That 21-year-old twins Shuala and Anakai Richards attained first-class honours in their respective undergraduate programmes at The University of the West Indies, Mona, comes as no surprise to parents Dainworth and Deonne Richards. On Friday morning....

A bartender, who is claiming that he suffered permanent injuries after a health practitioner at St Joseph’s Hospital in St Andrew wrongly injected a nerve in his buttocks, is suing the government and the health facility for negligence and breach o...

Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson Smith is warning Jamaicans who engage in commercial fishing outside of the country’s maritime borders to desist from the illegal practice as it could land them in trouble with the law in......

Although former Prime Minister Edward Seaga has been widely credited with the formation of the HEART/NSTA Trust some 40 years ago, the concept behind its genesis was not originally his, according to the current head of Government, Andrew Holness,......

An air of mystery still surrounds the death of two men in St James, whose bodies were found in a partially burnt-out house in Hendon, Norwood, on Friday morning. While residents believe the men – who up to press time last night had only been...

Canada is lending support to Jamaica in its push for gender equality with the launch of two new programmes at a cost of CDN$9.8 million (approximately J$1.12 billion). The five-year programmes are dubbed WE-Talk and SAIL (Strengthening Access...

A group of students from Colombia is in Jamaica, visiting a number of organisations and institutions which cater to persons with intellectual and physical challenges as part of their coursework for a graduate diploma. The Graduate Diploma in...

WESTERN BUREAU: FORTY-TWO students of Cornwall College in Montego Bay, St James, are to benefit from scholarships valued at a combined $2 million, thanks to the school’s Class of 1985, who made the donation on Friday. Huntley Medley, immediate pas...

An alleged player in a suspected phone-stealing ring, which was recently discovered and more than 200 devices recovered, will be seeking bail when he next appears before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on November 18. Shaunie Latchman, who....

Persons in possession of illegal firearms are being urged to hand them over to law enforcement officials as a gun amnesty begins today. The initiative will expire on November 20. On Friday, members of the Upper House approved the Firearms (...

Despite the soaring fortunes of the global services sector in Jamaica, business process outsourcing outfits (BPOs) are haemorrhaging hundreds of jobs monthly, stoking concerns among some sector interests about companies’ retention rates. Many of.....

Kimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter St Thomas Western Member of Parliament (MP) James Robertson has poured scorn on People’s National Party (PNP) councillors for their “distasteful” quest for power following the sudden death of Lenworth Rawl...

Attorney-at-law Michelle Thomas, who is representing Rushane Patterson, the person of interest in the murder of social-media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, is accusing the police of breaching due process after her client was reportedly....

Gang warfare originating in Salt Spring, St James, is believed to have crossed borders and created mayhem in Lauderhill, Florida, with law enforcers there determined to clamp down on the crime syndicates. Jamaican dancehall stakeholders are...

Having been repeatedly trapped inside their community following heavy rainfall and perennial flooding from the overflowing Negro River, residents of River Head in St Thomas said they are weary of state neglect and are demanding swift intervention......

After more than a month of delay, the Housing Agency of Jamaica Limited (HAJ) has secured a permit from the Portmore Municipal Corporation to begin construction of 148 homes at Sandown Palms. The corporation had issued a stop order on the...

Seventy-six-year-old Gladstone Grant, whose vision is clouded by cataracts, has found the night-time trip along the Mount Vernon Gap breakaway in St Thomas particularly challenging. Since the roadway crumbled under the weight of torrential rain...

A mother is relieved to have her teen daughter return home alive after her bid to land a job at a Portmore call centre morphed into a nightmare after she was allegedly abducted after the interview. The 19-year-old was reportedly abducted for two......

The Government is seeking to curb an influx of Cubans who appear to be using Jamaica as a transit point to Central America in an attempt to illegally gain entry into the United States. Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang confirmed in a......

As the economy continues to bounce back from the ravages of the pandemic, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is lamenting that these strides are not being matched in other areas of national life, pointing to the education sector, the escalating crime...