Mandeville, Manchester: The fourth wave of COVID-19 has left the Mandeville Regional Hospital and the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) struggling to cope with a sharp surge in the number of patients battling the highly transmissible......

Jamaica’s already frightening murder figures of more than 1,400 last year could have skyrocketed closer to 2,000 had it not been for the efforts of the police in intercepting nearly 400 attempts at committing homicides, head of the Jamaica...

Opposition Senator Donna Scott-Mottley on Friday renewed the call for the identities of persons listed on the Sex Offenders Registry and the crimes for which they were convicted to be made public, citing the case of disgraced deceased pastor Kevin.....

The recall of Floyd Green to the Cabinet without any conclusive pronouncement by the police on the alleged no-movement day violation over which he resigned his portfolio as minister of agriculture and fisheries sends a very dangerous signal to the.....

Glenmuir High School has been announced as the top value-added traditional/secondary school in the island based on a recent study conducted by the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission. On Thursday, the Jamaica Education Transformation...

New head of the Kingston Central Police Division, Superintendent Beresford Williams, told residents and stakeholders during a street meeting yesterday inside the Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) that the divisional murders should be held under 20.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Custos Rotolorum of Westmoreland Hartley Perrin has bemoaned the level of fear that is gripping residents of the crime-torn parish. “We are here, and we fraid like hell, when I leave here to go where I live I am going to be lookin...

Government Senator Kavan Gayle has urged the administration to amend a number of labour-related pieces of legislation and establish an unemployment insurance scheme, based on the lived experiences of Jamaicans since the onset of COVID-19. In an...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Winston Smith is calling for mutual collaboration between schools, parents, and communities for the development of students, as the absence of any one of these stakeholders will result....

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....