Bengal Development’s quest, which has been backed by the prime minister, to mine in the ecologically sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains is going ahead after the State’s environmental regulator accommodated the late payment of a $40-million bond.......

The body of Kevin Ontoneil Smith, the notorious charismatic religious leader whose name and death have become Jamaican tales, has reportedly been cremated with his family silent on whether the ashes have been interred. It’s the cap on the weeks of...

While the tale of Kevin Smith grabbed and held on to national attention, spawning dozens of copies, hours of broadcast and endless social media chatter, there were other major talking points that were in contention for newsmaker for 2021. 1....

The local Maroon communities intend to seek audience with Prime Minister Andrew Holness to try and ease simmering tension between the Government and the indigenous groups, especially in relation to those in the Cockpit Country led by Richard Currie....

A motor vehicle examiner, who is waiting for the court to hear his appeal against internal disciplinary charges in the Ministry of Transport after he was freed of corruption charges in the St Thomas Parish Court, is upset that his case has not been....

Family and friends of 26-year-old Steven ‘Short Boss’ Taylor, the young businessman who was reportedly shot to death by his father at their home in Rhyne Park Village, St James, have labelled his death an accident, urging persons to stop spreadi...

Latoya Blake, the mother of six-year-old Tyrece Wint, one of the two boys who were shot and injured during a confrontation at a party in Accompong Town, St Elizabeth, on Thursday night, is distressed about the incident and is also peeved that up to....

Member of Parliament for Kingston Eastern and Port Royal Phillip Paulwell says crime and violence is the number one problem in Jamaica and sometimes he, too, wants to cry as a result of the scourge affecting the country. Communities within the...

The Jamaican police appeared to have been kept in the dark about government approval of the Maroon peace treaty anniversary celebration on Thursday and backed off enforcement of coronavirus safety laws after issuing a terse warning that the event......

With the resumption of jury trial suffering a further delay in light of the island’s increasing COVID-19 positivity rate, emerging variants, low vaccination take-up coupled with other negative factors, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes believes the time...

The Universal Service Fund (USF) yesterday launched another ‘Community Connect’ Wi-Fi portal at the McIntyre Villa Community Centre in Kingston and urged residents and especially students to make the best use of the technology. The USF intends ...

Scotia Group Jamaica Limited officially launched the Scotiabank Women Initiative (SWI) on Friday, in an effort to break down barriers of inequity and marginalisation of women in the business sector. The programme, which began in Canada in 2018 with....

A female cookshop operator became the third murder victim in the Kingston Central Police Division over a 14-hour period after she was shot inside her home on Mark Lane around noon on Friday. She has since been identified as 50-year-old Sharon...

Residents of Bent Town, a section of Mulgrave district, St Elizabeth, are breathing a sigh of relief after the decomposed body of 88-year-old Kenneth Brown, the senior citizen who went missing from his home on December 18, was removed from a sink.....

UWI lecturers strike Students at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, might not have access to their December 2021 final-exam results amid industrial action by hundreds of lecturers. This announcement comes in the wake of a vote....

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...