With the roll-out of the new Road Traffic Act (RTA) hitting several bumps, attorney-at-law Gavin Goffe has urged the Government not to unfairly punish motorists with fines, especially since the Island Traffic Authority (ITA), the main body...
The Government could have a slew of proposed revisions to the newly implemented Road Traffic Act to consider when stakeholders meet this Thursday. The Road Traffic Act, which was passed in 2018, took effect last Wednesday after the accompanying...
Police men and women are reportedly leaving the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) “in droves” with almost all divisions impacted by the exodus, especially since late last year. “Persons are submitting resignations left, right and centre. It is right...
An audit into the state of public bathroom facilities at hospitals and health centres islandwide has been completed, and according to the Ministry of Health and Wellness, it is satisfied with efforts to drastically improve the conditions. Health...
For 400 metres, the sight was pure horror. Chunks of human flesh, mangled, torn and pasted on the asphalt with blood that had gone muddy, littered the St Catherine leg of the North/South Highway. Initial reports were that the victim, believed to...
For years, his small seed of faith bore no fruit until the day of November 17, 2022, when his nine-year-old daughter was being wheeled into an operating theatre at the Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew for open-heart surgery. Then the...
Clothes vendor Gem Watson is feeling the effects of a costly toxic mixture of business and relationship. However, customers who patronise her shop in downtown Kingston would never guess it, judging by her “roughneck yet inviting” persona. Only...
Delroy Lennon is a broken man, a desperate father, and a resident shaken by one of Clarendon’s toughest communities. His hardest days come with tears, but never thoughts of giving up on life. This is unlike 34 per cent of Jamaican men who say they...
Chronic lifestyle diseases, particularly diabetes and hypertension, continue their menace on the health sector, racking up medical expenditure and leaving many families in mourning. Yet many Jamaicans are still clinging to unhealthy food choices,...
At eight years old, Dae-Jhuana Sewell and her sister, Davianna, five, have endured more gun violence than most adults. Already, they have survived a gang invasion, stepped over dead men in their own home, and continue to relive those frightening...
It might be the biggest open secret in the health sector, which several medical professionals reluctantly admitted last week, but Jamaica’s COVID-19 vaccination programme appears to be critically ill – if not dead – with only about 27 per cent of...
Kenesha Robinson is a budding comedian with a gift to make people laugh. But that is on stage. At home, caring for her ailing 77-year-old mother is no laughing matter. At night, she cries, especially when there is no food for her mom to eat before...
Forty-one years on, it is no longer considered a death sentence but instead a chronic disease, in some cases inactive with on-time and consistent treatment. Still, inequality threatens efforts by the Joint United Nations programme for HIV/AIDS (...
From using gamma irradiation technology to curtail mosquito spread to employing nuclear energy to power homes and call centres, industry players last week outlined a slew of initiatives they say will bolster life for Jamaicans while making science...
Between midnight and 3:00 each morning, Natasia Barrett-Boswell is yanked from her bed by a desperate need to comfort her two-year-old son, Xander. The only problem is, Xander has been dead for two weeks now. Still, she can hear him crying. Still,...
The night before the bulldozers rolled in with a battalion of police and soldiers, a helicopter hovering overhead, Suelyn Ward-Brown was on a roadside in the Clifton community in St Catherine, expressing concerns to news teams about the fate of...
Jamaica was never slated to be part of a controversial survey that was to be administered to secondary students in several schools across the Caribbean, the local education ministry has said. But following last week’s uproar in Barbados over the...
There has been a drastic increase in the registration of slot machines across the island, but regulators at the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) say they are still grappling with unscrupulous persons who continue to flout the law...
They may have replaced the broken fences and repainted the muddy walls, but the memories of the treacherous Weise Road flooding in St Andrew two years ago remain etched in residents’ minds and rekindled fears as the threat of Tropical Storm Ian...
Hope has been sparked for three primary schools in three gang-infested communities, with the opening of a long-awaited library that police and educators are praying will help realise the dreams of children most vulnerable to the crime and violence...
The screams erupted as shots ricochet off a wall behind the missed target. Expletives followed, laced with disappointment and joy from either side of the shoot-out. In the end, however, no one died, and the patrols of police and soldiers drove by...
It’s abnormal. It is untenable. And except for drastic interventions as early as the kindergarten level, there seems no end is near for Jamaica’s runaway crime problem, some educators believe. There are also long-standing calls for the severance of...
A snapshot study by researchers at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is suggesting that over-exposure of members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has caused an erosion of the military’s reputation and public image. The study comes on the...
The horror stories pop up on social media from time to time, but senior members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are dispelling reports that frantic late-night calls for help to emergency lines and police stations are being turned away or...
At age 40, Andrew Gillings has given up on calling police emergency lines. He took the decision three years ago after he tried calling 119 for the first time to report that thieves were breaking into a neighbour’s car outside his gate in Pembroke...
