The mother of a newborn who reportedly lived just a few minutes after birth at the Mandeville Regional Hospital is insistent that her baby would be alive today if medical experts had acted sooner. The woman, who requested that her name not be...

Singh’s Motors Limited is under investigation after a teacher assistant demanded the refund of an $800,000 deposit on a 2013 Toyota Isis sedan she was reportedly promised to receive in two weeks but has been left empty-handed months after the...

Police Commissioner Antony Anderson has bemoaned the lack of youth participation in community organisations geared at preserving the safety of Jamaica’s neighbourhoods, with fewer than half of the designated groups active. Anderson argued that......

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Chairman Robert Montague has rallied partisan faithful to defend Prime Minister Andrew Holness from critics, warning them in a spirited speech that attacks on the leadership were geared at weakening his administration....

Kern Spencer, chairman of the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Region Five, is exuding confidence about his party’s prospects in the local government elections, which are due by February 2023. Region Five covers the parishes of Manchester and S...

Elon Higgins, overseer of the Horizon Adult Remand Centre, called Sunday for investigators to double their efforts to arrest the perpetrators who killed correctional officer Shannon Briscoe three months ago. Briscoe, 38, went missing on August 11......

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP): Envoys from around the globe gathered Sunday in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for talks on tackling climate change amid a multitude of competing crises, including the war in Ukraine, high inflation,...

WESTERN BUREAU: WITH 101 outstanding elective surgeries having been done out of an anticipated 2,000 to clear a backlog of cases under the Ministry of Health’s Code Care Programme, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is anticipating that up to.....

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...

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...