Despite employing its Yard to Yard Find the Child Initiative earlier this year to re-engage unaccounted-for high- and primary-school students during the heights of COVID-19, the Ministry of Education and Youth is reporting that more than 7,000 are.....

Former Petrojam General Manager Floyd Grindley reportedly remains a signatory on the company’s bank account and, up to last month, was still able to check the account which had in it more than US$19 million. The shocking suggestion was made...

Two decades ago, a then 21-year-old mother of two was allegedly wilfully infected with HIV by someone she was dating. The Portland native told The Gleaner that she was actively pursued by the man, who she described as appearing to be quiet and...

Cornelia and Melvin Yorke formed an instant connection when they first met 10-year-old Sara* through the Child Protection and Family Services Agency’s (CPFSA) Take a Child Home for the Holiday programme in 2019. During the brief time that the...

Eight inmates and two correctional officers from the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston are set to participate in a pilot project in entertainment business next year. The pilot, which is focused on increasing access to higher...

Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr, vice-president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), has warned motorists to exercise greater care amid spiralling crash deaths with the year-end holidays weeks away. Lyew-Ayee forecasts that Jamaica will exceed....

Labelling the garbage disposal practices of some Jamaicans as “antisocial behaviour”, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is promising stronger enforcement of laws to address how waste is managed. Speaking at Wednesday’s handover ceremony of 50 garb...

The Government has been criticised for not doing more to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic and address the hostile environment in which many infected Jamaicans are forced to survive. Jumoke Patrick, chairman of the Jamaica Civil Society Forum on HIV and......

Describing Jamaica’s dangerous criminals as rats who went into hiding during the just-expired states of emergency (SOEs), National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has pledged that the security forces will hunt down and detain the perpetrators of...

The mother of the young St Mary mason who was viciously murdered by his drinking partner in 2017 rejoiced on Tuesday that her son’s killer was sent to prison for at least 27 years after receiving a life sentence. The confessed killer, 36-year-old...

Perhaps World Cup wagonists might muster $150 to purchase a mini-flag. More committed supporters might dig deep into their pockets to buy authentic team jerseys for $20,000 each. But Travin ‘TJ’ Jackson went far beyond the average football fan ...

WESTERN BUREAU: DOZENS OF disgruntled vendors at Negril Plaza in West End, Westmoreland, have threatened to take legal action against the Negril Chamber of Commerce because of an eviction bid. They claim the plaza had been donated to them in the...

A meeting between education ministry personnel, trade union officials, and disgruntled teachers at Homestead Primary and Infant School in St Catherine has failed to quash concerns. Teachers dressed in black staged a sit-out at the Spanish Town...

An ongoing gang feud between the Upsetta Mafia and Super Star gangs operating out of Hannah Town in west Kingston is believed to have sparked the killing of two men in the community on Tuesday morning. Twenty-eight-year-old Lance Thompson and 30-.....

Jamaica has increased the capacity of the National Statistical System (NSS) to collect, analyse, and disseminate data on violence against women and girls (VAWG). The Planning Institute of Jamaica, in collaboration with UN Women, developed a...

The slow take-up of the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV drug in Jamaica has sparked concern for Dr Richard Amenyah, UNAIDS multi-country director in the island. PrEP, which is usually in the form of a pill, is designed to be taken by HIV-...

WESTERN BUREAU: FINANCE MINISTER Dr Nigel Clarke has announced that potential local and international investors will soon benefit from planned amendments to the Income Tax Relief (Large-scale Projects and Pioneer Industries) Act of 2014, giving...

India has cut her poverty rate in half and has now passed Great Britain to become the third largest economy in the world. When one considers that imperial Britain had colonialised India, this is certainly a remarkable change of fortune. Rishi...

With the Opposition blocking the Government’s attempt to extend the current states of emergency (SOEs) beyond two weeks, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding says a constitutional amendment could be considered to allow for an initial period of up t...

WESTERN BUREAU: Parish Court Judge Kaysha Grant has lamented St James’ status as a haven for drug activity in recent years, particularly the trafficking and distribution of cocaine through ports and mail. “This is the parish that we have seen al...