The Joint Select Committee reviewing the Jamaica Teaching Council Bill has been forced to seek advice from the Attorney General’s Chambers after concerns were raised about how the term ‘child’ was defined. The bill defines a child as a perso...

WESTERN BUREAU: A rifle capable of firing multiple types of ammunition and 100 live rounds believed to belong to men who executed Andre Young along the Rose Hall main road in St James on Wednesday afternoon have been seized by the police. Young, 35....

Government lawyers have filed an application to strike out the lawsuit being pursued by Maroon Chief Richard Currie, who is seeking an order from the Supreme Court declaring that ownership of the lands in the Cockpit Country be given to the Maroons....

Bignall Law has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay a wasted cost award of $356,500 by July 29 to a woman who was sued twice in relation to a motor vehicle incident in which the firm’s client was injured. The law firm, which was acting on......

Yvonne Lee, whose son Matthew Lee was slain by the police almost a decade ago, is urging the Government to give urgent attention to reforming the country’s justice system. Lee said that since the tragic loss of her son in January 2013, she has bee...

Business operators at a section of Premier Plaza in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, are tallying losses that will collectively run them into millions of dollars after a large fire ravaged several shops on Thursday. The blaze reportedly began about 11 a.m....

Human rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is embarking on a three-year campaign to educate citizens on their rights and responsibilities and advocate for equal access to justice for everyone. Dubbed the ‘Justice For All’ campaign, the...

Financial investigators are beginning to untangle assets linked to the four men who were taken into custody during simultaneous anti-narcotics law enforcement operations in the Corporate Area and St James on Wednesday. The predawn raids carried...

News emerged yesterday during a protest outside the precincts of the Constant Spring Police Station that 24-year-old Donna-lee Donaldson’s mother’s health is deteriorating rapidly with each passing day since the mysterious disappearance of the....

WESTERN BUREAU: THE ECONOMIC Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) has projected that with the country’s wage-to-GDP ratio already breaching the-nine-per-cent limit for this fiscal year, the Ministry of Finance will have to make new regulations to....

Earl Smith stood among several emotional onlookers in the Sutton Memorial Cemetery in Clarendon on Tuesday as an excavator began digging a nine-by-20-foot grave to inter a Clarendon mother and her four children, who were killed last month. Wearing.....

Although she has not settled on a career path just yet, 16-year-old Joanna White* is using the IGT Coding and Robotics Rock! Camp to immerse herself deeper in the wide-ranging field of technology. “It has taught me a lot so far, and I now know tha...

Albert Logan was so excited about the prospect of finally owning a good house that after seeing a tent being erected, signifying that the ceremony was eminent, he could not eat or sleep until yesterday’s handover ceremony. The emotional Logan told...

A flock of birds joined those gathered to witness the opening of the newly renovated multimillion-dollar office building for the European Union (EU) Delegation to Jamaica on Tuesday. Seconds before Prime Minister Andrew Holness took the microphone.....

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) had to pay out $10.4 million in judgment debts and settlements for the financial year 2020-21. In its 2020-2021 annual report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, the agency said that it had not...

The chilling discovery of the bodies of four men near Tivoli Gardens on Tuesday has deepened the wounds of Francine Tomlinson, whose 17-year-old son Omario Williams is believed to have met his demise under similar circumstances. Omario has been...

A foiled robbery last Friday is believed to have been the trigger for the horrific murder of several men from Denham Town whose dismembered bodies were excavated from shallow graves at the old Public Works Department (PWD) compound near Tivoli...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s Rainforest Caribbean has invested EC$10 million (J$640 million) into a new 25,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art processing plant in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Six months into its foray in the Vincentian market,...

Executive chairman of Pan-Jam Investments, Stephen Facey, is lobbying for the establishment of a special committee to drive downtown Kingston’s development, warning that the perceived snail’s pace is keeping investments at bay. “The longer we...

Transport operators who spew expletives, or ‘bad words’, at an inspector of the Transport Authority (TA) in the lawful conduct of his duties could be slapped with a fine of up to $500,000 or face jail time of up to six months. This provision is....