The widow of slain chartered accountant Keith Clarke has questioned why none of the alleged gunmen who the defence claimed were on her property the night her husband was killed was caught or shot. Noting that the army is there to defend Jamaica,...
The booming white-tailed deer population in Portland is driving farmers to despair as their fields are ravaged, leaving them reeling from millions in losses annually as the invasive species roam unchecked. Kendrick Thompson, a farmer in Industry,...
More than two decades ago, lawmakers were stunned after arsonists tossed homemade bombs into Gordon House, the seat of Jamaica’s Parliament, hours before a scheduled sitting of the House of Representatives. Saturday’s latest attempt at torching the...
Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday proved the value of wearing a helmet while biking, if even in the most inconvenient way. The health minister, while on one of his regular Sunday morning rides, was hit from his bicycle by a motor...
A six-year-old boy diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), who reported being beaten at two public schools months apart, has been at home since March after his mother determined that he was not safe. In a statement that...
Security experts are calling for an internal review of the measures of protection in place at Gordon House in downtown Kingston, which houses Jamaica’s Parliament, following Saturday night’s arson attack on the building. Police reports are that...
A 37-year-old Jamaica woman was killed early Saturday morning in the Bronx when her throat was slashed. She has been identified as Ashley Smith of a Mount Vernon address. The police had, up to yesterday, not yet made any arrest in her death nor...
In many cases they turn up at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital’s Accident and Emergency section in pain, with difficulty breathing, or vomiting, as the poisons make their way through their nimble systems - all the time their parents close in tow...
Four weeks after opening its first hotel in historic Falmouth, Trelawny, Riu Resorts projects that the Jamaican resort, Riu Aquarelle, will achieve occupancy levels of over 80 per cent this summer. “There are some days during June and July that...
Nineteen Peace Corps volunteers were sworn into service in Jamaica during a special ceremony on May 28. The United States (US) Embassy in St Andrew yesterday indicated that the ceremony celebrated the longstanding partnership between the US and...
United States (US) President Joe Biden has described Caribbean Americans as dreamers, doers and leaders who are always finding ways to push the US towards a more perfect union. In a proclamation marking Caribbean-American Heritage Month, Biden said...
A move by the United States to remove Cuba from the list of countries “not fully cooperating” in its counter-terrorism efforts but keeping it among those fingered for being state sponsors of terrorism has not given Cubans in Jamaica and in their...
At least two employees who say they were victims of sexual harassment at the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) are challenging assertions made last month by the entity that it has been responsive to troubling findings in an internal survey done in...
The US$1-billion Harmony Cove mega resort project, which is yet to get off the ground two decades after being launched, faces a looming threat to its 2024 groundbreaking deadline amid ongoing negotiations between the Government and its investor...
The University of the West Indies (UWI) last week launched its revamped sexual harassment policy, which it said will add a total of $14 million to its salary bill to battle a scourge at least four alleged victims believe is beyond control. In fact...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaican authorities’ decision to send home a foreign national who experienced a mental breakdown while holidaying in the island has raised numerous questions for both the man’s mother and a St James businessman, who hosted him...
Despite “short notice” from the Government that the ban on plastic lunch boxes which was to take effect today has been further delayed until July 1, at least one importer of the product is relieved that some clarity has been brought to its...
Opposition legislator Senator Sophia Frazer-Binns has urged parliamentarians to set aside their political stripes and confront the “big issue” of low trust in relation to whether information Jamaicans provide to the Government could be abused or...
Residents of Maxfield Avenue in Kingston expressed surprise at one of their own who got the opportunity to live the American dream, but instead, according United States (US) authorities, ran afoul of the law in a major gun and drug running...
WESTERN BUREAU: While patrons are now gearing up for the customary revelling when Reggae Sumfest 2024 unfolds in Montego Bay, St James, between July 14 and 20, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has his eyes firmly set on the bigger prize, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The community of Accompong, St Elizabeth has a decades-old legacy of kindness and family values embodied in Eglah Blake, a 100-year-old resident who recently celebrated her milestone birthday and is currently the oldest living...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hospitality stakeholders who suffered financial losses during the heightened period of the ongoing severe water crisis in Hanover and Westmoreland are to receive some level of support from the Government. While the details and...
DNA evidence has indicated that there was another person present in the Clarkes’ master bedroom, other than their daughter, on the night Keith Clarke was shot and killed, the defence has revealed. But Clarke’s widow, Dr Claudette Clarke, said, if...
