The Integrity Commission has flagged three critical state agencies for instances in which goods and services procured were misclassified under the emergency contracting methodology. Kevon Stephenson, director of investigations at the Integrity...

The police say they are aware of “deep issues” between an estranged couple that have been theorised to be the trigger for a rash of murders, shootings, and an abduction in Cassava Piece, Park Lane, and Red Hills Road. The domestic conflict has.....

The Jamaican Government has reintroduced the bauxite production levy in a new arrangement with Concord Resources Limited, a company headquartered in London that acquired the 49 per cent shares of New Day Aluminium (Jamaica) in July. Previously, the....

The Manchester Health Department is having a challenge carrying out routine inspections at some rural shops as operators alert each other to the presence of public health inspectors so they can evade efforts to check on their adherence to health...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday expressed concerns about the volume of information that is being given in trial by the first witness, instructing the prosecution to be more “pointed” and “focused” in leading the evidence, given that ther...

The occupants of the childhood home of Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer in Trench Town, St Andrew, are yet to receive assistance as they seek to recover from a recent fire that left them without a roof over their heads. The two-storey building on...

Over the past three months, skateboarding has become the new rave for children of Trench Town, St Andrew, with a few eyeing coaching and competitive sports. In street-style, they skated up and down Second Street, manoeuvring a board ramp to...

Accusing the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) of disconnecting the electricity of paying customers to combat thievery, Opposition Member of Parliament for St Andrew South Eastern Julian Robinson is calling for the Government’s intervention in....

Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke tabled a supplementary Budget on Tuesday that will increase spending by roughly 4.0 per cent mainly to combat the spread and impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The increase in the Budget equates to about $36.5...

The suspension of face-to-face classes in the advent of the coronavirus pandemic has cost the Government a whopping $3.3 billion for the procurement of electronic devices for online classes, Technology Minister Daryl Vaz reported on Tuesday....

Attorneys providing legal aid for accused members of the Uchence Wilson Gang were paid a total of $55 million last year, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck disclosed in Parliament on Tuesday. “If we continue at that rate, the estimate is that the One.....

Prosecutors and security officials should place greater focus on securing convictions for illicit enrichment as a strategic means of tackling crime and corruption. That’s the view of opposition Senator Peter Bunting, the former national security.....

Residents of Woodford Park in southeast St Andrew are lamenting the daily disruption to their electricity supply, for several hours, since June. Some householders theorise that legitimate Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) customers are being...

Suspected cop killer slain A man suspected of being involved in the killing of a police sergeant last week was slain during an early-morning police operation in Payne Land, St Andrew, on Tuesday, the police have reported. The slain man is...

Weeks after issuing a COVID-19 vaccination ultimatum to its workers, CVM TV has requested to have a ‘local level’ meeting with the National Workers Union (NWU) in the hope of settling the issue. The meeting between the union and the television....

In the wake of the flagging of Cabinet Minister Daryl Vaz’s United States visa with a substance trafficking marker, former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding has criticised Washington for weaponising travel documents for political ends. Vaz, w...

With less than eight per cent of Jamaica’s population being fully vaccinated to date, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has disclosed that a significant portion of 60,000 doses of AstraZeneca might have to be discarded if shots ar...

A mystery disease causing their watermelons to rot on the inside while appearing perfect on the outside, has caused several St Elizabeth farmers to halt cultivation of the fruit to stem mounting financial losses. The farmers said that at first,...

Arguing that the situation is worse than the authorities are admitting publicly, prisoners at three of the island’s correctional facilities are demanding that urgent attention be paid to COVID-19 outbreaks at the institutions. Inmates at two...

An alleged shooter in the One Don Gang had reportedly callously boasted about cutting down a bus driver in front of the police in the Spanish Town bus park in St Catherine, the prosecution’s first star witness in the Clansman Gang trial told the.....