The parents of 13-year-old Camperdown High student Lamekia Lamont, who has been missing since Friday, are fearful that her disappearance might have been orchestrated. Obadiah Lamont, a security officer, sought to calm his frayed nerves on Palm...

The mother of 20-year-old Khanice Jackson, whose body was found near a Portmore fishing village days after she went missing, wants the book thrown at her daughter’s killer. A distraught Eunice Chambers disclosed that her daughter had told her that...

In a strange twist of fate, four siblings from the Brown family in Runaway Bay, St Ann, have each been stricken with an unknown sickness by the time they turned 17 years old, leaving them partially paralysed and unable to walk. Two brothers and two....

Tennyson Bernard may have lost an estimated $25 million in property when fire razed his hardware store in Flankers, Montego Bay, on Sunday, but his real treasure, his seven-month-old daughter, was saved in a dramatic rescue that unfolded on Sunday.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Richard Peters’ six-year-old daughter, Rebbekah, asked him if he was going to die the day he was admitted to hospital. He promised her he would return home alive. “Keeping that promise was most important to me,” said the 65-yea...

There are at least 30 Jamaican nationals who are currently in limbo in Britain and forced to stay there because of the current travel ban on flights to the United Kingdom imposed by the Holness administration because of the coronavirus pandemic....

Dr Jephthah Ford, a fierce social-justice campaigner whose bombast and acid tongue earned friends and foes alike, died suddenly in Cherry Gardens, St Andrew, on Sunday. The 69-year-old’s latest cause celebre was getting the truth in post-mortems,...

“So mi get it already?” 90-year-old Joyce Washington asked. Although she had got the COVID-19 vaccine five minutes earlier and had a Band-Aid at the spot where she received the jab, the retired educator had no recollection of the experience whi...

With tens of thousands of workers pushed on to the unemployment line by COVID-19’s economic crunch, vendors at the Princess Market in Spanish Town said that their already dwindling sales will be further eroded by the weekend lockdowns. The...

Change. That’s the only constant that has come to define the last 12 months for a St Catherine-based restaurant operator who has learnt to sway with each lurch of a pandemic roller coaster. Pauline Sinclair, who operates Di Lip Smacking Kitchen in...

Moved by the crisis facing local hospitals, a number of overseas-based Jamaicans have been pooling resources to prop up the public health sector with much-needed resources. But as thieves continue to prey on hospital resources, others have washed.....

The words on the tombstone telegraph a damning message of despondency, doom and death. “THE IDEA OF CARICOM,” it states at the top in capital letters, written as though it’s the name of the dead, followed by the words, solidary, sovereignty,....

Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson has apologised for dropping an F-bomb in the Upper House of Parliament during a bad-tempered row with Opposition Senator Lambert Brown. Brown, who was debating a bill to amend the Disaster...

Strenuous attempts by the Opposition to get the Government to delay debate on the Disaster Risk Management (Amendment) Act (DRMA) or to impose parliamentary checks on the prime minister's power were defeated on Friday. The bill to amend the...

Donovan Powell, who had appealed his 12-month prison sentence and $1 million fine after he posted nude pictures and videos of his ex-girlfriend on the Internet, has been successful in getting his sentence halved....

Crowded wholesales, a jam-packed downtown Kingston market district, and scores of vehicles and delivery trucks parked on the road as Jamaicans prepared for the first of three consecutive weekend lockdowns. COVID-19...

At 11 years old, he held his father as the elder choked on injuries from a gunman’s bullet. At 13, he and friends made their first two ‘duppies’, and by 17, that body count had tripled. Now, after countless run-ins with the law, serving time o...

When Nurse Jodeen Gayle began planting vegetables and other cash crops a few years ago, she was sowing seeds she hoped would grow a relationship with her absentee father, a man she first met at 12 years old. While the harvest was bountiful, the...

They needlessly occupy in-demand hospital beds and at times add to the din of pleas being shouted at healthcare workers by those in distress in the crowded Accident and Emergency units. Now, they are adding to Jamaica’s COVID-19 numbers, even...

Jamaica has secured some 20,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to arrive in the island within two weeks, National Health Fund (NHT) Chairman Howard Mitchell has confirmed. Mitchell told The Gleaner yesterday that he was......