WESTERN BUREAU: The local government representative for the sidelined Accompong Maroons has criticised Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ allusion to the separatist group as dangerous, suggesting that the characterisation of the centuries-old enclave....

Caribbean political philosophy expert Professor Clinton Hutton has warned the Holness administration that its policy directive not to engage with separatist Maroons lends credence to the claim of sovereignty in the western Jamaica territory of...

The Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) has rejected as misguided Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ strategy to halt runaway coronavirus infections, insisting that the proposed ramping up of vaccination could not stave off the current avalanche of.....

Charging that the two-thirds voting majority bar for the extension of states of emergency (SOE) poses a significant challenge and may be used as a political ploy, the Government signalled on Sunday that it was reviewing the requirement as part of.....

Mounting back taxes and health issues are suspected to have driven 70-year-old businessman Donald Anthony Thompson to have allegedly committed suicide overnight on Saturday, his wife, Paulette Thompson, has said. The elderly man, who operated a...

A construction boom in Portmore has triggered calls for an expansion of the road network in the fast-developing St Catherine community. Besides the erection of business process outsourcing centres and other emerging buildings, the impending...

The late Hyacinth Chen, matriarch of the family-owned Super Plus Food Stores supermarket chain and mother of billionaire businessman Michael Lee-Chin, has been lauded as “a voice of wisdom” and a pioneer who made an “inestimable contribution�...

* Don’t suppress your feelings; if you are having downtime, let yourself feel the emotion. * Journal your experiences and moods. * Do the opposite of what the ‘depression voice’ suggests. * Set attainable goals and reward your efforts.

Bengal Development’s quest, which has been backed by the prime minister, to mine in the ecologically sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains is going ahead after the State’s environmental regulator accommodated the late payment of a $40-million bond......

The body of Kevin Ontoneil Smith, the notorious charismatic religious leader whose name and death have become Jamaican tales, has reportedly been cremated with his family silent on whether the ashes have been interred. It’s the cap on the weeks of...

While the tale of Kevin Smith grabbed and held on to national attention, spawning dozens of copies, hours of broadcast and endless social media chatter, there were other major talking points that were in contention for newsmaker for 2021. 1....

The local Maroon communities intend to seek audience with Prime Minister Andrew Holness to try and ease simmering tension between the Government and the indigenous groups, especially in relation to those in the Cockpit Country led by Richard Currie....

A motor vehicle examiner, who is waiting for the court to hear his appeal against internal disciplinary charges in the Ministry of Transport after he was freed of corruption charges in the St Thomas Parish Court, is upset that his case has not been....

Family and friends of 26-year-old Steven ‘Short Boss’ Taylor, the young businessman who was reportedly shot to death by his father at their home in Rhyne Park Village, St James, have labelled his death an accident, urging persons to stop spreadi...

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....