The family of former Jamaican jockey Carlyle Thomas, who died after being punched by a tow truck driver during an altercation, has launched a GoFundMe to raise US$12,000 to assist with funeral and other expenses. So far the fund has raised just...
EDWIN ALLEN High School girls team’s victory in the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships on Saturday has been declared the ‘best birthday gift’ for the institution celebrating its 60th anniversary. The Frankfield, Clarendon-...
Blue Lagoon, Portland: All parties involved in the controversy surrounding beach-access rights to the Blue Lagoon, one of Portland’s premiere tourist attractions, are to return to court on June 17, when the matter will be presented. In the Portland...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding has accused the Jamaica Labour Party-led Government of impeding the dissemination of information on matters of public interests, and has denounced as scandalous the revelation that two reports sent by Auditor General...
Terminal Road in Old Harbour Bay echoed with the furious cries of residents, their anger fuelled by accusations of police brutality that claimed the lives of two of their own on Saturday. As flames from burning tyres and other debris rose in the...
As the world celebrates Holi today, Masakui Rungsung, high commissioner of India to Jamaica, is pleased to see that non-Indian natives living in Jamaica are helping to keep the traditions of Indian culture alive. This was evident during Sunday’s...
Member of Parliament for Manchester Southern Robert Chin is expected to meet with the Integrity Commission today to iron out issues that he says concern outstanding financial statements for companies in which he is a director. On Sunday, the...
Five years after a bleach spill at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) day care centre in Kingston caused injury to the eye of a baby girl, which warranted extensive treatment and surgery, the Attorney-General’s Chambers has proposed a $668,000...
Palm Sunday 2024 was not celebrated in its usual fashion at the Emmanuel Apostolic Church on Slipe Road in Kingston over the weekend. In addition to celebrating the Christian belief in the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem - when He was...
Former Nigeria President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has noted that, while Africa and the Caribbean and have consistently worked together to enhance areas of governance, economics, and health security, a change in direction was necessary to tackle...
As a young child he made a living selling Kisko pops in Coronation Market while navigating the streets of Rose Town and Whitfield Town in south St Andrew, years before migrating to the United States (US) where he would carve out a career in...
The Jamaica Association of Composers Authors and Publishers (JACAP) will not be compensated for the millions of dollars being sought from Restaurants of Jamaica, trading as KFC, for alleged infringement of copyright. Last week, the Court of Appeal...
A high percentage of the police force’s crime scene investigators are experiencing serious mental health challenges due to repeated exposure to gruesome crime scenes and stomach-churning autopsies, a recent study has revealed. Even more concerning...
Nestled in the serene community of Haddon in Moneague, St Ann, is Jacob’s Ladder. A safe haven where modern-day disciples and angels care for scores of the most disadvantaged children and adults. Located on 150 acres, it is the largest operation...
It cost the country $87.4 million to import special templates to print ballots for the last four elections, $53.7 million of which have gone down the drain because a high percentage of Jamaicans continue to shun their democratic right to vote. The...
The National Housing Trust (NHT) reportedly recommended abandoning plans to fund Phase Two of the controversial upscale Ruthven Towers project to make way for it to be undertaken by any interested private developer. The recommendation was...
Harold Brady, the disbarred attorney and former politician, has been ordered to serve 30 days in prison for failing to hand over half of the $140 million he collected for a publicly owned company from the sale of a St Andrew property. However,...
Gwendoline Martinez* was at work when she got the telephone call every parent dreads. Her nine-year-old daughter, Chyelle Hernandez*, had lost sight in her right eye after an incident involving another student at Goshen Primary School in St Mary,...
AUDITOR GENERAL (AG) Pamela Monroe Ellis says she will be dispatching two reports to Parliament on Monday that had been previously sent by her for tabling in the legislature, but were returned to her department yesterday by Speaker of the House,...
THE GOVERNMENT is taking steps to ban the discharge of effluent into the Rio Cobre with the development of legislation to tackle the vexed issue. Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Thursday that he has given instructions to the National...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRANSPORTATION MOGUL Oliver Townsend says residents of St Thomas can now look forward to luxury passenger and courier transportation services via his Knutsford Express bus services come January 2025. “We are almost islandwide, and...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CASE against Sheena Headley, the St James woman who was arrested in June 2022 after $85-million worth of cocaine was reportedly seized at her home, has been pushed back to April 12 due to her lawyer’s absence from the St James...
A week before Yvette Samuels was hospitalised for breast cancer, she was at school ensuring that her students were adequately prepared for the upcoming Primary Exit Profile examinations. On Wednesday, the first day of the exams, Samuels, who has...
THE FIRST person whose sentence was challenged by the director of public prosecutions (DPP) because he did not receive the mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment under the 2022 Amendment to the Firearms Act is to face a retrial. He is...
