The Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society has come out swinging against a recommendation by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) for minors to have access to abortions without parental consent. This was one of three recommendations...

Since a 2017 fire turned their lives upside down, Moya Beckford has been struggling, driven by the fear of failing her two children, eight-year-old Nicholas Edwards and 16-year-old Ashhail Samuels. On the fateful night, Beckford said that she...

Declaring that they would not surrender their sacred temple to criminals, worshippers at the Agape Christian Fellowship in Falmouth, Trelawny, were back at church on Thursday, days after witnessing a shocking murder during one of their services. On....

The leading private-sector groups in Jamaica are getting ready to lead a strong lobby of the Government to craft and promulgate legislation similar to the United Kingdom’s 2010 Bribery Act as part of efforts to reduce or eliminate corruption in th...

Pagee Beach, St Mary: Fishermen at Pagee Beach in St Mary, who once enjoyed large catches, are now struggling to earn a living as overfishing has drastically reduced earnings from the once-viable vocation. In addition to a struggle to find any fish....

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has approved a new electricity rate class which will begin to affect residential and small commercial customers as early as this month. The Jamaica Public Service Company has been given six months to roll......

Clarendon resident Lascelles Simmonds has his hands full these days with five adopted ‘babies’ – all centenarians. The president of the Frankfield Development Area Committee (DAC), who sits on the Clarendon Parish Development Committee, says h...

Mikayle Morrison took to drawing to ease the depression that set in after she migrated to Florida at just 10 years old, so even she is surprised that two of her pieces have already made their way into a major art gallery in Fort Lauderdale....

WESTERN BUREAU: Stung by an increase in homicides and other gun-related crimes, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says his ministry will be seeking to disrupt the recruiting of young people into criminal gangs by targeting youngsters at...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s toxic culture of condemnation of transgenders and transsexuals has been blamed for driving a former policewoman to flee the country to embrace what he says is his true identity as a man. Identified as female at birth,......

The reputed ‘jail block’, where wards at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre are sent for punishment, even being stripped to their underwear, should immediately be scrapped, a watchdog agency has said. Addressing a press conference on...

Nkrumah Fong, CEO and Founder of Consolidated Environment Research Laboratory, has invented a game-changing vehicular tailpipe exhaust absorber and capture device, which he believes is a multibillion-dollar solution to a multibillion-dollar problem...

New betting and gaming entrant Mahoe Gaming Enterprises has been given the green light to operate, a development bound to challenge Supreme Ventures Limited’s (SVL) monopoly on the multibillion-dollar industry. Mahoe Gaming was given the go-ahead...

Western Bureau: An issue causing soot to be leaking into fuel being dispensed at its depot and reduced ridership concerns are among reasons behind frustrated commuters seeing an irregular schedule in the roll-out of buses by the Montego Bay Metro......

Lancelot Harris lost his mother to diabetes as a teen. Then his father died from the same health condition. And in a bid to save his own life, he lost both his legs. Diagnosed with diabetes at age 20, doctors had warned him that he was at risk of.....

Police Corporal Vince Edwards was on Wednesday found not guilty of the 2009 killing of Tyrone Powell in a judge-alone murder retrial in the Home Circuit Court. The policeman was arrested and charged with murder following an incident in Cooreville......

Embattled former education minister Ruel Reid and his four co-accused will be challenging the validity of their fraud and corruption prosecution at the United Kingdom-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The disclosure was made on...

The St Thomas teen who was arrested and charged for severing the penis of a six-year-old boy has been sentenced to three years and seven months behind bars.   The convict, who was 16 years old at the time of the offence in August 2019 was...

Integrity Commission boss Greg Christie says Jamaica’s one-point improvement in the latest corruption perception score is nothing to celebrate. The index, released last week, shows Jamaica inching up from a score of 43 in 2019 to...

The $422-million budget approved for the communication campaign to bolster buy-in of the coronavirus vaccine could be crucial to a Jamaica Moves-scale crusade in marketing the life-saving jab. Jamaicans will not know until early next week which...