The Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has been castigated for the lack of transparency in its employment practices and breaches of its own human resource management policy. Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis, who conducted a project...

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has said that despite requests from her department, the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has failed to provide evidence of the criteria used to select projects under the Tourism Improvement Programme (....

Former deputy chairman of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) Dennis Meadows could face charges for misconduct in a public office, breach of public trust and a breach of the Corruption Prevention Act. Director of Corruption Prosecutions at the......

Days after the resumption of face-to-face classes, stakeholders in the education sector are calling for changes to the culture of political interference in the appointment of school boards. That concern - linked to the disruption of effective...

A retired gang investigator recalled on Wednesday how he had visited alleged Clansman-One Don Gang deputy leader ‘City Puss’ in prison under the guise that he was a gangster and spent an hour chatting with him before surprising him with criminal...

Minister of Education Fayval Williams said the Government would revisit the funding model for low-performing schools and possibly do away with the one-size-fits-all model where resources are allocated equally per student. “We have to do it in a......

Three men and a teenage boy who were killed in a reported firefight with the St Catherine South police in the Central Village community of ‘Zambia’ have been alleged to be gangsters who were wanted for various violent crimes. Acting on intellige...

The People’s National Party (PNP) bank account into which the bulk of a controversial $31-million payment from the Dutch firm Trafigura Beheer was lodged in 2006 was opened a day after the first tranche of the funds was wired to another Jamaican.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s Minister of Education Fayval Williams has dispelled the notion that there is a “mass exodus” of teachers from the classroom annually. While acknowledging that compensation of teachers was a sore point, Williams said t...

Less than 24 hours after the Government announced that new currency notes would be put into circulation soon, the Jamaica Society for the Blind has clamoured for inclusion in the final sign-off of the dollar bills. Conrad Harrison, executive...

The imminent change to Jamaica’s currency notes incorporating the images of all national heroes and deceased prime ministers has been criticised as “empty symbolism” by an opposition lawmaker. Mikael Phillips, member of parliament for Manchest...

Minister of Education Fayval Williams has reported that more than 200,000 students aged 12 to 18 have received at least one dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Jamaica began inoculation of that cohort in August 2021, with a view of returning to...

Minister of Finance Dr Nigel Clarke has indicated that there will be no rollback of the special consumption tax on fuel, even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent global oil prices to decade-high records. Clarke, who opened the Budget Debate....

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) will roll out a new $2,000 note in the coming months, 12 years after it first put the $5,000 bill into circulation, Minister of Finance Dr Nigel Clarke has announced. Clarke said the note, which will bear the images of...

Vendors at the gutted Ray Ray Market in downtown Kingston are protesting plans to relocate sellers and transform the open-air space into a car park and taxi bay. The proposed overhaul was sparked by a multimillion-dollar fire on February 22 – one....

Member of Parliament Phillip Paulwell has denied supplying an invoice to former top executives of the Dutch firm Trafigura Beheer related to a controversial $31-million payment made to the People’s National Party (PNP) around the time they were i...

Delano Tucker, whose story of abject poverty and hardship touched many Jamaicans, has tugged at the heartstrings of the Universal Service Fund (USF) staff, prompting them to reach out and make donations to the 17-year-old boy and his 13-year-old...

The prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial failed on Tuesday in their effort to have a retired gang investigator give evidence as an expert witness. The police inspector, a 31-year-old veteran who has mainly investigated the St Catherine-.....

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP): Corpses lie in the streets of Mariupol. Hungry people break into stores in search of food and melt snow for water. Thousands huddle in basements, trembling at the sound of Russian shells pounding this strategic port city. “...

Businessman Norton Hinds helped to set up the political fundraising entity that was used to funnel a controversial $31-million donation to the People’s National Party (PNP), but knew very little about its operations, according to his evidence. The...