As tributes pour in for anti-apartheid stalwart Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, former Prime Minister PJ Patterson is recommending that his example be used to achieve consensus to tackle issues facing Jamaica. Tutu, who was a driving force for...

Outgoing Jamaica Country Representative and Caribbean General Manager of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Therese Turner-Jones, is convinced that Jamaica’s chances of surviving the economic onslaught of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are....

Jamaica’s runaway crime rate has served as impetus for the full transformation of Kingston into a smart city, fuelling high expectations that heavy investments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) will deliver positive results. �...

Leading hotel operations are losing an entire generation of their skilled labour force to other sectors, following the economic fallout from the COVID-19-induced disruptions to the travel and leisure industry. The tourism sector contributed 9.8 per....

Retired Court of Appeal Justice Hillary Phillips says the pace of modernisation of the justice system in Jamaica should be expedited. “We have been speaking about getting to a paperless registry, getting into paperless offices, but I don’t know...

WESTERN BUREAU: In the trenches fighting the coronavirus pandemic over the last two years, 58 healthcare workers recognised as ‘Heroes’ on the COVID-19 ward at the Cornwall Regional Hospital were honoured by the Montego Bay business community la...

Words cannot express the joy businessman Lester Rhooms felt last week when he described an order by the Supreme Court for the police to return his money and surveillance security system as “the best Christmas gift ever”. “I was feeling mental....

Olympic Way is home to the first baby born at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital on Christmas Day, after mother Denesha Simmonds delivered a bouncing boy shortly after 1:00 yesterday morning. Thabang Jordine, at roughly seven pounds, entered the world......

DR BRIAN JAMES President, Medical Association of Jamaica It is hard to come up off the cuff with a wish list but the most important things are, one: the population becoming cognisant of the reality of COVID-19 and how easy it is to actually put....

Haiti has escalated the diplomatic pressure to get custody of suspected Colombian assassin Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, turning to an 18th century legislation to compel Jamaica to hand him over, new court documents have revealed. An imperial......

Residents of Barking Lodge in St Thomas are hoping that Ricardo ‘Mr Volunteer’ Burke will be able to fulfil their shared Christmas wish of building a new house for a needy neighbour, even as he executes customary efforts to bring cheer to his......

After what she described as a "valley experience" as she was pulled from death’s door by the medical staff, who went above and beyond the call of duty to nurse her back to health, Barbara Riley Williams on Thursday presented them with gifts in...

December 25 won't quite be Christmas this year. That's the view of Claudette Brown of Hall in Clarendon, who said there'll be no joy for her or her son, who will turn 12 on Christmas Day. Their usual ritual of having her father, Phillip Brown,...

Despite a decline in the interest of non-Christians and churchgoers – who are no longer rolling out of bed from as early as 5 a.m. to scurry to church at 6 a.m. for Christmas morning services to commemorate Jesus' birth – church leaders are hopi...

A mid rising inflation and more costly imports, a concurrent increase in the price of goods is partly being blamed for a slowdown in retail sales just days before Christmas, but there’s optimism among business owners that sales might begin to......

WESTERN BUREAU: Stakeholders in western Jamaica are clamouring for Senator Matthew Samuda to be promoted to the national security portfolio, replacing his boss, Dr Horace Chang, amid a soaring murder rate islandwide. The call came after Prime...

Employees of Cari-Med who recently brought the company to court over its COVID-19 vaccination policies have broken their silence after the Supreme Court’s decision to throw out their claim that the company’s vax-or-test mandate breached their......

Time is running out and frustration is building for the family of Taneka Gardner, the woman whose throat was slashed during a sacrificial ceremony at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration church last October as her insurance claim process...

When non-violent offender Craige Garricks was told that Food For The Poor (FFP) Jamaica stood in the gap for his family and paid the $300,000 fine for his release from prison in time for Christmas, he was beyond excited. The 25-year-old said he was....

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has cautioned against overplaying the scale of infection of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, a day after the health ministry advised that the fast-spreading strain was likely in the population....