The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) has hailed Thursday’s ruling by the Privy Council, granting investigators access to material that predates the enactment of the Proceeds of Crime Act, as a major victory for law...

November has taken on special significance to 22-year-old Shakiel Cephas. In November 2018, he was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and the following November, he got news that the cancer had gone into remission. And on Thursday,...

A Jamaican man described as the “brains” who used his apartment to manufacture ghost guns that were sold on the streets of Connecticut is going to prison for 18 months. Audley Reeves, 31, was sentenced in a United States District Court on Thursd...

De facto Environment Minister Matthew Samuda has expressed concern about the crisis facing coral reefs in Jamaican waters, with a quarter of marine life under threat. Among the species whose populations could be undermined by overfishing are the......

When the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Prime Minister Andrew Holness, addresses the party’s 79th annual conference at the National Arena in Kingston on Sunday, he is expected to place the spotlight on some burning issues of national......

Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has described as “a watershed moment” the brokering of an agreement with 14 public-sector unions covering 60,000 workers that will rationalise a compensation scheme viewed as cumbersome and...

Former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson has recommended a mechanism fashioned off the former Electoral Advisory Commission (EAC) to help stem the crime wave. The EAC, lauded for revamping Jamaica’s then notoriously corrupt electoral system, has...

The Government is set to restore nine breakaways along roadways in St Ann South Western, according to de facto Works Minister Everald Warmington. Warmington made the announcement on Wednesday following a tour of the road network in the constituency....

Employees of the cash-starved Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) are plundering the state-run entity’s supplies, siphoning off fuel by hatching elaborate schemes, Managing Director Paul Abrahams has charged. The debt-strapped company has suffere...

Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has indicated that the Holness administration would have reservations about announcing repeat 14-day states of emergency (SOEs), arguing that such a move would go against the tenets of good governance....

The Ministry of Education should review its expulsion and suspension policy to limit the risk of sanctioned students being vulnerable to gang recruitment, acting Director of Safety and Security in Schools Richard Troupe has said. Troupe expressed......

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Warren Clarke has revealed that experts pushed back at reservations about the construction of the Green Acres Police Station, contending that the area could be adequately drained. In late September, heavy...

WESTERN BUREAU: Some 1,400 team members at Carnival Cruise Line report to Jamaica-born ‘Yorkist’ Dave Chang, but the status has not gone to the head of the senior vice-president of contact centre, sales, and services of the world’s largest cr...

The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has signalled that it is committed to retaining the Office of the Political Ombudsman. But instead of being a stand-alone commission of Parliament, the office could see its functions subsumed under the...

The $50 million that the Government previously set aside pre-COVID for a Wellness Research Fund will soon be disbursed to Jamaicans to execute public-health research. Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of health and wellness, made the announcement...

Attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman on Wednesday urged the court to immediately stay the charges against Antigua’s director of public prosecutions (DPP), Anthony Armstrong, in the real estate fraud case, contending that the police’s own handwriting exp...

Despite announcing that the freshly declared states of emergency (SOEs) have received support from members of the parliamentary Opposition, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the Government he leads could face a familiar hurdle when the security...

The United States (US) has doubled funding allocated to the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau in Jamaica as it re-emphasises its commitment to stem the flow of illegal guns and drugs entering the island. The disclosure was made by....

PRIOR TO kick-off, the stage was set with a fly-over by then national airline, Air Jamaica. The message was clear. There’d be no stopping Jamaica. Later, in unison, thousands of fans decked in gold, with a spatter of black and green, unleashed......

Public passenger vehicle (PPV) operators have agreed to return to work today and are seeking to broker a payment proposal following a meeting with government officials at the Ministry of Transport and Works on Tuesday. Hundreds of taxi operators...