Lead Stories

A section of the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James.
January 26, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Tufton: Remedy now under way to ease A&E beds crisis at CRH

WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has acknowledged that severe overcrowding in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH)…
Valerie Dubidad
January 26, 2026 by Andre Williams

Sanctuary sorrow

Shock and deep grief have engulfed the Church of God of Prophecy and the wider Airy Castle Road, Stony Hill community following the sudden death of a prayer warrior and long-standing church sister,…
Craig Beresford, executive director of the Integrity Commission (IC), says every Jamaican would benefit from a strong, independent IC.
January 25, 2026 by Edmond Campbell

Don’t ‘water down’ the IC

With billions of dollars flowing into the country to carry out rehabilitation works post Hurricane Melissa, Craig Beresford, the recently installed executive director of the Integrity Commission (IC)…
Craig Beresford, executive director of the Integrity Commission.
January 25, 2026

Beresford: Premature court intervention undermines anti-corruption probes

The executive director of the Integrity Commission (IC), Craig Beresford, says the anti-corruption agency is “very concerned” about the growing practice of state entities taking the commission to…
January 26, 2026 by Livern Barrett

Fake IDs, stolen titles

Five financial institutions have been fleeced of more than $600 million through an elaborate and complex fraudulent scheme allegedly involving an upper St Andrew medical doctor and two accomplices,…
Carl Green, dean of discipline at Jonathan Grant High School in Spanish Town, St Catherine.
January 25, 2026 by Sashana Small

Quietly preparing for greatness

Jonathan Grant High School’s stunning upset of Campion College in the opening round of Television Jamaica’s Schools’ Challenge Quiz last week played out like a modern-day David versus Goliath – an…
Latoya Harris-Ghartey, executive director of the National Education Trust.
January 25, 2026 by Corey Robinson

Severely damaged, sparsely enrolled

At least nine primary schools are now under review for possible consolidation, with decisions pending on the future placement of their students, after extensive hurricane-related damage further…
The deep pit initially caused by lands caving in at Estuary Housing Scheme in St James.
January 24, 2026 by Adrian Frater

Estuary on edge

Western Bureau: With the 2026 hurricane season just months away, some residents of Phase Two of the Estuary Housing Scheme, in St James, are worried about the slow pace of the rehabilitation work on a…
January 24, 2026 by Tanesha Mundle

‘Quite frankly, I was afraid’

Minister of Agriculture Floyd Green testified on Thursday that fear had prevented him from giving an immediate statement to investigators following a fatal 2013 police shooting along Arcadia Road in…