WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF Woodsville and the adjoining Flower Hill districts in Eastern Hanover are at a loss as to who will be tending to their despair of a compromised bridge along the roadway in Woodsville. Both the National Works Agency (NWA...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE GOVERNMENT has indicated that it will not be eavesdropping on telephone calls of Jamaicans as part of its crime-fighting measures towards weeding out criminal gangsters, even as the fight to eradicate the deadly lotto scamming...
Customers of the National Water Commission (NWC) are to pay higher bills starting in May. The Water, Sewerage and Service rates and miscellaneous fees charged by the NWC will increase by 11.7 per cent. The change is in keeping with the Interim...
Motorists will pay less for gas when they go to the pumps on Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move down by $0.25 to sell for $193.64 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will go down by $0.25 to sell for $198.65....
There were heightened enforcement operations in St James today as the authorities clamped down on illegal activities. The operations, which started at 6 am, involved the security forces, municipal personnel, and several agencies such as the...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's government has announced plans to drastically reduce flights at Warsaw's two airports starting Sunday if talks with air traffic controllers demanding better working conditions fail. Regulations published...
The security guard and parent who were involved in a physical altercation at Corinaldi Avenue Primary are to go to mediation ahead of their return to the St James Parish Court on May 4. During his first court appearance today, security guard...
Christiann Johnson, the woman charged with manslaughter after her two children were killed in a house fire in St James last May, has been ordered to return to court on June 7. The date was set when Johnson appeared before the St James Parish Court...
The Jamaica Civil Service Association is calling for the reinstatement of two ancillary workers sent home by King's House. The union says during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the workers, who are employed by the government, sought...
Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) exams have been delayed by three weeks. Jamaica's education ministry had been appealing to CXC from as early as January for a postponement of the regional examinations. CXC administers the...
Efforts are under way to return full access to a road in Violet Banks in rural St Andrew which is being blocked by a landslide. The blockage, which was said to have occurred some time after 4 o'clock this morning, left residents marooned....
Alleged leader of the Ranko Gang, Constable Tafari Silvera, and eight alleged members of the gang were this morning remanded for a bail application on June 10. The defendants made their first appearance in the Home Circuit Court today on...
Taxi operators this morning blocked Norwood Drive in Norwood in St James to protest poor road conditions. They say that the roadway has been in a bad state for several years. The protesters used old refrigerators, trees, old motor vehicle parts,...
Member of Parliament for St Ann South East Lisa Hanna has described Jamaica's import substitution policy as a dead end for several industries. She charged that the pursuit of an economic policy of import substitution and protection for the past...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing the fatal shooting of a man by the police in Cassava Piece, St Andrew Tuesday night. The deceased, 24-year-old Kashife Smikle, otherwise called Zena, was shot during an alleged...
A landslide has blocked access to a road in Mavis Bank, St Andrew. The blockage has left many residents stranded. There have been showers in eastern Jamaica for several days, with torrential rainfall occurring on Tuesday. More soon. Follow The...
The seizure of an illegal gun in Mexico, Gregory Park in Portmore brings to 19 the number of illegal firearms recovered by the St Catherine South police this year. That represents a 26 per cent increase on the 15 guns seized for the corresponding...
PHILADELPHIA, CMC – The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says it has interrupted a “cool trend” in drug concealment after stopping four shipments of “secreted” cocaine inside the insulated walls...
A call has been made to increase investments in agri-food systems, regional food production and to develop targeted initiatives to resolve bottlenecks to import reduction. A recent study of over 6,000 households across 22 countries and...
A man was taken in custody in connection with the seizure of 200lb of ganja along the P.J. Patterson Highway on Tuesday. It is reported that about 12:45 p.m., the police signalled the driver of a Toyota Probox motor car to stop. The driver...