Seeking to staunch bloodshed with more than 1,300 people killed this year, Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday promised a vigorous legislative push to tackle the country’s galloping murder rate. The thrust follows last Thursday’s blocking o...

The privatisation of electrical inspection services previously offered by the Government Electrical Inspectorate (GEI) has led to a meteoric rise in costs for customers seeking to become registered on the grid which could threaten the push for...

WESTERN BUREAU: As countries have rolled down the shutters on travel to several southern African countries to buy time to stave off the Omicron coronavirus variant, Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says that the scale of the impact here....

Physicians are reaffirming the need for Jamaicans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as a new variant deemed highly transmissible has already triggered the imposition of travel restrictions in several southern African states, this as the United...

A slew of scandals dogging the Government has caused Prime Minister Andrew Holness to call for the fast-tracking of the Public Bodies Management and Accountability Regulations, 2020, to bolster the governance framework of the boards of public...

WESTERN BUREAU. Political battle lines have been drawn as the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) seeks to end the People’s National Party’s 40-year control of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) when the next local government elections are held...

“Nobody went out there and picked HIV off a shelf.” That pithy and profound message by Joseph McIntyre, deacon of Boulevard Baptist Church in St Andrew, served as a rallying cry on Sunday for Jamaicans to end discrimination against people with ...

The Holness administration’s investment in the health sector has been hailed as a key plank of its development plan in central Jamaica. Michael Stern, deputy leader-elect of Area Council Three, said that construction of two modern clinics in May.....

Tomorrow, the Cabinet will discuss Jamaica’s plans to address the new omicron variant of COVID-19 that now has the world on high alert, triggering travel bans, and which the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared to be “of concern”, Heal...

Jamaica’s chief prosecutor has ruled that criminal charges be filed against a former police constable whose arrest of an elderly man for gun and ammunition offences was undermined by video footage. Leroy Laud, 61, the taxi operator who was jailed....

With another storm gathering in the Ministry of Transport and Mining he now heads, Robert Montague is placing his political future in the hands of his St Mary Western constituents, even as the possibility exists that he could face a challenge for......

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in St Mary Western are backing their member of parliament (MP), Robert ‘Bobby’ Montague, to be returned as chairman as the party’s annual conference unfolds this weekend. While there have been no open...

Sixteen-year-old Andrew Phillips had his eyes set on becoming a world-class goalkeeper and was reportedly repeating grade 10 at Brimmervale High School in St Mary in order to gain more experience as he planned the way forward. Sadly, the teenager......

WESTERN BUREAU: While the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is against the continued use of the states of emergency (SOEs) as a crime-fighting tool, some key figures in Westmoreland, which Prime Minister Andrew Holness has dubbed the...

Heightened police-military activities in the killing fields of St James, Westmoreland and Hanover have placed communities along the St Elizabeth border on high alert for undesirables seeking refuge in their villages. The three western parishes have....

Jamaica has imposed restrictions on travellers from a number of African countries, following the emergence of a new COVID variant. The countries are: Botswana Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) Lesotho Malawi Mozambique Namibia South...

WESTERN BUREAU: A Westmoreland family is struggling to come to grips with a deadly home invasion on Thursday night, which left a 17-year-old boy dead and other relatives injured as gunmen lit their board dwelling and opened fire at the occupants,......

As the Government’s states of emergency (SOEs) come to a screeching halt tonight, President of the People’s National Party (PNP) Mark Golding has indicated that he is willing to pay a political price for defending the constitutional rights of......

WESTERN BUREAU: With the next local government elections drawing nearer, two new political aspirants have declared their intent to battle for the Petersfield division, which has been vacant since former councillor George Wright was elected to...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Former Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding is calling for greater focus to be placed on the resocialisation of citizens who have fallen victim to moral decay to tackle the country’s high crime rate. Golding, who was speaking....