Weeks after ratcheting up pressure on the Government about perceived inequity in the domestic wedding market, planners on Tuesday welcomed the more than tripling of attendance quotas for June, a traditional high-traffic month for nuptials. Prime...

WESTERN BUREAU: Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has redeployed its ship that was booked to homeport in Montego Bay, Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has confirmed. NCL’s Breakaway was set to begin service in the tourism capital on Augus...

A senior lecturer at The University of the West Indies has criticised women parliamentarians for their response to the epidemic of gender-based violence in Jamaica and wants the society to build pressure on them to represent the interests of women.....

President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA), Richard Pandohie, says the tweak in COVID-19 curfew hours is positive for commerce and will lead to a reduction in congestion as people carry out their business during the...

Tameka Ellis broke down in tears as she recalled how her mother had not laid eyes on her brother, Towan Ellis, for more than seven years. But she will never see him alive again. Towan Ellis, alias ‘Hothead’, was fatally shot by three masked me...

WESTERN BUREAU: Male healthcare staff are not allowed to interface with girls and women on predominantly female hospital wards without due oversight. That’s the word from St Andrade Sinclair, regional director at the Western Regional Health...

The police are again appealing to anyone with information on the disappearance of the visually impaired university student, Jasmine Deen, to come forward. This is in light of last month’s ruling from Director of Public Prosecutions Paula (DPP).....

Illegal cambio manager fined Clifton Williams, the Sun Investments manager who pleaded guilty to breaches of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Act, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment or a fine of J$300,000 when he appeared in the St James Parish......

WESTERN BUREAU: A 23-year-old Warsop, Trelawny, woman who was viciously stabbed in April is now begging the courts to drop the case against her alleged attacker, an ex-boyfriend. Stephina Ralston appeared at the Trelawny Parish Court in Clark’s.....

The operator of an illegal cambio operating in St James has been fined $300,000 or 12 months in prison. Clifton Williams, the manager of Sun Investments had earlier pleaded guilty to breaching the Bank of Jamaica Act. In the meantime, his co-...

The Jamaican Redevelopment Foundation (JRF) Inc has filed a constitutional lawsuit against the 46-year-old Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) claiming that it is not an independent and impartial arbiter of labour conflicts. The challenge may pose.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Gunmen snuffed out the life of a 26-year-old man in full view of three children in Salt Spring, St James, on Monday, spraying him with bullets during a brazen daylight home attack. The deceased has been identified as Daniel McDuffus....

Residents of Seaforth in St Thomas are appealing to the authorities to action promises of river-training works to be carried out at the Johnson and Negro rivers in the parish. They fear that if this is not done immediately, then the 2021 hurricane.....

A senior executive of Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body says lawmakers should step up to the plate to ensure that the country’s legislative framework is conversant with international best practices. Greg Christie, the executive director of ...

WESTERN BUREAU: The male nurse assistant accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old patient at the Noel Holmes Hospital in Hanover was charged on Monday and is slated to appear in court on Wednesday. The accused has been identified as 45-year-old....

The former National Commercial Bank (NCB) manager who robbed the bank of $34 million over a three-year period said she had struggled with her behaviour as she looted funds to finance a spending spree on clothes, handbags, and renovation of her four....

National Health Fund (NHF) Chairman Howard Mitchell has sought to calm fears about Jamaica’s immediate vaccine inventory, disclosing on Sunday that there is sufficient stock of Oxford-AstraZeneca doses to cover the masses who turned out for a COVI...

The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) was forced to seek the intervention of the HEART/NSTA Trust board chairman in March to get the agency to explain an unauthorised tax on travelling officers, documents show. HEART falls under the direct...

Manufacturers have revealed that a recent shortage of refined sugar in Jamaica has eased after some local competitors were forced into short-term borrowing of the commodity within industries to keep their production lines humming during the acute......

It has been three years since her two sons were killed by rival gangsters in April 2018, but Janice Solomon, a resident of the battle-torn community of Salt Spring in St James, still weeps for her boys as if it were yesterday. While admitting that.....