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Boston, Portland: Labourites and Comrades descended on Boston, the home of jerk, in droves yesterday as the high-stakes East Portland battle came to a climax. Several vendors enjoyed good sales as party supporters turned up in large numbers, making...

Even though more than 7,000 native or descended Jamaicans may be beneficiaries of a portion of the £200 million Windrush Compensation Scheme, the British high commissioner here has urged against focusing on monetising the trauma of the thousands of...

In an attempt to salvage pride following anti-gay chants aimed at Kingston College (KC), which were captured on video, Calabar High head boy Andre McKenzie and seven other students trekked from Red Hills Road to North Street yesterday to officially...

LIGHTHOUSE ROAD, East Portland: Passionate about her role as assistant cluster manager, Tashana Watson, who hails from Lighthouse Road, a depressed community in East Portland, said she is inspired by nostalgia and her loyalty to the People’s...

A 38-year-old former taxi operator was yesterday accused of using media reports to formulate his evidence to the court, as the trial for reputed gang leader Uchence Wilson and his 23 alleged cronies continued at the...

Junior Education Minister Alando Terrelonge says the ministry will soon have in place a values and attitudes policy to address indiscipline in schools. This comes in light of a number of videos showing Calabar High School students chanting...

Junior Hayles, a 30-year-old police constable assigned to the Kingston East Division, has been charged with murder in connection with the July 2018 shooting of 33-year-old Vince Walcott of a St Catherine address. Nicole Montaque, a 34-year-old...

WESTERN BUREAU: Dana Minto, the nurse charged with causing death by dangerous driving following a 2017 accident which claimed two lives, is scheduled to undergo her long-awaited committal hearing on May 2, after the hearing was postponed for a...

In an attempt to quell the flare-up of violence in Eastern Portland, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Dr Horace Chang, who is also the national security minister, toured one of the volatile areas, Halls Avenue, and met with residents on...

Jamaica remains the largest Caribbean source country of marijuana and a significant transit point for cocaine trafficked from South America to North America and other international markets. Further, traffickers export Jamaica-grown marijuana to...

WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent Vernon Ellis, commanding officer for St James, has moved to assure members of the local Chinese business community in the western parish that the security forces are working to ensure that the commercial environment...

WESTERN BUREAU: Errol Greene, regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority, said construction of the long-awaited Western Children’s Hospital, which will be located in Montego Bay, is scheduled to begin in June and is expected to be...