Steps by the Government to pass legislation to indemnify the State for imposing and collecting excessive traffic fines since 2006 were a flawed approach to resolve the issue and will not stand up to legal scrutiny, says attorney-at-law Gavin Goffe.....

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says Cabinet will have to decide on the regulation of costs for COVID-19 tests amid growing concerns in several quarters, including from the country’s most powerful business lobby. However, intervention to...

The Ministry of National Security is yet to decide if it will take legal action against O’Brien’s International Car Sales for faltering on its 2017 contractual obligation to supply used cars to the police force. Permanent Secretary Courtney...

Talks for the removal and compensation of residents of an informal settlement along Portland Avenue in Riverton apparently may have taken a deadly turn after a businessman co-opted as a negotiator between the owners and residents was killed on...

A former member of the One Don Gang yesterday revealed that he had secretly recorded conversations with alleged leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan and other key lieutenants and handed them over to the police as they probe the operations of the deadly...

WESTERN BUREAU: MBJ Airports Limited is inching closer to pre-COVID-19 arrival figures as airlines increase their requests for slots at its Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James. In the last three days – and one month ahead of th...

WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has said that his ministry will not tolerate any form of discrimination against Jamaica’s LGBTQ+ community, noting that gays, lesbians, and transgender people will be treated just....

A recent study has revealed that urgent action is needed to safeguard the gains achieved in the fulfilment of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and Vision 2030 Jamaica. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Caribbean Policy Research...

WESTERN BUREAU: A temporary injunction by the Supreme Court preventing the police from issuing traffic tickets in excess of fines as at 2006 has put the country in a crisis until a new law takes effect, a transportation-law expert has said. Dr...

In chilling evidence laid before the court, accused murderer Andre Ruddock was one of two archangels ordained by Kevin O. Smith, now-deceased pastor of the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, and was instructed to perform a...

Equality for All Foundation Jamaica has blamed Jamaica’s social and justice systems for distressed members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community falling prey to gangs in recent years. LGBTQ+ people have often......

The Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) is awaiting word from the Office of the Services Commission on the employment status of workers at King’s House who were sent home recently on the grounds that they had failed to prove to their employer...

A former don-turned-prosecution witness revealed on Wednesday that one of the alleged members of the One Don Gang wanted to dismember a murder target and to take his head to reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan. The murder target in question, ...

• October 12: Kevin O. Smith said that the persons in the church who took the vaccine would be singled out and put out. • October 15: A post was made on the church’s Facebook page informing persons to attend to update their membership. Smith a...

Chairman of Cari-Med Group, Dr Glen Christian, says his company will not backtrack from its mandatory COVID-19 vaccine-or-test policy amid a steady increase in litigation against companies holding a similar line, the latest coming against...

More churches have become accepting of persons who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, and queer (LGBTQI), a paradigm shift from the decades-old complaints about a culture of vengeful condemnation and stigma. That’s the observation......

Jamaica-born New York State Assemblyman N. Nick Perry has been nominated by President Joe Biden to be the next United States ambassador to Jamaica. In a statement reacting to the president’s announcement, Perry said that he was honoured by the...

Speaker of the House of Representatives Marisa Dalrymple Philibert yesterday shut down responses to a string of questions posed by the parliamentary Opposition surrounding the Airports Authority of Jamaica’s (AAJ) nearly half a billion-dollar...

Despite the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) warning that only vaccinated stakeholders in Port Royal will benefit directly from a cruise call by the Nieuw Statemdam on November 25, some residents, including vendors, are still unwilling to take the......

A technician who reportedly disobeyed the directive of gangsters in his community to disconnect his home security camera system was killed in broad daylight last Saturday near his home in the White Lane area of Naggo Head in Portmore, St Catherine.....