Lead Stories

WESTERN BUREAU: Retired jurist Sheron Barnes has applied many lessons over several years from her time as a teacher and a journalist to her 15 years of experience as a judge, which have culminated in her being one of St James’ awardees of the 2025...

WESTERN BUREAU: Monday’s Heroes’ Day celebration was an emotional milestone for the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany as they received a special citation and the Key to the City of Montego Bay, St James, during the parish’s 2025 Heroes Day Civic...

Nearly 79,000 Jamaicans, or 2.8 per cent of the population, remain trapped in multidimensional poverty, the newly released 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report has indicated. The figure accounts for Jamaicans enduring...

A trailer load of medical supplies, valued around US$300,000, is to be handed over this week to the National Healthcare Enhancement Foundation (NHEF). The handover ceremony is set to take place at the foundation’s offices on Hope Road in St Andrew...

With less than two weeks to go before voters cast ballots in the Virginia governor’s race in the United States (US), Jamaica-born Winsome Earle-Sears, who is running on the Republican Party’s ticket, hopes she will continue her history-making...

When Ashley*, 53, started experiencing a sharp pain in her stomach and bleeding from the breast where she’d had a lump removed seven years earlier, she instinctively knew something was seriously wrong. “Because I know the God that I serve, I said...

A Supreme Court case has temporarily frozen the award of a government contract for the lease of medical diagnostic equipment, exposing apparent failings in Jamaica’s procurement oversight system. The dispute involves local company Erin Radiology...

Jamaica-born educator Dr Rushell White has been promoted to interim acting superintendent in the New York City (NYC) school system. White becomes the third Jamaican to rise to and currently hold the position, with 47 superintendents now in the...

Western Bureau: Westmoreland has one of the highest incidences of breast cancer in Jamaica and doctors say that’s only part of the crisis. “We have one of the highest incidence of breast cancer in the island,” said Dr Lincoln Cox, general surgeon...

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite a promise that repairs to the Montpelier main road, in St James, will begin before the end of the year, residents continue to express anger and frustration over the existing conditions. Among the vexing issues is a pothole-...

Western Bureau: Constable Monique Ann Bartley, of the Hanover Police Division, will be the Area One representative in the 2025 LASCO/Jamaica Constable Force’s (JCF) Saluting Our Heroes Awards, formerly the LASCO Top Cop competition, which will...

Following pressure from civil society for Governor General Sir Patrick Allen to break his silence on the delay in making two critical appointments to the Integrity Commission (IC), King’s House has signalled that the appointments will be made in...