The history-making incoming leader of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has backed the use of states of emergency (SOEs) as a crime-fighting tool but acknowledges concerns about the increased deployment of the military in civilian security operations....

Accused assassination plotter John Joel Joseph and his family are believed to have surreptitiously moved into a house in Warminster, St Elizabeth, less than 48 hours before their arrest last Friday. Joseph, a Haitian, his ex-wife, and his two...

While the Ministry of Education and Youth struggles to iron out lingering policy issues that have left two critical training institutions in limbo, lawmakers turned up the heat Wednesday on a senior ministry official for allegedly misleading a...

WESTERN BUREAU: Sergeant Sheldon Dobson was not accustomed to taking his on-year-old daughter to daycare and a change of routine on Monday is said to have resulted in the death of the toddler, who was reportedly left locked inside his car for eight....

The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has applied for an injunction to immediately halt construction of a St Andrew apartment complex it claims is in contravention of the approved building plan. The development, which is at 9...

Amid reports that former acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Dr Grace McLean, would resume work today, Queen’s Counsel Peter Champagnie has said that his client has not been told when to return. Meanwhile, Education Minister....

Permanent secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Audrey Sewell, has revealed that the contract of the former managing director of HEART/NSTA Trust, Janet Dyer, was not renewed because she approved salary hikes to senior personnel...

A major accident near the Spanish Town exit along the P.J. Patterson Highway in the vicinity of March Pen Road, St Catherine, yesterday claimed the life of one man and left 22 others injured, four of whom have been admitted to hospital in serious......

WESTERN BUREAU: Inclement weather in the latter part of last year is being blamed for yet another delay in the planned opening of the newly built Montego Bay Fire Station in St James, but Local Government Desmond McKenzie has said that the building....

Several people have been injured in a major motor vehicle crash on Highway 2000 near the March Pen Bridge. A Toyota Coaster passenger bus another vehicle are involved. Photos from the crash scene shows the mangled vehicles.  More details soon...

Sanctions have been recommended against Rovel Morris, chief executive officer (CEO) of the St Ann Municipal Corporation, for the accounting officer’s role in a corruption scandal that enmeshed then Mayor Michael Belnavis and which involved the...

Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton said Jamaica could have commenced the immunisation of children under 12 if the required COVID-19 vaccines were available. Late last year, Cuba began a massive vaccination campaign for children.....

BRIDGETOWN (Barbados Nation): IT WILL BE a general election like never before today as Barbadians determine their path of governance for the next five years. The polls will be held amid a wave of COVID-19 infections in a once-in-a-century pandemic.....

A former inmate is suing the State for an erectile condition that he reportedly developed while in state care which has left him impotent. He is seeking millions of dollars in compensation. The claimant, Rupert Campbell, had developed an episode of....

A departure from the bauxite production levy on Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II in 2018 in favour of a profit-share agreement may have cost the Government US$81 million in earnings, but Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has cautioned against “...

Farmers are being courted for registration in the National Identification System (NIDS), the one-stop database through which the Holness administration aims to formalise thousands of Jamaicans who are off the grid. That intervention is expected to.....

WESTERN BUREAU: MORE PEOPLE could be killed if the divisional headquarters (HQ) for the Westmoreland police is relocated outside the parish capital to Llandilo, says former violence interrupter Bishop O’Neil Russell. Russell, who is also the...

Pledging a sustained effort to save lives and restore law and order, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang said the Government will be ramping up forces over the next two months in the zone of special operations (ZOSO) imposed in Parade...

Yielding to pressure from doctors and nurses, the Holness administration has ordered all public hospitals to treat only emergency cases in a bid to manage a crippling coronavirus outbreak that has flooded wards and caused infected healthcare staff.....

WESTERN BUREAU: The Heinz Simonitsch School in Rose Hall, St James, is rejecting discrimination claims by the mother of an eight-year-old boy, who is in the transitional phase of growing his dreadlocks in sync with his religion, that he was being......