There are concerns that a COVID-19-induced global shortage of glass bottles and jars could leave local companies which use these containers to package products for the local and export markets with a lot of produce but very little to put them in.......

The 2019 sexual assault case involving recording artiste Richie Stephens came to a close after the police in Australia concluded that there was insufficient evidence to proceed, though the findings of a rape kit were never analysed. The revelation....

Despite it being a no-movement day due to the pandemic, a number of residents packed up and made hasty retreats from of a section of Eleven Miles in Bull Bay, St Thomas, out of fear of reprisal shootings after two murders in the area early Sunday......

It is quite the understatement to say several students in the community of River Head in St Thomas are having a daily struggle to connect to the Internet to have classes. Since the start of the school year, they have already missed countless...

Unsuccessful in his efforts to land a job, 23-year-old Kadeen Christie spends his days sketching portraits of popular Jamaican personalities, engaging a skill he has been nurturing since he was four years old. Living in the poverty-stricken...

As the Lower House prepares to debate and pass the long-awaited Disabilities Regulation, 2021, Resolution today, Dr Floyd Morris, opposition spokesman on labour, social security, and special abilities, says the Government should set an early date......

WESTERN BUREAU: Having redefined the all-inclusive concept globally, Sandals Resorts International’s (SRI) founder, the late Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, will have his name etched on the walls of an international hospitality and tourism school. In....

The Clansman-One Don Gang trial involving 33 alleged gangsters has been postponed until October 19 after two of the defendants contracted the novel coronavirus. When the trial resumed in the Home Circuit Court on Monday, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes......

Australian authorities say a criminal investigation that was opened after Jamaica’s music ambassador Richie Stephens was accused of sexual abuse in 2019 is closed, despite an insistence by alleged victim Elaine Lim that she was raped by the reggae...

Sunday’s dramatic stand-off between the police and an angry crowd, and an enraged 69-year-old man accused of abusing his adult son, serves as a wake-up call that sufficient staffing and other resources must be pumped into mental-health care, a......

When Patria Baugh spent over a decade taking care of her autistic daughter, Leah, she thought she was facing the greatest battle of her life. However, it was only preparing her for a tougher challenge: breast cancer. The Jamaica-born Baugh now...

“I am pained.” Those words capture the magnitude of the test the Rev Karl Johnson faces as he assumed the pastorate of the historic Phillippo Baptist Church in Spanish Town, the former Jamaican capital that is seized with mob crime and endemic....

Several business owners and other stakeholders in St Thomas have lamented the dust bowl conditions of the Lyssons to Port Morant main road following the start of remedial works. The construction, which forms part of the Southern Coastal Highway...

Factories Corporation of Jamaica Limited (FCJ) is rejecting as “erroneous” and “deceptive” claims by businessman Gordon Baldie that he was unfairly evicted from the rented warehouse space he operated in Trelawny. On Sunday, FCJ released a.....

Danny Roberts new deputy chair of IDT Labour law and trade unionism expert Danny Roberts is heading to the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) as its deputy chairman. A highly placed government source confirmed Roberts' appointment to the IDT, a.....

A businessman facing millions of dollars in losses after being evicted from a warehouse had leased from the state-owned Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) after falling behind in payments is calling for the intervention of Prime Minister Andrew...

The instalment of a board member of the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) as human resource (HR) manager of the public entity is stirring disquiet at the agency with the reality that the post was being advertised weeks after the board official took....

If you get the feeling more Jamaicans have been dying in recent years, you may be on to something. But while records for the last decade have reflected an overall increase in local morbidity numbers, the unpredictability of the looming COVID-19...

Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) Chairman Ian Dear has declined to say whether directors considered the Petrojam-scandal-scarred past of Lionel Myrie before agreeing to appoint him as interim executive director of the state agency...

With some 60,000 doses of the island’s cache of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines having expired on Friday, Professor Peter Figueroa has called into question the manner in which the Government distributed the jabs as some Jamaicans were denied shots.....