Over the last 25 years, Elizabeth ‘Jennifer’ Williams was shot once and robbed multiple times as she tried to eke out a living on the gritty Corporate Area streets and send her five daughters through school. Last week when two of her daughters.....

The board of the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) may engage other state authorities in a deepened probe after findings of an internal audit at the agency that have led to the sacking of Managing Director Dr Patrick Thelwell. Minister with...

Andre Williams/Staff Reporter Against the backdrop of mounting complaints in the sector, the Jamaica Used Car Dealers Association (JUCDA) has pledged to launch a public-education campaign so that consumers can identify red flags when purchasing.....

Economic and other variables beyond the control of the owners of Terra Nova have been blamed for dooming the construction of 61 luxury residences, prodding the hoteliers to stick to their core business, CEO Andrew Hussey has said. The Hussey family....

Passengers between Kingston, Jamaica, and the city of Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States of America now have an easier way to travel with yesterday’s inaugural flight by Frontier Airlines on the route with a vow to keep costs affordable. The.....

At least one civil society group is expressing concern that parliamentarians have been operating without a code of conduct despite pledges to craft and implement one from as far back as 2009. The concern is highlighted even as an impeachment bill.....

Lawyers representing Antigua’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Anthony Armstrong, who is facing fraud charges in relation to three land transactions, are threatening to take the issue before the Constitutional Court in a bid to have the...

WESTERN BUREAU: There are further appeals for Jamaicans in the western end of the island to support the ongoing 14-day amnesty under which holders of illegal firearms can hand over the weapons without penalty. The amnesty began on November 5 and...

The mother of a newborn who reportedly lived just a few minutes after birth at the Mandeville Regional Hospital is insistent that her baby would be alive today if medical experts had acted sooner. The woman, who requested that her name not be...

Singh’s Motors Limited is under investigation after a teacher assistant demanded the refund of an $800,000 deposit on a 2013 Toyota Isis sedan she was reportedly promised to receive in two weeks but has been left empty-handed months after the...

Police Commissioner Antony Anderson has bemoaned the lack of youth participation in community organisations geared at preserving the safety of Jamaica’s neighbourhoods, with fewer than half of the designated groups active. Anderson argued that......

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Chairman Robert Montague has rallied partisan faithful to defend Prime Minister Andrew Holness from critics, warning them in a spirited speech that attacks on the leadership were geared at weakening his administration....

Kern Spencer, chairman of the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Region Five, is exuding confidence about his party’s prospects in the local government elections, which are due by February 2023. Region Five covers the parishes of Manchester and S...

Elon Higgins, overseer of the Horizon Adult Remand Centre, called Sunday for investigators to double their efforts to arrest the perpetrators who killed correctional officer Shannon Briscoe three months ago. Briscoe, 38, went missing on August 11......

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP): Envoys from around the globe gathered Sunday in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for talks on tackling climate change amid a multitude of competing crises, including the war in Ukraine, high inflation,...

WESTERN BUREAU: WITH 101 outstanding elective surgeries having been done out of an anticipated 2,000 to clear a backlog of cases under the Ministry of Health’s Code Care Programme, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is anticipating that up to.....

The inhumane conditions in the island’s prisons were taken into consideration last month when Supreme Court Judge Tania Mott-Tulloch Reid ordered the State to pay $21 million in damages to Detective Constable Leonard Lindsay, who the court ruled.....

Andrew Hamilton, the Jamaican drug boss who was ordered by the court to turn over a portfolio of assets valued at more than $500 million to the Government, has made a last-gasp attempt to hold on to them. Lawyers for Hamilton and members of his...

A move by two government lawmakers to sit with independent legislator George Wright while he made a presentation in Parliament last week is not an indication that the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has softened its position on his banishment.....

Jamaica-born British fraud examiner Karen Bailey believes Jamaica needs to enact more far-reaching legislation to counter identity theft, scams and a range of financial crimes, as it is still unprepared for the slew of ills that can be spawned in a....