The Government has been criticised for delinquency in paying its bills to security firms, causing a domino effect in a lag in tax and statutory obligations. Despite profiting from a booming multibillion-dollar industry, nearly 60 per cent of...

With around 30 people being killed violently in the 1990s over a one-month period in a community with more than 6,000 residents, Delroy Chuck is not shy that stakeholders for peace opted for pragmatism over philosophy. The St Andrew North East...

A man who the police labelled a violence producer was shot and killed, allegedly by his own brother, minutes after he pulled an illegal firearm on his mother and other family members at their home in Mocho district in Garlands, St James, on Sunday....

Eager to boost its ranks in a bid to collar crime, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is targeting high-school youths and is also seeking to diversify the organisation’s gender profile. That strategy was disclosed at the force’s 10th recruitme...

As Jamaica prepares to host the 9th biennial Diaspora Conference from June 14-16, a wide cross section of Jamaicans roll back the curtains and disclose their reasons for migrating. Whether because of failed personal relationships or for job and...

WASHINGTON (AP): Senate bargainers on Sunday announced the framework of a bipartisan response to last month’s mass shootings, a noteworthy but limited breakthrough offering modest gun curbs and stepped-up efforts to improve school safety and...

With one day to go before the opening of the 9th biennial Diaspora Conference, excitement is building among Jamaican expatriates. Several people will be travelling to Jamaica for the in-person part of the hybrid conference, while there has been a......

Nearly three and a half years after the Government moved to ban certain categories of single-use plastic bags and drinking straws, some of the prohibited items are still widely available in commercial districts across the island with stakeholders......

The Government of Jamaica is planning to ban additional plastic products by the end of the year. Senator Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, made the declaration in response to Sunday...

Questions sent to the Ministry of National Security more than a month ago on the multi-million-dollar Security Strengthening Programme (SSP) that is intended to enhance the work of the Jamaica Constabulary Force in the areas of violent crime...

Used for shopping, storage, garbage and waste disposal, giving and receiving of goods, and just about anything, the popularly called scandal bag has been the go-to choice for Jamaicans for decades. Banned or not, the use of plastic ‘black scandalâ...

The court hearing in relation to the trust fund which late hotelier and businessman Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart had set up in The Bahamas for the benefit of his children will not be held in private. The ruling was made last month in the Bahamian Supr...

If Dr Lucien Jones’ wife Vivienne, his children and their spouses as well as his four grandchildren had their way, he would have left Jamaica a long time ago. But his undying faith in his Jamaica and his wife’s commitment to her marriage vows ma...

It has been almost two weeks of turmoil for a Clarendon family as they search for their 82-year-old patriarch, James Carter, who vanished from his Glenmuir Housing Scheme home on Monday, May 30. The 5ft 8in tall Carter, who is also know as Jim, was....

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Fitz Bailey has said that it is time other arms of the criminal justice system shoulder more of the crime-fighting responsibility as the police redouble efforts to cool the country’s simmering crime monster....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has welcomed the announcement of the United States-Caribbean Partnership to Address the Climate Crisis (PACC) 2030. The two core points of emphasis in the initiative are to strengthen energy security and promote...

With no immediate end in sight to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, a group of academics and diplomats on Friday painted a gloomy picture of the continued impact of the war on poorer countries and even those whose economies are relatively...

Locals are expressing a burning desire for the authorities to breathe new life into the crumbling structures in the historic Emancipation Square in the Old Capital and make it once again attractive to tourists as the island celebrates 60 years of......

There is more to agriculture than just producing food and, at Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St Ann’s Bay, St Ann, this has become apparent in recent times. In what could aptly be described as a revolution, the agricultural science...

Developer Peter Issa believes that in order for downtown Kingston to return to its former glory, derelict properties need to be restored, which will have a ripple effect on employment and the opening of new businesses, including restaurants. This....