Imagine seeing the body of your beloved eight-year-old son sinking underwater with his hands bound every time you shower. That has been the grim reality for Dudley Buchanan since his son, Galen, was killed in a devilish and callous manner by his......

Tensions are running high in Morgan Lane, Grants Pen, St Andrew following the gun killing of the community don, his brother and a third male from the area yesterday afternoon. The third man who was shot and injured was rushed to hospital but...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has encouraged Jamaicans in the diaspora to invest in the country, noting that the country was open for business. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Washington, DC, last night, the prime minister, in responding to a...

The music fraternity was dealt another blow yesterday when news emerged of the death of Fitzroy ‘Bunny’ Simpson, a founding member of the iconic singing group, The Mighty Diamonds. Just Tuesday, the music industry was plunged into mourning...

WESTERN BUREAU: JUSTICE MINISTER Delroy Chuck has taken a fresh swipe at Jamaica’s prevailing ‘informer fi dead’ culture, declaring that all citizens who speak out against all acts of criminality in their communities should be praised for thei...

WESTERN BUREAU: Performing well above expectations, American Airlines has added Ocho Rios, in St Ann to its Jamaican roster. The airline, which has been flying to Jamaica for the last 45 years, launches service to the tourist resort area as of...

WESTERN BUREAU: LEADER OF the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) Mark Golding says that he is very suspicious of changes being made within the civil service, particularly in the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), an executive agency,...

Jamaica yesterday announced the candidature of Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade, for the post of secretary general of the Commonwealth. A decision on the appointment of a secretary general is to be made......

Young Jamaicans with careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) are urging students to take greater interest in mathematics, as they prepare to fill roles in critical fields viewed as the engine of the new economy. The pass....

WESTERN BUREAU: There was a time when most boys would play with toy guns. But for Howard Nelson, he could have had a real gun if he wanted to from as early as age six as his father, who was the deputy don of Rema in Kingston, let him pull the...

Noranda Jamaica Bauxite, in its effort to reach its target of planting 200,000 trees, on Thursday broke ground to officially launch its Operation Discovery tree-planting nursery in Water Valley, St Ann. The goal of planting 200,000 trees was set.....

Micey Walters, the mother of two infants who perished in a fire in Hayesfield in Race Course, Clarendon, on March 24, was granted bail in the sum of $800,000 when she appeared in the Clarendon Parish Court yesterday. The 27-year-old mother is...

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...