Significant vulnerabilities in Jamaica’s cyberinfrastructure have rendered the country a “soft target” for ransomware, placing the island nation firmly within the cross hairs of “disrupted” cyber gangs. Local banks are among corporate bo...

Chairman of the Early Childhood Commission (ECC), Trisha Williams-Singh, has said that while there has been a decline in the number of institutions operating without a permit over the last five years, the remainder was still cause for concern....

WESTERN BUREAU: Wage talks between the island’s air traffic controllers and the Government are expected to continue today after a meeting between the group and the Ministry of Labour in Kingston ended in a stalemate on Monday. The controllers, who...

Another crime-scene investigator testified on Monday in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial that photographs taken at a murder scene at the Spanish Town bus terminus in St Catherine following the murder of a bus driver are missing. The bus driver,...

People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell impressed upon scholarship awardees the value of a solid education as a lifesaver during Saturday’s O.T. Fairclough Trust Fund Educational Grants award ceremony. The 11 recipien...

The Trelawny police have launched a manhunt for the killer of a 41-year-old farmer whose head was partially severed in a domestic dispute at her Green Town farm on Monday. Residents and family members in the rural district expressed shock at the...

The Government is launching a new incentive-based campaign to reward persons offering information leading to the seizure of illegal guns and the arrest and charge of wanted persons. The National Crime Prevention Fund (NCPF), which operates Crime...

The P.J. Patterson Centre for African-Caribbean Advocacy has thrown its weight behind the decades-old campaign for the posthumous exoneration of Jamaican National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The philosopher and black-consciousness advocate was...

Jamaican lawmakers have been urged to overhaul decades-old legislation and update fines deemed out of step with modern-day trends. Karyl Thorpe, 2021 national youth parliamentarian from St Catherine South Eastern, used the platform of Gordon House.....

WESTERN BUREAU: JASON ROSE, the St James-based pastor who is charged with the rape of a 15-year-old girl; his wife, Kehmi Rose; and the girl’s mother are expected to settle their legal representation before they next appear in the St James Circuit...

Attorney-at-law representing the R Hotel in New Kingston, Peter Champagnie, is suggesting that if charges are preferred against his client for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA), they are likely to amount to nothing. R Hotel is...

In the latest indicator of the Government of Jamaica’s shifting assertiveness on banking fees, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has indicated that the Holness administration is not ruling out a “last-resort” formulation of anti-competition laws t...

WESTERN BUREAU: A sickout by air traffic controllers has caused the cancellation of flights by two major airlines serving Jamaica and threatens further disruption to the travel industry if labour restiveness persists. Virgin Atlantic, which was...

Murals outside the home of Lorna Green’s son and younger brother are poignant reminders of the corrosive power of gang violence in Denham Town, a community where she was born and raised and which she believes now requires divine intervention. “...

Gridlocked by a zone of special operations (ZOSO) since 2017, residents of the violence-torn west Kingston community of Denham Town are convinced that although the presence of the joint security forces has brought some relief, their loose hold on......

In the wake of a fatal crash near Linstead, St Catherine, on Saturday, the police have warned pedestrians not to trespass on toll roads. Audley Gordon, the executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), is the subject.....

A buoyant murder-for-hire industry – through which Jamaicans engage marksmen to settle domestic disputes, disrupt love affairs, get their hands on insurance money and to bump off business partners – is believed to be the main driver behind the b...

Two guns that were seized by the police last year have been linked to more than 30 murders and shootings across several parishes over the last four years, senior law enforcement sources have revealed. The guns – a Smith...

NEW YORK: Law enforcement sources in the United States have outlined a number of key areas they believe Jamaica should focus on as it grapples with a high homicide rate and the continued use of the gun, many of which are sourced from overseas...

WESTERN BUREAU: Two unidentified gunmen were fatally shot in separate shooting incidents which occurred in the Newmarket and Thornton communities in St Elizabeth on Friday night into Saturday morning. The police have also reported that two illegal.....