P.J. Patterson, Jamaica’s sixth and longest-serving prime minister, has expressed regret that the country did not become a republic under his leadership. Jamaica spent centuries as a colony of Britain until it gained political Independence in 1962...

GM Challenger CEO Nigel Pagon says his company has refunded the $6-million deposit it received from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) to supply a special ambulance despite an Integrity Commission report that said that the state agency was not...

Local importers are calling on the agriculture ministry to increase transparency in the importation of chicken back and chicken neck. CJ’s Export, Import and Manufacturing Company Limited, a Westmoreland-based family business, has not sold chicke...

Founder and chairman of the Guardsman Group of Companies, Kenneth Benjamin, yesterday disagreed that it was unreasonable for his firms to continue to treat security guards as contract workers based on advice he had received from the income tax...

Heavily armed thugs believed to be linked to the Bedward Gardens community in St Andrew on Wednesday launched an attack on a resident of August Town Road, coinciding with the second anniversary of the death of their cronies. The men ​reportedly......

WESTERN BUREAU: In the seven years that the Tourism Linkages Network (TLN) has existed, local producers of goods and services to the tourism industry have grossed $700 million through its Speed Networking event, says tourism minister Edmund...

Attorney-at-law Peter Champagnie, QC, yesterday urged members of a joint select committee reviewing the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act, 2022 to give consideration to exceptional circumstances in which it would be a grave...

The shooting of two men at a ​restaurant along Olympic Way in St Andrew yesterday evening has triggered deeper fears among residents that irregularity in the space is inevitable – at least for a while. Businesses had to be shuttered earlier tha...

A former commissioner of police has called for a radical shake-up in law enforcement to rein in violent crime, with a purge of the constabulary articulated as crucial to boosting public confidence. “Discover them, clean them out, and clear them o...

Inmates will soon be forced to participate in rehabilitation programmes within the prison system when the review of the Corrections Act is completed, says State Minister Zavia Mayne. That is likely to be welcome news for stakeholders overseeing...

“If you can’t ketch Quaco, you ketch him shut.” That's the pithy proverb, referencing the inevitability of death by association, voiced by a resident as she described the killing of Donald ‘Tabby Diamond’ Shaw — lead singer of the legen...

More than 60 per cent of the island’s security companies, accounting for 28 of the larger firms, have been ignoring the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) demands for them to pay over the employer’s portion of Trust contribution for their workers...

A teen with a seemingly bright future in athletics, who promised his mother that he would elevate their family out of poverty by following in the footsteps of athletics superstar Usain Bolt, died last week after contracting dengue fever. A shell-.....

The father of a 16-year-old boy in custody in relation to the stabbing death his stepfather, Conroy Morgan, at his home in Four Paths, Clarendon, on Monday said he was unaware of any major rift between his son and the victim. The teen reportedly......

Six persons were murdered in St James between on Tuesday in four attacks, including a triple murder in the community of Rose Heights in Montego Bay, the second mass shooting in one of the troubled communities in the Second City within days. Those......

WESTERN BUREAU: The case of obstruction of justice concerning Gordon Brown in the investigations surrounding the January 13 murder of nine-year-old Gabriel King in St James, has been set for mention in the St James Parish Court on April 22. Brown’...

Marlene Malahoo Forte, minister of legal and constitutional affairs, has asserted that while rights are non-negotiable and must be assured and given the highest level of attention, it is fellow citizens – and not the State – who are behind the.....

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...