THE CALABAR Old Boys’ Association (COBA) has suspended its long-standing mentorship programme at the Red Hills Road-based institution, citing “long-standing unresolved matters” with the board and administration. The executive of COBA said as a...
OPERATIONS HAVE returned to normal at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre in Kingston after correctional officers took a break from their regular duties yesterday to register their dissatisfaction surrounding their compensation review. The correctional...
WESTERN BUREAU: ORAL HEAVEN, chief advocate at the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), has called for greater presence and security in the western capital, Montego Bay, by way of quick-response personnel. Heaven also wants the new...
KASHARA REID, a resident of New Longsville, Clarendon, is still having trouble piecing together her life, which was disrupted by a fire that ravaged her home. Despite the tragedy having occurred in August of last year, Reid, who currently lives...
WHEN THE Norwegian Pearl docked in Ocho Rios, St Ann, on Monday, 32 people among the hundreds of tourists who were part of the Love and Harmony Cruise opted to do charity work at the nearby Boscobel Primary...
A love triangle is the alleged cause of the latest flare-up of violence among some Corporate Area schools, resulting in at least three students sustaining injuries and one institution closing its doors out of fear for those under its care....
Edmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERT Dr Lloyd Barnett has described as “unfortunate and sad” the so-called letter saga in which Speaker of the House of Representatives, Juliet Holness, released a missive on March 25...
A FORMER Jamaican ambassador says the diplomatic corps is likely to be “disturbed” by the dishonouring of two former prime ministers in a controversial post that appeared on the Instagram page of Alando Terrelonge, state minister in the foreign...
Barbados-born businessman Omar Collymore, who is on trial for reportedly masterminding the murder of his wife, was the sole beneficiary on her $21-million life insurance and was also allotted 70 per cent of her second life insurance policy, which...
Tuesday’s unavailability of a prisoner housed at the Kingston Central police lockup to attend the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court for a criminal matter has led to the revelation of an outbreak of Swine Flu at the Corporate Area jail. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: THIEVES HAVE removed seven of 10 Jamaica Public Service (JPS)-installed street lights in Orange Bay, Western Hanover, once again, leaving the five-kilometre stretch of roadway between the Orange Bay Housing Scheme and Negril in...
WESTERN BUREAU: STUDENTS AT St James-based Maldon High School now have an opportunity to practise fish-farming along with other agricultural lessons following Tuesday’s commissioning of a concrete fish tank for that purpose. The project was aided...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE LONG Hill bypass in St James will be developed into a four-lane dual carriageway, the National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC) revealed on Tuesday at a meeting with hoteliers in Montego Bay. The meeting was held...
GLENMUIR HIGH School in Clarendon exhibited an array of entrepreneurial acumen, artistic flair, and innovative prowess during an esteemed event dubbed ‘Earn ‘N Share’. Stakeholders including students, educators, parents, and faculty converged last...
Businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore had taken out an $80-million life insurance policy less than three months before she was murdered to add to a similar policy she had valued at $21 million. A life insurance agent, now a branch manager, who...
“We are championing a movement,” declared Education and Youth Minister Fayval Williams on Tuesday as she addressed the CREATHER Girls in Information Communication and Technology (ICT) media launch held at the Immaculate Conception High School (ICHS...
When lawmakers next meet at Gordon House, five investigation reports from the Integrity Commission (IC) will be before the Speaker for tabling. Indicative rulings from the director of corruption prosecutions have also been submitted. Jamaica’s...
Trouble is brewing at Calabar High in St Andrew, where at least two stakeholder groups are expressing strong opposition to any attempt by the institution’s board to confirm Acting Principal Sian Wilson in the position. In a four-page letter...
WESTERN BUREAU: A pall of grief hung over the south Trelawny community of Litchfield on Tuesday, as loved ones of slain Constable Ricardo Fairclough struggled to cope with his murder. Fairclough, who was assigned to the St Ann Divisional...
Leonard Francis, the newly appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), is urging the relevant stakeholders to hold him accountable for his stewardship of the agency which oversees the country’s...
Leonard Francis, the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), says the entity will be fostering a culture of collaboration and research to further its mandate of sustainable environmental protection...
Newly minted Clerk to the Houses of Parliament Colleen Lowe has admitted that her predecessor was on vacation leave when the Financial Services Commission (FSC) audit report was returned by the Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) and when the...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn and defence lawyers in the Keith Clarke murder trial yesterday locked horns over the defence’s request to place the hearing on hold pending an appeal. The long-awaited murder trial involving...
A teacher has been hospitalised with chest and upper-left side wounds after gunmen smashed open a window to her St Andrew home and opened fire in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The incident occurred sometime after 3 a.m. in a section of Lawrence...
Former clerk to the Houses of Parliament Valrie Curtis said she had carried out her duties diligently and complied with the ruling of the Speaker in how reports from the Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) should be handled. In a letter dated March...
