The Hanover police are probing whether gang activities have taken root at the Hopewell High School after a bloody bust-up involving students, which resulted in the premature suspension of classes yesterday as safety concerns heightened. Three...

With the justice system currently facing a crisis after fewer than three per cent of the 4,500 prospective jurors summoned turned up for duty last Wednesday, Tom Tavares-Finson, QC, is calling for the abolition of jury trials so that criminal cases....

As surging costs facing the public health sector create an increasing funding challenge for the Government, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says in the months and years ahead, the country will have to engage in a serious...

The prosecution’s expert witness, who is giving evidence about the data including the secret recordings of conversations among alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang contained on three cell phones, was yesterday accused of being clueless by....

Glenmuir High School teacher Abigail Parkes is all too familiar with not having the fastest start, but persistently engaging a dogged determination to turn things around to accomplish her goals. Acknowledging that she did not get the best of starts....

The St Mary Police Division has made its way on to the radar of Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson, having recorded a 700 per cent increase in murders since the start of the year. The division, which recorded only two murders up to.....

Work on the 250-bed Western Children and Adolescent Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, is set to begin next month following delays blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic. Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton told his parliamentary colleagues....

Two teenage cousins are on a mission to help students recover from the learning loss caused by COVID-19-induced disruptions in the education sector by honing their reading skills and develop a deeper appreciation for books. Bookworms Debra-Kay...

Multidisciplinary professional service firm Dawgen Global has forged a partnership with Excelsior Community College to provide employment for its students as they study. In the first instance, the firm will be taking on 20 to 30 students and...

WESTERN BUREAU: A cloud of mystery surrounds the death of 20-year-old Christie ‘Kiddy’ McBean, who was found dead with a single stab wound to the chest at her home in Hurlock, St James, on Monday morning. According to a relative, McBean, who wor...

Educators at three Clarendon high schools say it has been a struggle firing up students having returned to the classrooms, with many fifth-formers showing no interest in sitting their external examinations. Adrian Sinclair, principal of Alston High....

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica-born four-time Olympian Sanya Richards-Ross has moved her prowess from on the track to cameras of the popular cable network series, The Real Housewives of Atlanta. On Sunday, Richards-­Ross made her debut on Season 14 of the...

There were a number of times in 22-year-old Valicka Pryce’s life when she, her mom and her sister had to literally run for their lives. Years ago, community violence forced them to flee their inner-city community in the capital city and head for.....

A father is thankful his son and other children were spared the wrath of gunmen travelling in an SUV before going on a shooting rampage on Fitzgerald Avenue in St Andrew Sunday night. Reports are that one man was shot and injured about 9:30 p.m.......

An expert witness in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial testified on Monday that he had not detected any evidence of tampering with the data stored on three phones, including secretly recorded conversations of defendants. That testimony could be key......

Ancile Gloudon, the orchid enthusiast who immersed himself in botanical studies and travelled the hills and valleys while cataloguing plants in his pastime, has died. Serving as secretary, vice president, and later president of the Jamaica Orchid......

Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith, and senior executives from the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) are expected to provide an explanation to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today on the...

Jamaica’s capacity to nab and prosecute the perpetrators of criminal violence against children has been questioned by a grieving father, who said the family has been in the dark over the rape and murder of his 14-year-old daughter almost four year...

As concerns continue to swirl over the Sixth-Form Pathways Programme (SFPP) scheduled to start in the next four months, Jamaica’s chief education officer is calling for principals to direct outgoing 11th-graders they cannot accommodate to the...

NEWPORT, Manchester: It is less than three months away from her 100th birthday and Dorothy Sconce is as full of life as they come, hardly ever missing a beat as she electrifies Bethabara Moravian Church every Sunday with sounds from the piano she.....