Latoya Blake, the mother of six-year-old Tyrece Wint, one of the two boys who were shot and injured during a confrontation at a party in Accompong Town, St Elizabeth, on Thursday night, is distressed about the incident and is also peeved that up to....

Member of Parliament for Kingston Eastern and Port Royal Phillip Paulwell says crime and violence is the number one problem in Jamaica and sometimes he, too, wants to cry as a result of the scourge affecting the country. Communities within the...

The Jamaican police appeared to have been kept in the dark about government approval of the Maroon peace treaty anniversary celebration on Thursday and backed off enforcement of coronavirus safety laws after issuing a terse warning that the event......

With the resumption of jury trial suffering a further delay in light of the island’s increasing COVID-19 positivity rate, emerging variants, low vaccination take-up coupled with other negative factors, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes believes the time...

The Universal Service Fund (USF) yesterday launched another ‘Community Connect’ Wi-Fi portal at the McIntyre Villa Community Centre in Kingston and urged residents and especially students to make the best use of the technology. The USF intends ...

Scotia Group Jamaica Limited officially launched the Scotiabank Women Initiative (SWI) on Friday, in an effort to break down barriers of inequity and marginalisation of women in the business sector. The programme, which began in Canada in 2018 with....

A female cookshop operator became the third murder victim in the Kingston Central Police Division over a 14-hour period after she was shot inside her home on Mark Lane around noon on Friday. She has since been identified as 50-year-old Sharon...

Residents of Bent Town, a section of Mulgrave district, St Elizabeth, are breathing a sigh of relief after the decomposed body of 88-year-old Kenneth Brown, the senior citizen who went missing from his home on December 18, was removed from a sink.....

UWI lecturers strike Students at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, might not have access to their December 2021 final-exam results amid industrial action by hundreds of lecturers. This announcement comes in the wake of a vote....

WESTERN BUREAU: Government ministries, departments, and agencies have been urged not to engage with, or fund, secessionist Maroons who are asserting sovereignty from the Jamaican State, a leaked Cabinet Office document has said. Though none of the....

Three senior personnel in charge of a National Health Fund (NHF) warehouse cold room that is suspected to have been sabotaged have been sent on leave while the police conduct a probe into the incident that affected more than 900,000 COVID-19...

Dozens of hospital staff islandwide are in isolation following a surge in COVID-19 infections amid a global eruption of the Omicron variant, limiting outpatient care and halting surgical operations at some facilities. For the first time since...

WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS IN a section of Brighton, St Elizabeth, known as ‘Zoar’ are calling on the Government to establish a unit in the Jamaica Constabulary Force to deal with mental health patients and to train cops in how to interface with....

At least one developer is warning that the proposed increase of eight per cent in the price of cement by the country’s main supplier, Carib Cement, will have a significant impact on the lower-income end of the housing market. “The low-income en...

The alleged driver of a car in which a woman was reportedly kidnapped, robbed, and beaten in Kingston Thursday had his bail revoked after it was reported that he had threatened an individual who he believed was responsible for his arrest. The...

The Kingston Central policeman yanked from frontline duty for threatening to kill any resident caught with an illegal gun “is the subject of a wider enquiry”, the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) has said. That revelation was ma...

Having been blamed – and even prosecuted – for a number of fish kills in the past and with the State’s environmental watchdog last year saying that Windalco had not been doing enough to protect the Rio Cobre, the St Catherine-based company on....

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...

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...