WESTERN BUREAU: While the world was convinced JetBlue Airways stewardess Kalina Collier and her mom Candice Walker had gone missing in Jamaica, Walker was recorded leaving and entering the Ocean Coral Spring Resort in Trelawny daily, driving a...

SCJ Holdings Limited has been accused of committing a “wicked act” in demolishing the homes of 15 families at Innswood Estates in St Catherine on Saturday morning. The families, who are third-generation occupants of the land owned and controlled...

Darian Bryan has come a far way from whipping up meals in a humble Clarendon village restaurant to tantalising the taste buds of power brokers with gourmet creations. Today, nine years after migrating to the United States, Bryan is the personal...

While many couples flooded St Elizabeth beaches on Sunday, freelance photographer Nigel Jones traipsed around scouting for couples he could snap up with his camera. For the first time, Jones travelled from Santa Cruz to Alligator Pond on Valentine....

Daphne Williams, a disabled woman whose story of resourcefulness and ambition drew praise and charity last summer, has launched a children’s outreach foundation geared at assisting the needy in her hometown of Smithville. The independent-minded 5...

A recent Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) report has cast a dark shadow over the bauxite industry in the island, with damning claims that it is hurting social life and environment with very little economic benefit. In slamming the continued...

Jamaica averaged four murders per day over the first 42 days of this year. For a bloody six-day stretch, which started on January 29, average daily murders climbed to five when a total of 30 persons were killed, including 10 on January 31 alone,...

No one could have imagined that so much power is stacked in her small frame, but Amanda Gorman – I mean Ayanna Samuels – is an alluring fusion of trailblazing cerebral explosive and black consciousness. You are at your own risk if you underrate ...

A fifth Clarendon family has now been displaced in less than two weeks as hoodlums firebombed their house on Friday night. It is the third such incident in Lionel Town over the period, and has left the residents living in fear. “Right now, we affi...

Two Nicaraguan nationals suspected to be major players in the illegal drug trade were held by residents in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, and handed over to the police yesterday morning. A speed boat suspected to have been used by the men to traffic....

Minister of Labour and Social Security Karl Samuda says he is willing to convene talks with the unions who are up in arms over a statement by the ministry that it does not have jurisdiction to refer disputes in relation to redundancies to the...

Two of three men charged in connection with the brazen daylight shooting death of 51-year-old Andrea Lowe-Garwood during a church service last month are to make their first appearance in the Trelawny Parish Court on February 15, while their co-...

The Government has signalled that it is prepared to take any disciplinary actions warranted, based on investigations being conducted by the Office of the Services Commission and other oversight bodies, into allegations that correctional officers at....

The Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in the case brought by the three soldiers charged with the alleged murder of St Andrew businessman Keith Clarke. The court, after hearing submissions on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, reserved judgment on.....

The Greenwich Town Fisherfolk Benevolent Society has labelled Tuesday’s announcement by Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green of a health and insurance package for farmers and fishers as long overdue and well needed. Under Sagicor...

St Ann has been actively preparing for the roll-out of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as the country awaits its first shipment, which is expected by the end of the month. St Ann’s acting medical officer of health, Dr Tamika Henry, told Thursday�...

Janeil Weir is one of the few females in the coding programme being offered through the HEART/NSTA Trust by the Amber Group Limited, and the 21-year-old is determined to do her best given the prospects of securing a full-time job in the industry...

Western Bureau: The main thoroughfare from Sandy Bay to Montpelier in Hanover Eastern is to be named in honour of the constituency’s former Member of Parliament Dr D.K. Duncan, who died last year. This follows the passing of a resolution at...

An internal audit conducted into the death of 81-year-old Noel Chambers, who had languished in inhumane conditions at the Tower Street Correctional Centre for four decades without trial, has been completed and is expected to be tabled in the Houses....

The Jamaican Government is in a race against time to bolster its coronavirus treatment capacity with almost 40 per cent, or 133, more beds in weeks as an overflow of patients and high infections among healthcare workers put hospitals on the verge.....