The acquisition of a new intelligence management system by the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) is expected to significantly boost its surveillance of criminal masterminds in the illicit drugs and firearms trade following close to 1,300 busts within...

Albert Ferguson/Gleaner Writer WESTERN BUREAU: A community of homeless people who captured lands owned by the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) along Howard Cooke Boulevard in Montego Bay, St James, is without a place to lay their heads...

Tanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter A former Marksman Limited contracted security guard who had worked there for 11 years testified on Tuesday that he had authorised the company yearly to make statutory deductions from his earnings and to pay it over.....

Bakers, farmers and egg retailers are in a wait-and-see mode to gauge how a hike in the price of table eggs, which took effect on Monday, will affect their business operations. Doreen Hibbert, manager of the Jamaica Egg Farmers Association, told...

Last Thursday, Conroy Morgan and his wife celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary. But in a cruel twist of fate, the celebratory spirit in the family home was short-lived. Morgan, the family’s sole breadwinner, was stabbed to death on Monday,...

Businesspersons linked to gunrunning could be slapped with massive fines by the court according to a provision in the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act, 2022. A joint select committee reviewing the far-reaching proposed law on.....

“This is one of the happiest and proudest days in my entire life.” Those were the words of former prime minister of Jamaica, P.J. Patterson, shortly before the unveiling of entrance and exit signs bearing his name at Calabar High School on Tuesd...

A Kingston mason who reportedly tracked down and killed a man he believed was having an affair with his girlfriend was on Monday remanded for a bail hearing on July 13 in the Home Circuit Court. Wesley Williams, who was captured on December 13,......

Holness in Washington for high-level talks Prime Minister Andrew Holness departed Jamaica Tuesday afternoon for a working visit in Washington, DC. During his visit to the United States, he is expected to meet with high-level officials within the....

The last words 13-year-old Omarion Haniford reportedly cried out after he was stabbed two days ago are seared into the memory of his mother, who is still traumatised after a seemingly routine Sunday morning was transformed into a hellish...

The Jamaica College Old Boys’ Association (JCOBA) has painted acting principal Wayne Robinson as a meddling interloper and accused the school board of sabotage in a roller-coaster dispute over a botched uniform and merchandise sales contract. In ...

Kimberlee Palmer, 22, still recalls the final embrace of her mother Lorna Johnson on Glen Drive, northern St Andrew, hours before the 60-year-old bar operator took her last breath early Monday. Palmer had just taken a break from studies to join her....

One of four police officers who were on Friday busted in an operation targeting the Clarendon-based Ranko Gang was released following the refusal of two witnesses to take part in an identification (ID) parade exercise. Assistant Commissioner of...

Eight men who were reportedly among 16 accused of gang-raping a woman at gunpoint in Kingston four years ago were acquitted last Wednesday in the Home Circuit Court. The defendants were found not guilty of illegal possession of a firearm, rape and....

Seventeen-year-old Tehanna Williams dreams of someday becoming a teacher and a successful businesswoman. Born with a skeletal disorder called rickets, the resident of Race Track in Denbigh, Clarendon, is hoping to have corrective surgery on her...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke has been elected chairman of the 48-member board of governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He was elected on Monday morning at the annual meeting of the board of the IDB...

After stumbling upon a crocodile and having to flee from a raging pit bull just days after having now been forced to walk a mile to access public transportation with the partial opening of a section of the under-construction highway, residents of......

A £35.5-million (approximately J$7-billion) project to bring irrigation water to farmers in the Breadbasket Parish is set to get under way shortly, after being stuck in the pipeline since 2017. Joseph Gyles, CEO of the National Irrigation...

The aftershocks of the nightly curfew, lifted almost two weeks ago, are still being felt by operators of fast-food chains and service stations islandwide as social and spending patterns disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic have been slow to...

The leadership of the Old Hope Road-based Jamaica College (JC) is seeking an account of how funds totalling $3.1 million, which were reportedly collected by the old boys’ association on behalf of the 232-year-old institution, were used. The...