Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given the clearest signal that his administration was not afraid to go against the grain of culture and pass legislation to outlaw corporal punishment, which has been a decades-old mode of punishing children in...

A chartered accountant who was recently sanctioned by the Public Accountancy Board (PAB) for professional misconduct has written to Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke alleging widespread corruption on the board. Dion Staple, managing director of DGS....

West Indies Home Contractors’ (WIHCON) plan to build 328 town houses on lands in Westchester, Portmore, will not trigger the eviction of businesses and a church that occupy the property. Concerns have lingered since WIHCON’s announcement of the....

Clarendon’s fire chief has raised alarm about the high incidence of false reports made to the brigade and blamed prank callers for wasting public resources and jeopardising lives. Citing a unit’s response to false alarm in Douglas Castle in...

GK Insurance has come to market with a crop and livelihood insurance product from which it hopes to get new business from 2,000 registered farmers and fisherfolk this year. GK Weather Protect, which was launched on Tuesday, is an upgrade on...

Kahleel Robinson aced his Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations and is having the last laugh as he will be attending his school of choice, Wolmer’s Boys, in September. His parents said he shrugged off years-long ridicule from some students who....

A father and stepmother who have been charged with child abuse which arose from the death of a child are to reappear in the St Catherine Parish Court on October 27. Those charged are 27-year-old Loraine Fletcher and 39-year-old Rohan Russell, both....

Following back-to-back double murders in Granville, St  James, Michael Troupe, the councillor for the division, has renewed calls for the introduction of special security measures.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has indicated that the government will be introducing legislation to better protect children. Speaking in Parliament Tuesday, Holness said it is time to ban corporal punishment in Jamaica. The Prime Minister was...

Outspoken United Kingdom High Commissioner to Jamaica, Asif Ahmad, has indicated that local political figures are still linked to gunrunning and other illegal activities in Jamaica. Ahmad, who is wrapping up his four-year tour of duty in Jamaica,......

Jamaica’s push for Britain, its erstwhile centuries-old coloniser, to pay the sum of 10 billion pounds to the country for reparation appears to be a non-starter, at least if the position taken by the top British diplomat here is anything to go by...

Three senior lawmakers who backed Lisa Hanna’s failed candidacy for leadership of the People’s National Party (PNP) have denied their involvement in an ouster plot against incumbent President Mark Golding, who is also the opposition leader. The....

Dressmakers Annette Simpson and Josetta Daley are still in possession of uncollected school uniforms for the 2020-2021 academic school year. The continued closure of schools because of coronavirus restrictions has caused unprecedented disruption.....

Rastafarian Carlton Lewis has just about had it with the garbage pile-up plaguing Whitfield Town, one of Kingston’s blighted communities. Lewis and other residents of 17 Lane, Kidd Lane and Bowens Road in the Waltham Park and Spanish Town Road......

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Leaving a legacy of a 23 per cent reduction in major crimes in 20 months, Superintendent Gary Francis has handed the baton to the Manchester Police Division’s new commanding officer, Superintendent Lloyd Darby, who has bee...

A World Bank catastrophe bond will provide the Government of Jamaica with financial protection of up to US$185 million against losses from named storms for three Atlantic tropical cyclone seasons ending in December 2023. The bond will be settled....

Chairman of the People’s National Party (PNP) unity committee, Maxine Henry-Wilson, has conceded that Friday’s mass resignations have set back the campaign to heal the political wounds that have persisted from the two most recent internal...

With a genuine passion for kids and a hope to one day become a teacher, 16-year-old Jaheim Brown of Yallahs, St Thomas, has opened the gates of his home to children of the community, hosting them as part of his summer school programme. Perched on.....

The defence for former Foreign Affairs State Minister Arnaldo Brown says Pastor Boswell Raymond of Harvest Tabernacle is to be held accountable for a land deal that went sour as he had reportedly tendered a ‘bad cheque” and was delinquent in his...

When the novel coronavirus ravaged Jamaica’s tourism industry in 2020, thousands of workers like JUTA taxi driver O’Neil Duckie saw their incomes slashed. While the outbreak plunged many into despair, the 47-year-old from Airy Hill in Oracabessa...