Yielding to pressure from doctors and nurses, the Holness administration has ordered all public hospitals to treat only emergency cases in a bid to manage a crippling coronavirus outbreak that has flooded wards and caused infected healthcare staff.....

WESTERN BUREAU: The Heinz Simonitsch School in Rose Hall, St James, is rejecting discrimination claims by the mother of an eight-year-old boy, who is in the transitional phase of growing his dreadlocks in sync with his religion, that he was being......

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), Shane Dalling, has signalled that he was not picking a fight with Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis but is insisting that her conclusions that his salary contract is in...

Hours after his 42-year-old son was slain in the Plum Lane area off Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew, Eric Powell took sips of an alcoholic beverage trying to soothe his grief as he pondered whether Shamari would have still been alive if he had heeded...

Colonel Audley Carter, chairman of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), has defended his action in awarding a contract to the public body’s chief executive officer (CEO), Shane Dalling. This latest development comes against the background of......

Jamaica’s unemployment rate has returned to pre-pandemic levels, marking robust recovery after COVID-19 decimated the job market, leaving more than a hundred thousand jobless at the heights of the outbreak. Findings from the Statistical Institue o...

Dean-Roy Bernard, the in-limbo permanent secretary (PS) of the education ministry, is to return to the Supreme Court today when a judicial review of the Public Service Commission’s decision to reassign him from his post in 2019 is expected to star...

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is planning to establish a committee headed by Chukka Caribbean’s John Byles to look at restructuring the debt of the sector, which he has said is huge due to the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. â...

Local health professionals are concerned about whether the number of Jamaicans suffering from long-haul COVID-19 could rise because of the increase in infections amid the fourth wave and the presence of the Omicron variant in Jamaica. There are...

A second audit of the embattled Merl Grove High School has highlighted new concerns, including the overpayment of salary to the bursar and a breach of the ministry guidelines on the number of bank accounts held by the institution. The principal is....

Former People’s National Party (PNP) chairman Phillip Paulwell believes the Opposition will suffer consequences for its decision not to support the Government’s bid last November to extend states of emergency (SOEs) in seven police divisions...

The Jamaica Medical Doctors’ Association (JMDA) is pushing for scaled-down operations in hospitals across the island as hundreds of its members fall ill to the coronavirus, a sign that the public-health system may be on the verge of collapse....

WESTERN BUREAU: Former violence interrupter Bishop O’Neil Russell says the Savanna-la-Mar zone of special operations is not adequately scoped as it leaves residents exposed to the mercy of gangsters from the Gully Bank area near the Savanna-la-Ma...

International best practices for the preservation of the scenes of police fatal shootings are being ignored by local law enforcement, the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has charged, arguing that it is hindering probes by the...

Denying that Jamaica’s porous borders have created a safe haven for international criminals and suspects, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson said on Sunday that an intelligence-driven operation led to the apprehension of former...

RESIDENTS in Savanna-la-Mar have welcomed the declaration of a zone of special operations (ZOSO) in the southern arc of the Westmoreland capital. However, they are appealing to the security forces to exercise greater respect when carrying out their....

WESTERN BUREAU: Fire investigators were working up to late Sunday afternoon to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed three shops at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, earlier in the day, resulting in losses of up to $3...

Phillip Paulwell’s yet-to-be-written book will detail the feverish, closed-door negotiations for the exit of former People’s National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller from the helm of the party in 2017 following its electoral defeat i...

Up to the date of the last general election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his family had assets worth approximately J$192 million with those held in US dollar continuing along an increasing trend, based on the finally published statutory...

Jamaican authorities are now hammering out a way to deal with John Joel Joseph, a Haitian politician and key suspect in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last July, who was captured by local law enforcement on Friday evening in the...