A high-level corruption probe has been launched into the mysterious disappearance from police custody of a Jamaican fugitive wanted in St Lucia for murder and gun crimes, with preliminary indications that lawmen might have been complicit in the...

Jamaica’s public-health system may open doors to its only burn unit by 2023, closing a yawning deficit in burn wound care that is too costly for most patients. The upshot of the game-changing investment will offer a lifeline to hundreds of...

Nineteen days after the gun murder of his son, a distraught father claims investigators have not acted on useful information and he agrees with Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ hyperbolic advocacy for the death penalty for persons convicted of...

A targeted man who escaped the wrath of gunmen during a drive-by shooting in Kintyre, St Andrew, last Friday was shot and killed by a lone gunman in the community on Monday afternoon. The deceased is 28-year-old Darren ‘Percy’ Cousins, a reside...

The lead investigator in the One Don Gang case yesterday revealed that it took the police about a year to bring anti-gang charges against the reputed leader of the gang, Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan, after he was detained in a predawn raid at his St....

“Public distraction” – according to Prime Minister Andrew Holness – over the high-end Ruthven Towers apartment complex in New Kingston has forced the Government to put on hold a planned Phase Two of the National Housing Trust (NHT) developme...

One of the country’s two main telecommunications companies has said it has honoured requests by the Jamaica Constabulary Force in relation to the investigation of the Clansman-One Don Gang. “We have, to date, fulfilled all requests received,”...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: The Portland police have stepped up surveillance in the northeastern Jamaica parish after 27-year-old Orville Purnell, a fugitive who fled St Lucian authorities, escaped custody from the Kingston Central police lock-up on...

Police personnel from the St Catherine North Police Division yesterday took several persons into custody following a fracas at the Meadowrest Memorial Gardens in St Catherine. The cops were called about 2:30 p.m. after a dispute developed between......

WESTERN BUREAU: While acknowledging that there is a need for a fire station in eastern Westmoreland, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie, who has portfolio responsibility for the Jamaica Fire Brigade, says that the Government had not signed.....

Police personnel from the St Catherine North division have detained several persons following a fracas at the Meadowrest cemetery this afternoon. During a tussle, a security guard was wounded in a knife attack. 

Hours after Eastern Caribbean neighbours Barbados declared republic status and swore in its first president, a veteran politician has criticised Jamaican lawmakers’ inertia in severing the country’s links to the British monarchy. Fitz Jackson,.....

Large primary schools have received the green light from Cabinet for a return to face-to-face learning while secondary schools that have achieved a 65 per cent vaccination rate of their student population will be allowed to reopen their doors. A...

A funding fallout from global donors is threatening to worsen already-waning public education campaigns on HIV/AIDS. Alisha Robb-Allen, acting senior director in the HIV/STI Unit in the Ministry of Health...

talks are still ongoing among Jamaica, Colombia and Haiti in relation to the transfer of Colombian fugitive Mario Palacios Palacios but it is unclear how soon the fate of the man fingered in the July 7 assassination of then Haitian President...

Even as Jamaica makes progress in driving down COVID-19 infections, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has warned that high levels of bed occupancy by suspected and confirmed coronavirus patients could derail the country’s...

Concern is growing about the incidence of HIV among Jamaica’s homeless population amid a 57 per cent rise in infections over seven years among a segment of society’s most vulnerable. Health ministry data show that the infection rate among the......

One of the 33 alleged members of the One Don Gang reportedly told the police tersely “a suh di badness guh” before he was charged for being a member of a criminal organisation. The defendant, Rivaldo Hylton, to whom the comment was attributed, w...

The controversial contract that led to sharp dissent among former board members of Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) has now been placed under the microscope of the Pamela Monroe Ellis-led Auditor General’s Department (AuGD). Finance and the...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Teachers’ Colleges of Jamaica (TCJ) is calling for the Government to withhold the salaries of teachers who are found to be operating without a licence, instead of seeking to criminalise them under the Jamaica Teaching Council (...