“Something is not right with the programme!” That was the assertion made by Labour and Social Security Minister Karl Samuda Tuesday afternoon as he insisted that the popular farm work programme is to be ploughed and relaid. Disclosing in his.....

Jamaica could be the beneficiary of one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine if the Biden-Harris administration accedes to an impassioned request of prominent expatriates and others lobbying the White House on what they describe as “the most...

A Clarendon councillor has urged residents of York Town to reveal what they know about the killing of a man on Monday evening. The body of 28-year-old Shawn Williams, of Montego Bay in St James, was found in an open lot in Howells Content in the...

BUFF BAY, Portland: The Government is spending $41 million to construct a seawall along the coastline of Buff Bay, Portland, in an attempt to halt erosion along that corridor. The construction, which is nearing completion, will not only preserve......

An additional $100 million is being allocated through the Ministry of Labour and Social Security to ease the pressures vulnerable families are feeling because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Portfolio Minister Karl Samuda said that members of...

A local attorney has successfully defended a lawsuit brought against him by his sister, an American citizen, who had sued him claiming his negligence had resulted in her not being willed a Gilmour Drive property in St Andrew by their mother. The...

One of Jamaica’s most treasured music institutions, Alpha Institute, has opened a state-of-the-art facility with the goal of training 120 students in performance and technology in the next four years. The Digicel Foundation sponsored the...

A senior opposition lawmaker has tabled a motion which, if accepted and introduced as policy by the Government, could offer reprieve for legitimate customers of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) who have to share the burden of electricity...

A week after a former Minneapolis cop was convicted of murdering George Floyd, the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent has called for the defunding and demilitarisation of law...

Describing extradition as a powerful anti-crime tool, a senior United States law-enforcement official said that two Jamaican players in multimillion-dollar lottery scams were now involved court proceedings locally and could be sent abroad for trial....

Jamaica is leveraging the influence of high-level congressional officials and other backchannel lobbyists in talks with the White House scheduled for Tuesday to tap hundreds of thousands of doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from a stockpile of......

Opposition Senator Lambert Brown has been warned to retract his endorsement of vigilante justice or be deemed unfit to serve as a lawmaker. The call by a civil-society pressure group comes in the wake of a series of scandals in the Parliament and......

Former and current male senators aligned to the People’s National Party (PNP) have joined the call for Senator Kamina Johnson Smith to produce the harassing emails she alleges were sent to her by a member of the Opposition and which sparked a...

WESTERN BUREAU: Although pleased with the fall in COVID-19 cases over the last month, Lennox Wallace, acting parish manager of the St James Health Services, is warning residents not to get into a state of complacency as the battle against the...

By the time Dawn and Jermaine Wilks received a telephone call at 4 o’clock Monday morning that fire had destroyed the meat mart they operated in Oxford Market in downtown Kingston, the source of their livelihood had already been turned into glowin...

BILLINGS, Montana (AP): Dozens of Jamaican citizens recruited to work as cooks, servers, and housekeepers at a Montana ski resort for the ultra-rich have reached a US$1-million settlement over allegations they were discriminated against and paid...

WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Spokesperson on Land Senator Sophia Frazer-Binns is pushing back against plans by the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) to construct 800 low-income houses on 148 acres of former sugar cane lands in Parnassus, Trelawny,...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has taken flak for closing its investigation into the assault saga involving Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright. Matondo Mukulu, former acting public defender, has also criticised...

As calls mount for the resignation of under-fire Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright, pastor and confidant Custos Hartley Perrin sought on Sunday to cast the politician embroiled in an assault scandal as the victim of detractors....

A St Catherine housewife who took her ex-husband to court for an equal share in a house that he had bought before their marriage was left empty-handed after the judge ruled that she was not entitled to the property, having not contributed towards......