The Government is now engaged in talks with Washington to target Jamaican dons in the United States who wield resources and influence to direct murders and crimes back home. Addressing supporters at the 79th annual conference of the Jamaica...

Robert Montague, chairman of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), is batting for law-abiding Jamaicans to be allowed visa-free entry to the country’s major trading partners such as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Montague, wh...

While the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has wooed growing support from youthful electors, crime and violence top the list of issues they believe need to be urgently addressed by the ruling party. Several young party faithful, including many first-...

Christopher Green had already acquired a 70-inch flat-screen television as he prepared to accommodate football fans and tap the bubbling interest in the 2022 FIFA World Cup. He has operated along Lyndhurst Road for many years, but this is the...

A five-year-old boy was shot and killed and his father wounded during a drive-by attack at a funeral held in John’s Hall, St James, on Sunday. Another man was also shot and killed in the incident. Dead are five-year-old Tavoy Cummings and a 24-....

WESTERN BUREAU: This mechanical organ is a complicated instrument, built 132 years ago in the United Kingdom, but appears to have no plans of retiring soon. Today, its home is the 248-year-old St James Anglican Church in Montego Bay. Eighteen...

Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Andrew Holness, has castigated his detractors for seeking to extract political gain from the state of disrepair of the nation’s roadways. In his address to thousands of party supporters at the National......

More than 7,000 guns are currently in circulation for which the permits have lapsed, Jamaica’s firearms regulator has disclosed. The Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) revealed, too, that 299 legally registered guns have been reported lost or stole...

It might be the biggest open secret in the health sector, which several medical professionals reluctantly admitted last week, but Jamaica’s COVID-19 vaccination programme appears to be critically ill – if not dead – with only about 27 per cent...

An alleged forged will that stoked a simmering dispute between a father and his son over ‘dead leff’ land, and which pitted family members against each other, cast a long shadow over a triple killing that has rocked the Francis clan in Toll Gate...

A United States-based woman’s desire to build her dream home in Jamaica is being threatened by ongoing disputes between property owners at the Negril Estate in Westmoreland and the developer, Reading Holdings Limited. Enticed by the promise of...

The once-thriving community of Rollington Town in Kingston still shows signs of its former glory of large middle-class houses on sizeable lots with 60-year-old architecture and matured fruit trees of varying types throughout the area. Pothole-...

What should have been a glorious moment for Romario Goulbourne as he celebrated achieving his bachelor’s degree in marine engineering from the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) saw him torn between two worlds under a cloud of uncertainty. The 25...

A police oversight body has unearthed several issues it says has weakened the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) Marine Division’s effectiveness in preventing and combating crime along the coastline and in the island’s territorial waters. The....

WESTERN BUREAU: BRITISH HIGH Commissioner Judith Slater says that in order for Jamaica to develop sustainable cities, it must prioritise training its population in the application of information technology in various sectors. Slater made the...

Locals are welcoming a plan to widen the bridge in Borobridge, St Ann, which is located along the main thoroughfare from the community leading to Cave Valley. This planned works was disclosed by Everald Warmington, minister without portfolio in the....

WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore has laid the acts of violence and child sexual abuse at the feet of some mothers, whom he claims facilitate physical and sexual abuse of children in exchange for financial gains. Moore made that...

“Shocked and humbled” are the emotions expressed by Lennox Wallace, parish manager of St James Health Services, when he was declared Civil Servant of the Year 2022 in the Management Category at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel in St Andrew on Frid...

Rosalee Gage-Grey, CEO of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), is bemoaning the fact that 70 children have died violently across the island since last October, saying this reflects the normalisation of violence in the society in....

Two alleged members of the Bobo Gang, who were convicted for the 2011 kidnapping and murder of a businessman in Russia, Westmoreland, were remanded this week for the completion of their sentencing on November 25 in the Home Circuit Court. One of...