In the face of withering criticism of the Ministry of Health & Wellness’ policy to expand the dispensing of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine beyond children to adults, Permanent Secretary Dunstan Byran is expected...

Prison authorities have denied knowledge of reports that administrative action was recently taken against warders after tens of thousands of dollars allegedly confiscated from the cell of incarcerated entertainer Tommy Lee Sparta went missing. The.....

The mysterious noxious fumes that forced evacuations and early closure at a number of organisations in the Corporate Area on Tuesday may have been caused by a cooking gas leak. The fumes, which were believed to have started emanating late in the......

As the parliamentary Opposition joins a call from the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) for the central bank to rescind its one percentage-point increase in deposit interest rates, Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles......

Second-term member of parliament (MP) for St Andrew West Rural, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, has outlined expansive improvement plans for the Lawrence Tavern division, focusing on water, roadways, and healthcare infrastructure. Cuthbert-Flynn, who is...

With poor housing being a major developmental challenge in Kingston Central, first-term Member of Parliament (MP) Donovan Williams has announced a major land-title drive and the courting of private-sector investors in developing the blighted...

Two men who left their homes in Retirement, St Ann, early Monday morning to purchase cows and were reported missing after they failed to return home were a day later discovered to have been murdered. Dead are Samuel Johnson, 70, and Richard Harris....

Applications for the award of Integrated Resort Development (IRD) orders open today as the Government moves to attract billions of dollars from the casino gaming industry and investors, more than a decade after the required legislation was passed......

Life for 28-year-old Garnet Silvanous Johnson has always been heading downhill. Johnson said it all started when he was reportedly given up by his mother, in Chudleigh, Manchester, when he was seven months old in 1993. When he returned home last...

US$284m loss in queen conch earnings Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing of queen conch has cost the country an estimated US$284 million over the past 20 years. This has also resulted in the decline of Jamaica’s queen conch...

R Hotel attorney Peter Champagnie says some of the footage from a crucial no-movement day closed-circuit television recording may have been lost. The police are today expected to access footage from the New Kingston-based hotel captured on Septembe...

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......