Speaker of the House of Representatives Marisa Dalrymple Philibert yesterday shut down responses to a string of questions posed by the parliamentary Opposition surrounding the Airports Authority of Jamaica’s (AAJ) nearly half a billion-dollar...

Despite the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) warning that only vaccinated stakeholders in Port Royal will benefit directly from a cruise call by the Nieuw Statemdam on November 25, some residents, including vendors, are still unwilling to take the......

A technician who reportedly disobeyed the directive of gangsters in his community to disconnect his home security camera system was killed in broad daylight last Saturday near his home in the White Lane area of Naggo Head in Portmore, St Catherine.....

Getting concrete commitments on climate financing backed by strong action from developed countries is a must for Caribbean countries participating in the United Nations Climate Conference of the Parties (COP26), being held in Glasgow, Scotland,...

Seventy-eight-year-old Vincent Carara would usually be overwhelmed with school furniture orders, but with the arrival of COVID-19, the booming business came to a sudden halt as classes moved online. He is now fulfilling the first order of 150...

When Leslie Lewis got a call about his cousins yesterday, he thought he would have been reminded to transport one of them to Kingston as planned. He was stunned to discover he would be visiting a murder scene as 69-year-old Christine Lewis, a...

A close relative has disclosed that help was being sought from as early as last Thursday for a now-hospitalised former Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier after he began exhibiting signs of strange behaviour. The former army man, who is believed to....

A former top commander in the One Don Gang yesterday disclosed that he did not trust the lone female alleged member of the gang, a pastor, and that at one point, he felt that she was setting him up to be shot. The ex-gangster, who claimed he was......

WESTERN BUREAU: A multi-agency team, led by the St James Public Health Department, has been mandated to carry out a cleansing and sanitising operation at the controversial Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, which was the scene......

Climate Change Minister Pearnel Charles Jr. says that over the next two weeks, small island developing states such as Jamaica will be engaging global leaders in aggressive and very significant discussions around how developed and developing...

Epidemiologist Professor Peter Figueroa has lobbied for a ramping up of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign as a fourth wave of the virus could hit Jamaica by year end. That warning comes as the country emerges from the shadow of death that produced....

A former don-turned-prosecution witness delivered a shocking testimony on Monday, claiming that a member of the One Don Gang had told him that he wanted to exhume the skull of a dead man so that he could use it to drink blood. The ex-gangster, who....

NEW FOREST/DUFF HOUSE, Manchester: Farmers of New Forest/Duff House who experienced a crippling wipeout of their melon crop last year and remain puzzled about stunted production are being urged to adapt to changing conditions. As climate change......

AIC Jamaica, one of two companies hauled before the courts over their mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy, has admitted that it got legal advice to not dock salaries or require aggrieved workers pay for tests out of pocket. And it says it will not......

WESTERN BUREAU: Respected western Jamaica-based family therapist Dr Beverly Scott wants the members of the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, where a deadly cult ritual took place last month, to be treated with compassion, not......

Residents of Calabash Bay in St Elizabeth are growing increasingly anxious over the continued silence of the authorities as the beach slowly disappears, urging immediate action to halt – and, if possible, reverse – the steady shoreline erosion.....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Monday pressed developed countries to provide meaningful funding solutions for small island developing states, which continue to bear the brunt of the fallout from global warming and other negative impacts of...

Twenty-six-year-old Kevin 'Big Dog' Grant, who was recently captured on tape drinking blood from the head of a freshly slaughtered goat, was shot dead at a rented apartment in Discovery Bay, St Ann, on Sunday. Grant was reportedly cut down by armed....

The auditor general’s recommendation that a surcharge be instituted against Dean-Roy Bernard, the in-limbo permanent secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, and acting PS Dr Grace McLean is being reviewed by the Ministr...

The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has pulled the covers off its election machinery, conducting canvasses and fielding candidates for more than 200 divisions months ahead of the February deadline for local government elections. Chairman...