Adverse weather and inferior plant strains have been cited for an islandwide ganja shortage that could threaten Jamaica’s emerging medicinal marijuana industry. The illegal marijuna trade has also been impacted by the developments, sparking a...

Jamaica is expected to begin administering the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in February, two months ahead of the scheduled April roll-out announced late last year. The development was revealed late Monday evening by Health and Wellness Minister.....

Western Bureau: The gunman believed to have unleashed a deadly assault on banker Andrea Lowe-Garwood as she worshipped in a live-streamed church service in Falmouth, Trelawny, on Sunday is suspected to have been active in a number of homicides...

Andrea Lowe-Garwood’s family believes that her strong faith in God insulated her from any fears she had of dying. The 51-year-old banker, who was killed during a live broadcast of the Agape Christian Fellowship church service in Trelawny on Sunday...

The chief internal auditor at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) and the chairperson of the audit committee are today expected to defend reports they crafted detailing what appeared to be a culture of unresponsiveness by the...

Quinton Yearde had to adjust his normal way of life long before COVID-19 because of a prostate cancer diagnosis that required surgery, radiation and a lot of family support. The 50-year-old lecturer had always been aware of his risk since his...

Eleven-year-old Dreshaun Napier has demonstrated sheer brilliance by achieving a distinction in City...

The Jamaican police force will in weeks roll out a crack motorcycle unit aimed at stemming the tide of blood that has stained Kingston’s streets amid an upsurge in gang violence. The imminent deployment is expected to mirror the quick-response...

‘Beachy Stout’ charged with first wife’s murder Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald has been charged in connection with the 2009 murder of his first wife, Merlene McDonald. McDonald is also now on charges in relation to ...

WESTERN BUREAU Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) government member Heroy Clarke says Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore must be held accountable for the cost overruns plaguing the ongoing construction of the new Westmoreland.....

A manhunt for the presumed shooter was still under way across St James Sunday night in the wake of a spine-chilling murder of a bank executive as she prayed in church. Investigators theorise that the murder was part of a conspiracy hatched by...

Former Opposition Senator Dr Andre Haughton has lashed out at both the People’s National Party (PNP) and the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), claiming that they have conspired to work against the interests of ordinary citizens. Haughton,...

Fifteen businesses and individuals filed for bankruptcy since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic last March, with runaway credit-card arrears and financial illiteracy cited as overwhelming factors for personal debt through to the end of 2020....

August Town residents who were on edge from sporadic gun violence for the first half of 2020 say a zone of special operations (ZOSO) implemented last July has offered an oasis of peace in a community that has been a powder keg of violence for...

Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton warned residents of St Ann on Saturday about a possible lockdown if breaches of coronavirus laws and recommendations continue. St Ann has seen a rise in conoravirus cases over the past few weeks, with six...

The doors of a former health centre in Cassava Piece, St Andrew, were opened on Sunday to host a medical camp, activating calls from residents for the facility to be reinstated. Camps sponsored by the Indian High Commission were held across eight......

Yallahs High closed after student positive for COVID Yallahs High has shut down face-to-face classes for this week after a grade 10 student tested positive for the novel coronavirus. End-of-term examinations that were scheduled to commence today....

Some 22,000 pregnancies are aborted annually in Jamaica, and this is only a rough estimate from research done by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI), which believes that the figures for the clandestine, criminal acts could be more. The.....

WESTERN BUREAU: A 59-year-old businessman from St James is the latest person to be arrested by the narcotics police in Western Jamaica, following a multi-million dollar cocaine seizure along a section of the Flankers main road in the parish on......

With recorded killings of 1,301 in 2020, a new report on Latin America and the Caribbean has revealed that Jamaica now has the region’s highest homicide rate at 46.5 per 100,000 people. InSight Crime’s 2020 Homicide Round-Up released on Friday.....