Stories by Jason Cross

Jamaica Energy Partners (JEP) will seek to create smiles in Old Harbour today byhosting a dental fair which will give residents access to tooth examinations, cleaning and extractions.The dental fair, themed Creating Smiles for Life, will be held at...

Following a series of attacks on schoolchildren in recent times, a few of which had fatal endings, the Ministry of Education has made arrangements with private security companies for them to increase the number of daily patrols they do along certain...

West Kingston residents, including those from Tivoli Gardens, who were seriously impacted during the May 2010 joint police-military operation are being encouraged to submit claims by December 5 at 4 p.m.Conditions that claims can be filed under for...

The operations of the three-member West Kingston Compensation Committee will not be conducted under the glare of cameras, nor will it be guided by any strict rule of procedure, if chairman of the committee, retired Justice Seymour Panton, gets his...

Quacie Hart, the man who was wanted in connection with the death of 14-year-old Jamaica College student Nicholas Francis, has been charged with murder, and the police have confirmed that he also currently has an illegal-possession-of-firearm case...

Even though Jamaica is not lagging behind where scientific research and development are concerned, Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Andrew Wheatley has called for more innovative minds to be developed in the island in order to boost the...

When Xavier Francis, father of slain Jamaica College (JC) student Nicholas Francis, gave him the location of his lunch money before he headed off to school on Wednesday morning, he had not even the slightest thought that that would have been the...

Getting many of Jamaica's colonially educated persons to value aspects of Jamaican Heritage was a task that Louise Bennett-Coverley ('Miss Lou') stuck to throughout her life, despite much opposition.Miss Lou, who was a poet, writer and folklorist,...

Jamaicans will now have access to a personal collection of unpublished material, including photographs, recordings, diaries and letters that were all a part of the life and works of one of Jamaica's cultural icons, Louise Bennett Coverley, popularly...

When Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer was invested with one of the country's highest national honours yesterday, the Order of Jamaica (OJ), it could be considered the icing that topped the prestigious awards she has received for outstanding work in...

His commitment to practising a style of journalism that aims to make Jamaica a better place has won Abka Fitz-Henley of Nationwide News Network first place in the 2015-2016 Jamaica Broilers Fair Play Awards of Excellence.The awards function was held...

Police yesterday imposed a curfew on sections of the St Catherine North Division late yesterday as they sought to bring a halt to an eruption of violence that resulted in the charred remains of five persons, including three children, being pulled...