After being subject to strict lockdowns since the onset of COVID-19 on Jamaica’s shores in March 2020, the entertainment and creative industries have been given breathing space to reopen, but not without a stern warning that adherence to the healt...

In his first public pronouncement on the controversial entry of Uber into the Jamaican market, Transport Minister Robert Montague has welcomed the ride-sharing company’s overtures locally but cautioned recruited drivers to have the requisite...

Trishauna Blair has been stuck in a hospital bed for four months, ever since she emerged with spinal injuries from a death car that slammed into a utility pole in Kingston on February 17. Blair’s mother, Lorraine Mendez, has taken on the...

“There is a stranger on this side of the House.” That pronouncement by a seemingly irritated Leader of Opposition Business Anthony Hylton was quickly shut down by Speaker of the House Marisa Dalrymple Philibert on Tuesday, triggering another rou...

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the newly declared zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Norwood have disputed the assertion of Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson that six gangs operate in the violence-plagued northwestern Jamaica...

At least one mourner has expressed regret about burying his grandmother just a few days ago. His remorse follows Tuesday’s announcement of the adjustments to the COVID-19 restrictions on burials and funerals. Burials, which may be held Monday to....

United Nations World Tourism Organization Secretary General Zurab Pololikashvili and Saudi Arabia Minister of Tourism Ahmed Al Khateeb are among the global tourism officials who will visit Jamaica this week to attend the blended staging of the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Rick’s Café Operations Manager Thomas Martin and Financial Controller Conroy Barrett pleaded not guilty when they appeared in the Westmoreland Parish Court to answer to charges of breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) ...

The Jamaican Government is keenly studying the prospect of administering different vaccine brands to inoculate persons against COVID-19, signalling the reversal of a previous declaration as the science evolves. Jamaica is still awaiting an official....

A convicted Jamaican lottery scammer who had challenged her deportation from the United States, claiming that she would be tortured by the scheme’s ringleader, has lost her application for asylum. The petitioner, Kayann Darby, otherwise known as....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness will this afternoon declare in Parliament how his administration will chart a path for the reopening of Jamaica’s multibillion-dollar entertainment sector, which has been gutted by job losses because of a COVID-19 ban...

The mother of a 20-year-old man, who was rescued by cops from an angry mob accusing him of killing his 21-year-old pregnant girlfriend on Sunday, is accusing the police of killing her son while in lock-up less than 24 hours later. She is blaming...

The parliamentary charade involving the Speaker and Opposition members last week over the seating arrangement of berated Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright is expected to fizzle today as the leadership on both sides of the....

Online voting for the 2021-2022 president-elect of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) resumed at midnight on Monday following a suspension because of a duplication snafu. The portals were closed after the platform hosted by Mona Information....

WESTERN BUREAU: Rick’s Café Negril’s Operations Manager Thomas Martin is to answer to charges in the Westmoreland Parish Court today of breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA). Martin is the second employee of the world-famous Jamaica...

WESTERN BUREAU: Giving the green light for new housing developments in the St Ann, Trelawny, and St James belt without ensuring adequate support structures are in place, including school spaces and recreational areas, could be a recipe for disaster....

Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke is expected to begin debate today on amendments to the Casino Gaming Act to provide for the inclusion of the minimum capital investment required to finance the establishment and operation of......

A 38-year-old taxi operator who endured two days of threats and was reportedly taunted by mobsters at shallow graves with worm-infested human remains has been freed after his family paid a $400,000 ransom. Now he is living in fear that they will......

While waiting for its day in court challenging a Supreme Court ruling that detentions under states of emergency were in breach of the Constitution, the Andrew Holness administration has signalled that work is well advanced on new legislation to...

WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Mark Golding is calling for increased rotation of the security forces assigned to the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Mt Salem, St James, amid complaints by some residents that familiarity is reducing their...