The inhumane conditions in the island’s prisons were taken into consideration last month when Supreme Court Judge Tania Mott-Tulloch Reid ordered the State to pay $21 million in damages to Detective Constable Leonard Lindsay, who the court ruled.....

Andrew Hamilton, the Jamaican drug boss who was ordered by the court to turn over a portfolio of assets valued at more than $500 million to the Government, has made a last-gasp attempt to hold on to them. Lawyers for Hamilton and members of his...

A move by two government lawmakers to sit with independent legislator George Wright while he made a presentation in Parliament last week is not an indication that the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has softened its position on his banishment.....

Jamaica-born British fraud examiner Karen Bailey believes Jamaica needs to enact more far-reaching legislation to counter identity theft, scams and a range of financial crimes, as it is still unprepared for the slew of ills that can be spawned in a....

The 34 Jamaican fishermen held in Colombia on allegations of illegal fishing may be back in the island by Saturday, November 12. Yesterday, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson Smith said that the Colombian and Jamaican...

From using gamma irradiation technology to curtail mosquito spread to employing nuclear energy to power homes and call centres, industry players last week outlined a slew of initiatives they say will bolster life for Jamaicans while making science.....

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 Dainsworth and Deonne Richards. On Friday mornin...

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...