Jamaicans are set to benefit from global reductions in shipping costs which peaked at unprecedented levels in the height of the coronavirus pandemic but should brace for more shortages and further delays in the clearance of goods for the upcoming......

The Ministry of National Security is expected to spend $50 million to $70 million to install drainage, sewerage, and fencing infrastructure that has delayed the opening of the Green Acres Police Station built on lands donated by the citizens’...

A leading trade unionist has expressed opposition to the plea for a moratorium on the payment of statutory contributions for security guards as well as the proposed amendment of the Minimum Wage Act to change the workweek from 40 to 60 hours. Those....

Tivoli Gardens, the western Kingston community whose history has been stained with bloodshed and trauma, is using art as therapy for young and old to overcome grief and to project a favourable outlook on the inner city. The mural project,...

Block manufacturer Winsome Palmer is just as shell-shocked as residents of the central Clarendon community of Woods who watched helplessly as the denuded main road and fallen trees bowed to the wrath of raging floodwaters last Friday. Days after......

Residents believe the Government’s solution of rebuilding a retaining wall for the worsening breakaway in Craig Hill, Mavis Bank, is misguided. According to numerous residents who gathered in the area on Sunday to observe the operations after a da...

Even as she welcomes housing developments that have changed the landscape of Kingston and St Andrew in recent years, former Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) Director General, Dr Barbara Carby, believes the country is....

Former Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin believes the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) should assume responsibility for all persons detained in criminal investigations or awaiting trial, and the police relieved of duties to...

Attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan, who is representing incarcerated entertainer Vybz Kartel in his appeal against his murder conviction, was yesterday found guilty by the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council (GLC) of professional...

Seeing their police station immersed in several feet of water as a result of Tropical Storm Ian last week was not what the residents of Green Acres in St Catherine had in mind when they petitioned for it. Now they are even more distressed at the...

Scoffing at the criticism and vitriol being spewed at attorney-at-law Tamika Harris for representing the mass murderer of a family of five in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, in June, members of the legal profession are arguing that she should be commended.....

Public sector workers currently on – or those seeking to embark on – maternity leave will have to wait a while longer for the full payment of the third month’s salary, as the announced policy did not come into effect last Friday, as promised. ...

Kevin Lewin’s shooter asked him if he could recall the licence plate of the vehicle which slammed head-on into his in a hit-and-run collision. Little did he know that the man who questioned him had come back to silence him. Today, the immigration....

It was a packed house at the New Testament Church of God Convention Centre in Rodon’s Pen, Old Harbour, St Catherine, yesterday, where the thanksgiving service for brothers Tavaris and Tavaughn Bulgin took place. With mourners asked to wear...

A fervent and undying dream that morphed into a nightmare – the story of Scot Bamburry, who was laid to rest yesterday after a service at the Shingle Hut New Testament Church of God in Wood Hall, Clarendon. Mourners wept openly for the man who......

The Jamaica Society for Industrial Security (JSIS) is calling on the Government to immediately pay over billions of dollars that it owes security companies so that they can meet the 50 per cent increase in security service costs that they now face.....

“I am still in pain,” said 39-year-old taxi operator Jermaine Cunningham, the man at the centre of a controversial video who was allegedly beaten by the police over traffic breaches in Christiana, Manchester, on Wednesday. Cunningham, who began....

On the heels of the stabbing death of 16-year-old Michion Campbell at the Kingston Technical High School, Education Minister Fayval Williams says stakeholders will have to go back to the drawing board on how students are nurtured. In a Gleaner...

Just over 79,000 residents in the Greater Portmore area are looking forward to breathing more easily after rehabilitation works at the National Water Commission (NWC)-operated sewage treatment plant based there. First commissioned in 1991 with a...

Opposition Senator Gabriela Morris stirred controversy in the upper House on Friday, triggering a spirited response from government senators when she castigated Education Minister Fayval Williams for reportedly suggesting that a particular dress...