Lead Stories

A FEELING of euphoria has overtaken the Ardenne High School family, after its Schools’ Challenge Quiz team on Thursday dethroned the defending champions, St Jago High, in the finals of the 2020 season. Ardenne won by 34 points to St Jago’s 25....

WESTERN BUREAU: Pastor Trevor Reid, who leads the Orange circuit of Seventh-day Adventist Churches (SDA) in St James, has always made sure to set aside time for his three children even though he has served as a minister of religion across two...

More than 20 women in Clarendon are to participate in a training programme geared at creating job opportunities for them. Project GYAL – Guiding Young Ambitious Ladies – will be targeting women between the ages of 16 and 49 who did not finish high...

I know you are a little unsure of what the way forward is going to look like, but remember, our anthem is a ready-made prayer asking for everything we need to get through this as a country. It asks for vision for our leaders, guidance for the...

A group of 27 parents of grade one and kindergarten students at Immaculate Prep in Kingston have expressed outrage at the school board’s denial of their pleas for discounted fees for online classes and for barring children’s access to the Zoom...

Two men were shot and killed by gunmen on Claude Clarke Avenue in Montego Bay, St James, on Thursday as the parish recorded its 50th murder since the start of the year. The police have identified both victims as 34-year-old Kemar Halstead, of...

WESTERN BUREAU: An elderly man who is mentally ill and who was deemed unfit to plead has been locked away between jails and prison for 16 years for smashing a windscreen. The case of Falmouth native Morris ‘Rassimong’ Small, who is believed to be...

Firearm instructor Christine Green is hoping to reach a compromise with businessman Mario Ennis to end a long-standing feud over the location of an outdoor shooting range in Sheffield, Westmoreland, that is designated as a residential zone. “I have...

Once ringfenced without portfolios in the Office of the Prime Minister, veteran politicians Karl Samuda and Mike Henry have been given a second wind with full appointments to the respective portfolios of education and labour. The endorsement by...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) has advised Prime Minister Andrew Holness against allowing the creation of virtual SEZs to facilitate the outsourcing sector’s plan to have 25 per cent of its labour pool working...