Chief executive officer of the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation Errol Lebert says the local government authority was not informed about a conflict of interest when it awarded three contracts to a company owned by Jason Hutchinson, the son of...

A spike in the deaths of newborns linked to a bacterial outbreak at Jamaica’s chief maternity hospital has been partly blamed on a staffing crisis at neonatal units. A health ministry review has also attributed the increase to equipment challenges...

With school-age children committing 52 gun-related murders and 82 shootings in Jamaica since 2018, there are calls for increased action to keep firearms out of the hands of students and away from places of learning. The issue of violence...

Two weeks after a lobby claimed that Rastafarian families were at risk of being evicted from Bob Marley Beach in St Thomas, Prime Minister Andrew Holness castigated critics as being mischief makers who are inimical to the progress of the eastern...

Former board member of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Olive Downer Walsh yesterday dismissed claims by the Integrity Commission that she was conflicted, owing to her employment with a company that received contracts from the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Passengers arriving at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on Wednesday said they were forced to remain in immigration for more than one hour as Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) officers went on a go....

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says that, despite the approximately 100,000 persons who have obtained the central bank digital currency (CBDC), dubbed Jamaica Digital Exchange (JAM-DEX), there has been paucity in its use, as large merchants are yet to......

Tuesday’s curtain call on the life and career of Leonie Forbes kindled rousing applause for the quintessential doyenne of Jamaican theatre and broadcasting. She was 85. The cause of her death was not disclosed. Forbes was born on June 14, 1937, a...

The British Government has called on international partners of Jamaica to redouble their efforts in stemming the flow of illegal firearms into the country. The charge came from Jesse Norman, the UK’s minister for the Americas and overseas...

WESTERN BUREAU: PARTY PROMOTERS in Westmoreland are being warned that no permits will be issued in crime hotspots between now and the Christmas holidays. The caution has come from Senior Superintendent Wayne Josephs, whose Westmoreland Police...

Director of investigations at the Integrity Commission, Kevon Stephenson, has recommended that the minister of agriculture and fisheries give serious consideration to removing Olive Downer Walsh from the board of directors of the Rural Agricultural....

The image of Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend’s partially nude, decomposing body floating in the sea at Reading, St James, still haunts her uncle, Rohan Lennard. It was the last one he saw of his fashionista niece who took so much pride in her...

Responding to a crescendo of appeals for an overhaul of Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton said on Tuesday that he is establishing a task force to oversee the renovation of the more than 200-year-.....

Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman has sought to defend her leadership of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) as a sexual assault scandal dogs the military. “Since assuming office in January 2022, I have been strident against any act of sexual...

Rohan Hall, a ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor, has questioned the grounds for denial of a gun licence by National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang, who also presides over the party’s vetting systems that approved him as a candidate.....

History-making army chief Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman is facing her first leadership acid test since rising to the helm in January as allegations of sexual assault mount against a high-ranking member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF)....

Administrators at Kemps Hill High have come under fire for allegedly failing to inform his mother of a football injury amid subsequent mounting hospitalisation and treatment expenses she has had to shoulder. Eugennie Brown said that her son, Raheem...

With eight years left to achieve the targets of the 2030 Agenda, Jamaica’s poverty prevalence has declined from 19.3 per cent in 2017 to 11 per cent in 2019, with rural areas recording the highest rates. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 – on...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said that the increasing incidents of demonstrations against poor road conditions have not escaped his attention but urges Jamaicans to be patient as the budgetary resources are not in place to carry out widespread....

The last time Phillip McCarthy saw his two girls, ages eight and nine, was on December 29, 2021, when he handed them over to their mother, who was awarded visitation rights on holidays after he won custody of them in court. McCarthy said that out......