Former national security ministers Peter Bunting and Robert Montague are facing scathing criticism from a founding director of the board of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) who says they, and some board members, have betrayed the confidence......

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has come under fire for alleged incomplete construction works in Bull Bay, St Andrew, that have been blamed for the crash death of a three-year-old girl who ran into the path of a motor vehicle Wednesday...

Jamaicans are being warned to brace for greater economic fallout from what the parliamentary Opposition is calling a cost-of-living-crisis that threatens to worsen with the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Citing the meteoric rise in the...

After a lengthy probe, the Integrity Commission has concluded that former commissioner of Jamaica Customs, Danville Walker, was not acting within his powers when he allowed 15 traders to export scrap metal during a ban imposed by the Government...

Embattled Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the Troja division, William Cytall, generated ripples among his political colleagues when he switched political allegiance during a meeting of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation on Thursday.......

Some things are “more clearer” for authorities in the Netherlands who are investigating the controversial $31-million payment by Trafigura Beheer to the People’s National Party (PNP) in 2006, a Dutch prosecutor has revealed. Ronald Steen, a......

The wife and sons of former Haitian senator John Joseph, a suspect in the murder of Haiti President Jovenel Moϊse, are pursuing an option for asylum other than Jamaica. Attorney-at-law Donahue Martin, who is representing the family, had previously...

PASSLEY GARDENS, Portland: President of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), Derrick Deslandes, has promised to implement improved security measures in the wake of the abduction and sexual assault of a student on Thursday....

Alliance Finance Limited (AFL), which was slapped Thursday with a $21.4-million fine for various breaches of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) and Banking Services acts, may still be hit with further financial sanctions. The company is to appear in the...

The Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has been castigated for the lack of transparency in its employment practices and breaches of its own human resource management policy. Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis, who conducted a project...

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has said that despite requests from her department, the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has failed to provide evidence of the criteria used to select projects under the Tourism Improvement Programme (....

Days after the resumption of face-to-face classes, stakeholders in the education sector are calling for changes to the culture of political interference in the appointment of school boards. That concern - linked to the disruption of effective...

Former deputy chairman of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) Dennis Meadows could face charges for misconduct in a public office, breach of public trust and a breach of the Corruption Prevention Act. Director of Corruption Prosecutions at the......

A retired gang investigator recalled on Wednesday how he had visited alleged Clansman-One Don Gang deputy leader ‘City Puss’ in prison under the guise that he was a gangster and spent an hour chatting with him before surprising him with criminal...

Minister of Education Fayval Williams said the Government would revisit the funding model for low-performing schools and possibly do away with the one-size-fits-all model where resources are allocated equally per student. “We have to do it in a......

Three men and a teenage boy who were killed in a reported firefight with the St Catherine South police in the Central Village community of ‘Zambia’ have been alleged to be gangsters who were wanted for various violent crimes. Acting on intellige...

The People’s National Party (PNP) bank account into which the bulk of a controversial $31-million payment from the Dutch firm Trafigura Beheer was lodged in 2006 was opened a day after the first tranche of the funds was wired to another Jamaican.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s Minister of Education Fayval Williams has dispelled the notion that there is a “mass exodus” of teachers from the classroom annually. While acknowledging that compensation of teachers was a sore point, Williams said t...

Less than 24 hours after the Government announced that new currency notes would be put into circulation soon, the Jamaica Society for the Blind has clamoured for inclusion in the final sign-off of the dollar bills. Conrad Harrison, executive...

Minister of Education Fayval Williams has reported that more than 200,000 students aged 12 to 18 have received at least one dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Jamaica began inoculation of that cohort in August 2021, with a view of returning to...