Amid the low number of rulings by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has reaffirmed his commitment to ensuring that Jamaica adopt the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the island’s final appellate court...

More than a million dollars of ammunition was estimated to have been unloaded last Wednesday and Thursday as gangsters traded bullets in Kingston in apparent crude war games. The battlefield was centred in the Kingston Western Police Division,...

Washington is seeking to repair its soured relations with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) following the regional divisions that ensued after the Trump administration handpicked four member states for an exclusive meeting in March 2019, sparking......

The father-daughter artist duo Hilroy and Jacey Bulgin stood out at the Association of Jamaican Potters annual art and craft fair on Saturday. Bulgin, a 40-year-old fine artist based in Rose Hall, Montego Bay, recalled that his mother, a retired......

The Biden administration has pledged more support in curbing the smuggling of guns from Haiti into Jamaica amid a sharp increase in murders here. Mark Wells, the United States deputy assistant secretary for Caribbean affairs and Haiti at the Bureau....

A four-year-old is battling for life after being shot in the head during a drive-by attack by gunmen that killed one man. The incident occurred in Bunnan Gully, a community located along Mannings Hill Road in St Andrew. The deceased has been...

Lawmakers may be hard-pressed to keep a 1 p.m. appointment for a meeting of the Standing Finance Committee, which is scheduled for Tuesday, December 14, based on their track record in recent years. At the last sitting of the House of...

Social-media platforms are emerging as a new frontier for female sex workers amid curfews and gathering restrictions implemented to curb the coronavirus outbreak. Dr Alisha Robb-Allen, acting senior medical officer of the HIV/STI/TB Unit - Health......

The financial hardships are beginning to set in for Antoinette Calderon*, the Qualcare Jamaica Limited employee who has been on unpaid vacation leave for refusing to comply with the COVID-19 policy implemented by her employers two months ago. It......

Therese Turner-Jones – general manager of the Jamaica-based Caribbean Country Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which oversees the lending agency and development organisation’s work across several English-speaking Caribbe...

A threat by the Government to take legal action against families who have abandoned relatives at the island’s public hospitals has not scared Candace*, who is convinced that her father, Carlton*, is right where he should be: out of her life. Healt...

WESTERN BUREAU: Some days, the name is Abelo Forex; on other days, Kabelo Forex Goat Investments. The only constant is the image depicting Jamaican businessman Aubyn Henry, whose physical identity has been stolen by South African scammers. A month.....

Having done extensive research on cybercrime, head of that unit at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), Andrea Martin-Swaby, pointed out that identity theft has been a problem which predates the evolution of social media....

The five employees of pharmaceutical giant Cari-Med, who yesterday suffered a major blow in their bid to challenge the company’s vaccination policy after the Supreme Court threw out the constitutional aspect of the legal challenge, have signalled....

“There is no question that Jamaica has to become a republic.” That definitive declaration was made by Prime Minister Andrew yesterday, while delivering the keynote address during the official opening ceremony at Christel House Jamaica in Twicken...

Opposition Senator Damion Crawford is recommending that secondary schools concentrate primarily on five subjects as students return to the classrooms during the pandemic with the need to observe social-distancing guidelines. He said that if...

One of the leaders of a protest staged yesterday across from the United States (US) Embassy in Liguanea, St Andrew, objecting to what is said was that country’s meddling in the current Ethiopian conflict, has declared that he would have no...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Public Defender Arlene Harrison-Henry is urging Jamaicans to become more aware of their rights and responsibilities, noting that the two go hand in hand. Speaking yesterday – which was observed as International Human Rights...

Pencils4Kids founder and CEO Randy Griffiths believes that in order for education to be adaptable and inspire children, it must start with the learning environment and early on in each child’s development. Griffiths is an alumnus of the Quickstep...

Justice Vinette Graham Allen on Thursday denied a request for a closer mention date to afford a murder accused an opportunity to attend his mother’s funeral. Defence attorney Ernest Davis had made the plea on behalf of Oscar Barnes, who is jointly...