THE islandwide water lock-off spurred by industrial action at the National Water Commission (NWC) has resulted in the loss of millions of dollars at the state-run entity with unions and the Government still at the negotiation table late into...

Stacy Ann Johnson was only able to source a bottle of water to allow her children to brush their teeth and wash their faces before sending them off to school on Tuesday. The nationwide strike by National Water Commission (NWC) workers derailed her.....

University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Guild President Danielle Mullings has appealed to the Mona Campus administration to implement comprehensive, long-term security plans to mitigate against attacks in the wake of the sexual assault of a female......

WESTERN BUREAU: “MJ dead! MJ dead lef mi gone!” Those were the gut-wrenching words tearfully expressed by Sandra McIntosh-Bryan, after her 11-year-old son, Jason Bryan Jr, succumbed to injuries in hospital on Monday. Jason was hit by a car on......

A woman reported standing in despair and running for cover on Monday as she witnessed masked gunmen murder her father at McKoy Lane, St Andrew. Gary ‘Matto’ Thomas, 48, was standing with a friend near his gate when two men approached and starte...

Defence lawyers representing reputed One Don gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan and 32 of his alleged cronies will on May 24 start to argue their respective cases before Chief Justice Bryan Sykes in a bid to have the charges dropped and their......

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Daryl Vaz has appealed to government ministries and agencies, as well as businesses, to shield themselves from online threats by investing in the relevant security technologies to protect their data. Vaz.....

About three years after the Zacca report recommended the privatisation of Petrojam’s refinery and terminal, Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says the document was still before the Cabinet for deliberations. However, he said that the recommendations...

Monday’s chilling discovery of the body of an apparent full-term baby on Temple Lane in downtown Kingston has caused the police to theorise that the infant was dumped at the location on Sunday, the day mothers across the country were being...

In the next five months, 22-year-old Torian Elliott would have graduated from Knox Community College with a bachelor’s degree in primary education, but that dream was crushed on Sunday when she and her unborn child died in a traffic crash. Family....

Wahkeen Murray, former acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology, was yesterday pressed to establish whether she knew that Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh resided in the United States at the time of his appointment and while...

The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) handed down a $15-million award in April 2022 to Catherine Allen for her unjustifiable dismissal by Guardian Life Limited, the entity with which she worked as an actuary. But the quasi-judicial body rebuked...

An alleged gang feud in Rocky Point is causing unrest in the southeastern Clarendon fishing village. Last Saturday, two men were killed and two others injured in a brazen daylight gun attack as tension grew. The deceased have been identified as 32-....

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James police’s new operations boss, Deputy Superintendent Eron Samuels, has credited the increase in high-intensity searches in the western Jamaica parish for the recent arrests, gun finds, and gang disruption. In...

Another box of what is believed to be human skeletal remains has been discovered at the Loyal James Lodge premises in Morant Bay, St Thomas. The additional discovery was made by staff of the St Thomas Municipal Corporation, who began demolition...

A Mother’s Day domestic dispute is at the centre of an arson attack early Monday that has left 13 people homeless, four families displaced, millions in cash destroyed, personal belongings damaged, and victims nursing injuries. When gunshots raine...

An alleged member of the Clansman-One Don Gang was heard in one of the secret records boasting how the gang had struck at Fisheries in St Catherine where a couple was shot and killed and their house set ablaze. “Chargie, a mash we mash up Fisherie...

The St Thomas police have halted a demolition exercise and commenced a probe after the morbid discovery of skeletal remains, believed to be of humans, at a derelict building in Morant Bay. The discovery was made about 9 o’clock Sunday morning...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has warned that an infusion of government subventions was not the solution to Jamaica’s food-security concerns, asserting instead that the mobilisation of investment capital into big agricultural projects was crucial....

MOORE TOWN, Portland: Emboldened by the aborted challenge by an 18-year-old upstart that aimed to loosen his decades-old grip of the Moore Town Maroons, Colonel Wallace Sterling has threatened to root out dissidents in the Portland settlement,...