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Concerns are mounting over the welfare of cops amid reports of several police officers being overworked as the already undermanned Jamaica Constabulary Force is seeing its resources being stretched even further due to two major security operations...

Managing director of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) Limited Paul Abrahams has warned that administrative sanctions would be brought against employees who carried out “poor workmanship” on buses that were destroyed by fire in recent times...

Apparently seizing on a major scandal that has rocked the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Prime Minister Andrew Holness has charged the police hierarchy to weed out rogue cops who collude with criminal actors in the underworld. Addressing the...

WESTERN BUREAU: The male lecturer at the centre of the sexual harassment and assault allegations at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts has been sent on leave. This comes following a nine-hour meeting on Tuesday of the board...

Balfour Peart, the United States-based Jamaican businessman placed in the spotlight because of two payments by Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) totalling almost $700,000 towards a yacht party for since-discarded education minister Ruel Reid, has...

Anti-corruption campaigner Jeanette Calder has made a strident call for more vigilance and for Jamaicans to put up a fierce opposition to corruption, dubbing the scourge a major drag on the country’s economic development. Calder, executive...

The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) did an about-face yesterday and acknowledged at the weekly Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) meeting that it had paid $674,000 towards a party for discarded Education Minister Ruel...

With an associate degree, former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament Othneil Lawrence secured a three-year contract that pays him $5.1 million a year, or $425,000 per month, to serve as an adviser to the Caribbean Maritime University (...

An autopsy carried out on the body of Anthony ‘Toby’ Trought revealed that he was shot three times, causing injury to his heart, which ultimately resulted in his death. The doctor who did the examination said that Trought sustained one gunshot...

British High Commissioner Asif Ahmad remembers the late Edward Seaga as a man filled with energy and an active force in the shaping of Jamaica’s future. Ahmad was paying his respects for the life and work of the 89-year-old former prime minister...

The family of Jonathan Worton, the flight instructor who died in a 2016 plane crash along with two aviation students in November 2016, is finalising plans to take legal action against the Caribbean Aviation Training Centre. At a press conference on...

"It should not be that the prime minister is afraid to lose out in a referendum ... . It should be about giving the people the opportunity to choose its final court of appeal ... to allow them to choose the type of justice they want ... . This is a...