With several videos of schoolchildren engaging in sexually explicit activities surfacing online in recent times, questions are now being asked about what can be done to prevent the phenomenon from becoming more...
A BlackBerry text message sent from a cell phone attributed by the police to entertainer Vybz Kartel stating that Clive 'Lizard' Williams was chopped up "fine, fine" was one of the messages read...
Real estate has been described as risky business by president of The Realtors Association of Jamaica, Carlene Sinclair, especially since realtors are predominantly women and may be vulnerable to threats while on the job."The nature of their work puts...
AMID THE heated debate that has engulfed the nation following the publication of a report which linked the majority of adult inmates in the country's penal system to non-traditional high schools a group of academics has raised concerns over how the study was conducted....
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) has encouraged the public to hasten their steps and be prepared for the cash-less-system which will be fully implemented on March 31.Having distributed more than 69,000 Smarter Cards...
THE PORTLAND police have urged residents to seek their intervention during domestic disputes, following the stabbing death of a man by his common-law wife...
MEMBER OF Parliament for West Kingston Desmond McKenzie yesterday blasted the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Area Council One, of which he is a deputy leader, for its ineffectiveness, accusing the executive of lacking vision...
Councillors of the Manchester Parish Council last week expressed disgust and frustration at the manner in which the solid waste company has been dealing with garbage collection in the parish.
CRIMINAL DEPORTEES repatriated to Jamaica after serving time for sex offences, especially child molesters, are receiving special attention from the police force along with those with an equally rotten record of violent...
On May 17, 2003, I lost my only brother.The day Greg died was perhaps the first time I stopped and took stock of the impact of murders on families. Before, I treated murder victims as mere statistics ...
MEMBER OF Parliament for West Kingston Desmond McKenzie on Sunday served notice of his intention to use Parliament to force the Government to come clean about the by-election to fill the vacancy created by Portmore Mayor George Lee's death last...
OPPOSITION LEADER Andrew Holness has given conditional support to a proposal that police personnel be fitted with cameras to record their activities while carrying out security operations....
Head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force Anti-Corruption Branch, Assistant Commissioner of Police Selvin Hay, is warning members of the police force that his investigators are impartial to rank when probing cases of misconduct.
The role of family and community involvement in the educational outcomes of students is again being highlighted in a study conducted on behalf of the Ministry of Education/Education System Transformation Programme (ESTP) with grant funding from the Inter-American Development Bank.
Improvements in salaries and allowances, spurred by a reclassification approved in 2012, are resulting in a major movement of nursing staff from private to public health-care facilities.
EDUCATION MINISTER Ronald Thwaites has indicated that a rehabilitative residential school constructed in Malvern, St Elizabeth, to help rehabilitate disruptive students, was unlikely to reap the desired results.
With much of the police force's physical infrastructure in dire need of urgent upgrade and refurbishment, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is positioning itself to undertake the improvement works cheaper and more efficiently with the establishment of its own construction squad.
THE PORTIA Simpson Miller-chaired Cabinet has reversed the 2008 decision of the Bruce Golding administration to acquire lands surrounding Gordon House, downtown Kingston, for the construction of a new parliament building.
My December 29 Sunday Gleaner column, 'Random ride to destiny', contained a message that mightn't have been clear to those who believed it was simply about changes over time in public transportation. It wasn't.
A CRAFT market oversight body is to be set up to monitor and regulate activities in Jamaica's 14 markets designed to showcase items, particularly for tourists.
ARGUING THAT approximately 90 per cent of legal breaches in schools are not reported to the police, Opposition Leader Andrew Holness says a framework should be put in place to ensure that students who flout the law on school grounds are punished.
Although the Jamaican Government is being encouraged by foreign advocates and agitators to forge ahead with changing its laws to decriminalise marijuana for both recreational and medicinal use, Foreign Affairs Minister A.J. Nicholson is suggesting that the country still has to proceed with caution in one area.
