Months before he was cut down in an alleged firefight with the police on Monday, the days appeared to be numbered for reputed gangster Christopher Linton as the noose tightened around his inner circle of cronies who sought to resurrect his reign of....

The August Town police are on high alert following the shooting death of feared gangster Christopher ‘Dog Paw’ Linton on Monday, suggesting that it is unlikely his cronies will turn a blind eye. Sub-officer in charge, Inspector Stephen Taylor...

Joseph Patterson’s United Independents’ Congress (UIC), Jamaica’s third registered political party, has unveiled a far-reaching social agenda, including the championing of abortion rights. Patterson explained that his party is anchored to the....

Transport and Mining Minister Robert Montague is to face questions from the parliamentary Opposition as to whether he still has confidence in the board of the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) after it dispensed with government regulations and...

WESTERN BUREAU: Players in the island’s global services – formerly business process outsourcing (BPO) – sector are aiming to generate some 7,500 new jobs by March 2022, bringing the total numbers of persons employed to upwards of 50,000. Glori...

Portland businessman Kevin Sudeall has been fined $1 million or 30 days’ imprisonment for interfering with the administration of justice. Supermarket operators Garfield Sinclair and Lynsetta Sinclair had filed an application on July 7 seeking a......

Declaring that he was not in favour of mandatory COVID-19 shots, Opposition Leader Mark Golding has inveighed against calls for mandatory vaccination, arguing as well that the absence of indemnification by the Government or manufacturer of the...

An alleged member of the Easy Scream Gang who was last year arrested and charged for reportedly firing at a policeman was found not guilty of gun and assault charges in the Gun Court on Friday. Ian Sommerville, 28, otherwise called ‘Buju’, of......

While not yet out of the woods, residents of Unity and Fern Hill in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew, have been breathing a sigh of relief as they now have access to a more regular supply of water flowing through their pipes. The waterflow, which is...

Despite a vigorous defence of the academic integrity of The University of the West Indies (UWI) by its vice-chancellor, lecturers and students have said that the culture of cheating extends beyond examinations to essay-writing and other work. A...

WESTERN BUREAU: In the last 48 hours, Caribbean Airlines passengers were forced to walk on the ramp and carry their hand luggage up the stairs of the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) owing to no access to the jet bridge. Passengers also.....

As a raging fire swept through the Newport West warehouse and offices of Seprod on Saturday night, CEO Richard Pandohie said he parked his car in front of the Facey Pharmaceutical Division of the manufacturing and distribution conglomerate. He...

Former Carmax used-car salesman Ian Lyn Muhammad has expressed shock and sadness that he is still flagged by the International Police (Interpol) as being wanted by Jamaican law-enforcement authorities. Lyn Muhammad said that the designation has its....

The Government may shelve, for the immediate future, the full rehabilitation of the Junction main road in St Mary, four years after Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced a $600-million project to remedy the problem-plagued thoroughfare. Chief......

WESTERN BUREAU: With increasing queries by prospective visitors on the COVID-19 immunisation status of tourism workers, a survey by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) has revealed resounding support by industry stakeholders for...

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite facing major health challenges as she battles through several courses of treatment for breast cancer, 55-year-old Hope Johnson is facing her difficulties with a smile while seeking to be the poster girl for survival. The...

The incidence of electricity theft among mainly poor inner-city and squatter communities has been diagnosed as a deep cultural crisis that cannot be addressed by technology alone. That is the view of Anthony Clayton, Alcan professor of Caribbean...

Both the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) and the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) have offered Michael Reid, the 21-year-old youth who took to social media to lament his trying circumstances recently, free courses of study to...

Karen Cross’ expulsion from the People’s National Party (PNP) last month comes 67 years after Marxist Richard Hart and three others were booted from the political movement in 1954 for their alleged communist views. Also expelled with Hart were.....

The National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) may not be prepared to call it, but researchers at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) are standing behind a study that suggests alcoholism is on the rise locally and that the pressures of COVID-19 are.....