Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has hailed Friday’s historic verdict in her office’s first sentencing appeal as a victory for victims of crime. The Court of Appeal on Friday quashed a 12-year sentence that was imposed on.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Land clearance for the building of a church in Orchard Gardens in Hopewell, Hanover, has put more than 1,100 students and teachers at Hopewell High School literally on edge as a dangerous precipice has been created between the...

Education Minister Fayval Williams says her ministry will be advancing plans to establish protocols that will govern devotions in schools despite church leaders cautioning the Government that it should not micromanage such religious observances. “...

Four decades is a long time to serve in an organisation. But according to Albert Brown, executive superintendent and director of security at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), the time seems shorter when you are doing what you love. “...

Senator Charles Sinclair wants a reform of Jamaica’s local government landscape to increase the autonomy of municipal corporations. In his presentation to the State of the Nation Debate in the Senate on Friday, he said the Local Governance Act of...

WESTERN BUREAU: SEVERAL PARENTS got a serious scare on Friday morning when they received news that nine students and one teacher at the John Rollins Success Primary School in Barrett Town, St James were experiencing episodes of fainting and...

WESTERN BUREAU: Senior Superintendent Wayne Josephs, head of the Westmoreland Police Division, says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is having a challenge finding suitable young people to enlist among its ranks. He shared that position while...

Eighteen months into the execution of a five-year multimillion-dollar project, Portmore is said to have slashed non-revenue water losses by a third, a move which it is hoped will help to turn around the financial fortunes of the National Water...

Opposition senator Lambert Brown is bemoaning the “state of fear and trepidation” in which Jamaica finds itself, calling for effective action from the Government to reduce the high murder rate. He said since the start of the year up to October 2...

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 ma...

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...