Jamaica’s 2021 Rhode Scholar Fitzroy Wickham will offer prayer on behalf of youths in this year’s National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB), which will be hosted virtually for the first time in 41 years. The event will be hosted on Thursday,....

Concerned that the COVID-19 pandemic has widened social inequalities, some youth leaders have rapped the Government for not doing enough to help those from the lower socio-economic class, and, in some cases making life even more difficult for the......

WESTERN BUREAU: The National Youth Parliament of Jamaica wants schools to provide more diverse employment options for students to choose from, aside from the skills gained under curricula such as STEM - which focuses on science, technology,...

Thousands of young Jamaicans will be trained as software developers to create cutting-edge technologies through the Amber HEART Coding Academy. The academy, which was officially launched yesterday by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, is a partnership.....

Encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram are seeing huge upticks in downloads from Apple and Google’s app stores. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, by contrast, is seeing its growth decline following a fiasco that forced the company to clarify a privac...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaican Matthew Sewell, who was left to languish in a Bahamian prison for a combined period of nine years and nine months, has won another round in a lawsuit filed against the government of The Bahamas. Yesterday, the Bahamian...

After failing to account for oil amounting to $5.2 billion over a five-year period, Petrojam Limited, the state-owned oil refinery, has implemented new initiatives to reduce oil losses. In her 2018 special audit of Petrojam, Auditor General Pamela.....

The Auditor General’s Department has warned the management of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) that action may be taken against responsible officers for paying out more than $8 million in termination benefits, in excess of the amount due, to...

Young Jamaicans across the island, some currently studying at local universities, have already signalled their reluctance to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available in Jamaica although it is considered a key tool in the fight to restore...

More than five years after the Accountant General’s Department (AcGD) spent $5 million to purchase a machine and software to print pensioners’ pay slips and life certificates, the agency has not derived any value for the money spent. This is......

Western Bureau: A decision by the Government to delay the commencement of works on the long-awaited Montego bay bypass is not going down well with business leaders, who are yearning for an end to the traffic gridlock which has plagued the Second......

The Auditor General’s Department has strongly reprimanded the Ministry of Labour and Social Security for its inertia in responding to worrying internal audit findings that repeatedly flagged significant internal control deficiencies placing...

Chief chaplain of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Pastor Dr Gary Buddoo-Fletcher, led law-enforcement officers into a praise break yesterday, highlighting that there had been no suicides within the police last year. “Sometimes no news is go...

Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa Etienne, has said that in the last week, roughly 2.5 million people were infected with COVID-19 in the region, the highest weekly cases since the onset of the pandemic. “Virtually...

With some fellow parliamentarians up in arms over a taxing schedule, Fitz Jackson has asserted that the Parliament should make accommodation for those who have to travel long distances home and back between sittings at Gordon House. At its first......

An attempt by a parliamentary committee to dig into a controversial bid for a licence to allow mining in the ecologically sensitive Puerto Bueno Mountains came up empty-handed yesterday after the Attorney General’s Department cautioned them agains...

WESTERN BUREAU: President of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), Janet Silvera, is appealing to the Government to provide another stimulus package for seriously impacted businesses and citizens, including displaced tourism...

The Accountant General’s Department (AcGD) has come under the microscope of the country’s chief guardian of public expenditure for paying out millions to pensioners up to seven months after they have died. Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis sta...

The barrel intercepted at the port in St James on Monday with 19 guns, including six high-powered rifles and more than 400 rounds of ammunition was addressed to a female with a Falmouth address in Trelawny, law enforcement sources have revealed....

WESTERN BUREAU: With the United States set to require proof of a negative COVID-19 test to enter the country as of January 26, the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) is aiming to increase PCR testing to 25,000 weekly to accommodate...