A day after Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith named former Senator A.J. Nicholson as the People’s National Party (PNP) official who sent her threatening and harassing emails in 2014 and 2018, Nicholson has called her out, challenging.....

In the event the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) has forgotten, it is now a month since it promised that its “requisite organs would promptly meet” to discuss George Wright’s membership in the party and to determine its “next steps” once a...

A provision in Jamaica’s charity laws has left the $100 million raised three years ago through the Shaggy...

With very limited opportunities available to improve their lives in the poverty-stricken communities of Grange Hill, Westmoreland, the scores of school leavers in the area are being lured into a life of crime and gang violence. Grange Hill, which......

Jamaica needs more people like ‘Aunty Lorna’ – upstanding adults who give selflessly to the nation’s most needy children. In a state of heightened peer pressure, a COVID-stricken economy, disrupted education, and marauding criminals – mos...

George Wright, the legislator elected to the Lower House last September on a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) ticket as one of its 49 members, remains in that position despite condemnation amid an uproar over a viral video in which a man was seen beating....

The Internet connectivity issues bedevilling rural and underserved communities could have been lessened if the Universal Service Fund (USF) had stuck more closely to its mandate of building out information and communication technologies (ICT)...

Local telecoms providers could soon know if they will be getting the additional spectrum they seek as the Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) will make its recommendation to Technology Minister Daryl Vaz in a matter of weeks. SMA Managing Director.....

Though retiring from politics, long-time People’s National Party Senator AJ Nicholson is back in the spotlight having been named by Kamina Johnson Smith as the one who sent her emails which she found to be threatening and harassing. During Friday...

Prominent attorney-at-law Bert Samuels says the medical report in the case of the 13-year-old St Ann girl who was allegedly buggered by five males should give a clear picture as to where the truth lies. In a major development yesterday, the...

Opposition Senator Peter Bunting led efforts in the Senate on Friday to push back against the move by the Government to give China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) the contract to build the multibillion-dollar Montego Bay Perimeter Project....

Port Antonio (Portland): The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) says it has not yet seen a video now circulating on social media showing a physical confrontation between the police and a resident in Portland on Thursday. The...

An October trial date was yesterday scheduled in the fraud matter involving former Petrojam general manager Floyd Grindley and his former chairman Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh. Both accused will be tried in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court...

Attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan, who is representing incarcerated reputed gangster Tesha Miller, is accusing the Crown of abusing its power in light of fraud charges laid against the convicted killer which stem from an incident in 2017 in which he...

There were reductions in murder, shooting and robbery in St Ann between January 1 and May 9 this year, when compared to the similar period last year. Linton Bailey, deputy superintendent of police in charge of crime for St Ann, told councillors of....

Claudette Whittle has been plunged into a state of distress after the exhumation yesterday of a body in a shallow grave in Kitson Town, St Catherine, which is believed to be that of her brother Lloyd Grant who went missing about a month ago. “Is.....

A few months ago, Ramunn Hanson was selling, on average, 80 bags of broiler crumble over three days from his small container in Kitson Town, St Catherine. However, on Thursday as he counted the 26 bags that still remained after last week’s purchas...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries will be issuing quota licences to industrial fishers to meet its total target of 30 metric tonnes of sea cucumber for the export market when the season opens on September 1 this year. Concerns have been...

Wood Hall resident and businessman Mortel Pinnock does not think of himself as a community leader. In his own words, Pinnock says he just loves his community. That love has driven him to touch the lives of young people and others who benefit from......

An audit conducted into the $46.8-million government contract awarded to Rahim’s Cleaning and Trucking Limited to sanitise and clean eight locations in Ocho Rios, St Ann, has unearthed worrying findings, including exorbitant pricing costs and...