Jamaica’s National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Police Commissioner Antony Anderson are under mounting pressure to curb a tidal wave of murder that has swept the country, with an average of five homicides committed every day in 2022. The....

WESTERN BUREAU: Departing COVID-19-positive visitors who are asymptomatic will no longer need a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test in order to be released from isolation, says Jamaica’s Ministry of Health and Wellness. This is in keeping with th...

Queen’s Counsel Tom Tavares-Finson, who represents the embattled Alliance duo Peter and Robert Chin, has signalled intentions to have the court subpoena top government officials, including Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke. Alliance Finance Limite...

Former Education Minister Ronald Thwaites yesterday expressed satisfaction with the findings of the Professor Orlando Patterson-led Jamaica Education Transformation Commission as its long-awaited report was launched after a comprehensive review of.....

As Jamaica grapples with the soaring homicide rate, Dr Nigel Clarke, the minister of finance and the public service, announced on Thursday that the Government has allocated $1 billion in the Second Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure to acquire.....

In the wake of public condemnation of its oversight breaches and the interdiction of senior officials, Mayor Delroy Williams has proposed an overhaul of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation’s (KSAMC) Planning Department into two units....

Finance Minister Nigel Clarke has stoutly defended the Government’s decision to pay off a US$50-million debt to the Bank of Nova Scotia on behalf of the National Water Commission (NWC). Describing the decision as a step in the right direction,...

In a deadly twist of fate, two men were fatally shot while allegedly attempting to plunder a worksite at which they were employed in Bull Bay, St Andrew, after running into other co-workers with similar intentions on Tuesday night. The deceased –....

Retired St Mary farmer Ryland Forbes uttered a sigh of relief in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Tuesday after three criminal cases that had been before the court for more than 40 years finally came to an end. Forbes, 59, discovered......

Financial Secretary Darlene Morrison has admitted that the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service has become aware of employment contracts that are in breach of the ministry’s policy and guidelines but noted that there are no prescribed...

The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) has penned a letter to Prime Minister Andrew Holness seeking audience following his announcement in Parliament on Tuesday that a COVID-19 vaccinate-or-test mandate is coming for public-sector workers....

There is mounting unease among surgical staff at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine who are being forced to perform operations in simmering temperatures in the two operating theatres there. This is because the frequently malfunctioning air-.....

Stating that today’s criminals were more tech-savvy than those of the past and were using modern advances to outmanoeuvre cops, a senior clergyman yesterday called for a change in tactics to boost the police’s response to crime. Pastor Glen Samu...

A HEARTBROKEN Albert Reid struggled to recognise the lifeless body of his runaway 15-year-old daughter, Toni-Ann, after she and a man were slain by gunmen as they slept in bed in Roehampton, St James, yesterday morning. The other victim, 25-year-......

Administrators at the Denham Town High School in Kingston and the police are banding together to try to shield kids from recruitment into gangs and shelter them from violence, planning to ramp up their efforts as the students return for the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Fourteen years in the making, some 250,000 tourism workers now have access to a $1-billion Government-funded pension scheme. Launched at the Montego Bay Convention Centre on Wednesday morning, the Tourism Workers Pension Scheme (...

Worried that her boys could be sucked into the cycle of violence plaguing the area, a Kingston Central mother has expressed a willingness to share her Wi-Fi password with cops to accommodate a security post at her Sutton Street gate. The mother had....

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has issued a stern warning to the Ministry of Education, declaring that it runs the risk of falling victim to fraud, unauthorised withdrawals, and significant bank errors because of its failure to prepare its...

Evergreen lawmaker and government minister Karl Samuda has slammed critics of the retention of veterans in the Holness Cabinet, arguing that “disrespect” for senior statespersons was born out of ageism. Samuda, the labour and social security...

WESTERN BUREAU: Noelle Jackson was seated on an American Airlines flight that had just taxied off from the Norman Manley International to Miami Monday morning when she was compelled to appeal to the crew to return to the gate. “I knew something wa...