Madria Wellington* was at a bus stop near downtown Kingston waiting on public transportation to get home after a long day at work. It was close to 7 p.m. on a Wednesday evening last month, and the 23-year-old supervisor would soon get into a car...

The closure of the embattled, privately operated Western Hospitality Institute (WHI), which gets 90 per cent of its revenue from the education ministry, is being considered as questions mount over how it came to enjoy such close financial ties with....

Acknowledging that there are challenges with its network, Digicel CEO Jabbor Kayumov says, if the company is able to get more spectrum, customers across the island could see an immediate fix to Internet connectivity issues. Over the past year, the.....

Guardsman Ltd and the police have launched separate probes into the alleged beating of a female market vendor by a security guard in Montego Bay last Thursday, in the wake of national outrage over violence against women and an assault scandal that.....

Six months after her dreaded discovery at age 15 gave way to a bouncy baby girl, Tenuke Doyley made a sacrifice no mother decides on easily – giving up her beloved child. It was a painful decision, but without the stewardship of parents and...

Waking up to reports of another murder in Jamaica is depressing in itself, but when that victim turns out to be your missing daughter – found strangled, bound and discarded in bushes – it invokes a terror that turns Mother’s Day and almost al...

Lorna Adair, mother of 35-year-old fisherman Dane Williams, who has been missing since two Fridays ago, knows the agony of the wait. She is caught between accepting the worst and holding on to her faith in God that her son will be found alive. For....

A man has been warned for prosecution after a fatal crash reportedly claimed the life of his friend, a taxi operator, he was transporting to hospital, after a drive-by on Lincoln Avenue on April 25. The dead man is 38-year-old Ricardo Bailey,...

In a revolutionary move, for the next two weeks the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) will pay the owners of electric vehicles (EV) who opt to charge their vehicles at the Boot Service Station in Draxhall, St Ann, utilising the country’s first....

The five persons charged in connection with a case of buggery committed against a 13-year-old girl in St Ann on April 26 were remanded when they appeared in the St Ann Parish Court yesterday. The accused, two 16-year-old boys and three men aged 18....

The Government has launched the low-income housing design competition aimed at coming up with ideas on how to provide more affordable shelter for persons who cannot afford a house on the open market. As part of the competition, engineers,...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Ministry of National Security is to review legislation governing private security firms with a view to establishing the requisite operational standards by which they can operate effectively. Senator Matthew Samuda, minister...

Nichael Garcia Hyman, a single mother of three, knows what struggle is all about as she balances her job as a janitor and a coach at the Wood Hall Primary School in Clarendon, and still hangs on to her dream of being a certified coach. With her...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Independent Schools Association (JISA) and the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (JAPSS) are of the view that special efforts must be made to reclaim boys who are among the 120,000 students that the.....

Between operating Quality Grains, an import and distribution business at 99 Newport Boulevard, St Andrew, and managing a 305-acre farm in Claremont, St Ann, Sylvia Tomlinson-Hird still finds time to enjoy the company of husband Locksley, their...

St Margaret’s Bay, Portland Not even the travel advisory issued to persons from the United States (US), which stated that Jamaica is a high-risk country plagued by crime, could prevent Alene Ricketts-Gilzean from returning to the tropical island t...

Portland: A Jamaican student in the United States, Audley Lindo has been conferred with a Master of Architecture degree from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU). Lindo, who hails from Port Antonio, Portland, is a graduate of......

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s chief construction industry lobby has raised concern about a legislative order exempting China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) from procurement rules and which also sets employment benchmarks for local workers on a Mont...

Dena Golding, aunt of 37-year-old taxi operator Renford ‘Hector’ Mowen, who died in a multi-vehicle collision on Tuesday, said she warned him about the dangers of the road the previous day. Golding said she saw Mowen on Monday morning debushing ...

The head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Jamaica said that she is fully seized of the island’s COVID-19 vaccine need but has brushed aside notions that Europe has not pulled its weight in assisting the global effort. Without naming any......