Prime Minister Andrew Holness has expressed confidence in Edward Gabbidon as chairman of the HEART/NSTA Trust despite a litany of controversies plaguing the institution in recent times, including allegations of conflict of interest facing the board....

WESTERN BUREAU: Kingston Central Member of Parliament (MP) Donovan Williams may have breached tenets of the Agreement and Declaration on Political Conduct (Code) by allegedly overseeing the painting of sidewalks in his constituency in the...

CARICOM Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett stopped short of definitively supporting COVID-19 vaccine mandates across the region on Tuesday, opting instead to point out that governments have a right to protect their citizens. There has been strong.....

A massive clean-up exercise has been announced for the holiday season, with 500 ‘sweepers’ to be employed by the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) across the country and 300 private garbage and dump trucks retained to help in...

The CARICOM Secretariat has conceded that there is little advocacy it can muscle to push member states off a European Union (EU) anti-money laundering blacklist but rapped developed countries for constantly shifting international benchmarks....

More than 400 students on state welfare are set to be brought to school under the ‘Back on Track’ transportation initiative just in time for the start of the new academic year, commencing January 3. Six St Catherine schools will benefit from the...

A resident of Waltham Park Road in St Andrew said a concrete wall saved him from being struck by a bullet as gunmen fired indiscriminately, hitting four others during a drive-by attack on Tuesday. “We are not safe in Jamaica. You can be here today...

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the global surge in the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Jamaica’s tourism stakeholders are confident they will experience 70 per cent occupancy this Christmas into January 2022. The island’s winter tourist season...

Bail extended for UIC's Patterson, co-accused President of the United Independents' Congress, Joseph Patterson, and his co-accused had their bail extended when they appeared before Senior Parish Judge Lori-Ann Cole-Montague in the Kingston and......

The world is becoming increasingly digitised, with businesses offering products and services online and consumers preferring to access goods and services by this method. Online shopping is associated with convenience, flexibility, and a broader...

Former President of the Senate Floyd Morris says the Government is likely to face “major embarrassment” in the future if Senator Kamina Johnson continues her protest against Opposition Senator Lambert Brown, with whom she has had bad-tempered......

Ditching his ‘70s-era bush jackets, donning Kangol caps, and manicuring his scruffy beard, Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s handlers have sought to rebrand the dour commercial lawyer in the way young Labourites flipped the script in transformin...

With one of the main buildings – the post office – in the town square suffering from termite infestation, residents of Glengoffe in St Catherine have expressed fear that their community has been abandoned by the authorities. The state of the...

More than 200 persons turned up at the Mona Ageing and Wellness Centre yesterday as the Ministry of Health...

Shantiva Griffiths reportedly left her job shortly after 6 p.m. on Monday and was on her way to the bus park to meet a relative when she was shot dead. The killer close-marked the 26-year-old as she made her way across Orange Street and pumped at......

Consumers could be paying more for table eggs for Christmas as the Jamaica Egg Farmers Association (JEFA) has recommended that its members increase their farm gate prices from $350 to $380 per dozen for loose eggs and to sell branded eggs at $410......

WESTERN BUREAU: The ushering in of the Christmas season has done little to quell the bloodletting in the Area One Police Division – which covers St James, Westmoreland, Hanover, and Trelawny – with recorded seven homicides over the last weekend....

An investigator in the Clansman-One Don Gang case yesterday brushed aside questions from a defence lawyer about omissions in his statement, claiming he had only recorded what was “dominant” and “readily comes to mind”. Among the omissions a...

Residents of 142 Molynes Road in St Andrew, commonly called Ackee Walk, are refuting claims by the security forces that a man who was shot fatally yesterday had engaged the police in a shoot-out. Dead is 25-year-old Renardo ‘Nazrie’ Duncan. The....

The 876 Volunteer organisation has partnered with SwiftGift, an online gift-and-give card platform, to create an avenue for Jamaicans to donate to both local and international charities as they shop for their loved ones for the holidays. “...