Lead Stories
April 8, 2026
by Erica Virtue
JC student injured in bust-up withdraws from school
The teenage boy who suffered injuries in an incident at Jamaica College on March 26 will not be returning to the Old Hope Road, St Andrew-based institution when it reopens for the summer term next…
April 7, 2026
by Andre Williams
NEWBORN HEARTACHE
What should have been one of the happiest moments of Shandale Ballentine’s life ended in heartbreak on Good Friday. Instead of leaving the Cornwall Regional Hospital cradling the baby boy she had…
April 7, 2026
by Albert Ferguson
Jamaica rejects St Kitts’ claim of first legal recognition of Rastafari
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government of Jamaica has pushed back against claims that St Kitts and Nevis is the first Caribbean nation to recognise Rastafarianism in law, insisting that Jamaica has long…
April 7, 2026
by Livern Barrett
Two decades later, disbarred attorney’s complaint against panel member fails
A former attorney has lost his bid to pursue a conflict-of-interest complaint against a member of the disciplinary panel that ruled over 20 years ago that he should be struck off the list of lawyers…
April 7, 2026
by Edmond Campbell
PAC slams ‘madness’ as UHWI pays big for delayed, rejected reports
The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) paid Strategic Alignment Limited US$92,000 (J$14.5 million) to create a strategic transformation plan, but rejected the draft without explaining why…
April 7, 2026
by Janet Silvera
From trainee to trailblazer
WESTERN BUREAU: For 32 years, Shernette Crichton walked the corridors of Half Moon not as a spectator of its legacy, but as a student of it; quietly studying, steadily rising, and preparing for a…
April 7, 2026
Auditor general flags contract splintering at UHWI
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has warned that some procurement heads are improperly splitting government contracts to avoid rules designed to prevent that practice. In a January performance…
April 7, 2026
by Albert Ferguson
Students urged to embrace financial readiness for a changing Jamaica
WESTERN BUREAU: Delano Seiveright, state minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, has called on Jamaican students to embrace financial readiness as a fundamental life skill,…
April 6, 2026
by Albert Ferguson
Jamaica’s bittersweet reckoning
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica is facing a bitter truth about its sweetest habit. From vending machines on university campuses to roadside coolers and taxi stands, sugary drinks have become the nation’s…