Hours after five Cabinet ministers appeared to flout the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) while attending an entertainment event Tuesday night, the father of a man who was thrown into prison for 30 days for mask-wearing and no-movement day...

Two public officials have been tagged “grossly incompetent” in an Integrity Commission report for their handling of two contracts that cost Jamaican taxpayers $20 million. The report, which was tabled in Parliament on March 8, covered an...

A person in the company of a licensed firearm holder who commits a felony could, in the absence of what the law terms “reasonable excuse”, also be charged jointly with the person who has the gun permit. A controversial provision – (Section 43...

WESTERN BUREAU: DARK CLOUDS are hovering over the businesses of egg farmers in Jamaica. And given a huge and continuous spike in costs in production inputs like feed, it has been predicted that small-scale interests with 1,000 or fewer could...

St Catherine farmer Jermaine Black, who became somewhat of a social-media sensation at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, has had to resort to generating his own feed for his livestock amid the skyrocketing cost of inputs. A 25kg bag of...

National Commercial Bank (NCB) has spent the last six months reorganising some of its branches to take on heavier workloads while downgrading others to serve as banking agencies in the lead-up to the financial giant’s announcement Wednesday that i...

Production of medical grade oxygen at Industrial Gases Limited (IGL) will be increased by 40 per cent with the commissioning of an oxygen PSA plant. IGL, Jamaica’s lone supplier of medical oxygen, currently produces 13 tonnes of the product daily...

The Clansman-One Don Gang trial in the Home Circuit Court was on Wednesday adjourned until March 23 after the prosecution requested time to peruse digital evidence, including the call-data records, which the Crown will be using to support its main.....

The largely unregulated use of chemicals in agriculture has spawned public-health dangers like cancer for the population, an organic farmer based in western Jamaica has charged. In an address at Tuesday’s launch of a study on the pattern and use o...

Hanover police investigators are now probing Wednesday night's shooting of seven men, three fatally in Santoy district, Logwood in the parish.

Declaring that consumers need a break from soaring petrol prices, Opposition Leader Mark Golding recommended on Tuesday that the Government cap the ad valorem special consumption tax (SCT) on fuel at US$67.50 per barrel. If his proposal is...

A new round of supply lock-offs could begin as early as this Friday as the National Water Commission (NWC) moves to manage rising global energy costs which are being exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war. Describing the oil market as volatile, NWC.....

Declaring that it was not the time for “fiscal conservatism”, Opposition Leader Mark Golding is pushing the Holness administration to consider an additional expenditure of $40 billion, or two per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), to address....

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has poured cold water on Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke’s Budget presentation, asserting that it “missed the mark” in charting solutions for the “unprecedented crisis” facing the country. Golding said Clar...

On the heels of the Integrity Commission’s special report which tagged two former national security ministers in the scandal gripping the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding is pressing for the passage of an......

Alexander Shaw, attorney for Stephanie Christie, the reputed pastor and sole female defendant in the ongoing Clansman Gang trial, has accused a retired inspector and gang investigator of fabricating evidence to secure convictions. The accusation.....

Confirmed cases of accidental pesticide poisoning in recent years underscore the importance of a $20-million study to be undertaken by the Pesticides Control Authority and The University of the West Indies’ Mona Campus, says Minister of Health and...

A double murder in Green Pond, St James, on Monday has triggered outrage, sparking calls for increased police patrols in the western Jamaica community. Those killed have been identified as 19-year-old O’Neil Thelwell, otherwise called ‘CJ’,.....

Two People’s National Party-aligned former national security ministers have backed the scrapping of ministerial authority in the approval of gun licences on review amid a firestorm that has cost the Andrew Holness administration a Cabinet member.....

Opposition Spokesman on National Security Peter Bunting has sought to poke holes in the Integrity Commission’s special report linking him to the evolving scandal at the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA). In a brief statement to the media on Monda...