Jamalco has taken “serious issue” with a Sunday Gleaner report quoting a CCA Capital Partners financial review of its operations, which shows that nearly US$100 million, or more than J$13 billion, in payments made by Clarendon Alumina Production...

One of the main witnesses in the Clansman-One Don Gang had reportedly told the police when he was arrested that he would have been killed if he had refused to comply with the One Don Gang’s order. An investigator in the gang case testified...

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie says there has already been a run on hospitals islandwide with crime and crash victims, mere days into the holiday period. “Right now, we are seeing those increasing numbers already,” t...

Coronavirus infections are expected to again envelop the country in a matter of weeks, putting seniors 60 years and over most at risk, but Jamaica’s Chief Medical Officer, (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, has cautioned against hitting the...

As Jamaica remains on alert for a fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic as the Omicron variant makes its trek across the globe, IGL Blue Limited Chairman Bevon Francis has indicated that there are sufficient quantities of medical-grade oxygen...

Despite the low take-up of COVID-19 vaccines across the island, the health ministry has indicated that it will not be ceding the battle to anti-vaxxers as it pushes towards its target of inoculating 65 per cent of the population by next March. More....

Twenty-eight-year-old Shuwayne Miller of Arnett Gardens in St Andrew has one wish for Christmas: to become employed on a full-time basis. Despite trying several avenues to land a full-time job, including pursuing an engineering programme at the...

Plunging take-up of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has forced Jamaica’s health ministry to scale back procurement of the flagship brand and to fast-track negotiations for the swapping out of more than a million doses of one-shot Johnson and...

Gangster-turned-lay evangelist John Martin watched more than 50 times a video of heavily armed attackers who drove into the Tower Hill, St Andrew, community and murdered his son at a cookout last Saturday. Robert Martin, otherwise known as ‘......

The statutory declaration of Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness appears to be hanging in the balance, as little more than two years have passed and the Integrity Commission, the country’s single anti-corruption body, is yet to publish in th...

Jamaica’s chief prosecutor will rule next week on the fate of the cop accused of forcibly cutting the hair of a Rastafarian teenager while she was in custody at the Four Paths Police Station in Clarendon. The case - which dates back to July 22 and...

A fix to the ills in the public health system, Howard Mitchell believes, could start with the National Housing Trust (NHT) and its facilitation of accommodation for healthcare workers, the majority of whom, it is argued, are not earning liveable......

Dismissed dean of discipline at Hopewell High in Hanover, Alfred Grayson, was dealt another blow in his efforts to retain his job after the Supreme Court upheld, on Wednesday, the school board’s decision to terminate his employment. However, he......

Jamaicans are being urged to cut down fewer trees for decorative purposes as they celebrate Christmas this year as the 876 Volunteer non-profit organisation ramps up its On a Mission for Modda Nature drive with its No-Cut Christmas campaign to...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) suspended Montego Bay South East division Councillor Arthur Lynch on Wednesday after he was charged with assault and gun charges in an altercation with his wife. The St James police confirmed that...

WESTERN BUREAU: As Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn prepares to appeal the “unduly lenient” sentencing of a reputed gangster convicted of two murders, the man’s lawyer is accusing Jamaica’s chief prosecutor of bringing t...

WESTERN BUREAU: MBJ Airports Limited, operator of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, is forecasting a 70 per cent increase in passengers using its facility in 2022 as it regains pre-COVID-19 dominance of travel and tourism....

The Passage of new regulations regulations will introduce sweeping changes to the way the boards of public bodies are appointed and carry out their duties – a point of concern amid a swirl of scandals in the Holness administration. Opposition...

Even as a projected fourth wave of COVID-19 looms large for the new year, Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ announcement of a shortening of the daily curfew hours during the Yuletide season has received widespread support from the parliamentary...

WESTERN BUREAU: Trembling in anguish after his schoolteacher daughter Chanel Smith was gunned down in the full view of infants in Treasure Beach on Tuesday morning, Vernon Smith channelled his rage into a rallying cry against cold-blooded killers......