Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton goes to Cabinet this morning with a full-blown crisis on his hands as key hospitals in the coronavirus fight have either exceeded their COVID-19 bed space or are on the brink of turning away the sick. The St.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Seventy-two hours after defeating a colonel who spent 11 years at the helm, Chief Richard Currie of the Accompong Maroons says he wants to leverage the rich natural resources and technical capacity in the quasi-sovereign territory......

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has been hit hardest by electricity theft in communities located in Kingston, with the light and power provider reporting losses in the sum of US$61 million for the 12-month period ending December 2020 in...

From the $15,000 Shantal McDonald makes every two weeks as an office attendant, she purchases grocery, pays utility bills, and finances her daily commute, but the 28-year-old certified chef said she is still happy to have a job in the midst of a...

University officials are hoping that staff and students pursuing certain courses of study will be among those to receive COVID-19 vaccines in the second phase. Jamaica is expected to begin administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which was.....

A motorist narrowly escaped a fiery death on Sunday after his Toyota motor car burst into flames and exploded along the Long Hill main road in St James on Sunday afternoon. The hourlong fire, which consumed the motor car, resulted in a major...

Greta Bogues, 62, a stalwart in corporate governance, is dead. Members of the combined private-sector bodies are struggling to come to grips with the sudden passing on Sunday of a woman described as a servant to Jamaica and a “treasure”. Officia...

A nefarious letter demanding bounty or blood from construction site operators in St Thomas has been turned over to the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Unit (C-TOC) for deeper analysis, but for many residents of the sleepy Trinityville...

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is pushing back against criticism, particularly from the Opposition, as Jamaica is yet to get out of the blocks in the race against time to vaccinate its population against the deadly coronavirus pandemic. With....

There are mixed views on an extortion letter issued at a worksite in Trinityville, St Thomas, two weeks ago that temporarily halted construction on a section of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project and has left St Thomas Western Member.....

She was determined to ride whatever water source that would sweep her into George William Gordon House as a member of parliament. Her life’s experiences prepared her for a tsunami, but September 3, 2020 turned out to be a high tide, and she landed...

The Government will be cutting the $422-million COVID-19 vaccine marketing budget disclosed two weeks ago by the health ministry amid criticisms over the spend. Speaking yesterday at a ground-breaking ceremony for the Andrews Mews...

Inslington, St Mary: When 18-year-old Sherise Walker saw cops and residents chasing a man as she passed by the Islington Police Station in St Mary on Ash Wednesday, she didn’t think twice before alighting from the moving vehicle and summoned her....

The Holness administration is forecasting that the economy will see real gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaging 4.1 per cent over the next four fiscal years. In the Fiscal Policy Paper, tabled in Parliament on Thursday, the Ministry of...

Residents of New Haven in St Andrew Western are paying dearly for decades of underinvestment in urban infrastructure by successive administrations, with little thought given to seriously addressing the root causes of long-standing problems, says...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has denied allegations made by a then lactating woman private that she was subjected to inhumane treatment in a military jail before being discharged on medical grounds after bouts of depression....

The police are yet to make a breakthrough into Sunday night’s murder of Calabar High jumps coach Nicholas Neufville and University of Technology, Jamaica student Rahima Stewart, whose bodies were found in an open lot in Portmore on Monday morning....

Silent Hill, Manchester: The Manchester police have arrested and charged a farmer from the Silent Hill community in Christiana, Manchester, in connection with the murder of 45-year-old Jerrime Hendricks, the former ship worker who was beaten and...

Jamaicans living in urban and suburban communities are being encouraged to dig into the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries’ backyard gardening programme, which is looking to boost vegetable production and increase consumption of locally grown.....

Wade Blackwood, the contract killer who admitted to spraying a cab with bullets, killing Simone Campbell-Collymore and taxi driver Winston Walters three years ago, will know his fate on March 11. The 24-year-old’s sentencing, which was scheduled.....