Haiti, the hemisphere’s poorest and most unstable state, is now under a state of emergency following the predawn assassination of President Jovenel Moise and the wounding of his wife, Martine-Marie, on Wednesday. There are now fears that its...

Former Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Derick Latibeaudiere has supported a proposal from Jamaica’s anti-corruption watchdog for senior central bank personnel who are involved in regulations, examinations, or inspections to be restricted from...

Charging that the United States has had a “bad track record” in dealing with Jamaican seafarers under the Shiprider Agreement, prominent attorney-at-law Bert Samuels is insisting that details surrounding the newly established protocols and...

Hope Zoo, Jamaica’s primary wildlife park, is facing possible closure because of a slump in revenues. The shutdown could force administrators to find new homes for its approximately 1,100 animals. The Ministry of Agriculture, which helped fund th...

A policeman’s admission that he made a false entry in the station diary and the prisoner charge book resulted Wednesday in 64-year-old businessman and farmer Derrick Martin being freed, on a no-case submission, of possession and dealing charges fo...

Members of Clarendon’s Indian community have expressed enthusiasm at the erection of a bust honouring Mahatma Gandhi at the May Pen Parish Library on Wednesday. The installation was in commemoration of the 150th birth of Gandhi, a political...

WESTERN BUREAU: Correspondence denouncing the wearing of African Bantu knots by graduates of Manning’s School in Westmoreland two weeks ago was not evidence of a discriminatory hair policy, principal Steve Gordon has said. The western Jamaica...

Deputy Superintendent of Police Collin Millaneise has pledged to crack down on a gang feud plaguing sections of Stony Hill in the St Andrew North Police Division. “We will be mopping up some of these gang activities,” Millaneise told The Gleane...

WESTERN BUREAU: Police investigators from Area Three are trying to ascertain the motive behind Tuesday night’s shoot-up at an illegal party in New Town, St Elizabeth, which resulted in the deaths of two men and serious injuries to two others. Thos...

Businessman Louis Smith of Montego Bay, St James has been granted leave to appeal a Full Court ruling in his multi-million-dollar money laundering case. Last year, the Full Court denied his application for permission have the charge quashed....

Two parliamentarians and six public officials have been referred for prosecution for allegedly providing false information to the Integrity Commission in their statutory declarations. In its annual report, which was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday....

CARICOM leaders ended their annual meeting on Tuesday with a bullish pronouncement that they are targeting 80 per cent herd immunity from COVID-19 in the region by December 31 amid concerns about vaccine supply. Chairman of the bloc, Gaston Browne....

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the imposition of additional security measures in St James, the parish’s bloodletting continues to trend upwards as four more murders were recorded over the past four days. Police data show that up to July 6, murders in the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica is poised to welcome more than 300 travel agents and tour operators for the upcoming Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX) and the Jamaica Bridal Expo, which will be staged back-to-back at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in...

Senator Floyd Morris has warned members of the parliamentary committee reviewing the proposal for Portmore to become Jamaica’s 15th parish against having grand sights on multimillion-dollar infrastructural developments in the area. Citing a recent...

WESTERN BUREAU: While all administrators in western Jamaica have not fallen in line with the Ministry of Education’s new summer school initiative, Dr Michelle Pinnock said that she is heartened by the initial response. Pinnock, who heads the...

Holness backs storm funds boost Prime Minister Andrew Holness has suggested that more funds be released at the beginning of the hurricane season so that sufficient preparation could be made to face possible weather systems. Holness made the...

ClaudE Rowe was meeting several of his students for the first time on Tuesday, although he has been principal of Iris Gelly Primary School in Arnett Gardens since October. A count indicated that 35 students were present for face-to-face...

A young man who admitted to chopping a senior citizen in her head, claiming she swept rubbish on him, had his station bail revoked when appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Tuesday. The 21-year-old blockmaker, Kevaugh Prendergast.....

Flood damage in at least six parishes swamped by rains unleashed by the diverting Tropical Storm Elsa has been preliminarily billed at $800 million, but that figure is set to mount as more comprehensive reports stream in, highly placed government......