While not calling for the sacking of Dr Christopher Tufton in the wake of revelations about the deaths of 14 newborns over four months from a bacterial outbreak at Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH), former health minister Dr Fenton Ferguson said the.....

Donovan Reid, a director in The Woof Group, the company developing a US$200-million luxury resort in St Thomas, is hitting back at critics of the project who, he said, have bandied about “a significant amount of false information”. Reid, in a.....

Ministry of Education officials have been warned to tread carefully on religious rights and freedoms as it seeks to establish protocols to govern devotional exercises in the wake of bizarre scenes on Wednesday at Oberlin High School where dozens of....

Junior National Security Minister Zavia Mayne wants the courts to mandate that convicts participate in rehabilitation programmes offered by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), rather than leave it to them to voluntarily enrol. “If a man...

The global services sector is pumping roughly US$890 million (J$136 billion) into the Jamaican economy annually, equivalent to six per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), says the industry’s leading lobbyist Anand Biradar. Biradar, who is...

The Government and private sector are being urged to partner on asset-building programmes and index-based agricultural and livestock insurance for Jamaicans, especially women. Index-based agricultural and livestock insurance is said to be a...

Chief executive officer of the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation Errol Lebert says the local government authority was not informed about a conflict of interest when it awarded three contracts to a company owned by Jason Hutchinson, the son of...

A spike in the deaths of newborns linked to a bacterial outbreak at Jamaica’s chief maternity hospital has been partly blamed on a staffing crisis at neonatal units. A health ministry review has also attributed the increase to equipment challenges...

With school-age children committing 52 gun-related murders and 82 shootings in Jamaica since 2018, there are calls for increased action to keep firearms out of the hands of students and away from places of learning. The issue of violence...

Two weeks after a lobby claimed that Rastafarian families were at risk of being evicted from Bob Marley Beach in St Thomas, Prime Minister Andrew Holness castigated critics as being mischief makers who are inimical to the progress of the eastern...

Former board member of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Olive Downer Walsh yesterday dismissed claims by the Integrity Commission that she was conflicted, owing to her employment with a company that received contracts from the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Passengers arriving at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on Wednesday said they were forced to remain in immigration for more than one hour as Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) officers went on a go....

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says that, despite the approximately 100,000 persons who have obtained the central bank digital currency (CBDC), dubbed Jamaica Digital Exchange (JAM-DEX), there has been paucity in its use, as large merchants are yet to......

Tuesday’s curtain call on the life and career of Leonie Forbes kindled rousing applause for the quintessential doyenne of Jamaican theatre and broadcasting. She was 85. The cause of her death was not disclosed. Forbes was born on June 14, 1937, a...

The British Government has called on international partners of Jamaica to redouble their efforts in stemming the flow of illegal firearms into the country. The charge came from Jesse Norman, the UK’s minister for the Americas and overseas...

WESTERN BUREAU: PARTY PROMOTERS in Westmoreland are being warned that no permits will be issued in crime hotspots between now and the Christmas holidays. The caution has come from Senior Superintendent Wayne Josephs, whose Westmoreland Police...

Director of investigations at the Integrity Commission, Kevon Stephenson, has recommended that the minister of agriculture and fisheries give serious consideration to removing Olive Downer Walsh from the board of directors of the Rural Agricultural....

The image of Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend’s partially nude, decomposing body floating in the sea at Reading, St James, still haunts her uncle, Rohan Lennard. It was the last one he saw of his fashionista niece who took so much pride in her...

Responding to a crescendo of appeals for an overhaul of Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton said on Tuesday that he is establishing a task force to oversee the renovation of the more than 200-year-.....

Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman has sought to defend her leadership of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) as a sexual assault scandal dogs the military. “Since assuming office in January 2022, I have been strident against any act of sexual...