The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is set to ratify that George Wright, the embattled Westmoreland Central member of parliament, go on a leave of absence from the party until investigations into allegations that he was involved in a brutal beating of a....

The acquittal of Christopher ‘Dog Paw’ Linton has brought joy to his family, who believes that he was innocent of the charges from the very outset. Linton’s 62-year-old mother, Claris Senior, who described herself as a “born-again Christian�...

Senior attorney-at-law Diane Jobson has dismissed as ridiculous assertions that “a monster has been let loose on society” in the wake of the acquittal of reputed gang leader Christopher ‘Dog Paw’ Linton. The 28-year-old reputed gangster and...

Georgia Henry says her family has been living in torment for the past three years. Henry’s mother, Pauline Garib-Duncan, a dressmaker of York Town, Clarendon, has been missing since February 2018. Recalling the last conversation she had with her.....

Dancehall artiste Bounty Killer has pushed back at suggestions that dancehall has been fuelling violence in Jamaica. Recently, the debate on the link between dancehall music and crime was reignited with strong arguments on both sidest, with many...

Bosses seeking to stipulate employee vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of work have been warned that they would be hard-pressed to impose that standard on the grounds of public safety. Emile Leiba, president of the Jamaican Bar...

Something just didn’t feel right. That’s the sense that gnawed away at the mind of Derrick Pryce as he travelled from Balaclava to Kingston on a Toyota Hiace minibus on the fateful Monday morning that climaxed with a deadly crash that claimed fi...

Convinced that gunmen were on the hunt for her 20-year-old son, Dwayne Christopher Scott, when they barged into her home in Crowder district, Westmoreland, Veronica Lawrence prayed throughout the ordeal that her two daughters would not be harmed.......

SEVEN weeks after the death of 17-year-old Jalisa McGowan under controversial circumstances, the Ministry of Health and Wellness has ordered the University Hospital of the West Indies to “provide a more detailed review of the case ... and to ­......

The Auditor General’s Department is expected to review a recommendation by the Integrity Commission for a surcharge to be slapped on an unnamed officer at the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA). The surcharge could be imposed on the officer....

Frustration is mounting in the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) over the handling of the allegations of domestic abuse stalking its embattled first-time lawmaker from Westmoreland, George Wright. Wright, who the police named Monday as a person......

Powered by the five-day mass immunisation programme that ended on Tuesday, Jamaica has surged to become the English-speaking Caribbean country which has administered the most doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Ministry of Health...

The Integrity Commission has penned a scorching 215-page report recommending that officers and officials at the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA) cease and desist from accepting travel, meals, and other gifts from bidders or prospective...

Although happy that more than 75,000 Jamaicans took their first COVID-19 jab in the recent five-day vaccination blitz, Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) President Patsy Edwards Henry said that the nurses across the island are now exhausted and...

Reputed gang leader Christopher ‘Dog Paw’ Linton, who was in 2013 sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of shooting with intent and illegal possession of firearm, was freed on Wednesday after his conviction was quashed in the Court of Appea...

The Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) came under the microscope of the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service in a 2019 audit that unearthed several breaches by the body that is tasked with auditing annually the appropriation accounts of...

WESTERN BUREAU: With their prayers answered for the Government to relax tight COVID-19 restrictions which allow only a few congregants to gather for worship, a number of clergymen are pleased that some members unable to access online streams will......

WESTERN BUREAU: Two staff members have been suspended as the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) and the board of the Clifton Boys’ Home probe allegations that more than half of the wards at the home had been beaten with a switch.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Within months, legislation which allows judges to place children in penal institutions without being charged could be repealed if the tough-talking junior education and youth minister, Robert Morgan, has his way. Morgan, who has...

Jamaica exceeded its COVID-19 vaccination blitz target by 12 per cent with 83,828 people receiving their first dose of the vaccine over five days. The latest figure brings to 135,473 the total number of people vaccinated since March.