Less than 24 hours before a July 1 deadline for the tenure of more than 140 doctors to lapse, the health sector could buckle if the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) follows through on a call to hold to a 40-hour workweek. A meeting on...

William Shagoury, under whose board chairmanship the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and a subsidiary bought US$3m (J$409) worth of shares in First Rock Capital Holdings, said he did not know that his deputy Fay Hutchinson was also a director......

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Dr Horace Chang says no action will be taken against party workers who opt to continue supporting George Wright, the scandal-scarred Westmoreland Central member of parliament (MP) who has....

A rebuke from Chief Justice Bryan Sykes to Supreme Court Justice David Batts for penning a letter published in The Gleaner has created ripples on the Bench, sparking debate on the scope of freedom of expression and the weight of the whip swung by......

Shortness of breath and yellowing hands were warning signs for Carmeta Clarke that all was not well. She was hit in September 2020 by a shock diagnosis of renal failure. Then the drudgery of dialysis. Then the thousands of dollars in bills started....

Heavily armed gunmen in central Kingston lit homes on Beeston Street before dawn on Tuesday and stalked the evacuees, firing wildly at men, women, and children fleeing for their lives. One man was shot in the shoulder and remains hospitalised....

Education Minister Fayval Williams unveiled the Government’s national summer school and homework programme, which will seek to rein in learning loss from the pandemic which has shuttered schools worldwide with severe connectivity and equipment...

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism transportation operators now have access to $70 million interest-free under a special memorandum of understanding signed by the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) and Jamaica National Small Business Loan (JNSBL). The...

Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs Lisa Hanna has urged the Jamaican Government to act as a principled interlocutor in helping the United States and Cuba to negotiate the removal of the decades-old embargo on the Caribbean state. Debating a...

George Thomas said he has been bowled a curve ball after signing documents in a rush to sell his house for $8 million, only to discover that the sum he received to accommodate construction of the May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000 was...

“Enough is enough!” That is the warning of president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors’ Association (JMDA), Dr Mindi Fitz-Henley, as she prepares to meet today with Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton and technocrats over a smouldering dispute...

The US$3-million (J$409-million) investment in First Rock Capital Holdings by the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and a subsidiary has shocked a former board chairman, Dennis Morrison, who says up to the time he left office, the public body was....

After spending years abroad, Stephen Griffiths returned to the land of his birth to build a house, settle down, and do a bit of farming. The furthest thing from his mind was being embroiled in a dispute with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC....

Some residents of Redberry in Manchester have complained that despite lobbying China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to address the dust nuisance in their community, very little has been done to ease the problem. Olivia Miller, a resident of...

A team from the state-run Mines and Geology Division is to visit the Yallahs River in St Thomas to investigate complaints of quarrying breaches that have reportedly had devastating consequences to agricultural and recreational life. Commissioner......

Residents at Lot 7 Wildman Street in central Kingston cannot forget the cracking sound and the mounds of dust that erupted as their two-storey, nine-bedroom house tumbled to the ground four years ago. The matriarch of the family that occupies the.....

The Above Rocks police in St Catherine are maintaining a close eye on sections of the community following two murders less than 24 hours apart on Saturday which are believed to be connected. Both incidents have reportedly shattered the relative...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Fire Brigade is on the verge of having its fleet of trucks significantly beefed up as reports have surfaced that 15 of the 30 new units ordered by Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie have been cleared from the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Householders in the Dam Road section of John’s Hall, St James, believe that heavily armed gangsters fleeing the recently declared zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Norwood are finding haven in their community and unleashing...

There were screams. Then blood. Now a cloud of fear weighs heavily over Cane River. Tension prevails in the Bull Bay, St Andrew, community after three persons, including reputed gang leader Christopher Linton, otherwise called ‘Dog Paw’, were......