The Government will be cutting the $422-million COVID-19 vaccine marketing budget announced by Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton last week amid criticisms over the spend. Speaking yesterday at a ground-breaking ceremony for the Andrews Mews...

Inslington, St Mary: When 18-year-old Sherise Walker saw cops and residents chasing a man as she passed by the Islington Police Station in St Mary on Ash Wednesday, she didn’t think twice before alighting from the moving vehicle and summoned her....

The Holness administration is forecasting that the economy will see real gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaging 4.1 per cent over the next four fiscal years. In the Fiscal Policy Paper, tabled in Parliament on Thursday, the Ministry of...

Residents of New Haven in St Andrew Western are paying dearly for decades of underinvestment in urban infrastructure by successive administrations, with little thought given to seriously addressing the root causes of long-standing problems, says...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has denied allegations made by a then lactating woman private that she was subjected to inhumane treatment in a military jail before being discharged on medical grounds after bouts of depression....

The police are yet to make a breakthrough into Sunday night’s murder of Calabar High jumps coach Nicholas Nuefville and University of Technology, Jamaica student Rahima Stewart, whose bodies were found in an open lot in Portmore on Monday morning....

Silent Hill, Manchester: The Manchester police have arrested and charged a farmer from the Silent Hill community in Christiana, Manchester, in connection with the murder of 45-year-old Jerrime Hendricks, the former ship worker who was beaten and...

Jamaicans living in urban and suburban communities are being encouraged to dig into the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries’ backyard gardening programme, which is looking to boost vegetable production and increase consumption of locally grown.....

Wade Blackwood, the contract killer who admitted to spraying a cab with bullets, killing Simone Campbell-Collymore and taxi driver Winston Walters three years ago, will know his fate on March 11. The 24-year-old’s sentencing, which was scheduled.....

The trial of a Kingston labourer charged with the murder of attorney-at-law Clover Graham failed to get under way on Wednesday, and has been pushed back to March 8 in the Home Circuit Court. The new date was set after the court was informed that...

The National Housing Trust (NHT) says it will be spending $57.7 billion by March 31, 2022 to begin work on 8,513 housing solutions and to complete another 7,043 units. Outlining its plans in the Jamaica Public Bodies Estimates of Revenue and...

The Government has crafted a lean Budget for the upcoming fiscal year, focusing on an ambitious vaccination programme and jobs as linchpins to spark economic recovery. Both the recurrent and capital budgets are flat year on year, but the Government....

At least one Jamaican university has begun liquidating its investments to cushion the fallout sparked by COVID-19, which has decimated the budgets of tertiary schools islandwide. Institutions have been hit by a downturn in commercial operations,......

The Jamaican Government has hinted that it will punish anyone found guilty of breaching the JAMCOVID web portal with findings from an independent review expected to be turned over to the Holness administration today. The warning comes after the...

Western Bureau: Wild celebrations erupted in Accompong Town, St Elizabeth, last evening as supporters of 43-year-old Richard Currie sang and danced after it was announced that he had dethroned the incumbent, Ferron Williams, to become the new...

No ear-splitting vuvuzelas. No chest-thumping gusto. No full-throated bellows. An anticlimax. The carnival of bodies and bravado that transformed Duke Street into a canvas of colour was muted on Thursday amid a scaled-down ceremonial opening of...

WESTERN BUREAU: In a radical shift from a moderate inoculation plan, the Jamaican Government will now purchase 3.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines at a cost of $5 billion to immunise two million citizens in 2021. Originally, the Government had......

The Government’s revenue from tourism-related activities is being projected to take a massive hit in the upcoming fiscal year because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis of the Revenue Estimates 2021-22 shows that the Government is...

Petrojam, the state-owned oil refinery, says its performance is projected to remain stable in the new fiscal year, with no significant fluctuations in prices anticipated. It said that the global crude oil market is expected to remain fairly stable.....

Governor General Sir Patrick Allen used Thursday’s Throne Speech to resurrect commitments pitched in the lead-up to the 2020-2021 parliamentary year, an admission that some key legislative ambitions remained stillborn. The governor general told......