, to show their support as she grieved the murder of her 22-year-old son,...

Gwendolyn McKnight, the woman whose daughter and four grandchildren were brutally murdered in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, in June, says that convicted killer Rushane Barnett should remain behind bars, adding that she is “a little” pleased with his....