The scandal surrounding People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell has intensified with the submission of statements from three females who are alleging that they had sexual relations with the politician when they were...

Simmering tensions at the state-run Maxfield Park Children’s Home in St Andrew erupted on Tuesday after angry staff protested the arrest and charge of a co-worker accused of using a piece of board to slap a student in the head for sleeping in...

Eight months after defeating the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate Dr Walton Small to take the St James South seat, Homer Davis is lamenting that he and his office are still being denied access to a training centre in the community of...

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang railed against the ease with which suspected criminals could be granted bail as he called for laws to reflect Jamaica’s crime crisis. His soundings are bound to further rattle criminal attorneys already.....

Coaster bus drivers are hailing the changes to the operations of several rural-stage carriage buses terminating in the Corporate Area as the best thing to happen at the Half-Way Tree Transport Centre. The pilot project, which began on Tuesday and.....

Days after public outrage over the line of inquisition by several government members on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Juliet Holness defended the right of lawmakers to hold the Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) to account in order to...

WESTERN BUREAU: When Prime Minister Andrew Holness officially opened Montego Bay’s newest attraction, the $1.3-billion Harmony Beach Park in the tourism capital last Friday, he dubbed it “the people’s park”. When the facility opened its door...

WESTERN BUREAU: A call has been made for more rigorous background checks to be conducted in the recruitment of healthcare staff. Advocacy for the bolstering of screening for unemployment comes in the wake of scandalous allegations that a male...

A 15-year-old girl who was allegedly molested at a western Jamaica hospital by a nursing assistant last Friday was reportedly being overwhelmed by demons she was silently battling due to sexual assault by a relative in 2017, driving her to the...

A man accused of being abusive and threatening was shot dead, allegedly by his cop brother, as a bubbling family dispute reached a fatal crescendo in Lionel Town, Clarendon, yesterday. Dead is 29-year-old Alrick Williams, a labourer of Lionel Town.....

Spurred by recent gun attacks on infants as young as one year old, child-rights advocate Betty-Ann Blaine is calling on Prime Minister (PM) Andrew Holness to make a bold and uncompromising statement that the nation will take a zero-tolerance stance....

A Portland carpenter who says he was framed twice and ended up spending eight months in prison 30 years ago is now seeking to have his records cleared, but is lamenting the near year-long wait for a response to his expungement application. David......

The family of 90-year-old Maud Brown is alleging that neglect by staff at the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital ultimately led to her death on May 16 at the institution. Chief executive officer (CEO) at the hospital, Dennis Morgan, declined to...

A coronavirus-linked order might have prohibited movement on Labour Day, but Stacy-Ann Donaldson and her army of child recruits just couldn’t stand by and watch for one more day as rogue residents and passers-by transform the entrance to her...

When a vendor set out to ply her wares in the Christiana Market two Saturdays ago, she had no idea that the truck in which she was travelling would have become the target of gunmen in a high-speed chase through the countryside. The random pickup......

The Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) initial plan to press ahead with the June sitting for its flagship examinations has faced backlash by the powerful United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The international organisation is urging the....

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....