Lead Stories
December 13, 2025
by Erica Virtue
Shoreline shift
The future, long-term viability and resilience of government-operated facilities situated near the shoreline in Jamaica are now under scrutiny following severe devastation inflicted on several as a…
December 13, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Attorney urges ‘humble forgiveness’ as judge prepares to sentence murder convict
The man who was found guilty for the 2018 murder of businessman Jean-Pierre Rhone, after he went missing, is to know his fate on Monday. Twenty-six-year-old Shamar Clarke, a former employee of Rhone,…
December 13, 2025
Female vendor, in custody since 2020, gets almost 6 more years for robbing cab passengers
A female vendor who, along with two men, robbed three persons including a police constable, while posing as a taxi driver and passenger, has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison following a…
December 13, 2025
by Albert Ferguson
Councillors, transport operators frustrated with continued closure of Junction’s new sanitary facility
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors and public passenger vehicle (PPV) operators in St Elizabeth are experiencing growing frustration over the continued non-use of a newly built public sanitary convenience in…
December 13, 2025
by Christopher Thomas
Waste management needs a radical shift, says MoBay mayor
WESTERN BUREAU: Following recent complaints from residents over the lengthy delays in garbage collection in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon, who is also chairman…
December 12, 2025
by Corey Robinson
CANINE CRISIS
Dozens of puppies are being rushed to the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA), suffering from severe gastroenteritis, bloody diarrhoea, and agonising pain before many…
December 12, 2025
by Mickalia Kington
OUSTER HICCUP
WESTERN BUREAU: Tension erupted inside the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) yesterday as Councillor Lidden Lewis launched a dramatic but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to oust his People’s…
December 12, 2025
by Sashana Small
Christmas plans, livelihood go up in flames
Sixty-two-year-old Ray Moore could only watch helplessly on Thursday as firefighters battled the blaze that consumed his home on Mountain View Avenue in St Andrew. Moore’s house of 25 years was one of…
December 12, 2025
by Albert Ferguson
Concerns about risky rebuilding raised at St Elizabeth MC meeting
WESTERN BUREAU: Michelle Senior, parish manager at the St Elizabeth branch of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, is voicing new concerns about unsafe rebuilding efforts now under way in parts…