Tomorrow, the Cabinet will discuss Jamaica’s plans to address the new omicron variant of COVID-19 that now has the world on high alert, triggering travel bans, and which the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared to be “of concern”, Heal...

Jamaica’s chief prosecutor has ruled that criminal charges be filed against a former police constable whose arrest of an elderly man for gun and ammunition offences was undermined by video footage. Leroy Laud, 61, the taxi operator who was jailed....

With another storm gathering in the Ministry of Transport and Mining he now heads, Robert Montague is placing his political future in the hands of his St Mary Western constituents, even as the possibility exists that he could face a challenge for......

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in St Mary Western are backing their member of parliament (MP), Robert ‘Bobby’ Montague, to be returned as chairman as the party’s annual conference unfolds this weekend. While there have been no open...

Sixteen-year-old Andrew Phillips had his eyes set on becoming a world-class goalkeeper and was reportedly repeating grade 10 at Brimmervale High School in St Mary in order to gain more experience as he planned the way forward. Sadly, the teenager......

WESTERN BUREAU: While the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is against the continued use of the states of emergency (SOEs) as a crime-fighting tool, some key figures in Westmoreland, which Prime Minister Andrew Holness has dubbed the...

Heightened police-military activities in the killing fields of St James, Westmoreland and Hanover have placed communities along the St Elizabeth border on high alert for undesirables seeking refuge in their villages. The three western parishes have....

Jamaica has imposed restrictions on travellers from a number of African countries, following the emergence of a new COVID variant. The countries are: Botswana Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) Lesotho Malawi Mozambique Namibia South...

WESTERN BUREAU: A Westmoreland family is struggling to come to grips with a deadly home invasion on Thursday night, which left a 17-year-old boy dead and other relatives injured as gunmen lit their board dwelling and opened fire at the occupants,......

As the Government’s states of emergency (SOEs) come to a screeching halt tonight, President of the People’s National Party (PNP) Mark Golding has indicated that he is willing to pay a political price for defending the constitutional rights of......

WESTERN BUREAU: With the next local government elections drawing nearer, two new political aspirants have declared their intent to battle for the Petersfield division, which has been vacant since former councillor George Wright was elected to...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Former Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding is calling for greater focus to be placed on the resocialisation of citizens who have fallen victim to moral decay to tackle the country’s high crime rate. Golding, who was speaking....

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton on Thursday indicated that a number of health facilities are set to have long-standing issues addressed, now that the COVID-19 pandemic is not currently having a significant....

The prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial yesterday suffered another blow after efforts to admit into evidence one of the two illegal guns and several rounds of ammunition it had seized from an ex-member of the One Don Gang were blocked by....

Veteran livestock geneticist Jasmine Holness has called for stringent monitoring and evaluation systems to be put in place, supported by accurate record-keeping, to enable the recently launched National Livestock Genetic Improvement Programme is to....

Members of Heavens Charity Foundation on Thursday donated boxed lunches to Poor Relief Department of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation in efforts to assist with the feeding of the homeless in the downtown Kingston. Kerry Ann McAnuff....

BRUSSELS (AP): Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world raced Friday to contain a new coronavirus variant potentially more dangerous than the one that has fuelled relentless waves of infection on nearly every continent. A World Health....

Jamaica is now on a “knife-edge”, according to Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson, following a legislative deadlock in the House of Representatives late last night, effectively putting a halt to the seven-police division states of emergency (SO...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) is planning to step up its advocacy for the police force and the army to discontinue their practice of asking applicants to take HIV tests even as it pushes for other organisations to stop...

“Dem a pay thief and nuh want pay police!” were the words shouted repeatedly by a female cop at the entrance to the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston yesterday as hundreds of disgruntled police officers protested while awaiting news on their 40...