Former United States (US) Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia says the Jamaican Government needs to be more forceful in negotiating deals with the US, arguing that it must do more to secure economic opportunities for the country. In an interview with...

Former United States (US) Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia has described the recent US midterm election results as a vote against President Donald Trump and his policies, rather than the Republican Party. In a wide-ranging telephone interview with...

The Government has been ordered to pay more than J$10 million in damages to a St Elizabeth woman for negligent medical care she received from a doctor at a public clinic, which left her in pain for months. June Hyman was awarded J$7.9 million in gen...

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is moving to curtail the practice of relatives and friends delivering food items to inmates at correctional centres. Commissioner of Corrections (Ret) Brigadier Radgh Mason says the DCS is taking steps t...

WESTERN BUREAU: Works Minister Robert Morgan has announced that a major section of the Montego Bay Perimeter Road in St James will be opened to motorists ahead of the December 15 start of the winter tourist season, while the Long Hill Bypass is sche...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has reiterated that the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA) may have to source some of the skills needed to rebuild western Jamaica from overseas amid a shortage of skilled labour in the construc...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Farm Heights United Basic School in Farm Heights, St James formally opened its restored KG3 classroom for kindergarten-level students on Wednesday, following the classroom’s extensive repair work to fix damage that it sustained...

A former Universal Service Fund (USF) legal officer yesterday testified that neither of the agency’s contracts with the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) nor with a private training institution made provision for meals for participants in an una...

WESTERN BUREAU: More than a year after Hurricane Melissa destroyed a section of the Spring Mount main road in St James, the Government is still grappling with whether to repair the critical roadway or abandon it and establish alternative routes. Acc...

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...