Prime Minister Andrew Holness has defended the action of the Government to demolish 10 incomplete structures on reserved lands adjacent to the Clifton community in the Greater Bernard Lodge Development Area in St Catherine, charging that if left...

Persons whose unfinished houses were demolished last Thursday on land owned by the Sugar Company of Jamaica Holdings (SCJH) have been encouraged by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to provide statements to the police on how they purchased the lots. In....

Attorney-at-law Matthew Royal believes that the Broadcasting Commission’s move to impose an immediate ban on the playing of music glorifying lottery fraud, the use of illegal substances and illegal firearms raises a number of potential...

Residents of Grants Pen in St Andrew were sent scampering for cover on Tuesday morning as two cabbies reportedly challenged each other in a shootout reminiscent of a scene from the Wild West, leaving one dead and the other on the run. Dead is 28-......

Residents in several communities in Clarendon Northern are calling for the deplorable roads in the constituency to be rehabilitated. The residents’ frustration boiled over on Monday, triggering protests in places such as James Hill, Cave Valley,.....

Five alleged members of the Clarendon-based Bloods Gang were yesterday remanded until January 11 next year after their plea and case management hearing failed to start in the Home Circuit Court. Abigayle Hydol, George Robinson, Travis Hardy,...

Three years after the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) should have certified 300 basic schools, the goal has finally been achieved. In May 2016, there was a three-year engagement of a new board of commissioners for the ECC targeting 300 early...

St Elizabeth North Eastern Member of Parliament Delroy Slowley has called on the Government to host mandatory orientation sessions for Jamaicans interested in participating in the overseas seasonal farm work programme, in an effort to maintain...

A 12-year-old girl and her 15-year-old sister, who were raped, stabbed and chopped multiple times in a predawn attack at their home just over a week ago, are recovering in hospital while their family ponders their next move. The accused man, who...

The National Workers Union (NWU) has accused the Passport, Immigration Citizenship Agency (PICA) of prolonging an “unethical” practice of suspending a number of employees without disciplinary hearings, calling it “unfair and unjust”. In a G...

As he lay on his deathbed, 18-year-old Tyrone ‘TJ’ McDonald expressed forgiveness to the policeman who shot him, but made one final request of his family to seek justice on his behalf as he maintained his innocence. Tyrone succumbed to injuries...

President of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) O’Neil Grant says the union has placed the issue of duty concessions on motor vehicles on the “back burner” as they work to reach an agreement with the Government on the restructuring o...

As part of yesterday’s commemoration of World Mental Health Day, the Convent of Mercy (Alpha) in Kingston received a symbolic wellness bench, representing a safe place for students of the all-girls institution to unburden themselves from the...

A 73-year-old law introduced in Jamaica when there was no cure for leprosy is to be repealed. The Leprosy Act of 1949 makes provision for, and regulates, the custody and treatment of persons with leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease. In 2011,.....

Homeless people in the Corporate Area will soon have the opportunity to gain technical or vocational skills training from the State’s leading human capital development agency, HEART/NSTA Trust. Registration began yesterday as the Kingston and St....

In its bid to strengthen integrity assurance across government agencies, the Major Organized Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) launched its first polygraph examiner’s course on Monday. Speaking at the launch at the National Police College in...

A bail application for two foreigners arrested in connection with the seizure of 21 firearms and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition at a warehouse at the wharf in Kingston in March is to continue in the Gun Court on Thursday. Lawyers...

While President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) John Mahfood is lamenting the high-energy prices that continue to significantly impact the manufacturing sector’s electricity and transportation costs, former energy...

Executive director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC), Vitus Evans, says Jamaica’s gaming industry can reap more benefits by realising operational efficiencies from the merger of three regulatory bodies, but, eight years after....

WESTERN BUREAU: Local COVID-19 researcher Dr Christopher Ogunsalu, a lecturer in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI), believes that scientists should have referred to previously published medical information......