There are concerns in the medical field about the accuracy of COVID-19 tests being conducted by private facilities as well as suggestions that false negatives are being arrived at because of poor technique. The issue came to the fore on Wednesday.....

Hinting that Jamaica’s ambitions of attaining developed-country status was at risk because of epidemic levels of criminal violence, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said he will be commissioning an external review to determine the island’s progress...

WESTERN BUREAU: As the Accompong Maroons in St Elizabeth prepare for their 284th anniversary celebration today, two of the country’s most respected constitutional lawyers say the group is not immune from obeying the laws of the land, including a.....

As schools received the green light to reopen for face-to-face learning on Monday, Romario Stewart, policy chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party’s Generation 2000 (G2K) young professional affiliates’ group, is advocating for the inclusion of...

A high court judge has warned that lawyers whose failure to adequately prepare for their matters, resulting in adjournments, could find themselves appearing before the General Legal Council or before the court, after slapping Hollislaw firm with a.....

James Moss-Solomon, whose death on Tuesday shocked Jamaicans and drew encomiums for his contributions to national development, was not only revered as an influential businessman and patriot. He was also a “consummate musician” with the “ear o...

The finance ministry is considering surcharge action of $11.2 million against sidelined acting Permanent Secretary Dr Grace McLean and more than $112 million against the in-limbo incumbent Dean-Roy Bernard, documents bearing the signature of...

While he was in Jamaica, Colombian fugitive Mario Antonio Palacios voluntarily gave statements to United States (US) law-enforcement authorities about his involvement in the plot to assassinate former Haitian President Jovenel Moϊse, a senior...

If battling sickle-cell disease was not tough enough, a nine-year-old boy’s family is eager for him to be discharged from The Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew after being admitted on New Year’s Day with a gunshot wound. The boy,......

James Moss-Solomon, the private sector and trade advocate whose voice commanded attention in the realms of business and politics but who charmed common folk, died on Tuesday morning at hospital. The manufacturing and philanthropic stalwart was 70......

Against the backdrop of an emerging COVID-19 fourth wave and Monday’s resumption of face-to-face classes, Education Minister Fayval Williams has said that the Holness administration has not established an infection or positivity rate benchmark tha...

The family of 88-year-old Kenneth Brown, the senior citizen from Bent Town in Mulgrave district, St Elizabeth, who went missing from his home since December 18, say they are unable to come up with $500,000 to pay residents to remove a decomposing......

WESTERN BUREAU: Morland Wilson, member of parliament (MP) for Westmoreland Western, wants stronger penalties for convicted murderers. “Three hundred years in prison, I think, is quite acceptable for persons who are going around slaughtering others...

JUST THREE days after the first double murder of the year was recorded in the parish, there was more tragedy in Westmoreland as two brothers were killed in the quiet community of Carawina Tuesday morning. They have been identified as 43-year-old...

Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson is calling for an urgent push by the education sector to rescue thousands of Jamaican students negatively impacted by the fallout in learning since the onset of COVID-19. He said that these students......

St Andrew West Rural Member of Parliament Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn has described the COVID-19 vaccination take-up in her constituency as disappointing – a snapshot of the limping inoculation campaign that has left Jamaica second from bottom, in per-....

There were no last-minute attempts by Haitian authorities to secure the extradition of Mario Antonio Palacios, one of the key suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, from Jamaica to the French-speaking country on Monday......

Officials from The University of the West Indies (UWI) are due to appear before the Jamaican Parliament next week amid news that Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles is investigating the chancellor, Robert Bermudez, the ceremonial head of the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Richard Currie, colonel of the Accompong Maroons, has said that the Government’s decision to grant Noranda Bauxite permission to mine 1,324 hectares of their lands in the protected area of St Ann is in direct violation of the right...

WESTERN BUREAU: The halving of the isolation period for COVID-19 positive patients from 10 to five days is being hailed by president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), Clifton Reader, as a game changer. The new regulation,...