The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has confirmed that it received an application from the National Water Commission (NWC) for a 51 per cent increase in tariff over a five-year period. The NWC’s senior management told a meeting of the Public ...

Positioning the United States as a true “Caribbean nation”, US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau says Washington under the Trump administration is actively reorienting its foreign policy back to its immediate neighbourhood after years...

Clarendon Central Member of Parliament Delroy Williams has pushed back against suggestions of discord within the constituency, insisting that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) machinery remains united despite the defection of Councillor Tanyalee Willia...

Two senior public officials are among 13 people who prosecutors no longer intend to call as witnesses in the fraud trial involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid, defence attorneys have revealed. Their names are being withheld because the media...

As Susan Higgins stepped onto the dais at King’s House on Monday to receive the Badge of Honour for Gallantry for assisting in the capturing and handing over of a man who raped and murdered an eight-year-old girl, her thoughts were with the child�...

Myda Trail has delivered more than 3,000 babies in her native community of Clarksonville, St Ann, and its surrounding areas. Reflecting fondly on over 40 years as a midwife serving the small, rural village, she only has one regret. “I was hoping ...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has received seven vehicles valued at $20 million to strengthen the operational reach of its Resort Areas Division. The vehicles – two all-terrain vehicles, four motorcycles, and a pickup truck – were handed ...

Certain that he is in the twilight of his political career, Transport Minister Daryl Vaz said his appointment to the Order of Jamaica (OJ) was perfectly timed and a fitting way to cap his life in public service. “The stars have aligned for me, and...

WESTERN BUREAU: Three tyres were already hanging over the edge of a gully. A fourth, caught against a concrete kerb, was all that stood between Police Constable Horace Bryan, a terrified 75-year-old woman and the raging floodwaters threatening to sw...

The Trump administration says it is investing more than US$340 million in the Caribbean following talks with CARICOM countries at a US-Caribbean Dialogue hosted by the State Department on Friday. The meeting was reportedly attended by Deputy Secreta...