Sanctions have been recommended against Rovel Morris, chief executive officer (CEO) of the St Ann Municipal Corporation, for the accounting officer’s role in a corruption scandal that enmeshed then Mayor Michael Belnavis and which involved the...

Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton said Jamaica could have commenced the immunisation of children under 12 if the required COVID-19 vaccines were available. Late last year, Cuba began a massive vaccination campaign for children.....

BRIDGETOWN (Barbados Nation): IT WILL BE a general election like never before today as Barbadians determine their path of governance for the next five years. The polls will be held amid a wave of COVID-19 infections in a once-in-a-century pandemic.....

A former inmate is suing the State for an erectile condition that he reportedly developed while in state care which has left him impotent. He is seeking millions of dollars in compensation. The claimant, Rupert Campbell, had developed an episode of....

A departure from the bauxite production levy on Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II in 2018 in favour of a profit-share agreement may have cost the Government US$81 million in earnings, but Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has cautioned against “....

Farmers are being courted for registration in the National Identification System (NIDS), the one-stop database through which the Holness administration aims to formalise thousands of Jamaicans who are off the grid. That intervention is expected to.....

WESTERN BUREAU: MORE PEOPLE could be killed if the divisional headquarters (HQ) for the Westmoreland police is relocated outside the parish capital to Llandilo, says former violence interrupter Bishop O’Neil Russell. Russell, who is also the...

Pledging a sustained effort to save lives and restore law and order, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang said the Government will be ramping up forces over the next two months in the zone of special operations (ZOSO) imposed in Parade...

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....