Minister of Finance Dr Nigel Clarke has indicated that there will be no rollback of the special consumption tax on fuel, even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent global oil prices to decade-high records. Clarke, who opened the Budget Debate....

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) will roll out a new $2,000 note in the coming months, 12 years after it first put the $5,000 bill into circulation, Minister of Finance Dr Nigel Clarke has announced. Clarke said the note, which will bear the images of...

Vendors at the gutted Ray Ray Market in downtown Kingston are protesting plans to relocate sellers and transform the open-air space into a car park and taxi bay. The proposed overhaul was sparked by a multimillion-dollar fire on February 22 – one....

Member of Parliament Phillip Paulwell has denied supplying an invoice to former top executives of the Dutch firm Trafigura Beheer related to a controversial $31-million payment made to the People’s National Party (PNP) around the time they were in...

Delano Tucker, whose story of abject poverty and hardship touched many Jamaicans, has tugged at the heartstrings of the Universal Service Fund (USF) staff, prompting them to reach out and make donations to the 17-year-old boy and his 13-year-old...

The prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial failed on Tuesday in their effort to have a retired gang investigator give evidence as an expert witness. The police inspector, a 31-year-old veteran who has mainly investigated the St Catherine-.....

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP): Corpses lie in the streets of Mariupol. Hungry people break into stores in search of food and melt snow for water. Thousands huddle in basements, trembling at the sound of Russian shells pounding this strategic port city. “...

Businessman Norton Hinds helped to set up the political fundraising entity that was used to funnel a controversial $31-million donation to the People’s National Party (PNP), but knew very little about its operations, according to his evidence. The...

The Court of Appeal has urged firearm holders not to ignore the statutory remedies available to them in the event of disagreements with the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) over the revocation of user licences. The available remedies are first to.....

Social development practitioner Tishauna Mullings of Seaforth, St Thomas, is, simply put, a force to be reckoned with. A Chevening scholar, recipient of the Prime Minister’s Youth Award for being a stalwart in community and nation-building, named...

Incarcerated dancehall artiste Tommy Lee Sparta has been transferred from the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre to a St Catherine prison after suffering injuries in a February 21 bust-up with warders. Another entertainer, Sean Storm, who is......

Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey testified on Monday that he made a judgement call not to charge a former top-tier member of the Clansman-One Don Gang as he was of the view that the ex-gangster would not have cooperated with the police and....

There is a thin line between life and death for residents of Trench Town in the Kingston Western Police Division, as even mere association can have fatal outcomes as a gang war between the enclaves of ‘Angola’ and ‘Zimbabwe’ heats up. The l...

As Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke opens the 2022-2023 Budget Debate in Gordon House this afternoon, Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) President Michael Leckie is appealing for action by the Government on two...

WESTERN BUREAU: There were broad smiles and joyful reunions among students and teachers as full-scale engagement of in-person classes resumed islandwide on Monday, with only shift-system schools being allowed another two weeks for complete...

While schools in St Thomas report high student turnouts for the first day of the full resumption of in-person teaching since 2020, there is a common concern among administrations: the lack of sufficient seating. The administrators shared that much....

Opposition Leader Mark Golding is backing his predecessor Dr Peter Phillips to remain as member of parliament for St Andrew East Central despite his continued treatment for colon cancer, insisting that he is “still able to provide solid...

Every year, on March 5, Britni Berry would gift her son toys from his long wish list. Berry still plans on buying her son toys this year, but she will place them atop his grave. Eight-year-old Xavier Phillips, nicknamed ‘Bojo’, was shot dead o...

Pandemic-related depression, the death of an infant son, job loss, and family feuds have rendered a couple homeless, forcing Anakay Thomas Peart and her husband, Parnel Peart, to pitch a tent along the shore of Bob Marley Beach in Nine Miles, Bull.....

Ahead of the global celebration of International Women’s Day on Tuesday, gender and development practitioner Judith Wedderburn has expressed disappointment with Jamaica’s women legislators, who she accuses of not doing enough to tackle fundament...