Shock and sadness overwhelmed the Ray Town, Kingston home of 12-year-old Holy Trinity High School student Karuki Moncrieffe yesterday, a day after he collapsed in his community and was later pronounced dead at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital......

The National Housing Trust (NHT) is expected to apply changes to several of its policies as the Government moves to quell disquiet brewing in the housing market, where thousands of contributors continue to be priced out of a home. Prime Minister......

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced a $13 billion urban road improvement project in sections of Kingston and St Andrew as well as St Catherine with high volumes of traffic. Dubbed the Special Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) programme, Holness......

Lawmakers locked horns yesterday over a provision in the Firearms (Prohibitions, Restriction and Regulation) Act, 2022, that bars a person charged with an offence involving domestic violence or has a history of domestic violence from obtaining a...

WESTERN BUREAU: Two of the country’s most respected entertainers associations do not believe that the country needs an entertainment academy at this time. Instead, they say their skilled members want a level playing field. The Jamaica Federation o...

WESTERN BUREAU: Sleuths investigating a mass shooting that claimed three lives and left four persons injured in Santoy, Hanover, on Wednesday night are probing allegations that the attack could have been linked to an extortion racket in the area.......

Party promoters and other stakeholders in the entertainment industry are celebrating the expiration of the COVID-19-related orders under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA), which largely banned activities in the sector with a brief respite in.....

A detective constable found guilty of perverting the course of justice for requesting $30,000 from a murder victim’s relative to pay a potential witness in the case is now awaiting a decision from the Court of Appeal on whether his conviction will...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday announced that five Cabinet ministers who appeared to flout the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) while attending an entertainment event Tuesday night have been ordered to donate $100,000 each to a charity.....

Hours after five Cabinet ministers appeared to flout the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) while attending an entertainment event Tuesday night, the father of a man who was thrown into prison for 30 days for mask-wearing and no-movement day...

Two public officials have been tagged “grossly incompetent” in an Integrity Commission report for their handling of two contracts that cost Jamaican taxpayers $20 million. The report, which was tabled in Parliament on March 8, covered an...

A person in the company of a licensed firearm holder who commits a felony could, in the absence of what the law terms “reasonable excuse”, also be charged jointly with the person who has the gun permit. A controversial provision – (Section 43...

WESTERN BUREAU: DARK CLOUDS are hovering over the businesses of egg farmers in Jamaica. And given a huge and continuous spike in costs in production inputs like feed, it has been predicted that small-scale interests with 1,000 or fewer could...

St Catherine farmer Jermaine Black, who became somewhat of a social-media sensation at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, has had to resort to generating his own feed for his livestock amid the skyrocketing cost of inputs. A 25kg bag of...

National Commercial Bank (NCB) has spent the last six months reorganising some of its branches to take on heavier workloads while downgrading others to serve as banking agencies in the lead-up to the financial giant’s announcement Wednesday that i...

Production of medical grade oxygen at Industrial Gases Limited (IGL) will be increased by 40 per cent with the commissioning of an oxygen PSA plant. IGL, Jamaica’s lone supplier of medical oxygen, currently produces 13 tonnes of the product daily...

The Clansman-One Don Gang trial in the Home Circuit Court was on Wednesday adjourned until March 23 after the prosecution requested time to peruse digital evidence, including the call-data records, which the Crown will be using to support its main.....

The largely unregulated use of chemicals in agriculture has spawned public-health dangers like cancer for the population, an organic farmer based in western Jamaica has charged. In an address at Tuesday’s launch of a study on the pattern and use o...

Hanover police investigators are now probing Wednesday night's shooting of seven men, three fatally in Santoy district, Logwood in the parish.

Declaring that consumers need a break from soaring petrol prices, Opposition Leader Mark Golding recommended on Tuesday that the Government cap the ad valorem special consumption tax (SCT) on fuel at US$67.50 per barrel. If his proposal is...