WESTERN BUREAU: Government ministries, departments, and agencies have been urged not to engage with, or fund, secessionist Maroons who are asserting sovereignty from the Jamaican State, a leaked Cabinet Office document has said. Though none of the....

Three senior personnel in charge of a National Health Fund (NHF) warehouse cold room that is suspected to have been sabotaged have been sent on leave while the police conduct a probe into the incident that affected more than 900,000 COVID-19...

Dozens of hospital staff islandwide are in isolation following a surge in COVID-19 infections amid a global eruption of the Omicron variant, limiting outpatient care and halting surgical operations at some facilities. For the first time since...

WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS IN a section of Brighton, St Elizabeth, known as ‘Zoar’ are calling on the Government to establish a unit in the Jamaica Constabulary Force to deal with mental health patients and to train cops in how to interface with....

At least one developer is warning that the proposed increase of eight per cent in the price of cement by the country’s main supplier, Carib Cement, will have a significant impact on the lower-income end of the housing market. “The low-income en...

The alleged driver of a car in which a woman was reportedly kidnapped, robbed, and beaten in Kingston Thursday had his bail revoked after it was reported that he had threatened an individual who he believed was responsible for his arrest. The...

The Kingston Central policeman yanked from frontline duty for threatening to kill any resident caught with an illegal gun “is the subject of a wider enquiry”, the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) has said. That revelation was ma...

Having been blamed – and even prosecuted – for a number of fish kills in the past and with the State’s environmental watchdog last year saying that Windalco had not been doing enough to protect the Rio Cobre, the St Catherine-based company on....

The finance ministry is considering surcharge action of $11.2 million against sidelined acting Permanent Secretary Dr Grace McLean and more than $112 million against the in-limbo incumbent Dean-Roy Bernard, documents bearing the signature of...

There are concerns in the medical field about the accuracy of COVID-19 tests being conducted by private facilities as well as suggestions that false negatives are being arrived at because of poor technique. The issue came to the fore on Wednesday.....

Hinting that Jamaica’s ambitions of attaining developed-country status was at risk because of epidemic levels of criminal violence, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said he will be commissioning an external review to determine the island’s progress...

WESTERN BUREAU: As the Accompong Maroons in St Elizabeth prepare for their 284th anniversary celebration today, two of the country’s most respected constitutional lawyers say the group is not immune from obeying the laws of the land, including a.....

As schools received the green light to reopen for face-to-face learning on Monday, Romario Sterling, policy chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party’s Generation 2000 (G2K) young professional affiliates’ group, is advocating for the inclusion of......

A high court judge has warned that lawyers whose failure to adequately prepare for their matters, resulting in adjournments, could find themselves appearing before the General Legal Council or before the court, after slapping Hollislaw firm with a.....

James Moss-Solomon, whose death on Tuesday shocked Jamaicans and drew encomiums for his contributions to national development, was not only revered as an influential businessman and patriot. He was also a “consummate musician” with the “ear o...

While he was in Jamaica, Colombian fugitive Mario Antonio Palacios voluntarily gave statements to United States (US) law-enforcement authorities about his involvement in the plot to assassinate former Haitian President Jovenel Moϊse, a senior...

If battling sickle-cell disease was not tough enough, a nine-year-old boy’s family is eager for him to be discharged from The Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew after being admitted on New Year’s Day with a gunshot wound. The boy,......

James Moss-Solomon, the private sector and trade advocate whose voice commanded attention in the realms of business and politics but who charmed common folk, died on Tuesday morning at hospital. The manufacturing and philanthropic stalwart was 70......

Against the backdrop of an emerging COVID-19 fourth wave and Monday’s resumption of face-to-face classes, Education Minister Fayval Williams has said that the Holness administration has not established an infection or positivity rate benchmark tha...

The family of 88-year-old Kenneth Brown, the senior citizen from Bent Town in Mulgrave district, St Elizabeth, who went missing from his home since December 18, say they are unable to come up with $500,000 to pay residents to remove a decomposing......