A Jamaican family of four, including two children ages 11 and 12, were stabbed to death in their Far Rockaway, Queens, home early Sunday morning by a relative who was shot and killed by responding police officers. Courtney Gordon, the 38-year-old...
The nursery ward at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC), seemingly, is filled to capacity, and if the claims shared by some parents are true, they are feeling the strain as they and their ailing offspring are forced to cope with a shortage...
WESTERN BUREAU: The nations of Qatar, The Maldives and The Philippines, the (UAE) United Arab Emirates’ DP World and airport handling company, Dnata, made history last weekend when they became the first recipients of the Global Tourism Resilience...
When Meghan Swaby saw a piece of land she inherited, from the will of a deceased neighbour, being cleared for the construction of a new house for her just in time for Christmas, she openly wept. For two decades, the woman from Warrick district in...
The empowerment of communities adequately staffed and resourced is critical to the success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, according to Executive Director of the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition Ivan Cruickshank, who is also chair of the...
A security guard who spent four years in prison because of the failure of the presiding judge to give adequate warnings to the jury after the complainant, who was a child, had admitted to telling lies, may not be able to recover from the setback...
A teacher who was pregnant and gave birth this past Saturday, has accused administrators at Grateful Hill Primary School of bungling the hiring process, which has resulted in her not being paid for two months. In an interview with The Gleaner on...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Mark Moyou, senior data scientist at American software company NVIDIA Corporation, is recommending to Caribbean nationals that they should carve out their place in the technology sector on the global level, thereby acting as...
As Jamaica battles an ever-growing medical waste disposal crisis, at least three private incinerator operations in St Catherine have been stalled due to long delays from environment overseers in granting permits. And the operators are furious....
With busy shopping seasons such as back-to-school and Christmas seeing fraudsters ramp up their activities to target the credit and debit cards of unsuspecting bargain hunters, Jamaicans are being warned to be extra cautious as they prepare for and...
Cops leaving the police force routinely flout a policy that requires them to return issued uniforms and equipment, and very often without any consequences, multiple ex-lawmen have disclosed. A recent incident involving criminals dressed as police...
An application has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to have businessman Rohan Marley sent to prison for failing to pay nearly $15 million in damages stemming from a 2016 motor vehicle crash. Rohan is the son of Jamaican music legend Bob...
“My greatest Christmas wish is for mom to come home,” are the heartfelt words of 11-year-old Fytzroi Robinson. And his mother, Tameka Henry, is doing everything in her power to make that a reality. The child came to national attention two weeks...
Citing high levels of sexual and domestic violence in the island, 13 civil society groups and 16 advocates are hastening parliamentarians to fast-track amendments to the Domestic Violence Act to include an increase of the fines to a maximum of $1...
WESTERN BUREAU: Criminals have been relieving several Westmoreland businesses of their daily sales in a number of robbery sprees in the commercial spaces of Negril, Good Hope and other major towns in the parish since the start of this week. On...
Residents of Sunlight Street in Kingston 13 are fearful that Friday’s fatal shooting of an alleged gang leader by the security forces could breed a generation of vipers. The police say they shot 27-year-old Nackeem ‘Jack A Diamond’ Mullings in self...
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) says it will be vigorously opposing any attempts to release sealed information about the plea deals and transcripts of the accompanying hearings for two convicts recently sentenced in...
In a deeply moving ceremony in Linstead, St Catherine, on Friday, the names of 48 children who died under tragic circumstances between October 2022 and October 2023 were solemnly announced. Students, holding placards bearing the names, observed a...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes is banking on the cooperation of local attorneys, whose support he says is critical to achieving digital transformation within the judiciary. Speaking at the Jamaican Bar Association’s annual conference on Friday, Justice...
This Christmas season, 155 laptops will be distributed among students at the five campuses of the Windsor School of Special Education. The gifts were handed over to the school on Wednesday by Food For The Poor Jamaica at the institution’s Duncan’s...
The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) hopes to present the government and stakeholders with a position paper that includes recommendations for addressing gender-based violence (GBV). Shanielle Allen, policy and advocacy coordinator at JYAN,...
Two $10-million contributions from two anonymous Kingston College (KC) old boys have set the institution on its way to an ambitious $1-billion fundraising target by April 2025 to mark its 100th anniversary. The North Street, Kingston-based...
Cabinet Minister Aubyn Hill on Wednesday declared his support for Israel amid its ongoing conflict with Hamas in the Middle East, calling it independent of any Holness administration position or policy. Hill, the minister of industry, investment,...
WESTERN BUREAU: EXPRESSING CONCERNS about poor road conditions in the constituency of St James East Central, Opposition Leader Mark Golding says it will take the entire budget of the government’s newly launched road programme to address the...
The woman charged with the gruesome killing of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe was yesterday remanded in custody until February 1 next year. Kayodi Satchell, a 30-year-old dental assistant, is facing a charge of murder for Rowe’s gruesome slaying,...
