There were screams. Then blood. Now a cloud of fear weighs heavily over Cane River. Tension prevails in the Bull Bay, St Andrew, community after three persons, including reputed gang leader Christopher Linton, otherwise called ‘Dog Paw’, were......

The police constable who was arrested this month while on duty is facing formal allegations that he contracted three men to kill a Clarendon man. Constable Tafari Silvera was charged on June 18 with conspiracy to murder following a ruling by the...

WESTERN BUREAU: A document is now being drafted by Jamaica and Mexico that will enable large airlines from as far as Middle Eastern destinations such as Saudi Arabia to offer multiple experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean under a single...

Jamaica’s emerging sole manufacturer of PVC pipes is set to employ between 60 and 75 new workers at its Clarendon-based plant. FosRich will make its debut in the production of PVC accessories in the next two weeks. The electrical lighting and...

The Jamaican Government has committed to addressing the chronic shortage of building inspectors that hampers oversight and potentially threatens safety standards in a city teeming with construction projects. Prime Minister Andrew Holness was...

Police and military personnel swooped down on Kingsland district in Kitson Town, St Catherine, detaining 11 persons who attended a cockfight after curfew on Sunday. Residents of the farming community were surprised when the security forces...

Crushed by a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) landslide in the September 3, 2020, general election, the leadership of the People’s National Party (PNP) hit the ground in Manchester last Friday to “energise” supporters after losing two crucial seats ...

Jamaica’s urban planning and traffic authorities have been pressed to speed up pedestrianisation and to promote short-route transportation to ease congestion on the streets of the Corporate Area. Greater Kingston’s corridors are often scenes of....

Architect and senior lecturer Dr Patricia Green has questioned what she considers the secrecy surrounding the plans for several developments that are being erected across the country, often without the prior knowledge of residents. Green, who...

WITH 93.7 per cent of the population yet to get a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, Jamaica’s rate of inoculation remains worryingly low. New data released by the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MoHW) shows that, up to June 23, a total of 98,057...

At the launch of the national hurricane preparedness campaign on June 1, the prime minister, Andrew Holness, stressed that Government’s strategy “must be to anticipate, plan, and prepare for the threat [of hurricanes] and not to panic if, or whe...

Residents in Norwood, St James say gang warfare and political interference have prevented the sustainable execution of social intervention programmes in the volatile community, leaving them to fend for themselves over the years. The community is......

The murder of an Anglican priest in May Pen, Clarendon, last year has dealt a crushing blow to his family, especially his father, who is not only struggling to find the will to continue, but has also lost interest in pleasures of the flesh....

Father Winston Thomas, rector of the St Gabriel’s Church in May Pen, Clarendon, and supervisor for the region where late Anglican Priest Larius Lewis worked, says the circumstances surrounding the priest’s death has tainted the reputation of th...

Following a stern warning that Jamaica must not consider borrowing to get out of the economic decline caused by the pandemic, businessman and Government Senator Don Wehby has pointed to several sectors, including agriculture, which have the...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the Greater Bernard Lodge master plan will see a new development that will serve as a model for others islandwide. Holness, who had instructed in 2019 that the development master plan for the Greater Bernard Lodge....

Although COVID-19 has had a negative effect on some families, 33-year Shavane Daley has used the new realities brought on by restrictions to immerse himself in his daughter’s school life. Five-year-old Achaeya Daley is one of the hundreds of...

WESTERN BUREAU: An unhealthy situation has developed at the Falmouth Market in Trelawny, where rats are rummaging through the food items on sale. “We need a Pied Piper here to rid the market of these rats,” suggested butcher John Mason. “This ...

WESTERN BUREAU: The decision from Thursday’s disciplinary hearing involving Karen Cross will be submitted to the People’s National Party’s (PNP) executive within a week, says attorney-at-law Stacey Knight, chairperson of the party’s discipli...

WESTERN BUREAU: The late Dr Carol Grant-Fallah, who had the enviable distinction of being the only female dentist from Jamaica to be awarded a Fellowship of the International Congress of Implantologists, has been immortalised by the Montego Bay-...