The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has redoubled its efforts to clear the backlog of garbage that has been piling up in sections of the Corporate Area.Colonel Allan Douglas, director of operations...

THE GOVERNMENT'S much-talked-about emergency employment programme is to drive through the Riverton landfill. Noel Arscott, the minister of local government, told the House of Representatives yesterday that the Government would be looking to streamline...

For the past 20 years, the month of February has led to grief and painful memories for former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and his family. The bizarre period began on February 2, 1992, when Coke's brother...

The Constitutional Court has turned down an application by the commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), Terrence Williams, to strike out a Police Federation claim challenging his power...

The teachers at St Andrew College who had supervised an educational trip which resulted in the deaths of two students have been suspended for two weeks pending further investigations...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Roger Clarke revealed yesterday that former banker Aubyn Hill has been paid more than $40 million since June 2009 for his role in leading the divestment of Jamaica's sugar...

For a second consecutive week, the parliamentary Opposition has attempted to have Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller answer oral questions in the House of Representatives.Like she did last week, Simpson Miller...

The Office of the Public Defender has taken up the fight of persons suffering serious effects of heavy smoke that has blanketed sections of Kingston, St Andrew and St Catherine in recent days...

An internal feud in the Clansman Gang has exploded with four persons, including two women being killed in Spanish Town St Catherine in less than 48 hours.Members of the security forces have been scrambling...

Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna has returned from an official visit to Cuba with the Cuban government's commitment to developing bilateral relationship with Jamaica to assist in the development of the youth and culture portfolios....

The Office of Disaster Preparedness & Emergency Management (ODPEM), in collaboration with a number of its partner agencies and parish councils, will be staging a series of earthquake drills across the island today...