WESTERN BUREAU: After pumping more than $300 million in cash and kind into the Jamaica’s COVID-19 response effort, alcohol producers here have become the pariahs of the health sector. Their fate was decided by Minister of Health and Wellness Dr......

As dusk fell in Bottom Yard in Bath, St Thomas, on Friday, the desperate cries for nine-year-old Phylicia Prussia grew louder with a 24-hour search failing to yield clues as to the whereabouts of the abducted child. “Another night a go catch the.....

The New York Police Department (NYPD) is seeking the Jamaican public’s help to locate a murder suspect believed to have fled to the island with a US$15,000 reward being offered through its Crime Stoppers programme for his capture. The NYPD fugitiv...

With Jamaica being among six Latin American and Caribbean countries yet to break the 20 per cent vaccination barrier, there are fears that the island could miss the World Health Organisation target for countries to vaccinate at least 40 per cent of....

Uncertainty about how the COVID-19 vaccines affect fertility is among the main reasons nearly a third of the island’s registered nurses were not inoculated against the deadly respiratory disease up to August despite health officials noting that th...

Ahead of its 83rd annual conference this weekend, the People’s National Party (PNP) is reporting that 98 per cent of its candidates have been selected for the impending local government elections. But the party is demanding that the prime ministe...

WESTERN BUREAU: Antigua and Barbuda laundromat and dry cleaning operator Dr Onika Campbell has inked a major franchise distributorship deal with United States manufacturer of textiles and fine linen, Thomaston Mills. Campbell, who owns Express...

At least two elite anti-corruption bodies have been asked by Education Minister Fayval Williams to investigate $124 million paid to the Cecil Cornwall-chaired Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) over a 32-month period by technocrats but......

Three weeks shy of her son’s 18th birthday, another Central Kingston mother is mourning a brutal murder after warning his elder sibling of the omens of crime. Shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday, armed thugs chased and shot to death 17-year-old Rohan....

We’re not loafers! That was the impassioned defence by Greg Christie, executive director of the Integrity Commission, who has bristled at public perception that the corruption watchdog’s officials are living high off the hog doing nothing amid.....

Big government, big problem. That’s the view of Joseph Patterson, leader of Jamaica’s fledgling third registered party. Shrinking the size of the bloated bureaucracy is a key pillar of Patterson’s economic vision for Jamaica, which includes ta...

When the coronavirus pandemic hit Jamaica’s shores in early 2020, Keino Brown and Jermaine Wright were in danger of drowning in the tidal wave of unemployment that swept aside the jobs of more than 135,000 people at the height of the crisis. But.....

While asking the justices to throw out the appeal against the Full Court’s ruling, a government lawyer argued on Thursday that the dreadlocked student at Kensington Primary had no guaranteed right to attend the school. The Full Court had ruled in...

Philmore McCarthy, treasurer of the Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) for more than four years, declared on Wednesday that he is willing to open the books of the advisory board for an investigation into the transfer of $124 million from....

Sidelined Permanent Secretary Dean-Roy Bernard has charged that the privatisation of the controversial Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) was effected shortly after his exit as chief accounting officer of the Ministry of Education and......

There is seething discontent among rank-and-file police personnel about the lack of specialised training in interfacing with the mentally ill. Recent violent confrontations involving mentally ill persons have seen two assailants killed by the...

A 17-year-old accused contract killer is among four males reputed to be members of a Clarendon gang who have been charged with murder and illegal possession of firearm. The teen, who cannot be named because he is a minor, is charged alongside...

With two recent cases of persons with mental illnesses reportedly killing two men within the public space and other persons escaping serious injury after being attacked, the health ministry is moving to boost its community-based intervention...

Disaster management specialist Ronald Jackson is lamenting the ad hoc approach to addressing environmental issues without deliberate, long-term planning in many developing countries, saying that it is already wreaking havoc on their economies. In......

Lawyers for the self-proclaimed Nazarene couple, whose child was refused a place at Kensington Primary School because of her dreadlocks hairstyle, yesterday argued that the Full Court erred in finding that the child’s constitutional rights had not...