The instalment of a board member of the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) as human resource (HR) manager of the public entity is stirring disquiet at the agency with the reality that the post was being advertised weeks after the board official took....

If you get the feeling more Jamaicans have been dying in recent years, you may be on to something. But while records for the last decade have reflected an overall increase in local morbidity numbers, the unpredictability of the looming COVID-19...

Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) Chairman Ian Dear has declined to say whether directors considered the Petrojam-scandal-scarred past of Lionel Myrie before agreeing to appoint him as interim executive director of the state agency...

With some 60,000 doses of the island’s cache of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines having expired on Friday, Professor Peter Figueroa has called into question the manner in which the Government distributed the jabs as some Jamaicans were denied shots.....

More people are turning to alcohol and drugs to cope with the onslaught of the coronavirus, but with the pandemic decimating most face-to-face interactions, it may not be long in coming before local researchers know just how hard Jamaicans are...

A number of Jamaicans who have emigrated to Ethiopia decades ago, heralding what they call a return to the motherland continent, are living a nightmare in the East African country, which many Rastafarians still wish to one day call home. The...

Car thieves are running rampant in Portmore in St Catherine, and homes, malls, and make-do parking spots outside the Portmore Tax Office on Braeton Parkway seem to be their preferred hunting grounds. It is a worrying reality that has forced police.....

PORT MARIA, ST MARY Eventually, protection from COVID-19 will have to be a personal responsibility, as the Government cannot continue the containment protocols forever, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared. “The Government cannot continue....

The Opposition People’s National Party says the decision to appoint Lionel Myrie as the interim head of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) is alarming and should be rescinded. In a statement on Friday, Spokesperson on Tourism Janice.....

When 77-year-old Beryl Bryan did not return from a trip to secure her goats in Drewsland, St Andrew, as it rained heavily on Thursday afternoon, Lorraine Shaw had an intuitive sense of unease. Bryan was accustomed to venturing out to secure her...

WESTERN BUREAU: Two weeks after discussions with the United Kingdom (UK) government on the acceptance of AstraZeneca vaccine codes not recognised by that European country, Jamaica is yet to see a change in status. The island is among a group of...

Sidelined former People’s National Party (PNP) parliamentarian Kern Spencer has chastised dissident members for sowing discord in the beleaguered political movement. He has also urged rival factions to stop inflicting wounds and accept that they.....

A number of teachers have been finding it taxing to deliver online lessons while fulfilling other duties and manage their personal lives as they find themselves, like parents and students, wishing for a return to the classroom. It has been tough...

A soldier was reportedly among the alleged members of the One Don Gang who served as armed bodyguards for reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan, a former crony revealed during his testimony in the Home Circuit Court on Thursday. The ex-member an...

Sixteen years after overcoming her battle with breast cancer, Carmeta Burrell does not count herself as lucky, but “blessed”. The 77-year-old St Catherine resident, who spent a decade fighting the disease between 1995 and 2005, believes prayers,...

MILL BANK, Portland: The body of 65-year-old hunter Renold Franklin was removed from a ravine in the hilly interior of the Rio Grande Valley, Portland, shortly before 10 a.m. on Thursday by a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) helicopter, which was called....

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has renewed its call for a full roll-out of body-worn cameras among the security forces even as it acknowledged the increased use of their own devices by some cops to record incidents and...

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....