Accusing the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) of disconnecting the electricity of paying customers to combat thievery, Opposition Member of Parliament for St Andrew South Eastern Julian Robinson is calling for the Government’s intervention in....

Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke tabled a supplementary Budget on Tuesday that will increase spending by roughly 4.0 per cent mainly to combat the spread and impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The increase in the Budget equates to about $36.5...

The suspension of face-to-face classes in the advent of the coronavirus pandemic has cost the Government a whopping $3.3 billion for the procurement of electronic devices for online classes, Technology Minister Daryl Vaz reported on Tuesday....

Attorneys providing legal aid for accused members of the Uchence Wilson Gang were paid a total of $55 million last year, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck disclosed in Parliament on Tuesday. “If we continue at that rate, the estimate is that the One.....

Prosecutors and security officials should place greater focus on securing convictions for illicit enrichment as a strategic means of tackling crime and corruption. That’s the view of opposition Senator Peter Bunting, the former national security.....

Residents of Woodford Park in southeast St Andrew are lamenting the daily disruption to their electricity supply, for several hours, since June. Some householders theorise that legitimate Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) customers are being...

Suspected cop killer slain A man suspected of being involved in the killing of a police sergeant last week was slain during an early-morning police operation in Payne Land, St Andrew, on Tuesday, the police have reported. The slain man is...

Weeks after issuing a COVID-19 vaccination ultimatum to its workers, CVM TV has requested to have a ‘local level’ meeting with the National Workers Union (NWU) in the hope of settling the issue. The meeting between the union and the television....

In the wake of the flagging of Cabinet Minister Daryl Vaz’s United States visa with a substance trafficking marker, former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding has criticised Washington for weaponising travel documents for political ends. Vaz, w...

With less than eight per cent of Jamaica’s population being fully vaccinated to date, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has disclosed that a significant portion of 60,000 doses of AstraZeneca might have to be discarded if shots ar...

A mystery disease causing their watermelons to rot on the inside while appearing perfect on the outside, has caused several St Elizabeth farmers to halt cultivation of the fruit to stem mounting financial losses. The farmers said that at first,...

Arguing that the situation is worse than the authorities are admitting publicly, prisoners at three of the island’s correctional facilities are demanding that urgent attention be paid to COVID-19 outbreaks at the institutions. Inmates at two...

An alleged shooter in the One Don Gang had reportedly callously boasted about cutting down a bus driver in front of the police in the Spanish Town bus park in St Catherine, the prosecution’s first star witness in the Clansman Gang trial told the.....

Dr Alfred Dawes, medical director of Windsor Wellness Centre, says his organisation will be providing a public service as it partners with the Ministry of Health...

Urban decay, unemployment and underdevelopment have characterised Rockfort in Kingston for a number of years. Despite the recent push to revitalise the waterfront with the construction of a boardwalk near the Rae Town Fishing Village, several...

WESTERN BUREAU: As he heads into a meeting with his Cabinet today, Prime Minister Andrew Holness faces mounting pressure to declare whether Science, Energy and Technology Minister Daryl Vaz retains his confidence to represent the Jamaican...

Jamaicans eager to pig out this Christmas might find pork in short demand. Stakeholders in the pig industry are warning that the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the increase in input costs like feed will continue to turn the screws in....

One gas station operator is sending consumers deeper into their pockets during peak hours each day, hiking the prices of gasolene and automotive diesel by as much as 16 per cent. The Half-Way Tree Road-based Total service station, owned and...

Michael Powell vividly remembers how Ann Kong’s little legs would pump away at the pedals as she rode her bicycle along Clarendon’s rural terrain from Alston to Spaldings. It was that tomboyish zest that endeared Ann Kong – better known to.....

Three persons were shot and killed, one injured, and another burnt to death in his home as gunmen carried out two separate attacks in the St James communities of Granville and Niagara. Those killed have been identified as 37-year-old Lydia Williams....