Two pubic bodies, the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and a subsidiary violated government regulations in their $443-million investment in start-up private equity firm First Rock Capital Holdings, the finance minister, Dr Nigel Clarke, has...

President of the Jamaican Bar Association, Emile Leiba has responded to comments from the Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, who said that the Government may have go the route of France as it seeks to inoculate the population......

A high schoolboy and a businessman, who the police say are allegedly part of a car-stealing ring and who were both found with a stolen motor car, were denied bail yesterday when they appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The 16-...

Jamaica’s medal-winning streak in the women’s 400m hurdles could continue in Tokyo when the Olympic track and field programme begins. So says Swept Track Club head coach Okeile Stewart, who coached Rushell Clayton to third place at the 2019 Worl...

WESTERN BUREAU: Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison says that while she stands firmly on the side of disciplining children in order to teach them proper behaviour, she is totally against using physical abuse as a disciplinary measure. “....

Operators in the public-transport sector are seeking to form a credit union and also to establish an insurance company that will directly address the needs of members. These were among several suggestions that came out of a report submitted to the....

For eighty-year-old Perris Samuels, June 21 each year was usually a day of happiness as she celebrated the anniversary of the birth of the fourth of her five children. This year, however, the celebratory spirit was dampened as the birthday...

With an uptick in the transmission of COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Andrew Holness says it is likely that a tightening of measures will be announced next Tuesday to reverse the steady increase in persons contracting the virus. And as the...

Several Jamaican parents are seemingly in support of plans proposed by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to outlaw corporal punishment at home and in schools following the death of an infant at the hands of his stepfather. The boy, four-year-old...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given the clearest signal that his administration was not afraid to go against the grain of culture and pass legislation to outlaw corporal punishment, which has been a decades-old mode of punishing children in...

A chartered accountant who was recently sanctioned by the Public Accountancy Board (PAB) for professional misconduct has written to Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke alleging widespread corruption on the board. Dion Staple, managing director of DGS....

West Indies Home Contractors’ (WIHCON) plan to build 328 town houses on lands in Westchester, Portmore, will not trigger the eviction of businesses and a church that occupy the property. Concerns have lingered since WIHCON’s announcement of the....

Clarendon’s fire chief has raised alarm about the high incidence of false reports made to the brigade and blamed prank callers for wasting public resources and jeopardising lives. Citing a unit’s response to false alarm in Douglas Castle in...

GK Insurance has come to market with a crop and livelihood insurance product from which it hopes to get new business from 2,000 registered farmers and fisherfolk this year. GK Weather Protect, which was launched on Tuesday, is an upgrade on...

Kahleel Robinson aced his Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations and is having the last laugh as he will be attending his school of choice, Wolmer’s Boys, in September. His parents said he shrugged off years-long ridicule from some students who....

A father and stepmother who have been charged with child abuse which arose from the death of a child are to reappear in the St Catherine Parish Court on October 27. Those charged are 27-year-old Loraine Fletcher and 39-year-old Rohan Russell, both....

Following back-to-back double murders in Granville, St  James, Michael Troupe, the councillor for the division, has renewed calls for the introduction of special security measures.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has indicated that the government will be introducing legislation to better protect children. Speaking in Parliament Tuesday, Holness said it is time to ban corporal punishment in Jamaica. The Prime Minister was...

Outspoken United Kingdom High Commissioner to Jamaica, Asif Ahmad, has indicated that local political figures are still linked to gunrunning and other illegal activities in Jamaica. Ahmad, who is wrapping up his four-year tour of duty in Jamaica,......

Jamaica’s push for Britain, its erstwhile centuries-old coloniser, to pay the sum of 10 billion pounds to the country for reparation appears to be a non-starter, at least if the position taken by the top British diplomat here is anything to go by...