Gay-rights activist Maurice Tomlinson has expressed optimism about buggery law reform in Jamaica following the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council’s (JCPC) decision to decriminalise same-sex intimacy in Trinidad and Tobago. “This is a wonde...

Warning against the gradual erosion of the country’s democracy, Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding has called for the Constitution to be reformed to allow the selection of an independent arbiter to preside over parliamentary affairs. Referencin...

WESTERN BUREAU: With tourists spending hours travelling between Montego Bay and Negril and workers struggling to reach their jobs on time, the Government is moving to ease traffic disruptions along that corridor ahead of the winter tourist season. T...

WESTERN BUREAU: Works Minister Robert Morgan has apologised to residents, business operators and visitors to the island for the severe traffic congestion along western Jamaica’s road network, acknowledging the hardship caused by ongoing road rehab...

St Andrew Western Member of Parliament Anthony Hylton has called for the censure motion he moved against the Government on November 3 to be returned to Parliament’s Order Paper, giving members of the Lower House an opportunity to participate in th...

A former treasurer of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) on Tuesday testified that Jamaica Labour Party councillor Kim Brown Lawrence was a third-party recipient of payments under contracts between the university and consultancy firm Optimum Cu...

Septimus Gardner never doubted that Andre Ruddock would be found guilty of murdering his daughter, Taneka, but said he wished hanging was still an option, as he believes death is the punishment the convicted killer deserved. “A life sentence is th...

Merl Grove High School Chairman David Hall is warning that prolonged tensions at the St Andrew institution could undermine students’ success, as he calls on the Ministry of Education to urgently intervene following Monday’s teachers’ protest o...

Some school board chairmen are crossing the line from governance into the day-to-day management of schools, Jamaica Association of Chairmen for Secondary Institutions (JACSI) President Courtney Wynter has admitted, as the association moves to rein i...

WESTERN BUREAU: The potential earnings from Jamaica’s tourism sector by 2036 must translate into wealth for all Jamaicans, not just those directly involved in the sector, says Dr Carey Wallace, executive director of the Tourism Enhancement Fund (T...