A teacher’s failure to intervene in a verbal dispute between two Norman Manley High School (NMHS) students, before it turned physical and left one of them bloodied and missing a tooth, is a “clear breach of the duty and standard of care” the.....

More than 60 per cent of Jamaican men are having sexual intercourse with multiple partners, according to a study on males’ sexual practices which also suggests that droves of them are engaging in transactional sex. The research, dubbed Sexual an...

Government Senator Rose Bennett-Cooper has called for the administration to roll out a comprehensive public education exercise to inform Jamaicans with old, non-custodial convictions on how to have their criminal records expunged. She made the call....

Five hundred and eighty-three students remain temporarily relocated to other schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, which lashed Jamaica in October last year. The Category-5 hurricane was particularly brutal to the western end of the island....

A national groundbreaking project to provide genomic evidence for precision medicine for select chronic diseases among black people in Canada has been launched in Toronto. Its goal is to help create better healthcare that meets the needs of black......

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Male students at Little London High School no longer have to be jealous that the girls' restroom is nicer than theirs. Last Friday, a group of alumni called Global Humanity Network Incorporated (GHNI) dona...

Today is the 102nd day of 2022. There are 263 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space, orbit the Earth and make a safe landing. OTHER EVENTS1606: Great Britain ad...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's Parliament on Monday elected Opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the new prime minister, following a week of political turmoil that led to the weekend ouster of Premier Imran Khan.Sharif took the ...

While the journey of entrepreneurship has been anything but smooth sailing for small grocery store owner Arlene Swaby, she is proof that with the right focus, and a little support, small business owners can thrive."I started out after m...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Programme director, Community Renewal Programme, Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Charles Clayton says the answer to the nation's crime problem is definitely not the resumption of hanging.In fact, Clayton poi...

The explosive claim that a pastor's wife is running a secret sex club inside the sacred walls of her church has triggered outrage and condemnation, but she insists the uproar has conveniently drowned out the real issue the story exposed -- the...

A risky attempt to enhance sexual performance recently left one man facing a frightening medical emergency after he reportedly slipped a metal car component over his penis to maintain an erection -- only for it to become dangerously stuck. The...

Fire took everything from Trissan Bartley two years ago - walls, memories and the comfort of knowing where she would sleep. The seven-bedroom home where generations of her family lived and laughed was reduced to rubble by the October 2023 blaze...

A mid-morning fire yesterday Sunday ripped through the Ammar's clothing store on King Street in downtown Kingston, destroying the 65-year-old business and triggering an emergency response that lasted for hours. The blaze broke out while the shops....

Another policeman has found himself in trouble with the law, the latest being a a police constable attached to the Westmoreland Division. The name of the cop was not released up to press time. The Corporate Communications Unit of the Jamaica...