Residents of Seaview Gardens and Riverton Meadows are anticipating flooding as Hurricane Beryl approaches the island, despite last-minute efforts by authorities to clear the garbage-choked Sandy Gully. While many residents expressed concern on...
For Carol Dunkley*, each time it rains her home along Columbus Drive in New Haven, St Andrew, is flooded, and this week, should hurricane Beryl hit the island, she and her neighbours expect the worst to happen again. For years, residents living...
Demario Forskin, Jamaica’s Father of the Year 2024 awardee through the annual Eternal Father Awards, says the last year has not been smooth sailing for him. Thirteen months after the birth of his daughter, Brielle – which means ‘Heroine of God’ –...
In a landmark decision yesterday, Justice Dale Palmer, who is presiding over the Keith Clarke murder trial, ordered the commanding officer present during the raid in which the businessman was killed to testify in court, responding to a prosecution...
After 11-year-old Antowne Anthony Hylton, Primary Exit Profile (PEP) scholar, heard that he was placed at Jamaica College (JC) days ago, his first reaction was to go to the grave of his deceased mother, Nadine Williamson. Williamson was found dead...
Prosecutors in the Keith Clarke case plan to present approximately nine additional witnesses to the Home Circuit Court as the trial concerning the accountant’s murder 14 years ago progresses. The Crown, led by prosecutor Latoya Bernard, indicated...
Aubyn Hill, minister of industry, investment and commerce, is urging Jamaican business owners to buy into digital transformation programmes, such as the European Union (EU) and the Government of Jamaica’s €9.5 million Digital Transitioning...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is warning of future prosecutions for trigger-happy, online warriors who continue to tarnish the reputations of Jamaicans, especially on popular social media platforms. While speaking on Saturday during a Jamaica...
As Guyana scrambles to make the most of its oil wealth, Senator Aubyn Hill, minister of industry, investment and commerce, is again urging local entrepreneurs to invest in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nation. On Thursday during the media...
Approximately nine out of every 10 students who sat the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations islandwide for this academic year were placed in a school of first preference. In total, the Ministry of Education and Youth (MOEY) reported that 86.7...
In an effort to give a boost to Jamaica’s underperforming students by providing them with more critical thinking skills and creativity as well as fostering an appreciation for science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM), at least...
Four months after a mystery shipwreck caused a disastrous oil spill from the Caribbean island of Tobago to neighbouring Bonaire, Bertrand Smith, director general of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica, wants more support for the country’s marine...
With the nation joining the globe in recognising World Oceans Day earlier this month, and nearly 40 years after a major disease outbreak killed most of the local sea urchins, local scientists believe enough is still not being done to save the...
Excelsior Community College, the institution which caters to the most of students enrolled in the Government’s Sixth-Form Pathways Programme, has opened a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Robotics Centre to better help...
Despite ongoing criticism from elements in the diaspora, Alando Terrelonge, state minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, says organisers are well prepared and the Government is pleased with the number of persons who have...
Defence attorney Linton Gordon yesterday outlined that 14 years ago, seven or eight men from Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston were captured in the proximity of the home of Keith Clarke two days after his death. The men are said to have been...
Britney Clarke pushed back against a suggestion that she was a liar on Monday as she insisted that there were no gunmen at her parents’ house on the day her father, Keith Clarke, was killed and maintained that it was members of the security forces...
For Jennifer Higgins, a cookshop operator in Kingston, the Government’s move to implement the fourth stage of its plastic ban is one about which she has mixed emotions. Higgins, who has been selling cooked food products for more than 30 years, said...
While on Jamaican soil last week, Sir Dennis Byron, former president of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), who was born in Basseterre, St Kitts, expressed satisfaction at declining an offer to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (...
Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) CEO Professor Gordon Shirley says it could take another year before the damaged berth at the Ocho Rios Cruise Terminal in St Ann is repaired and the pier made functional again, but at the cost of some $20 million. In...
Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton pleaded with first-world countries recently to consider flexi-contracts with locally produced practitioners and have them return to their homeland for some months each year. This as the nation continues to...
On the eve of Supreme Court Justice Andrea Thomas’ rejection of the habeas corpus application for incarcerated dancehall star Vybz Kartel and two of his three co-accused to be released on bail, Jamaican jurist Patrick Lipton Robinson argued that...
As the cross-examination of Dr Claudette Clarke continued yesterday, she insisted that gunmen were not on her property during the night of the police-military raid 14 years ago that resulted in the death of her husband, Keith Clarke. While attired...
Dr Claudette Clarke, the widow of businessman Keith Clarke, insisted on Monday that then fugitive Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke was not “harboured” at the couple’s home in Kirkland Heights, St Andrew, in May 2010 when a deadly police-military raid...
