There are more questions about negligence or possible corruption at the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) and the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) following a court case that revealed that a developer built 32...

Seasoned trade unionist Granville Valentine says Monday’s Supreme Court ruling to deny Digicel Jamaica and Cari-Med Limited employees reprieve against the implementation of mandatory COVID vaccine policies pending trial will result in the wanton.....

Jovan Johnson/Senior Staff Reporter Edward Gabbidon has resigned as board chairman of the HEART/NSTA Trust amid concerns about his position and the relationship his company, SynCon Technologies, has with the troubled skills training agency. It......

With 41 per 100,000 of the homicides committed in Jamaica being men, Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson says that young males have become endangered species in the country. Addressing a meeting of the Kiwanis Club of St Andrew at.....

Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) President Michael Leckie backs the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccine pass to avoid the return of another round of bruising lockdowns that have decimated many businesses and sparked sporadic economic...

A retired High Court judge has said that he knows of no reason why jailbreak investigations should he conducted “behind closed doors”. Retired Justice Lennox Campbell believes, also, that these investigations should include senior police officer...

A grieving St Andrew family is appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the murder of four-year-old Quhaine James, who was shot in the head two Saturdays ago in a drive-by shooting in which a man was also killed, to share what they know to help......

Despite having only 17 per cent of its students vaccinated – a far cry from the education ministry’s intended goal of 65 per cent – Bellefield administrators are making headway to remedy a long-standing challenge with a $60-million push to...

Sagicor Investments Jamaica Limited (SIJL) is threatening legal action against the Barbados-registered Cornerstone Financial Holdings Limited (CFHL) and the members of its board of directors in the Supreme Court of Barbados in connection with what.....

Former Island Lubes Distributors Limited director John Levy and his wife Donna were on Monday slapped with fraud charges in relation to the transfer of a motor car. The couple is to appear before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on January 6....

Therese Turner-Jones, the Caribbean economist and noted development advocate, says she has no ill will towards the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or its president, Mauricio Claver-Carone, who this month pulled the plug on her nearly nine-...

An ongoing rift between rival factions in the Gulf area of Gregory Park, St Catherine, has triggered new tensions in the crime-plagued community as residents blame the St Catherine South police and political representatives for taking sides in the.....

Pressure is mounting for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to remove Edward Gabbidon as chairman of the board of HEART/NSTA Trust because of the relationship between the multibillion-dollar training agency and Gabbidon’s company, SynCon Technologies....

WESTERN BUREAU: Still basking in the afterglow of calling her two sons to the Bar at the Supreme Court ceremony last Thursday, Queen’s Counsel Sandra Minott-Phillips says she has not taken the double delight for granted. Jacob, 27, and 28-year-old...

Evergreen Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is urging sportswomen to continue to advocate for gender equaity in track and field and other disciplines and not be overshadowed by male dominance. Fraser-Pryce, 34, has caught a second wind...

An employer of murdered mechanic Marlon ‘Irons’ Salmon said news that his mentor had been shot was a horrifying reminder of an incident in which Salmon was shot at his Denbigh Crescent-based workshop in Clarendon last year. Remembering the 2020....

Elaine Thompson-Herah, the world’s fastest woman alive, zipped into Banana Ground, Manchester, on Saturday and brought Christmas cheer to residents who turned out for their hometown hero. The five-time Olympic champion personally distributed care....

A man who has been on the run for two months after he mysteriously “walked out” of a police lock-up in St James is now a “major suspect” in the killing of the complainant in his assault case, a top police official has revealed. The male comp...

WESTERN BUREAU: With entertainment events still being restricted as the usually party-heavy Christmas into New Year’s Day period approaches, sector players as well as those in the culture and creative industries have welcomed yesterday’s...

Corruption allegations have been levelled against the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) after it admitted that an “administrative error” led to the approval of strata plans for 14 apartment units at a controversial Birdsucker,...