Dismissing sporadic calls for the disbandment of the army, Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss-Gorman has described the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) as the backbone of the State and the axis of major disaster-response operations, including the coronavirus....

When storm-like conditions years ago threatened to capsize the vessel a young Antonette Wemyss-Gorman was commanding, a verbal lashing from the feisty captain caused panicky crew members to regroup and steady the ship. The crew had left the...

Maureen Dwyer, acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education and Youth, has acknowledged the concerns of disgruntled staff of the Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI) but said that she could not give a timeline for their...

The nation’s leaders are being urged to put aside “juvenile” partisan politics in order to move the country forward as it looks to celebrate 60 years of Independence this August. Amid a spiralling crime problem and challenges from the COVID-19...

The wife of the ex-Haitian opposition senator linked to the assassination of then President Jovenel Moïse wept on Thursday as she was being led away from the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court after she and her husband and their two sons were...

Well-known St Andrew businessman Craig ‘Sprinta’ Gooden became the latest murder victim of the violence gripping the Plum Lane, Whitehall Avenue area of St Andrew yesterday morning, days after three persons were shot, one fatally. Head of the S...

Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, chief medical officer (CMO) in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, has reported that there is an increase in the number of pregnant women hospitalised with COVID-19 as the island experiences a fourth wave of the...

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 one-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...

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.....