Forecasting “a very turbulent and rocky economic time” for Jamaica, former Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips has said that the Government and Opposition must put aside political posturing to prevent an already crisis-weary economy from collapsi...

When a familiar car pulled up to the emergency unit at the Spanish Town Hospital on Sunday night, Kirk Barrett’s sister did not anticipate that she would be in for the shock of her life as her 21-year-old brother was among four men killed in a...

Caribbean Cement Company (CCC), the sole manufacturer of cement in Jamaica, plans to shell out $1.28 billion in dividends in its first payment in 17 years. The recommendation follows a board meeting on May 26 and will be placed before shareholders.....

VERE, Clarendon: Eighty-year-old Vere resident Ruthlyn Viola Edwards Francis can still remember the sense of excitement and anticipation she felt in the countdown leading up to Jamaica’s Independence on August 6, 1962. Then a primary-school teache...

Students of the Excelsior Primary and Infant School were asked to stay home on Monday as the institution grappled with news of the death of Vice-Principal Shirley Pinnock over the weekend. Grieving colleagues were seen huddled in small groups...

Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte, QC, is expected today to unveil the Holness administration’s legislative plans to break with the British monarchy and to establish Jamaica as a republic. With the establishment o...

BELFIELD, St Mary: Opposition Leader Mark Golding on Sunday chastised the Government for what he deemed its failure to protect Jamaicans from the spiralling cost of living, including escalating food and gas prices. He said that despite urging Prime....

A man accused of being among a group of heavily armed attackers who stormed a home in 2016, killing a resident and wounding his stepdaughter, was freed of murder and gun charges in the Home Circuit Court on Monday. The defendant, Wayne Allen,...

LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote on Monday, securing enough support from his Conservative Party to remain in office despite a substantial rebellion that leaves him a weakened leader with an uncertain......

The search for 77-year-old Derrick ‘Reds’ Lindsay, who mysteriously vanished from his home on Saturday, ended in sorrow on Monday after burnt remains believed to be his were discovered in bushes in Cavaliers, St Andrew. A nephew is now being sou...

Taxpayers are footing the bill of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith’s bid for the post of secretary general of the Commonwealth, it was confirmed on Monday. In a press statement, Johnson Smith stated that “travel...

A St Catherine man was freed on Monday of gun offences after defence lawyer Dwight Reece pointed out that the policeman, in his original statement, had said he would not be able to identify any of the men who fired at the police party. Freed was 35....

What’s your most memorable moment during Jamaica’s almost 60 years of Independence? And why does it make you feel proud to be a Jamaican? Chinnaman (musician), Port Antonio: “Mi remember when Independence come, we go a Grande River (Rio Gra...

Just last month, Marva Vernon-Jackson celebrated her fifth wedding anniversary and was looking forward to many more years of bliss. But her happily-ever-after was cut short after gunmen invaded Pleasant View Lane in Eight Miles, Bull Bay, Sunday...

WESTERN BUREAU: Last Friday’s Negril Great Morass fire, which caused jitters among several tourists vacationing in the Long Bay area, is being blamed on the delay in implementation of a US$3.1-million grant from the United Nations Environment...

Burdened by a multiplicity of woes, fisherfolk in eastern St Thomas have joined the choir of forlorn beach stakeholders with a familiar refrain: “We are suffering!” They say their boats have been forcefully docked by a double whammy: constantly...

Entrepreneur Richard Shepherd says that he was spurned by insurance companies years ago when he explored the prospect of protecting his business investment. His upholstery shop was located on High Holborn Street on the fringes of the downtown...

Three decades of dedicated and distinguished service to the police force in the United Kingdom have earned Jamaican Clifton John Williams the Queen’s Police Medal on Her Majesty’s Birthday Honours List 2022. “It’s still sinking in,” the r...

Siblings Ulett Steer and Everton Richards say they will never be able dispel the grief and agony they endure one year after their younger brother was brutally murdered in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew. Gradley Richards, who was said to be mentally ill....

Fleeing detection at a police checkpoint on Sunday, three alleged gunmen were killed in a motor vehicle collision along the Barbican main road in Hanover. Four tourists and a tour bus operator were hospitalised after sustaining injuries in the...