George Wright returned to the House of Representatives on Tuesday in a snub to critics as the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) bristled at the prospect of having the man accused of battering a woman with a stool sit on its side of the...

Days after a probe was launched into allegations of mistreatment and neglect by medical staff at the Spanish Town Hospital, Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton has ordered regional health authorities to spearhead training in compassionate care....

Persons 60 years and older who have been fully vaccinated can apply for a $10,000 grant from the Government, Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke announced in Parliament on Tuesday. The initiative takes effect on July 15. But...

Jamaica’s anti-corruption oversight body has recommended that the Hanover Municipal Corporation, the Negril Green Island Area Local Planning Authority, and the National Environment...

The Court of Appeal has thrown out an appeal brought by a general surgeon who was seeking to have his legal bill of approximately $780,000 paid by a patient who had sued him and the State, after a medical instrument was mistakenly left inside his......

One woman died and nine others were hospitalised as a result of a two-vehicle collision along the Bog Walk Gorge about 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Reports are that 59-year-old Valerie Ennis, of Linstead, was travelling westerly in a white Toyota Hiace...

Heroy Clarke, the member of parliament for St James Central, asked Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis on Tuesday to disclose her views on nepotism during a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to review the appropriations accounts of the....

WESTERN BUREAU: With no indications of penalties for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA), Negril’s Rick’s Café has received permission from the Government of Jamaica to reopen. Seven days after it was ordered closed for staging a....

WESTERN BUREAU: Blame for inordinately long wait times for medical treatment has been placed at the feet of hospital managers who have been urged to organise human and other resources to offer efficient service to patients. But St Andrade Sinclair.....

Shanique Armstrong, the 26-year-old woman who gave birth on the floor of the Accident and Emergency Department of the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine while nurses allegedly ignored her pleas for help, is pushing for video evidence captured by....

WESTERN BUREAU: The 15-year-old who was reportedly raped by her pastor told police that the incident happened on the church compound. The teenager, who was assaulted in March, did not report the matter until May 28. On Monday, the 39-year-old...

The announcement by Prime Minister (PM) Andrew Holness that the Government has abandoned plans to allow mining in the Puerto Bueno Mountain, also called Dry Harbour Mountain, in St Ann has been met with both rejoicing and quiet disappointment....

Investigators are still searching for clues behind the death of Ava Thelwell, the 49-year-old internal auditor who the police believe deliberately drove off Flat Bridge last Friday. Thelwell, a mother of two adult sons, is believed to have gone...

The comfort and safety of a train ride beat the chaos and disorder of other modes of public transport, according to Lattala Lee Smith, which is why the Linstead, St Catherine, businesswoman is in favour of reviving the passenger rail service once......

“You lucky you come see us.” Those were the words of a Constant Spring Road business proprietor as she stood in her establishment yesterday, looking at the only other person inside the room – a staff member. The establishment is located close...

Three persons have been detained and a Glock pistol with 11 rounds seized as the police stepped up investigations into a double murder that rocked the quiet community of Spring Piece in Pimento Walk, St Ann, on Saturday night. Jamaica Defence...

Three persons have been detained and a Glock pistol with 11 rounds seized as the police step up investigations into the double murder that rocked the quiet community of Spring Piece in Pimento Walk, St Ann on Saturday night. 

Dwight Sibblies, the member of parliament for Clarendon Northern, has stepped aside from his role as chief internal auditor at the University of Technology (UTech) amid deepening enquiry into whether his political role and other public-sector job......

WESTERN BUREAU: More than 80 per cent of the island’s tourism workers who were laid off as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have returned to work, Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has disclosed. An average 170,000 people are employed directly....

Local law enforcers have sought the support of international partners in apprehending the notorious leader of the Bird Nation Gang, Aaron ‘Birdie’ Thompson, who resides in the United States and is believed to be one of the main financiers of gan...