Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given the clearest signal that concrete steps are being taken to remove the shield of lockdowns and restrictions that have been introduced since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, signalling that so-...

Chargé d’affaires at the United States Embassy in Kingston, John McIntyre, has seemingly broken from the isolationist rhetoric of former ambassador Donald Tapia, insisting that China’s deepening relations with Jamaica will not sour the islandâ€...

Two weeks after the health ministry resumed administration of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine under strict guidelines that only children aged 12 to 18 and people due second doses would get the jab, it has backtracked on that restriction, expanding the....

A steady increase in the rejection rate of non-immigrant visa applications in the B category since 2016 has given rise to concerns about the transparency of the process, but the United States Embassy in Kingston has said it operates within the...

The lottery and other spin-off scams continue to be a lucrative feeding tree for Jamaica’s underworld, with criminal actors forging wider alliances with multiple gangs to expand their empire, a senior police official has disclosed. And the police...

In another alarming revelation about the savagery allegedly carried out by the One Don Gang, the self-confessed former member testified on Tuesday that one of his ex-cronies had boasted to him about walking around with the head of a rival in a...

Education Minister Fayval Williams is pleading for patience from the disgruntled faculty at the Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI) who have vowed to engage in a second day of sickout protests in a bid to twist the Government’s arm in...

If the young men being detained under the states of emergency (SOEs) were children of privilege, the outcry from Jamaican citizens would be so strident that the Government would be forced to immediately revoke them, Opposition Spokesman on National....

The Government has allocated a little more than a billion dollars to be spent on what it describes as mitigation works in Jamaica’s 63 constituencies in the lead-up to the Christmas holidays. Each member of parliament (MP) will get $16 million to....

A Jamaican man who was a state witness in a high-profile gang trial has got himself in trouble with the law in the territory to which he was dispatched under the Government’s witness protection programme but claims he is being shunned by local...

THE SUPREME Court has ruled that the state-owned bus entity Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) should pay more than J$18 million to former conductor Joy Murray for injuries suffered on the job in 2002. Murray’s lawyer, Andrea Walter-Isaacs, told...

The ex-crony of the One Don Gang testified on Monday that one of the 33 alleged members of the gang now on trial had told him that he had murdered a policeman in Portmore, St Catherine, but faced withering cross-examination questioning the...

In the wake of a rare disease that has decimated watermelon farms in St Elizabeth and Manchester, lettuce cultivators in the southwestern region of the so-called Breadbasket Parish are facing huge financial fallout from a similar scourge. Akeem...

Although an increase in patrols by the security forces gave them some relief as they were no longer forced to confine themselves in their homes in fear of marauding gunmen, residents of Sunlight Street in Kingston Western are tempering their...

Shirley McIntosh, the mother of Rastafarian teen Nzinga King who alleged that her dreadlocks were trimmed by a corporal while she was in custody, is furious about the pace of the investigation into her daughter’s claims. King’s story sparked...

WESTERN BUREAU: While business leaders in western Jamaica have embraced the decision by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to declare states of emergency (SOEs) in the Hanover, Westmoreland, and St James police divisions, they are concerned as to...

Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has described the late O.D. Ramtallie as a public servant with a record of distinction during his six-year tenure as minister of construction and housing. At the same time, president of the People’s National......

While staunchly defending the reimposition of states of emergency (SOEs) on Sunday, a combative Prime Minister Andrew Holness argued that his administration would not stand by and do nothing in the face of a tidal wave of deadly crime. In...

COMFORT, Manchester: Her reconstructed arm with 13 pins and a hand with three missing fingers are the macabre reminders of the hellish ordeal 69-year-old Deslyn Gordon survived 10 years ago in Comfort at the hands of man who tried to kill her and.....

Amid a pending ruling on the constitutionality of specific detentions under states of emergency (SOE), the Government insisted Sunday that it has the power to hold persons without preferring charges as a pre-emptive mechanism to prevent crime. The....