Cabinet colleagues of resigned Agriculture Minister Floyd Green have declared that he will be back. Green, the St Elizabeth South Western member of parliament, quit on Wednesday over a no-movement day party video that showed him among a group of......

Retaining shamed Agriculture Minister Floyd Green in the Cabinet would have damaged public confidence and compromised the Government’s campaign for compliance with COVID-19 health regulations in the worst phase of the disease, Prime Minister Andre...

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has been rocked by the resignations of at least five prosecutors last month amid reports of simmering discontentment over poor wages, heavy workloads, and the leadership. Workers have complained...

The Government has shifted its strategy from weekday lockdowns going forward and has returned to nightly curfews as a more sustained measure to keep businesses afloat while curtailing the spread of COVID-19. Prime Minister Andrew Holness said there....

Jermaine Chamberlain was charged by the police on September 21 last year for using an illegal gun to rob a young woman in east Kingston. But 10 months later, after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Police intelligence has revealed that last weekend’s Clarendon quadruple murder was ordered by an influential prisoner. The four – 32-year-old Tashana Whyte; her 25-year-old sister, Sherona Whyte; their 19-year-old nephew, Luke.....

The parliamentary Opposition is calling for more heads to roll in the wake of the resignation of Agriculture Minister Floyd Green and government Councillor Andrew Bellamy on Wednesday after a video emerged showing the two among a group of people at....

WESTERN BUREAU: There was disappointment all around Floyd Green’s St Elizabeth South Western constituency yesterday after he resigned as agriculture and fisheries minister amid the fallout from footage that surfaced showing him frolicking at an......

Jamaicans hoping that the extended coronavirus lockdowns would bring reprieve from marauding criminals are making a grave mistake, said Police Commissioner Antony Anderson, who yesterday redirected public criticism over an increase in murders...

The announcement that Audley Shaw, the self-styled ‘Man A Yaad’, has been handed the reins of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries again in the wake of yesterday’s resignation by Floyd Green, is being hailed as a strategic move by experts...

  Jamaica Labour Party councillor Andrew Bellamy has resigned from the board of the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) over a video showing him toasting to a COVID-19 no-movement day at a birthday party at the R Hotel.  He...

The hopes of 82,000 Jamaicans who received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine and are due a second in three weeks hinge on a shipment from the United States (US) that may not arrive on time, as the Ministry of Health...

Declaring that the internal processes at the Ministry of Health...

As several probes continue into the deaths of three cesspool workers who inhaled noxious fumes at Moneague College on September 6, there is growing evidence of a culture of non-compliance with safety protocols among workers and bosses at Central...

Michael Shaw knows that cesspool crews flirt with danger and death every time they descend the ladder into the deep and dark belly of septic tanks. And as he reflected on last week’s tragic deaths of three cesspool labourers, presumably from...

The absence of regulatory standards governing the haulage of sewage from septic tanks and pits has cast the cesspool industry as chaotic, with many workers having no equipment to protect themselves and little training to safely engage dangerous...

Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) customers can expect to see an increase in their October electricity bills as a result of an average 1.4 per cent rate increase approved by the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR). The OUR made the...

Every time Taariq Abdul-Majeed enters an airport, he is seized with dread that his name will boom from a loudspeaker or that he will beckoned by the daunting index finger of a security official to step out of the line. It’s happened in Dubai. In.....

Jamaica is close to recording 1,000 murders since the start of the year with a little over three months still remaining, new police figures have revealed. The police report that 991 people were killed – 843 by gun – between January 1 and last......

Last week Monday when firemen from the Ocho Rios Fire Station responded to an emergency in Moneague, they grappled with the deaths of two men from noxious fumes from a septic tank. Another died the following morning. A week later, the same station....