The National Water Commission (NWC) was given more than 72 hours’ notice before workers of the state-run entity walked off the job, the Union of Public and Private Employees (UPPE) has said. The revelation came in a Gleaner interview on Wednesday...

Hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday as restive staff of the National Water Commission (NWC) returned to work at 11 p.m., turning on valves that had left taps dry for almost 48 hours, cripping households,...

“I can’t believe I watched my friend drown and couldn’t help him.” Those sentiments of regret and helpless desperation still haunt 17-year-old Jason White, who is still visibly shaken weeks after witnessing the death of his best friend, tee...

Christopher Armond, whose booming voice as a commentator excited horse-racing enthusiasts at Caymanas Park for a decade, and who served later as an administrator in Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad, died Wednesday at age 67. Inducted into the Hall......

Shoddy roadwork that can hardly stand the test of a heavy shower of rain will no longer be tolerated, de facto works minister Everald Warmington has signalled, even as he demanded proper supervision of contractors by engineers at the National Works....

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is to get a $117-million technology upgrade to allow it to be more responsive to the needs of inmates as it moves away from the current manual system. Courtney Williams, permanent secretary in the...

A manager at Petrojam testified Wednesday that, while on a leadership trip in London in February 2018, he was informed that then board chairman Perceval Bahado-Singh would be joining the delegation but he never turned up. The one-week trip (...

WESTERN REGION: Hospitals, health centres engage contingency plan The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) activated a contingency plan Wednesday as a strike by National Water Commission (NWC) staff disrupted supplies across the island for a....

Senator Dr Saphire Longmore has called for a rethink to a provision in the Tobacco Control Act, 2020, as language in a provision could be exploited by players in the industry. Longmore, a psychiatrist, told fellow lawmakers and members of a...

WESTERN BUREAU: Emaar Properties, a multinational real estate development company in the United Arab Emirates, is in discussions with Jamaica’s Ministry of Tourism and is eyeing St Thomas and Portland for potential hotel projects. Tourism Minister...

THE islandwide water lock-off spurred by industrial action at the National Water Commission (NWC) has resulted in the loss of millions of dollars at the state-run entity with unions and the Government still at the negotiation table late into...

Stacy Ann Johnson was only able to source a bottle of water to allow her children to brush their teeth and wash their faces before sending them off to school on Tuesday. The nationwide strike by National Water Commission (NWC) workers derailed her.....

University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Guild President Danielle Mullings has appealed to the Mona Campus administration to implement comprehensive, long-term security plans to mitigate against attacks in the wake of the sexual assault of a female.....

WESTERN BUREAU: “MJ dead! MJ dead lef mi gone!” Those were the gut-wrenching words tearfully expressed by Sandra McIntosh-Bryan, after her 11-year-old son, Jason Bryan Jr, succumbed to injuries in hospital on Monday. Jason was hit by a car on......

A woman reported standing in despair and running for cover on Monday as she witnessed masked gunmen murder her father at McKoy Lane, St Andrew. Gary ‘Matto’ Thomas, 48, was standing with a friend near his gate when two men approached and starte...

Defence lawyers representing reputed One Don gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan and 32 of his alleged cronies will on May 24 start to argue their respective cases before Chief Justice Bryan Sykes in a bid to have the charges dropped and their......

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Daryl Vaz has appealed to government ministries and agencies, as well as businesses, to shield themselves from online threats by investing in the relevant security technologies to protect their data. Vaz.....

About three years after the Zacca report recommended the privatisation of Petrojam’s refinery and terminal, Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says the document was still before the Cabinet for deliberations. However, he said that the recommendations...

Monday’s chilling discovery of the body of an apparent full-term baby on Temple Lane in downtown Kingston has caused the police to theorise that the infant was dumped at the location on Sunday, the day mothers across the country were being...

In the next five months, 22-year-old Torian Elliott would have graduated from Knox Community College with a bachelor’s degree in primary education, but that dream was crushed on Sunday when she and her unborn child died in a traffic crash. Family....