Fourteen policemen are under scrutiny for their involvement in 30 of 129 fatal shootings over the one-year period ending June 2021. But more starkly, the same 14 have been flagged in 112 police-involved deaths between 2010 and June 30, 2021,...

WESTERN BUREAU: An uncle of 42-year-old dressmaker Alicia Smithson, victim of an apparent murder-suicide in Senior, a community on the Westmoreland-St James border, believes that jealous rage could be behind the tragedy. Police investigators have......

The Government has given its clearest indication that it is not averse to considering a public-private partnership to build a state-of-the-art prison. The disclosure was made on Wednesday by Zavia Mayne, the state minister in the Ministry of...

A little over a decade and a half after a juice factory was established in Huntley, Manchester, the multimillion-dollar facility lies inoperative, vandalised, and in ruin. Farmers in the area say they have watched with aching hearts as the building....

Experts from The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, are working to develop software that will support national efforts to increase the literacy rate in young children through individualised learning. The software, dubbed Bright Start, is a.....

A former administrative assistant at Petrojam testified Wednesday that she was not aware of any system at the state-owned refinery to reimburse board members who travel on overseas business trips without prior approval. According to the witness,...

A senior University of the West Indies lecturer involved in the just-launched Mona Prison Project is hoping that the programme will be expanded beyond the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre to other prisons and even online. Dr Dave Gosse, who......

Eight in every 10 Jamaicans believe that closer police-community relations can help to reduce crime, the latest findings of The AmericasBarometer have revealed. The AmericasBarometer is a regional survey carried out by the Latin American Public...

A security crackdown has been imposed on St Ann to head off migratory offenders fleeing state of emergency (SOE) hotspots to 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...