As the price of chicken, pig, goat and cattle feed is set to increase on Monday, consumers are being warned to brace for movement in meat prices. Nutramix, one of Jamaica’s premier manufacturers of animal feed, said its products will cost more as....

Executive Director of the Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal (JAMP), Jeanette Calder, wants public officials involved in the deepening Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) scandal to step aside from their public duties until further investigations...

Market vendors in a section of the Coronation Market in downtown Kingston are in despair as millions of dollars in goods went up in smoke yesterday bringing to three, the number of markets razed by fires in three weeks. The section of the market...

WESTERN BUREAU: WESTMORELAND BUSINESSMAN Moses Chybar says the Government has not gone far enough in ensuring that the most vulnerable will be protected from increasing global fuel prices, arguing that the practical thing to do was to roll back the....

A man who posed as an employee of Jamaica Customs Agency and Kingston Wharves and conned several car buyers out of more than $15 million was yesterday remanded for sentencing in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on April 25. The confessed...

WESTERN BUREAU: THE St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has announced that, as part of efforts to be inclusive of disabled citizens, it will refuse to grant building permits to developers who submit building plans that are not in line with the......

The restoration of Jamaica’s railway service will be one of the proposed milestone projects to be undertaken by the Government in recognition of the nation’s 60th independence celebration. Minister of Transport and Mining, Audley Shaw, said the....

WESTERN BUREAU: Aimed at addressing the mental health problems brought on by COVID-19 on the country’s youth, the Ministry of Education has unveiled an extensive psychosocial pillar, which includes a cluster-based guidance concept programme. The.....

Jamaica-born N. Nick Perry is now officially the new United States ambassador to Jamaica. He was confirmed by the United States Senate late Thursday night. Earlier this week, Perry’s nomination received overwhelming support from the US Foreign...

Member of Parliament (MP) for St Mary Western, Robert Montague, is seeking to reassure residents in the parish that the breakaway along the Gayle main road will be fixed in short order. Montague informed The Gleaner that the National Works Agency (....

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...