The shooting death of an eight-year-old Clarendon boy has shocked his community, with peers and teachers at the Race Course Primary and Infant School jolted by news of a third tragic death in two weeks. Thomas James Jr was shot in the head on...

Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association President John Mahfood believes that the Government should consider giving up its shares in the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the sole distributor of electricity in the island. Marubeni...

Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke is insisting that the elimination of duty concession to travelling officers in the public sector would not place them at a disadvantage. Clarke was responding to news of unease among members o...

Although the Government recently announced a 20 per cent relief on electricity bills for almost half a million households for the months of April, May, June, and July, Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) President and CEO Michel Gantois is calling....

The police have found the firearm of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) sergeant who had failed to hand over the weapon, claiming it was stolen, after a prostitute was found dead in his car. The weapon will now be subjected to ballistic testing. The......

Disbarred attorney Jennifer Messado is to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court for trial on September 12 in connection with allegations that she fleeced dancehall entertainer Mavado of more than $30 million in a 2017 real estate...

Four alleged members of the feared Stinger Gang implicated in a gruesome quadruple murder were yesterday freed of murder and arson charges in the Gun Court. Navada Lyons, Jermaine Myers, Dacion Pellington, and Gerald Robinson were also freed of...

WESTERN BUREAU: Some students from schools across western Jamaica are pleased that the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (MBCCI) Security Summit examined several concerns affecting them. The summit was held on Wednesday and Thursday.....

Despite having less than a month to plan and execute this year’s staging of the annual St Mary Agri-Expo following an announcement last month by Agriculture Minister Pearnel Charles Jr that agricultural shows would be returning, the organisers are...

Up to press time last evening, scene-of-crime investigators were combing a section of Zambia in Central Village, St Catherine, where residents had discovered human remains spread across three properties, some wrapped in plastic. Yesterday, turkey.....

Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith seemingly has the backing of India in her bid to topple Baroness Patricia Scotland as Commonwealth secretary general, with Indian High Commissioner Masakui Rungsung calling her a “strong and fitful”...

Evanie Henry, the common-law wife of slain reggae legend Donald ‘Tabby Diamond’ Shaw, has broken her silence on the police allegation that the gun death was a reprisal against her son, Jahmarley Shaw, who has been dubbed “a known violence prod...

Students have been finding more creative ways to sneak contraband into schools to satisfy their urges for drugs and foster other illegal activities. Among the latest trends is a practice of opening bags of snacks, loading them with contraband and....

Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry is recommending that the police corporal who was accused of cutting Nzinga King’s hair be charged with assault after an investigation by her office found that the woman cut the teenager’s locks out of reveng...

Angry residents doused heavy equipment with gasolene and threatened to light it after a demolition crew turned up to evict them from disputed lands in Little Bay, Westmoreland. The battle for the property has been raging for decades and saw one of.....

Constitutional speed bumps have slowed the Government’s push to cut ties with the British monarchy ahead of Jamaica’s 60th Independence anniversary celebrations in August, Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte has sa...

WESTERN BUREAU: George Overton, the director of operations at the Guardsman Group, says that crime in Jamaica has become a business over the past five decades, with the proceeds of various criminal activities being pumped into the country’s...

The once-beleaguered Petrojam, the state-owned oil refinery that racked up billions of dollars in unaccounted oil losses between 2013 and 2017, has reported significant improvement in reducing leakage of the commodity in its 2020-2021 annual report....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that it is not Jamaica’s intention to create division among CARICOM states, arguing that the country’s decision to name Kamina Johnson Smith as a candidate for the post of Commonwealth secretary general should...

Poor salaries have been dismissed by Jamaica’s police chief as a contributor to corruption in the constabulary. Major General Antony Anderson’s comments come in the wake of recent revelations of a police-led Ranko Gang based in Clarendon, with.....