Category: News

UNITED Nations Secretary General António Guterres arrived in the island Sunday for a two-day working visit. Guterres was scheduled to tour the Seville Great House in St Ann, Sunday afternoon, and hosted at…

THE fatal shooting of 17-year-old Shari Distin in Hopewell, Hanover, last week moved the number of children killed across the island since the start of this year to nine. This is more than…

The J Wray & Nephew Foundation (JWNF) joined forces with the United States Embassy in Kingston and the LASCO Chin Foundation recently, to deliver a conflict resolution workshop series in schools across Jamaica….

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Dezene Thompson-Powell, and Venesia Parkins have been best friends for many years. The two have always believed in being each other’s keeper, so it should come as no…

EGREGIOUS — that was the word used by the Jamaica Police Federation to describe the conditions of some police lock-ups across the country. The federation also noted that several facilities were brought to…

MONTEGO BAY, St James — There is growing tension at the St James-based Cornwall College between members of the school’s administration and two former cooks who believe they have been treated unfairly over…

PORT ANTONIO, Portland – There will be no entry fee when the popular Blue Lagoon reopens on June 1 but a raft of measures will be in place during a three-month-long first phase…

CHRISTIANA, Manchester — Within the next three months work is to begin on the expansion of a taxi park here to accommodate 500 public passenger vehicles in a multi-level facility, following months of…

The Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) says it has completed a probe into the circumstances under which a powerful rifle, brought into the island with a Canadian sport shooting team earlier this year, was…

I somehow missed the word ‘estimated’ when Dr Michael Abrahams informed Stephen and me that we had an ‘estimated due date’ of March 11, 2011. Yes, that is what the E stands for…