People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has dismissed the notion of sanctions against Senator Peter Bunting for his role in the granting of gun licences to two persons with criminal traces, for which he was cited in a special report ...

Amid increasing calls for greater funding of early-childhood institutions, Education Minister Fayval Williams has suggested that the Government first needs to establish a tighter grip on the sector, approximately 85 per cent of which is privately.....

The Association of Government Medical Consultants has taken the State to the Supreme Court seeking to get orders to have the emergency-duty allowance form part of its members’ pensionable salary. Also known as the on-call allowance, it has been......

A fit, 50-year-old Richard Brown was the first participant to cross the finish line in the corporate ‘team bubble’ run at Sunday’s 24th staging of the Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run, the biggest road race in Jamaica since the coronavirus outbreak...

“Paranoid.” That’s K.D. Knight’s self-assessment of the anxiety he has borne daily, even before his wife Pauline, a development expert, died from complications from COVID-19 seven months ago. The veteran attorney-at-law is still maintaining ...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s tourist industry is on the cusp of pre-pandemic buoyancy and the month of March is leading the recovery with a pre-forecast of 200,000 visitors into the island. Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett made the announcement......

WESTERN BUREAU: Members of St James’ disabled community are lauding the possibility of more doors being opened for them following the St James Municipal Corporation’s (StJMC) recent announcement that it will reject building-construction plans th...

A constable attached to the St Ann’s Bay highway patrol must be counting her lucky stars after her Glock service pistol that she lost on Saturday was found by a resident and handed over to the police. According to reports from the police, shortly....

Cop weeps after freed of assault District Constable Dawn Smikle, who was charged with the injury and assault of three colleagues during a fracas at the Old Harbour Police Station, cried tears of relief as she was freed last Friday following her....

Some very senior members of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are now fretful that Friday’s near-midnight resignation of the controversial Robert Montague from the Cabinet, capping a turbulent past six years, will expose cracks in the governing party...

The public silence of Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding on the Integrity Commission’s (IC) report on two former security ministers, Robert Montague and Peter Bunting, granting gun licences under controversial...

Love her or hate her, Paula Vanessa Llewellyn, Jamaica’s first female and outgoing director of public prosecutions (DPP) – the Government’s chief prosecutor – has courage. Lots of it. The girl who grew up believing she was ugly, outfitted w...

There were mixed views from residents in Western St Mary yesterday but embattled Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Montague still holds the majority support of constituents after resigning from the Andrew Holness-led Cabinet late Friday night...

While ex-convicts found guilty of drug-related crimes and lottery scammers were being granted gun licences, Jamaica’s gun authority – the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) – reserved the real ‘VIP’ treatment for politicians, its former boa...

Former deputy chairman of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) Dennis Meadows has resigned from all state boards as the fallout from the Integrity Commission’s (IC) investigation into the issuance of questionable gun licences intensifies. In a.....

The man who blew the whistle on the Trafigura scandal believes it could have been put to rest very early had the People’s National Party (PNP) come “clean” about a controversial $31-million payment from Dutch firm Trafigura Beheer in 2006. The...

As the price of chicken, pig, goat and cattle feed is set to increase on Monday, consumers are being warned to brace for movement in meat prices. Nutramix, one of Jamaica’s premier manufacturers of animal feed, said its products will cost more as....

Executive Director of the Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal (JAMP), Jeanette Calder, wants public officials involved in the deepening Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) scandal to step aside from their public duties until further investigations...

Market vendors in a section of the Coronation Market in downtown Kingston are in despair as millions of dollars in goods went up in smoke yesterday bringing to three, the number of markets razed by fires in three weeks. The section of the market...

WESTERN BUREAU: WESTMORELAND BUSINESSMAN Moses Chybar says the Government has not gone far enough in ensuring that the most vulnerable will be protected from increasing global fuel prices, arguing that the practical thing to do was to roll back the....