Contraband and customs officers unveiled an elaborate ruse to smuggle guns and ammunition in a refrigerator through a Montego Bay wharf as a police campaign to crack down on illegal weapons reaped rewards on Monday. Three high-powered rifles, two......

Western Bureau: In the wake of a deadly weekend in which bloodthirsty gangsters snuffed out the lives of 25 Jamaicans and left several nursing injuries, the State has pledged to ramp up the fight against crime and rein in the raw brutality. In St......

WESTERN BUREAU: A COVID-19 testing certification and reporting system created by a Jamaican systems architect could offer a real-time snapshot of management of the disease in public and private health facilities islandwide. Tagged ‘The OutbrakeR�...

The family of evergreen singer Yvonne Sterling is still in disbelief and mourning following her shock passing on Monday after suffering a stroke two weeks ago. Sterling, 64, had been undergoing treatment at Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). Tamara.....

The Office of the Political Ombudsman (OPO) is pushing for increased powers to allow the commission of Parliament to submit reports to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) for rulings on breaches such as vote-buying. For years, many political.....

Nearly two decades after some members of the Office of the Political Ombudsman (OPO) were hired by the commission of Parliament, the workers have not received gratuity due to them. The issue was highlighted in the 2018 annual report of the Office......

At 9 a.m. Monday, Richard Hall, who was supposed to be at work 30 minutes earlier, was still heaving rocks into the back of his lightweight truck to increase his chances of making it over the steep Savage Pen road. He had just got back from a 3km....

Hailing Monday’s double conviction for the 2011 Roderick ‘Bunny’ Francis murder, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn says the performance of her office will not be diminished because of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. Carl...

Six months after a number of concerns were raised in an Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) report last July, the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) has provided a spare response to the findings, dismissing some of the issues raised. In one...

After a near seven-hour standoff, a St James man, believed to be mentally unstable, has been removed from atop the Scotiabank Fairview building in St James.Shortly after sunset, around 6 pm Sunday, people raised alarm when the man was spotted on the....

The driver of the ill-fated Toyota Wish motor car that flipped multiple times, killing three persons aboard, had been warned by friends that he was on the verge of drunkenness as the group went on a turbo-charged night of revelry and party-hopping.....

WESTERN BUREAU: A Canadian cabin crew refused to fly a group of unruly passengers from MBJ’s Sangster International Airport to Pearson International in Toronto on Sunday after they were threatened and called “white trash”. The crew, working th...

Leaders of the People’s National Party (PNP) sought on Sunday to present a united front at a service at the Boulevard Baptist Church where they recommited to the principles and values of the 82-year-old movement. The Rev Dr Howard Gregory, who...

WESTERN BUREAU: When The Star-Spangled Banner is belted out on Tuesday at a ceremony in honour of United States Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, the voice behind the music will be 17-year-old Jamaican multi-instrumentalist Joseph Davis. The...

Much like the rough road leading to 51 Whitehall Avenue where Hugh Graham spent his earlier years, life for the business mogul and politician was far from smooth. The tenement yard he called home hosted at least 28 others, but in the zinc and...

Frank Blake and his family narrowly missed death or injury on Thursday evening when a motor vehicle skidded off the steep Savage Pen road and landed on its top a few feet from their house. No one was hurt in that incident, but another vehicle...

Poor decisions at dozens of government departments have exposed more than $40 billion of taxpayers’ money to loss or misuse, an analysis of the last two auditor general annual reports has shown. And with the Ministry of Labour and Social Security...

The son of shipping magnate Harriat Pershad Maragh yesterday gave a peek into the mind of a man who had taken bold steps to reshape how Jamaica’s shipping industry operated for decades. Paying tribute to his father during a funeral at Roman’s......

Unauthorised medical practitioners exploiting demand for COVID-19 tests locally have apparently expanded their reach into the favoured polymerase chain reaction (PCR) market, asking no verification of identity from patients, many of whom are...

With tension simmering in Jamaica over a controversial decision by the United States authorities to nab four Jamaican men and destroy their boat, alleging it was carrying cocaine, high-level talks between the two countries are now under way to make....