The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) has been granting privately owned credit bureaus and other financial institutions paid verification access to the island’s voter identification database with the country’s information commissioner admitt...

The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) currently has contracts with eight financial institutions, granting them paid verification access to its voter ID database under similar terms as the credit bureaus. Parliamentarian Julian Robinson, who...

A plot to kill a “potential witness” in a criminal case is among over a dozen crimes investigators have traced to a Clarendon gang that allegedly counted eight cops among its members, a top police official has revealed. The crimes mainly include...

If effervescence was a person, it would be the beautiful Eldemire girl who married Hugh Shearer and has been championing causes for senior citizens in Jamaica. Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer is a medical doctor and the island’s resident ageing....

One of the three men shot dead in Norwood, St James, yesterday morning is believed to have been among the gunmen who carried out a deadly attack in the Warrica Drive section of the community on Friday night, killing another man. Those slaughtered......

The best are smooth and amicable, cordial and easy, while the worst are inflamed with raw resentment, lies, and sometimes, even hatred. Yet Jamaicans are increasingly filing for divorce – a record 4,381 last year alone – as fingers point to COV...

Charging that numerous members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force are involved in the island’s underworld today, former Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams said he is not surprised by yesterday’s arrest of four members of the force, all...

Earnest prayers were made for the protection of the residents of Maverley in St Andrew Friday morning, a little more than 12 hours after a brazen gun attack by gangsters who shot six people, leaving three dead, on Thursday night. Old-time gospel...

Schools across Jamaica have been directed to utilise metal detectors daily, as part of measures to improve the safety of students and staff. This directive from the minister of education, Fayval Williams, follows Monday’s fatal stabbing of Khamal...

WESTERN BUREAU: With the impact of COVID-19 still fresh in their minds, key players in the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ), formerly known as the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ), are urging their business...

WESTERN BUREAU: OMAR SWEENEY, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), is urging beneficiaries of the fund’s grant projects not to sell the equipment they get from programmes meant to bolster their businesses if they no...

Defence lawyers in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial are fuming over its seven-week adjournment for which they will not be paid although they have a mountain of work to do, and are calling for the intervention of Justice Minister Delroy Chuck. The...

Decoy Royal recounts his years as a teen selling okra in the May Pen market in Clarendon as the most difficult years of his life. The 28-year-old, now an agriculture teacher and supervisor for the crop production department at the College of...

Her story is one of a changed woman with an unwavering faith in God who is reaching out for help to assist her two kids, a bright 10-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy who has never been to school. In her first year at Kemps Hill High School......

“God, why You give me them and tek them back just so?” a grief-stricken Micey Walters asked amid a flood of tears yesterday after her infant daughters – Kayla, 4, and Abigail, 3 – perished in a fire that gutted their Clarendon home. “God, ...

The mother of the first child abducted last October, allegedly by Davian Bryan, is elated at Wednesday’s detention of the fugitive but would rather he be dead than be fed and cared for in prison. That is a view shared by residents of Airy Castle.....

The mother of 24-year-old Tascian Copeland, the pregnant woman among two persons murdered while travelling on a bike taxi in Westmoreland on Wednesday night, is calling for the Government to resume hanging. Copeland was returning home from work...

Shame and regret are sentiments that sum up the last five months for the Bath, St Thomas, woman who invited Davian Bryan to stay with her as condition of his bail pending his judicial fate in neighbouring Portland. What began as acceptance of a...

Jamaica is reporting a significant decline in the take-up of COVID-19 jabs and a “very slow increase” in full vaccination – trends that have triggered concern for health officials, with the country well shy of its end-of-March 67 per cent tar...

Joseph Joel John, the former Haitian senator linked to the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, has one wish before he is whisked off to America on an extradition request: for his family to remain in Jamaica. An application for refugee status...