The Jamaica Bankers’ Association (JBA) has defended the decision of two of its member institutions to introduce new and increased fees to customers, insisting that local banks have suffered greatly since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Bot...

Major poultry producers Jamaica Broilers and Caribbean Broilers have cautioned the Holness administration against the proposed suspension of the Common External Tariff (CET), as well as stamp duties on imported leg quarters. That action, it is...

In the wake of a damning report alleging administrative breaches by the State that allowed foreigners to snare local jobs, a leading trade unionist has warned that every effort be made to prioritise qualified Jamaican workers. President of the...

WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTERN Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has frozen all vacation leave over the next two months because of skeletal staff treating swelling numbers of COVID-19 patients at the four major hospitals in the region. Approximately 15....

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has pushed back at claims by former People’s National Party (PNP) Chairman Phillip Paulwell that the organisation would suffer dire consequences for its decision not to support the extension of states of emergency (....

Jamaica’s persistent pall for corruption remains a cause for concern for business and civic leaders, with failure to implement key legislation cited among reasons for the country’s stagnation in the latest edition of the Corruption Perception In...

A police witness in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial disclosed in testimony on Tuesday that photographs taken at a murder scene on Chancery Street in northwest St Andrew in August 2017 could not be located. The crime-scene investigator further...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has dismissed claims that the Government has abandoned COVID-19 measures, making it clear that the protocols have not changed and the current restrictions will remain in force as “guard rails” to mitigate against �...

Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie on Tuesday rebuffed Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s urgings for the Government to halve the one-year postponement of local government elections that were slated to be held by February 27. In tabling the....

Amid a call to expand zones of special operations (ZOSOs) across more violence-plagued communities, the Opposition has laid down a two-month ultimatum to Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson to curb crime or quit. ZOSOs – joint...

LONDON (AP): The Partygate scandal that threatens to derail United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s administration deepened Tuesday as police opened an investigation into gatherings at government offices that allegedly violated COVID-19...

Shanique Armstrong, the 27-year-old woman who accused healthcare workers of callous ambivalence as she reportedly delivered her baby unassisted at Spanish Town Hospital in May last year, has died without getting closure on that tragedy. The young.....

Even as the hierarchy of Jamaica’s police force has cited mounting gun seizures at the Stadium East field in St Andrew as evidence of incremental gains, security chiefs consulted with Cabinet on a response to an avalanche of murders. Killings hav...

A young man remains unconscious in a Corporate Area hospital since early Sunday morning after he leapt from a building in Stony Hill, St Andrew, suffering head and other serious injuries. The man, who is believed to be in his early 20s, was...

Noted business scholar Professor Alvin Wint is the new chairman of the troubled HEART/NSTA Trust, the Government’s multibillion-dollar skill-training agency rocked by a series of questionable management decisions. And the managing director positi...

Some educators across Jamaica have expressed concern about the lack of penmanship skills among students since they have returned to face-to-face classes. Learning loss has been a key concern of stakeholders since schools were shuttered in March...

Five years after the then members of Parliament’s Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) called for the immediate divestment of the Jamintel building, owned by the Transport Authority (TA), the property remains a choice place to...

Two police witnesses have insisted that they never fired a single shot at the alleged member of the Clansman-One Don Gang who fired at them repeatedly before he was chased and allegedly held with an illegal handgun in 2017. Both officers recalled,.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Bertel Moore, chairman of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), has said that he will not be forced to disrupt the livelihood of small business operators in order to build a fruit and vegetable market in Negril. Speaking at.....

WESTERN BUREAU: STAKEHOLDER groups have begun planning to alleviate traffic congestion in two of the major towns within the parish of Hanover – Hopewell and the capital Lucea. Both are noted for the long traffic delays and representatives from the...