Some very senior members of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are now fretful that Friday’s near-midnight resignation of the controversial Robert Montague from the Cabinet, capping a turbulent past six years, will expose cracks in the governing party...

The public silence of Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding on the Integrity Commission’s (IC) report on two former security ministers, Robert Montague and Peter Bunting, granting gun licences under controversial...

There were mixed views from residents in Western St Mary yesterday but embattled Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Montague still holds the majority support of constituents after resigning from the Andrew Holness-led Cabinet late Friday night...

Love her or hate her, Paula Vanessa Llewellyn, Jamaica’s first female and outgoing director of public prosecutions (DPP) – the Government’s chief prosecutor – has courage. Lots of it. The girl who grew up believing she was ugly, outfitted wi...

While ex-convicts found guilty of drug-related crimes and lottery scammers were being granted gun licences, Jamaica’s gun authority – the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) – reserved the real ‘VIP’ treatment for politicians, its former boa...

Former deputy chairman of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) Dennis Meadows has resigned from all state boards as the fallout from the Integrity Commission’s (IC) investigation into the issuance of questionable gun licences intensifies. In a.....

The man who blew the whistle on the Trafigura scandal believes it could have been put to rest very early had the People’s National Party (PNP) come “clean” about a controversial $31-million payment from Dutch firm Trafigura Beheer in 2006. The...

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...