The South Eastern Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has denied claims that newborns recently died from a bacterial outbreak at Spanish Town Hospital amid revelations of swirling infections at Victoria Jubilee which killed at least 13 babies since......

Much of the debt accumulated by Caribbean governments should not be blamed on poor economic management but on external shocks like natural disasters, Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) President Dr Gene Leon has said. Leon indicated that increased...

With four terms as the parliamentary representative for St Catherine South Western under his belt, Everald Warmington is keen on bringing down the curtain on his political career despite pleas from his supporters to stay. In a tearful address to......

When breast cancer survivor Jeffena Fullcott-Dorman lost all hope of living in 2010, her husband, Michael Dorman, drilled into her mind the need to speak victory over her life. And that the Christian woman listened and did. Now she is able to...

Today, Kiano Chance’s parents should have been at the United States Embassy in Liguanea, St Andrew, petitioning on his behalf for a visa to fly him to Florida with the hope of saving his life. Since his birth on July 15, the three-month-old has......

A St Ann widow, who is blaming the death of her husband on mining activities in the parish, is among nine residents suing the Government, Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II and New Day Aluminum (Jamaica) Limited for alleged breaches of their...

Roughly 80 per cent of the student population at Oberlin High School in St Andrew returned to the classroom on Monday, following a bizarre religious event which unfolded last Wednesday, causing dozens of students to fall to the ground while others.....

The first part of a major highway project linking Georgetown, Guyana, to Brazil is providing tremendous opportunities in terms of opening up the hemispheric corridor of South America, according to Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) President Dr Gene.....

There are fresh calls for the Holness administration’s welfare housing initiative to be wholly managed by state agencies to preserve the programme’s integrity. Political representatives do not ratify the beneficiaries but play a role in...

WESTERN BUREAU: THE JAMAICA Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) will engage in a massive drive to ramp up employment by thousands across the country with looming fear that the workforce deficit could undermine visitor experience during the winter.....

Residents of Comfort Castle, Portland, are calling for the Government and other relevant authorities to impose an extended ban on fishing in the Rio Grande in their community as the treasured black janga/black Betty crayfish may soon become extinct....

The shock announcement that residential units have been yanked from the J$7-billion, multistorey luxury Residences at Terra Nova has left stakeholders puzzled, with the lead realtor on the project insisting that he had bankable offers on half of...

As mourners prepared to lay to rest six-year-old drowning victim Jevanie Kidd, St James South Member of Parliament Homer Davis cast the country as “doomed for failure” because of the erosion of positive family values and the coarsening of Jamaic...

“Right now, mi heart a bleed.” That was the gut-wrenching declaration by a close relative of 55-year-old Randolph McBean, one of three men slain in a drive-by shooting on Lincoln Crescent, Kingston, Friday night. Residents of the community were....

A senior citizen who stole a portion of her friend’s property and later subdivided the land and gifted it to herself, her children, and ex-husband was on Friday taken into custody after her sentencing was postponed in the Home Circuit Court. The.....

The top brass of the Jamaican army “protected” a senior officer after he was accused in 2006 of sexually assaulting a female colleague, multiple sources have charged. The claim comes as a senior officer is now at the centre of sex assault...

The unanimous not guilty verdict in a case in which a 17-year-old schoolgirl testified that she was raped three times in one night and her head dunked in a bucket of water in an attempt to drown her has left her asking, “Where is the system of...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has scoffed at the call by the opposition People’s National Party for him to resign over the deaths of 14 babies over a four-month period from a bacterial outbreak at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital...

Dr Jennifer Mamby-Alexander suspected she had breast cancer three years before she was officially diagnosed. During self-examination one day, she discovered a tiny grain in her breast and was sent to do a mammogram in the same United States-based......

Six years after the Government promised to rehabilitate the Broadgate, St Mary, thoroughfare, linking it to other corridors in the parish, the project is still in limbo and a constant source of frustration for residents and motorists. The major...