The Jamaican Government is keenly studying the prospect of administering different vaccine brands to inoculate persons against COVID-19, signalling the reversal of a previous declaration as the science evolves. Jamaica is still awaiting an official....

A convicted Jamaican lottery scammer who had challenged her deportation from the United States, claiming that she would be tortured by the scheme’s ringleader, has lost her application for asylum. The petitioner, Kayann Darby, otherwise known as....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness will this afternoon declare in Parliament how his administration will chart a path for the reopening of Jamaica’s multibillion-dollar entertainment sector, which has been gutted by job losses because of a COVID-19 ban...

The mother of a 20-year-old man, who was rescued by cops from an angry mob accusing him of killing his 21-year-old pregnant girlfriend on Sunday, is accusing the police of killing her son while in lock-up less than 24 hours later. She is blaming...

The parliamentary charade involving the Speaker and Opposition members last week over the seating arrangement of berated Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright is expected to fizzle today as the leadership on both sides of the....

Online voting for the 2021-2022 president-elect of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) resumed at midnight on Monday following a suspension because of a duplication snafu. The portals were closed after the platform hosted by Mona Information....

WESTERN BUREAU: Rick’s Café Negril’s Operations Manager Thomas Martin is to answer to charges in the Westmoreland Parish Court today of breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA). Martin is the second employee of the world-famous Jamaica...

WESTERN BUREAU: Giving the green light for new housing developments in the St Ann, Trelawny, and St James belt without ensuring adequate support structures are in place, including school spaces and recreational areas, could be a recipe for disaster....

Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke is expected to begin debate today on amendments to the Casino Gaming Act to provide for the inclusion of the minimum capital investment required to finance the establishment and operation of......

A 38-year-old taxi operator who endured two days of threats and was reportedly taunted by mobsters at shallow graves with worm-infested human remains has been freed after his family paid a $400,000 ransom. Now he is living in fear that they will......

While waiting for its day in court challenging a Supreme Court ruling that detentions under states of emergency were in breach of the Constitution, the Andrew Holness administration has signalled that work is well advanced on new legislation to...

WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Mark Golding is calling for increased rotation of the security forces assigned to the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Mt Salem, St James, amid complaints by some residents that familiarity is reducing their...

Residents of Ten Miles, Bull Bay, are appealing for the desilting of the Bull Park River as Jamaica braces for an active Atlantic hurricane season that could bring up to 20 storms through the Caribbean. Mining and quarrying operations by Carib...

As Dane McKay celebrated Father’s Day on Sunday, he did so with a sense of satisfaction that he gave his first daughter, Kadane, a second shot at life. In 2019, a few days before the traditional celebration on the third Sunday in June, Father’s ...

The violence-plagued community of Norwood, St James, is a stronghold of key criminal gangsters whose reign the security forces will seek to end with a security blanket and social intervention, the police have confirmed. That declaration came...

The trip is not for the faint of heart. Smuggled migrants using The Bahamas to gain entry into Florida from Jamaica risk being robbed, shot, or eaten by sharks in a’ dog-eat-dog’, every man for himself pursuit of the ‘American Dream’. The lu...

WESTERN BUREAU: Richard Peters promised his daughter Rebekah that he wasn’t going to die. That promise kept him alive and was the centre of most of his prayers while fighting for his life with COVID-19 at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH)...

The man seen on American television stations last week blaming Jamaica’s high murder rate for trying to illegally enter the United States (US) by boat is a “former don” with multiple convictions, Jamaican law-enforcement officials have reveale...

WESTERN BUREAU: Anselm Dewar was never an emotional child, and neither is he as an adult. Yet he was moved to tears recently, crying like any son would while recognising his dad, Ashman Dewar, during their first commercial flight together. The 34-....

AS The $500-million information technology scandal rocking the Mona Campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI) deepens, former Principal Professor Archibald McDonald has admitted that there is “solid basis” for the contract for the Hospit...