The scandal at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) over the loss or misuse of $3.3 billion in two years is deepening with the impending resignation of at least one member from an embattled board and revelations that 60 recommendations....

In the last two weeks, there have been a reported 1,046 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in Jamaica. Multiply this number by eight and there is an estimated 8,368 people who Government believes are currently infected and can actively pass the...

Late last year, the body of Vincent ‘Scandal’ Reid was found in an abandoned catchment tank near the house in which he lived. A community drunk, he did odd, labour-intensive jobs when he was sober, “but never troubled anyone”, residents of M...

Marcia Salmon* took Spoiler* into the home she shares with her two children in her community in a rural area shortly after they crossed paths. She had met him in a neighbouring parish, when she accompanied a friend to visit relatives. Two weeks...

For six times less than the amount an average student would pay for tuition at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in three years, a counterfeit degree can be obtained within days by anyone wishing to bypass the rigours of intellectual......

Jamaicans were left in shock yesterday with news of the passing of former Reggae Boy Luton Shelton. Shelton, 35, died at home after ailing with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) since 2017. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a...

Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate Peter Bunting is suggesting that provisions dealing with consumer protection in the Microcredit Act, 2021 should be widened to include banks and companies that have hire-purchase arrangements. The...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Floyd Green has stressed the need for the adaptation and implementation of modern agricultural practices in order to move the sector forward. Green, who declared the CASE Alumni Association’s Jamaica Agriculture....

Mexico and Jamaica are preparing to execute a pilot project under which teachers from the Central American country will tutor Jamaican students in Spanish. Education Minister Fayval Williams made the disclosure following a meeting yesterday with......

At 103 years old, Roslyn Stephens’ hearing is almost perfect. She also speaks clearly and has a good sense of humour, making known her total commitment and devotion to the Lord. Now blind, the Spaldings, Clarendon, resident shared that she made a....

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is to spend $20 million to resuscitate an islandwide micro dam project to assist farmers to access water during periods of drought. The announcement was made on Thursday by Agriculture and Fisheries...

Western Bureau: Squatters who have built houses on former sugar lands at Parnassus in Trelawny will soon be required to pay for the plots as the Government moves to establish a structure under which the lands will be used for housing and...

WESTERN BUREAU: John Byles, chairman of the Tourism Resilient Corridors Committee (TRCC), has refuted a claim by Dr Marcia Graham of the Westmoreland Health Department that tourism players in the parish are disregarding established COVID-19 health.....

Another stimulus package is needed to give Jamaica’s tanking economy a fighting chance, Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has asserted. Robinson said the bailout funds should be channelled into the productive sectors such as...

The Holness administration is seeking to expedite accreditation of coronavirus testing sites amid the mushrooming of informal operators and the slow start by approved private labs. At least four of the eight private laboratories that have been...

Eyebrows were raised during Thursday’s meeting of the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) when works czar E.G. Hunter disclosed that only 22 per cent of members of parliament (MPs) have used the entire allocation for Christma...

Veterinarian Dr Michael Motta on Thursday made a case for significant investment focusing on developing the small ruminant sector, with particular attention to expanding Jamaica’s dairy goat industry through embryo transfer, even as he made a call...

Jamaica’s 2021 Rhodes Scholar, Fitzroy Wickham, who hails from Orange Hill, St Ann, lost his father to cancer when he was just two years old. He and his sister, Kimberly, then grew up in a single-parent home, headed by mom Florence. “I was acute...

WESTERN BUREAU: The chef and girlfriend who were charged in connection with the shooting death of four-year-old Chloe Brown were remanded when they appeared in the Trelawny Parish Court on Thursday. Little Chloe and her father, 49-year-old Dalton......

If Keshtina Bonner had her way, confessed killer Wade Blackwood would spend the rest of his life behind bars for the horrific shooting death of her sister, Simone Campbell-Collymore. Blackwood detailed, in a caution statement recorded by police...