As pressure mounts on the Andrew Holness administration to respond to recent chilling attacks on women, government backbencher Kerensia Morrison questioned, on Tuesday, discounts of up to 50 per cent on sentences for persons who plead guilty to a......

Camille Blair said she cried daily to be reunited with her now 13-year-old daughter Lamekia Lamont, whom she had entrusted to Obadiah and Millicent Lamont’s care when she was a young, poor mother. But when she learnt that her fifth child wanted to...

Lamekia Lamont, the 13-year-old student who was reported missing on March 26, wants to spend more time with her biological mother. Lamekia was handed over to officers at the Greater Portmore Police Station on Monday night by her biological mother.....

Silicon Valley-based Uber Technologies has announced plans to enter Kingston with its services. Uber sent out notifications to potential operators on Monday for persons to register as drivers. The company operates what it describes as a ride-...

The family of Khanice Jackson said they will not accept any sentence less than the death penalty if the suspect who has reportedly confessed to the murder of the 20-year-old is found guilty. Speaking on behalf of the family, Kevon Williams,...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is yet to indicate whether it will revoke the permit violated by Bengal Development Company, the entity that wants to mine limestone in the ecologically sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains on the...

With Jamaica expected to receive 75,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine through the African Medical Supplies Platform on Thursday, the Government is moving to ramp up its inoculation of the elderly this Saturday and over the next three...

Six-year-old Nathan Wanliss is unable to attend online classes, watch TV, or use his tablet as he suffers from cataract in the right eye and deteriorating vision in the other. He cannot see well enough to practise penmanship or read without...

WESTERN BUREAU: Eight-year-old Ngozi Wright, who made history in 2019 when she became the youngest person to speak in the Jamaican Parliament, wants murderers and rapists to “low” the country’s children. Her cry for an end to the vicious atta...

The 13-year-old girl who vanished last Friday after leaving her Windsor Heights, St Catherine, home has been found. Lamekia Lamont, an eighth-grade student at Camperdown High, had started corresponding with her biological mother weeks ago. Her...

The boyfriend of Khanice Jackson, whose body was found near an old fishing village on March 26, had warned the 20-year-old Portmore woman against taking rides to work with the main suspect in her eventual murder. Kevon Williams disclosed to The...

Prior to the pandemic, pharmacist Dr Ernestine Watson said it would take months to sell three oximeters, but now it’s taking a week to sell 10 of the devices that measure blood-oxygen levels. “Almost every day we are having requests for oximete...

Caribbean governments have sent a strong and clear message to the Group of Twenty (G20) developed countries to extend its Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) to highly indebted middle-income countries that are facing harsh economic setbacks.....

Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon-Harrison has blamed both relatives and law-enforcement officials for delaying the filing of missing person reports because of prevailing ignorance that the conventional 24-hour benchmark no longer exists. That.....

Bernetta Lawrence Brown, the grandmother of Shelly-Ann Williams, a teen with Down’s syndrome whose body was discovered in a pool of blood in her Green Bottom, Sandy Bay home in Clarendon on December 21 last year, is still seeking answers regarding...

Proprietors who participated in the pilot of the E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS) platform launched in Portmore, St Catherine, last weekend have raving commendations for the initiative realised through a partnership between the...

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.....