Jamaica would not benefit “at this time” from having a directly elected president, according to the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC), which recommends retaining the Cabinet parliamentary system of government over the executive presidential...

The current impasse between the Government and Opposition, on the report of the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC), was bound to happen, according to AJ Nicholson, a former attorney general and minister of justice. Nicholson, speaking with The.....

The following are some of the key recommendations of the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) in its confidential report of May 3, 2024. Appointing the president Nomination by prime minister after consultation with the leader of the...

Eleven years ago, Jeffrey James found out through a relative that a government-owned company was selling lands in the resort town of Negril, Westmoreland, and he immediately sprang into action. James, who is a member of the United States (US)...

Almost 60 students and staff at an elementary school in Dumfries, Virginia in the United States, erupted in excitement when the Supreme Court last week found businessman Omar Collymore guilty of plotting the murder of his wife and, consequently,......

It is a real mystery, to many residents in the rural district of Clifton in Bernard Lodge, St Catherine, how two brothers - 15-year-old Amari Carby and 10-year-old Kemoy Allen, were rendered paraplegic just months apart. “The boys used to be very...

President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, Leighton Johnson, is expressing frustration after the Ministry of Education reneged on its promise to pay all teachers who were engaged in the marking of school-based assessments (SBAs) for last year...

WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has indicated that plans are in place to collaborate with both early childhood institutions and primary schools to curb violence involving the nation’s youth. Dr Chang, who was speaking a...

The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has again made an impassioned plea for anyone with information which could lead to the safe return of 29-year-old Danielle Anglin to her family, to call the police at 119. Anglin, a teacher of St Peter Clave...

WESTERN BUREAU: COMMANDER of the St James Police Division, acting Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels, has tasked the 19 newly trained public transportation marshals, formerly known as loader men, to show respect to everyone using the public...

Painting a dismal picture of a future Jamaica if the prevailing trend of student violence continues unabated, principal of Spanish Town Primary School Roogae Kirlew says there is dire need for the Ministry of Education to implement policy that...

The Jamaica Customs enforcement and investigation branch swooped down on a Corporate Area plaza on Thursday and interrogated operators of a popular jewellery store, before seizing a quantity of assorted jewellery. The mid-afternoon operation had...

The last five days have been very distressing for Denise Anglin, who is desperately hanging on to hope that her daughter, 29-year-old Danielle Anglin, will return home alive. Danielle, a grade four teacher at the St Peter Claver Primary School in.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is rubbishing suggestions that corruption is at the heart of the ballooning cost of the ongoing restoration work at the St James-based Cornwall Regional Hospital [CRH], which currently stands at....

The Jamaican Government is considering a reduction in the legally allowed alcohol level in persons operating motor vehicles, following several deadly crashes that occurred over the last week. Prime Minister Andrew Holness, chairman of the National ...

Fitz Jackson, member of parliament (MP) for St Catherine Southern, wants the small and medium-sized businesses in the manufacturing sector to be placed in the spotlight and their performance examined by Parliament’s Economy and Production...

When Rayon Davis was, on Wednesday, announced as the recipient of the inaugural Marcia Erskine Scholarship, valued at US$5,000, he was dumbstruck. Davis, a former ward of the State, did not know the measure of the recently deceased media and public....

A motorist who sued the State for $2.5 million claiming he lost, among other things, $1.1 million for the loss of the use of his vehicle, which was seized for four months, was instead awarded $850,000 plus interest in general damages after he could....

Jamaica’s Consul General to Miami, Oliver Mair, will toss out the first pitch at tonight’s Major League Baseball (MLB) game between the Florida Marlins and the New York Mets to raise funds for the Friends of the University of the West Indies...

It was not the birthday gift Wayne Campbell had dreamt of, but for him, yesterday’s conviction of his former son-in-law and three accomplices for the daring daylight contract murder of his daughter six years ago was the best gift. “Today is my.....