The Crime Monitoring Oversight Committee (CMOC) is pushing for the Government to provide a timeline on when the draft for the Enhanced Security Measures Act will be completed or be tabled. The proposed law is being touted as a major tool to...

The Government has intensified its plan to put 15,000 hectares of land under Irish potato cultivation and to increase onion production in the next planting season. Approximately $200 million has been seeded to the programme to provide incentives to....

The community of Cheswick in eastern St Thomas has been contending with erratic water supply for decades. When Diane Wilson was 16 years old, she recalled having to make numerous trips, with a bucket of water atop her head, to and from her home...

Cops at the Mandeville Police Station are breathing a sigh of relief after a leaky roof that had sapped morale was finally repaired on Monday after yearlong complaints. Personnel had cited severe demotivation as they have had to scurry to secure...

Spanish Town Mayor Norman Scott says the time has come for the Government to revisit the no-user-fee policy in Jamaica’s public hospitals. “People go to hospital and they spend days on a bench before actually getting a bed. In some cases, befor...

The police have closed Little Dunn’s River following Saturday night’s murder of 25-year-old Roshane Housen near the beach and are warning that more murders could occur unless the owners of the property take charge of it. Housen, otherwise calle...

WESTERN BUREAU: In an apparent barb aimed at the Opposition, de facto Works Minister Everald Warmington says Westmoreland is no longer a forgotten parish since the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) took the reins of government in 2020. Warmington, who...

The St Catherine Municipal Corporation has been reviewing the building plans for the redevelopment of the Spanish Town Hospital in an effort to reduce delays in the implementation of the Jamaica 60 project. “What we are doing is to make sure that...

The Government is moving to expand its ban on single-use plastic bags and polystyrene foam amid large corporations’ engagement in unethical but legal practices to sidestep restrictions while maintaining profits. The expansion is expected to come....

The St Catherine South police are probing if the daring murder of a pump attendant at the Petcom service station on Passage Fort Drive on Tuesday is linked to a feud in Central Village. Chevelle Lewis, 31, of a Compound, Central Village, address,.....

Hilroy Anderson and Berris Thomas, two homeless men living on the streets of Kingston, wished they had other alternatives than the cold concrete sidewalks or benches at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) to sleep at night. Safety is a major...

Residents and business persons in Spanish Town have clamoured for increased investment in safety and security as well as greater infrastructural development before an Emancipation Park-style recreational space is established in the Old Capital....

WESTERN BUREAU: United States-based dental technology company SprintRay, which partnered with track and field icon Usain Bolt for a healthcare initiative in his hometown Sherwood Content, has trained 10 local doctors to utilise the company’s 3D......

The Jamaica Food and Drink Festival – one of the island’s premier foodie events whose promoters fought endlessly for it to remain afloat annually during the COVID-19 pandemic – has been shortlisted for the international World Culinary Awards 2...

WESTERN BUREAU: While some retired teachers are willing to return to the classroom to fill the void created by migrating educators, others have decided to ignore the call. According to Ceila Grant-Francis, president of the Jamaica Retired Teachers.....

Adam Stewart, Orlando Patterson to receive UWI honorary degrees Businessman Adam Stewart and Professor Orlando Patterson are among 16 persons who will be awarded honorary degrees during this year’s graduation ceremonies across the five campuses....

Construction on the St Thomas leg of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project has been a torment for several major distribution companies, significantly impacting logistics and other operational activities. But National Works Agency (NWA).....

National Workers Union (NWU) General Secretary Granville Valentine says the Ministry of Education’s announcement that bursars will not be impacted by the new payroll system to be implemented in schools is a “smokescreen”. Valentine, in a Glea...

FranÇois St Juste, whose baritone voice and trademark “Good moooorning, Jamaica!!!!” roused morning radio audiences and whose steady hand transformed FAME 95 FM, has died. He forged a sterling career in media, spanning 38 years, and co-hosted ...

Fleet Street and the community of Southside in central Kingston are mourning the tragic death of Tarcia ‘Tanney’ McLean-Lysius, who was shot in the head, reportedly by another woman, outside a party in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday. McLean-Lysi...