WESTERN BUREAU: The promise of Local Government Minister, Desmond McKenzie, for 50 streetlights to be allocated for installation each year over the next two years, to each councillor islandwide, has been ridiculed and described as a big joke by...

Singer Jamaica will turn down the volume on its retail footprint, closing two stores this month as it fine-tunes its operations. The affected outlets are located at 21 Constant Spring Road in Kingston 10, known as the Mega Store, and at 18-20 King.....

A Jamaican businesswoman is suing the minister of national security and the attorney general, alleging that her passport was unlawfully seized by immigration authorities and held for nearly seven months without due process. Jacqueline Dahila...

Veteran entertainer Sheron ‘Ruffian’ Peterkin, who is now a little over a week into her near 14-year prison sentence for firearm-related charges, has been revealed to have come on the police radar following a major Beryllium robbery in Portmore,...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is calling for Jamaican fathers, especially young and absent biological fathers, to take a more active role in their children’s lives not just financially, but emotionally. The prime minister honoured Jamaican...

Creative director of Mack and Mack Innovations Delano McFarlane is promoting Father’s Day as a tool to engage Jamaican men in family life and the broader society. McFarlane, who produces several events throughout the year, explained that...

When Anakay Montaque, 59, speaks about the power of blood, she is not referring to faith alone. She is talking about the literal, lifesaving kind, the type selflessly donated by strangers, coursing through her veins and giving her a second chance......

Juici Patties has opened a new franchise in the booming Drax Hall area of St Ann, thanks to franchisees Shermaine Desnoes and Glen O’Connor, directors of Golden Grain Baking Company. The new location, at Boot service station, offers comfortable......

Councillor Carlton Bailey, who represents the Milk River division in Clarendon South West, is raising concerns over the police’s handling of the investigation into the disappearance and subsequent death of 19-year-old Derricka Rogers. Rogers, a......

Some five decades after its predecessor was destroyed by fire, Jamaica’s state-of-the-art government forensic pathology autopsy suite was reopened on Thursday, aiming to tackle a mounting backlog of more than 300 autopsies. However, while plans ar...

The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has slammed a proposal by government backbencher Everald Warmington to remove Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis from the the rank of commissioner at the Integrity Commission. The party said it would.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon has issued a firm rebuttal to recent criticism of his administration and the city, suggesting that the negative commentary is politically motivated and damaging to the efforts of ordinary residents......

The Administrator General’s Department (AGD) says it does not perceive any conflict in overseeing the estate of Jodian Fearon, the young mother who died after being denied treatment at several hospitals in the Corporate Area five years ago. The......

With social equity and national development as top priorities, the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSSE) and the Jamaica Society for the Blind (JSB) have committed to full transparency through a transformative partnership set to improve the lives of....

A collaborative effort between the police, citizens, and the business community is being credited for a significant reduction in crime across Clarendon, including a 51 per cent drop in murders since the start of the year. The disclosure was made by....

A key technical support whereby auditors general have sat on the Integrity Commission for more than five decades might soon be brought to a halt as, yesterday, government lawmakers made the decision to remove the current auditor general, Pamela...

Jamaica is bracing for potential fallouts from the Donald Trump administration’s funding and job cuts at the primary weather forecasting agency in the United States, which supplies the island with some satellite information for local weather...

There has been increased interest in the computer sciences, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), both locally and internationally; and Caribbean and African states have much to do to catch up with AI’s cultural, economic and social revolutio...

Reading is to be returned to the primary-school timetable, says Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, minister of education, skills, youth and information, who yesterday acknowledged there is a literacy crisis impacting schools across the country. Morris......

WESTERN BUREAU: At 100 years old, Austin Wright of Mafoota, St James, is a symbol of discipline, hard work, and perseverance, having endured many trials, including health issues, which spanned from his childhood days to old age. Wright, who was...