Imagine helplessly witnessing your four-year-old child being shot a few steps away from you and having to crawl on her belly to escape her heartless attackers after being shot in both legs, with the impact breaking her right foot. The child's 29-....

The recruitment chief of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has expressed grave concern at the willingness of police hopefuls to try to beat its vetting systems with bogus academic qualifications. Deputy Superintendent Dian Bartley was in the...

Spanish Town resident Annaleise Steen was hoping to make her father proud by getting recruited into the police force, but although she has the academic qualifications, her height has crushed that dream. The 20-year-old was among scores of...

With rising food prices on one front and shrinking revenues on the other precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, one of Jamaica's most senior labour experts is predicting tougher-than-usual wage negotiations ahead for public-sector workers....

That lingering disunity is cause for concern in Craig Town, one of the gritty and dense communities of the capital that could become a powder keg in the blink of an eye. Residents said that they were still in the dark about whether any suspect has....

Keith Clarke did not have a familial relationship with drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, nor did he know him, the widow of the slain businessman has revealed. Dr Claudette Clarke, who, for over a decade, has heard “a number of rumours” lin...

The HEART/NSTA Trust could be facing millions in liabilities to hundreds of current and former employees it has questionably taxed for nearly two decades under an unauthorised fuel policy, which the finance ministry has ordered to be halted. It is....

The huge boulders on the sides of the Palisadoes main road leading to the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) are supposed to be covered over with sand and storm-repelling mangroves planted on either side to fortify Kingston’s primary...

While Ryan ‘Ratty’ Peterkin and his one-time second in command, Delano ‘Prekeh’ Wilmot, the chief architects of the bloodletting and chaos along the once-vibrant agricultural belt in Cambridge, St James, have been eliminated over the past t...

Garth Herron, principal of Retrieve All-Age, has vowed to be a counterforce, doing all in his power to pull all the males in his school away from the lure of gangs and a lifestyle of crime. The multi-grade educational institution was oftentimes...

Ten months after the death of her son, Beverly Brown-Wilmot, the mother of Delano Wilmot, aka ‘Prekeh’, says she is satisfied that she did all she could to raise a law-abiding child, but despite her efforts, she could not influence his decisions...

A manhunt is underway to locate a group of men who opened gunfire on the makeshift Franklyn Town Police Station located at Cumberland Avenue in Kingston East, Thursday night. The police believe this was an act of reprisal for a fatal shooting in......

A gun feud between rival gangs in west Kingston and members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), just metres away from the Zone of Operations’ checkpoint at the intersection of Beeston and Oxford streets in Denham Town, left a one-year-old nursing....

WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says some 30,000 housing solutions are to be established on government-owned lands across the island as part of efforts to reduce the decades-long issue of squatting. “We have identified several...

Western Bureau: The 15-year-old boy, who allegedly shot and killed his six-year-old cousin on Monday in a bizarre shooting incident in a yard on Dalling Street, Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, was formally slapped with a murder charge late Thursday......

WESTERN BUREAU: The Government is to spend a further $328 million this year to continue the protection of the Montego Bay coastline by building more groynes and protective structures, particularly for lands dumped up years ago. The money...

WESTERN BUREAU: Thirty students at the Salt Spring Primary School in St James became happy recipients of their own tablets yesterday, courtesy of Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ Positive Jamaica Foundation. In addition to the tablets presented to.....

The Nest Children’s Home in Kingston has been equipped with a vegetable garden of cucumber and pak choi, as part of national Child Month activities. More than 1,200 children are housed in 52 residential childcare facilities across Jamaica. The.....

Commonwealth health ministers on Friday called for swift and equal access to COVID-19 vaccines for everyone around the world, particularly poorer countries. In a joint statement after their annual meeting, health ministers representing 54...

WASHINGTON,DC: Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States (US) Audrey Marks has argued that industry has a fundamental role to play in driving the green economy and charting the way towards a carbon neutral and sustainable future. She pointed out.....