Two parliamentarians and six public officials have been referred for prosecution for allegedly providing false information to the Integrity Commission in their statutory declarations. In its annual report, which was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.....

CARICOM leaders ended their annual meeting on Tuesday with a bullish pronouncement that they are targeting 80 per cent herd immunity from COVID-19 in the region by December 31 amid concerns about vaccine supply. Chairman of the bloc, Gaston Browne.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the imposition of additional security measures in St James, the parish’s bloodletting continues to trend upwards as four more murders were recorded over the past four days. Police data show that up to July 6, murders in the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica is poised to welcome more than 300 travel agents and tour operators for the upcoming Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX) and the Jamaica Bridal Expo, which will be staged back-to-back at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in...

Senator Floyd Morris has warned members of the parliamentary committee reviewing the proposal for Portmore to become Jamaica’s 15th parish against having grand sights on multimillion-dollar infrastructural developments in the area. Citing a recent...

WESTERN BUREAU: While all administrators in western Jamaica have not fallen in line with the Ministry of Education’s new summer school initiative, Dr Michelle Pinnock said that she is heartened by the initial response. Pinnock, who heads the...

Holness backs storm funds boost Prime Minister Andrew Holness has suggested that more funds be released at the beginning of the hurricane season so that sufficient preparation could be made to face possible weather systems. Holness made the...

ClaudE Rowe was meeting several of his students for the first time on Tuesday, although he has been principal of Iris Gelly Primary School in Arnett Gardens since October. A count indicated that 35 students were present for face-to-face...

A young man who admitted to chopping a senior citizen in her head, claiming she swept rubbish on him, had his station bail revoked when appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Tuesday. The 21-year-old blockmaker, Kevaugh Prendergast.....

Flood damage in at least six parishes swamped by rains unleashed by the diverting Tropical Storm Elsa has been preliminarily billed at $800 million, but that figure is set to mount as more comprehensive reports stream in, highly placed government......

Aaron Morgan said he often called the police to intervene in domestic violence at his home but he is not convinced that his cries for help were taken seriously because he is a man. He again raised an alarm on Monday morning, but that assistance...

Enforcement and sanctions against the sale of single-use plastic appear to have collapsed as trading of the contraband items is done openly in the capital Kingston, a few hundred metres from the Parliament building that crafted legislaton against......

WESTERN BUREAU: Another person might have died from fear, but Paulette Williams refused to yield to the treacherous flood rains caused by Tropical Storm Elsa that threatened to sweep her away on Sunday. Trapped in her car on the New Yarmouth-Kemps.....

New chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Gaston Browne, is pushing fellow members of the regional bloc to urgently advance the integration process or run the risk of being left behind. In his first address as chairman to the 42nd Regular.....

Defence lawyer for the St Ann senior citizen who was on Monday sentenced to life in prison for stabbing a man to death over money has blamed his descent into a life of crime on parental neglect. The decision was handed down while he awaits...

A man who brutally attacked two sisters aged 11 and 13 with a machete was sentenced to 18 years in prison in the St Catherine Circuit Court. He is Timothy Tulloch, a 25-year-old labourer of Marlie Acres in Old Harbour, St Catherine. In handing down....

St Lucians will go to the polls on July 26. July 16 is nomination day. Prime Minister Allen Chastanet made the announcement late Monday in an address to the nation in which he appealed for a second consecutive term in office. While describing the......

With political unrest and gang violence continuing to rock Haiti, incoming CARICOM Chairman Gaston Browne has called on member states to redouble their efforts in trying to restore normality to the troubled country. While acknowledging that CARICOM....

Jamaica was spared the full wrath of Tropical Storm Elsa on Sunday but state authorities are already forecasting significant damage to the island’s road infrastructure, with sections of Clarendon and St Catherine appearing to have suffered the...

“We are all in danger down here.” That was the pithy and profound analysis of Antonio Williams, a resident of Bamboo River who is fearful that the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season will bring another round of woe. Folk in the St Thomas community......