Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett yesterday blamed pilot error for Thursday morning’s incident in which Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas cruise vessel crashed into the dock at Historic Falmouth in Trelawny, but the Port Authority of Jamaica ...

St Andrew East Rural Member of Parliament Juliet Holness has suggested that people are being paid to facilitate dumping of garbage and other waste in the Hope River, a situation which has caused concern for residents of Kintyre, who fear it places.....

The fraud trial involving two former Petrojam executives was yesterday adjourned and will resume on November 21 for three weeks in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Dr Perceval Singh, the state refinery’s former chairman, and former General...

Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Winston Smith yesterday urged his colleague educators to make taking care of themselves a priority as he led them in a service of prayer and reflection in the wake of the deaths of several persons amon...

Former May Pen Mayor Scean Barnswell has criticised the Government for not extending COVID-19 restrictions when the orders under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) expired a few weeks ago, citing this as the reason for the current fifth wave......

Angry protesters yesterday staged a demonstration at the entrance to the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, registering their opposition to an attempt by the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) to close a popular food outlet at....

“A fitting name and a symbol of hope.” That is how Prime Minister Andrew Holness described the Desmond McKenzie Transitional Centre for the Homeless on King Street in downtown Kingston, as it was being officially opened on Friday. Ground was......

Jamaica’s vibrant tourism sector is critical to lifting the country out of any potential economic pitfalls caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and any hiccups in the global supply chain which led to disruptions in manufacturing and others sectors, say...

United Kingdom-based author Cecil Browne has made history for his native country of St Vincent and the Grenadines by being the first to win a regional prize in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He had entered the competition three times prior and....

After spending five years and five months in prison in connection with his alleged involvement in the Clansman-One Don Gang, Damaine Elliston’s main wish as a free man is to reunite with his six-year-old daughter. “Mi wah send fi her ‘cause a ...

WESTERN BUREAU: As intra-gang warfare deepens in St James, Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers has admitted that it has been difficult to break criminals’ stronghold in a grinding war of attrition. That grim analysis came hours aft...

Members of a joint select committee reviewing the Cybercrimes Act, 2015, placed the microscope Thursday on the various forms of online fraud, like those perpetrated against National Commercial Bank (NCB) customers in the last two weeks, to ensure......

Disappointed at being overlooked after several attempts to acquire the iconic Catherine Hall Entertainment Centre in Montego Bay, businessman Richard Lake is calling for greater transparency in deals involving government properties. Lake’s firm,.....

Homeowner Emmanuel Yisa is hoping that a tour by officials yesterday will spur much-needed action to address a long-standing flooding problem in Harbour Drive, where an unfinished gully channels floodwaters on to properties even as it erodes them,.....

WESTERN BUREAU: On the heels of a Gleaner report that a 14-year-old ward of the St Catherine-based Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre has been suffering abuse at the hands of staff members, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has...

A high-level probe is under way to determine the motive behind the gun murder of Lennox Hines, Jamaica Labour Party councillor-caretaker for the Southboro division in St Catherine. The incident occurred shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday along the busy....

Two persons were gunned down in St James on Thursday as bullets continue to rain in the northwestern parish. The latest incident occurred shortly after 4 p.m., inside People’s Arcade, located in downtown Montego Bay. The Barnett Street police...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has warned against what he termed a “dangerous disconnect” by people in the society who view resources provided by the State for the public good as theirs to vandalise, simply because it is seen as free. Holness, wh...

WESTERN BUREAU: A chilling threat by her 14-year-old son that he will kill himself if she does not get him out of the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre has been causing a Westmoreland woman great anguish as her twin sons allege they are being.....