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Haitian national Lemu Luver moved to Jamaica in search of greener pastures in 1991.

While recognising that their birth country is buckling at its knees, due to high levels of crime and violence, a handful of Haitians who now reside in Jamaica are throwing support behind the Government’s decision to deny entry to their fellow...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) paid $1.3 million for the rental of a luxury vehicle to transport Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, following a motor-vehicle crash that disabled the 2023 BMW X6 assigned to him. The payment...
From left to right: Dr Kamali Caroll, senior embryologist at the Caribbean Fertility Center; Dr Sharifa Frederick, senior fertility consultant at the Caribbean Fertility Center; Dr Jordan Hardie, chairman of the American College of Obstetricians and Gyneco

With Jamaica recording a reduction in birth rates in recent years, obstetrician-gynaecologists are blaming skin bleaching creams for lower sperm counts in the island’s younger generation of men. Along with the country recording lower birth rates in...

WESTERN BUREAU: Plagued with a range of unbearable issues at their “luxury homes”, frustration is mounting in Pyramid Point in Ocho Rios, St Ann, where at least two homeowners are crying foul over what they describe as a “rip-off” by the housing...

WESTERN BUREAU: When operatives from the Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigations Branch (CTOC) swooped down on the volatile Grange Hill community in Westmoreland in 2018 and arrested 27 men and women linked to the King Valley Gang, law...

LONDON, England: Some Jamaican legal experts in the United Kingdom have welcomed the ruling of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council that the murder conviction of Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer and three other accused be set aside and the...

THE PARLIAMENTARY Opposition has accused the Jamaican Government of poorly managing the 2022 Population and Housing Census, even as Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke denies that the process has been compromised. Opposition Spokesperson on Finance...

THERE IS a need for more public education around what constitutes violent discipline before any move to institute a total ban on corporal punishment, Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison has asserted. Her comments follow the findings of the...

THE MINISTRY of Education and Youth says it will be seeking $1.5 billion from the finance ministry towards the procurement and installation of closed-circuit security television (CCTV) surveillance systems in schools across the island. Richard...

PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness says the introduction of the National Identification System (NIDS) is a critical step in Jamaica fully becoming a digital society and is urging Jamaicans to embrace the technology. Speaking at the launch of the...
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