Former President of the Senate Floyd Morris says the Government is likely to face “major embarrassment” in the future if Senator Kamina Johnson continues her protest against Opposition Senator Lambert Brown, with whom she has had bad-tempered......

Ditching his ‘70s-era bush jackets, donning Kangol caps, and manicuring his scruffy beard, Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s handlers have sought to rebrand the dour commercial lawyer in the way young Labourites flipped the script in transformin...

With one of the main buildings – the post office – in the town square suffering from termite infestation, residents of Glengoffe in St Catherine have expressed fear that their community has been abandoned by the authorities. The state of the...

More than 200 persons turned up at the Mona Ageing and Wellness Centre yesterday as the Ministry of Health...

Shantiva Griffiths reportedly left her job shortly after 6 p.m. on Monday and was on her way to the bus park to meet a relative when she was shot dead. The killer close-marked the 26-year-old as she made her way across Orange Street and pumped at......

Consumers could be paying more for table eggs for Christmas as the Jamaica Egg Farmers Association (JEFA) has recommended that its members increase their farm gate prices from $350 to $380 per dozen for loose eggs and to sell branded eggs at $410......

WESTERN BUREAU: The ushering in of the Christmas season has done little to quell the bloodletting in the Area One Police Division – which covers St James, Westmoreland, Hanover, and Trelawny – with recorded seven homicides over the last weekend....

An investigator in the Clansman-One Don Gang case yesterday brushed aside questions from a defence lawyer about omissions in his statement, claiming he had only recorded what was “dominant” and “readily comes to mind”. Among the omissions a...

Residents of 142 Molynes Road in St Andrew, commonly called Ackee Walk, are refuting claims by the security forces that a man who was shot fatally yesterday had engaged the police in a shoot-out. Dead is 25-year-old Renardo ‘Nazrie’ Duncan. The....

The 876 Volunteer organisation has partnered with SwiftGift, an online gift-and-give card platform, to create an avenue for Jamaicans to donate to both local and international charities as they shop for their loved ones for the holidays. “...

Amid the low number of rulings by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has reaffirmed his commitment to ensuring that Jamaica adopt the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the island’s final appellate court...

More than a million dollars of ammunition was estimated to have been unloaded last Wednesday and Thursday as gangsters traded bullets in Kingston in apparent crude war games. The battlefield was centred in the Kingston Western Police Division,...

Washington is seeking to repair its soured relations with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) following the regional divisions that ensued after the Trump administration handpicked four member states for an exclusive meeting in March 2019, sparking......

The father-daughter artist duo Hilroy and Jacey Bulgin stood out at the Association of Jamaican Potters annual art and craft fair on Saturday. Bulgin, a 40-year-old fine artist based in Rose Hall, Montego Bay, recalled that his mother, a retired......

The Biden administration has pledged more support in curbing the smuggling of guns from Haiti into Jamaica amid a sharp increase in murders here. Mark Wells, the United States deputy assistant secretary for Caribbean affairs and Haiti at the Bureau....

A four-year-old is battling for life after being shot in the head during a drive-by attack by gunmen that killed one man. The incident occurred in Bunnan Gully, a community located along Mannings Hill Road in St Andrew. The deceased has been...

Lawmakers may be hard-pressed to keep a 1 p.m. appointment for a meeting of the Standing Finance Committee, which is scheduled for Tuesday, December 14, based on their track record in recent years. At the last sitting of the House of...

Social-media platforms are emerging as a new frontier for female sex workers amid curfews and gathering restrictions implemented to curb the coronavirus outbreak. Dr Alisha Robb-Allen, acting senior medical officer of the HIV/STI/TB Unit - Health......

The financial hardships are beginning to set in for Antoinette Calderon*, the Qualcare Jamaica Limited employee who has been on unpaid vacation leave for refusing to comply with the COVID-19 policy implemented by her employers two months ago. It......

Therese Turner-Jones – general manager of the Jamaica-based Caribbean Country Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which oversees the lending agency and development organisation’s work across several English-speaking Caribbe...