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Two People’s National Party-aligned former national security ministers have backed the scrapping of ministerial authority in the approval of gun licences on review amid a firestorm that has cost the Andrew Holness administration a Cabinet member....
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Opposition Spokesman on National Security Peter Bunting has sought to poke holes in the Integrity Commission’s special report linking him to the evolving scandal at the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA). In a brief statement to the media on Monday...
Education Minister Fayval Williams will meet the board of Jamaica College (JC) shortly following its rejection of the Doran Dixon-chaired Governance Committee of the National Council on Education (NCE) directive that Old Boys’ Association (OBA)...
A retired inspector and gang investigator who had testified that an alleged member of the Clansman-One Don Gang had offered him $100,000 to free reputed gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan was on Monday labelled a liar by the alleged don’s lead...
BUFF BAY, Portland: The Transport Authority of Jamaica has defended its decision to issue 45 road licences to route taxi operators plying the Buff Bay to Port Antonio route, arguing that the move was ratified after an assessment was made based on...
Scores of enraged residents from six communities in St Catherine West Central joined taxi and minibus operators in blocking the Point Hill main road to protest the deplorable condition of the corridor, which they claim has gone unrepaired for more...
WESTERN BUREAU: DEXROY MARTIN, acting president of the Opposition People’s National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO), says Government’s decision to place the images of former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Edward Seaga alongside former PNP...
Jamaican Romario Murray has been extradited to the United States to face criminal charges relating to lottery scamming. The US Embassy disclosed on Monday that Murray was wanted by the US Postal Inspection Service on a federal warrant regarding...
Motorists who faced another round of fuel price hikes on Thursday are clamouring for Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke to reconsider his decision to maintain the seven per cent special consumption tax (SCT) on petrol. Clarke, during his Budget...
People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has dismissed the notion of sanctions against Senator Peter Bunting for his role in the granting of gun licences to two persons with criminal traces, for which he was cited in a special report to...
Amid increasing calls for greater funding of early-childhood institutions, Education Minister Fayval Williams has suggested that the Government first needs to establish a tighter grip on the sector, approximately 85 per cent of which is privately...
The Association of Government Medical Consultants has taken the State to the Supreme Court seeking to get orders to have the emergency-duty allowance form part of its members’ pensionable salary. Also known as the on-call allowance, it has been...
A fit, 50-year-old Richard Brown was the first participant to cross the finish line in the corporate ‘team bubble’ run at Sunday’s 24th staging of the Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run, the biggest road race in Jamaica since the coronavirus outbreak of...
“Paranoid.” That’s K.D. Knight’s self-assessment of the anxiety he has borne daily, even before his wife Pauline, a development expert, died from complications from COVID-19 seven months ago. The veteran attorney-at-law is still maintaining rigid...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s tourist industry is on the cusp of pre-pandemic buoyancy and the month of March is leading the recovery with a pre-forecast of 200,000 visitors into the island. Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett made the announcement...
WESTERN BUREAU: Members of St James’ disabled community are lauding the possibility of more doors being opened for them following the St James Municipal Corporation’s (StJMC) recent announcement that it will reject building-construction plans that...
