The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has set its sights on St Ann North Eastern amid mounting resentment towards Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament (MP) Marsha Smith, only two years after receiving her mandate for the high-......

The Police Civilian Oversight Authority (PCOA) has released a damning report on the state of a number of lock-ups in the four parishes that form Area One in western Jamaica. The geographic zone comprises Trelawny, St James, Westmoreland, and...

Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago are only paying a fraction of the sum agreed on to fund The University of the West Indies (UWI), owing the regional institution approximately US$48 million as at July 31, 2021. The disclosure, based on a......

In high school, Javon Smith’s friends nicknamed him ‘Merchant’ because of his penchant for sales. As he grew older, Smith sought job stability and took on a 9-5 job as an information systems manager. That entrepreneurial spirit fuelled his.....

Seeking to gin up support for cashless transactions, Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has cast the digital economy as the future for Jamaica. Speaking at the launch of a Lynk ABM feature on Tuesday, Clarke recalled a trip to London on which he...

A former inmate who suffered a penile disorder which left him impotent while he was in prison in 2006 is to find out today whether the Supreme Court will accept that the Department of Correctional Services had been negligent in getting him...

A mother’s warning to her targeted 22-year-old son, who on two previous occasions was shot and injured by gunmen in their Delacree Lane community, came to pass after the third and fatal attack Monday night. Novelette Forsythe and her family...

Manchester North Western Member of Parliament (MP) Mikael Phillips has described as “a travesty” the allocation of $20 million for the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), a sum similar to the amount he received when he was first elected in 2012...

Sue-Ann Ebanks wallowed in grief outside her home in Spring Village, Old Harbour, on Monday, oozing regret that she had persuaded her sister to attend a community football match that descended into a killing field a day earlier. As Ebanks huddled.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Romaine Welds hid from the Taliban in Afghanistan; swam at the beach in Mogadishu, Somalia, with armed bodyguards; and hoisted the Jamaican flag with pride at Babylon Gate in Iraq. The Jamaican, who said he has visited 195 countries....

Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has called for the Government to include a referendum ballot to remove King Charles III as Jamaica’s head of state in the upcoming local government elections. The municipal polls are constitutionall...

Fresh fears now exist in central Kingston following a daring attack in which masked men travelling on foot opened fire at a group of people, killing one man, in full view of a team of police officers sitting in a service vehicle. The man killed in.....

Dr Fenton Ferguson, the former People’s National Party (PNP) ‘Six-Star General’, whose half-dozen consecutive general-election winning streak in St Thomas Eastern was halted in 2020, has resigned as chairman and caretaker of the constituency. ...

Defence lawyer Lynden Wellesley on Monday accused the two main witnesses in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial of swapping the truth to save themselves from prosecution. Addressing the court as defence lawyers maintained their attack on the witnesses.....

WESTERN BUREAU: A Westmoreland-based general surgeon is lamenting that the high number of trauma cases – especially victims of crime and accidents – at the Savanna-la-Mar Public Hospital in Westmoreland is affecting the facility’s ability to t...

Three persons were killed and six wounded in a daring gun attack on an in-house football match at the Jamaica Broilers playing field in Spring Village, Old Harbour, Sunday afternoon. Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey described the drive-by.....

President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Mark Golding, wants the current maternity leave arrangements to be extended in keeping with the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Maternity Protection Convention, which mandates a minimum o...

Acknowledging that there is significant work to be done to regain state power, People’s National Party (PNP) stalwarts and long-time members believe that the 84-year-old out-of-favour movement will peak at the right time, rejecting assertions that...

It wasn’t the customary fanfare associated with pre-pandemic People’s National Party (PNP) annual conferences, but hundreds of hopeful Comrades eager to see the political movement back at the zenith of Jamaican politics filed on to the grounds o...

Mark Golding, president of the People’s National Party (PNP), has chided Prime Minister Andrew Holness for straying from democratic traditions. Referencing the administration’s string of constitutional cock-ups, Golding took aim, saying: “Some...