Nearly 20,000 guns are currently in circulation for which the permits have lapsed, Jamaica’s firearms regulator has disclosed. The Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) revealed, too, that 299 legally registered guns have been reported lost or stolen....

It might be the biggest open secret in the health sector, which several medical professionals reluctantly admitted last week, but Jamaica’s COVID-19 vaccination programme appears to be critically ill – if not dead – with only about 27 per cent...

An alleged forged will that stoked a simmering dispute between a father and his son over ‘dead leff’ land, and which pitted family members against each other, cast a long shadow over a triple killing that has rocked the Francis clan in Toll Gate...

A United States-based woman’s desire to build her dream home in Jamaica is being threatened by ongoing disputes between property owners at the Negril Estate in Westmoreland and the developer, Reading Holdings Limited. Enticed by the promise of...

The once-thriving community of Rollington Town in Kingston still shows signs of its former glory of large middle-class houses on sizeable lots with 60-year-old architecture and matured fruit trees of varying types throughout the area. Pothole-...

What should have been a glorious moment for Romario Goulbourne as he celebrated achieving his bachelor’s degree in marine engineering from the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) saw him torn between two worlds under a cloud of uncertainty. The 25...

A police oversight body has unearthed several issues it says has weakened the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) Marine Division’s effectiveness in preventing and combating crime along the coastline and in the island’s territorial waters. The....

WESTERN BUREAU: BRITISH HIGH Commissioner Judith Slater says that in order for Jamaica to develop sustainable cities, it must prioritise training its population in the application of information technology in various sectors. Slater made the...

Locals are welcoming a plan to widen the bridge in Borobridge, St Ann, which is located along the main thoroughfare from the community leading to Cave Valley. This planned works was disclosed by Everald Warmington, minister without portfolio in the....

WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore has laid the acts of violence and child sexual abuse at the feet of some mothers, whom he claims facilitate physical and sexual abuse of children in exchange for financial gains. Moore made that...

“Shocked and humbled” are the emotions expressed by Lennox Wallace, parish manager of St James Health Services, when he was declared Civil Servant of the Year 2022 in the Management Category at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel in St Andrew on Frid...

Rosalee Gage-Grey, CEO of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), is bemoaning the fact that 70 children have died violently across the island since last October, saying this reflects the normalisation of violence in the society in....

Two alleged members of the Bobo Gang, who were convicted for the 2011 kidnapping and murder of a businessman in Russia, Westmoreland, were remanded this week for the completion of their sentencing on November 25 in the Home Circuit Court. One of...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Friday urged persons illegally in possession of firearms to turn the weapons in to the police or the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) ahead of today’s ending of a 14-day amnesty. Holness said that the amnesty,...

Two persons died on Friday in an accident along the Laughlands main road, near Richmond in St Ann, after a motor car collided with a bus transporting security personnel. The driver of the car, Alwayne Smith, a fisherman of Steer Town in the parish.....

WESTERN BUREAU: AMOI LEON Issa, the mother of nine-year-old Gabriel King, has been instructed by the St James Parish Court to give the police access to her cellular phone to aid the investigation into her son’s January 13 murder by November 24.......

The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) has hailed Thursday’s ruling by the Privy Council, granting investigators access to material that predates the enactment of the Proceeds of Crime Act, as a major victory for law...

November has taken on special significance to 22-year-old Shakiel Cephas. In November 2018, he was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and the following November, he got news that the cancer had gone into remission. And on Thursday,...

A Jamaican man described as the “brains” who used his apartment to manufacture ghost guns that were sold on the streets of Connecticut is going to prison for 18 months. Audley Reeves, 31, was sentenced in a United States District Court on Thursd...

When the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Prime Minister Andrew Holness, addresses the party’s 79th annual conference at the National Arena in Kingston on Sunday, he is expected to place the spotlight on some burning issues of national......