Three of Jamaica’s top investigative bodies have turned their searchlights on the real estate market where ill-gotten money is being channelled to fund construction projects. Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang told his parliamentary...

The unlicensed taxi operator nabbed after taking several passengers on a daredevil ride Monday in a bid to elude the police is reportedly a repeat traffic offender who had more than a dozen unpaid tickets. Jamoy ‘Massive’ Pusey, 26, was cornered...

Declaring that the police are thwarting “pain-for-pain” vendettas, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson is turning the screws on the legislature and judiciary to plug existing loopholes being exploited by criminals. Murders have...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled that a man can rape another man in Barbados. The finding from the Caribbean appellate court, which was the view of six members of the seven-judge panel, arose out of an appeal by the Barbados...

PORT MARIA, St Mary: St Mary Central Member of Parliament Dr Moras Guy has appealed for state support after three days of torrential rainfall caused devastation across the northern parish. Neighbouring St Ann was also hit by flooding, especially in....

Current hikes in the price of basic foods, fuel and electricity costs are having a “devastating” impact on the poor and low-income earners, University of the West Indies (UWI) lecturer and economist Peter-John Gordon has said. The escalations co...

A forensic expert testified on Tuesday that the couple targeted by the Clansman-One Don Gang in a murder-arson in New Nursey, Twickenham Park, in 2017, died from gunshot wounds before their house was set on fire. According to the pathologist, no......

The proposed construction of a bus shed at a cost of $2.6 million in the constituency of St Ann South Eastern, for which Lisa Hanna is member of parliament, brought the approvals process of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) committee to a...

Noting the time of 6:35 p.m., RJRGLEANER Group CEO Gary Allen gave the nod to Minister without Portfolio Robert Morgan to punch the button on Monday representing the transition to a digital age for television broadcasting in Jamaica. The...

Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey says a file will be sent to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for guidance on how to proceed in the case involving the one-year-old girl who died after being left for hours in her father’s....

Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has revealed that a claim has been made for the full policy limit of US$250 million on Jamalco’s insurance following a fire that ravaged the alumina plant last August. The fire broke out at Jamalco’s powerhouse,...

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, wh...

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.....