A security crackdown has been imposed on St Ann to head off migratory offenders fleeing state of emergency (SOE) hotspots who could rattle the parish, which has already recorded a 38 per cent year-on-year increase in major crimes. That assessment....

A deplorable restroom at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland was in a much improved condition on Tuesday, 24 hours after Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton ordered an islandwide audit of health facilities. Tufton’s directive came on th...

A little more than two hours after Clerk Valrie Curtis announced the tabling of the emergency powers regulations in Parliament on Tuesday, the document was withdrawn for review by Attorney General Dr Derrick McKoy. Acting Prime Minister Dr Horace......

A former administrative assistant at Petrojam conceded on Tuesday that she wanted to hide that she had prepared a disbursement voucher for a refund to then chairman Dr Perceval Singh for an unapproved business trip by not signing the document....

Low sales volumes of sorrel and gungo peas, staple Yuletide fare in Jamaican kitchens, have dimmed the spirits of vendors operating at Coronation Market in downtown Kingston, who are forecasting that this Christmas won’t be as jolly as in previous...

WESTERN BUREAU: KING’S COUNSEL Carolyn Reid-Cameron has accused the prosecution of manipulating evidence to try to convict her client Gordon Brown for allegedly obstructing the police’s attempts to secure a firearm from businessman Michael Issa...

When the Chapelton Community Hospital was shuttered three years ago, 67-year-old Pancheta Russell rued having to seek care 19km (11.8 miles) away in the Clarendon capital of May Pen. But her ties to Chapelton are beyond mere sentimentality, as she.....

The House of Representatives has approved a 60-day extension of seven zones of special operations (ZOSOs) across Jamaica. The areas are Denham Town, west Kingston; Norwood and Mount Salem, St James; Greenwich Town, Parade Gardens and August Town......

The Holness administration has accused the parliamentary Opposition of rejecting the 2019 proposal for pre-charge detention. The Opposition says those claims are untrue. Here is the Opposition’s counterclaim: 1. The context was the sittings of the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Parents have been blamed for the vulnerability of children to gang recruitment, with overexposure to violence linked to the numbing of sensitivity to murder. The assessment was made recently by commander of the Westmoreland Police.....

Scotia Group Jamaica has been named Bank of the Year 2022 by United Kingdom-based publication, The Banker. The award celebrates increased product innovation, digital transformation, and the widespread recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and is...

Former managing director of the Transport Authority, Willard Hylton, has criticised Transport Minister Audley Shaw as being out of touch and ineffective, citing his “chaotic” management among the chief reasons he did not renew his contract. Hylt...

WESTERN BUREAU: FACED WITH a reported high prevalence of crime by repeat offenders, Westmoreland police commander Senior Superintendent (SSP) Wayne Josephs is urging parish judges to exercise greater discretion when granting bail to accused...

A former administrative assistant at Petrojam testified on Monday that then general manager Floyd Grindley had dismissed her when she enquired about the energy ministry’s approval for a refund he had ordered for then chairman Dr Perceval Singh for...

WESTERN BUREAU: RELATIVES OF Khamal Hall, the 16-year-old William Knibb Memorial High student who was stabbed to death by a schoolmate on March 21, are dissatisfied with the killer’s prison sentence of four years and 10 months which was handed.....

No need is too great for The Salvation Army to attempt to fulfil, says Major Nana Boakye-Agyemang, the divisional commander striving to boost the charity’s donations through its annual Christmas kettle initiative. ‘Donate Today – Be A Champion...

After scaling back services for the last two years as a result of the pandemic, local churches are fired up for a return to their 2022 Christmas productions with capacity audiences. The recitals typically feature a range of choral and solo...

UNICEF Jamaica has moved to clarify statements by Opposition Senator Damion Crawford last week about Jamaica’s school dropout rate’s link to teenage pregnancy and a recommendation to increase the age of sexual consent. The international agency s...

Parish Judge Venice Blackstock Murray is to rule on December 13 to submissions by the defence that Jamaican attorney-at-law Anthony Armstrong, the director of public prosecutions in Antigua, committed no fraud. Attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman, who is.....

President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), La Sonja Harrison, is urging patience from her membership as the union continues wage negotiations with the Government. At least 17 unions have signed on to the new compensation package and......