A collaborative effort between the police, citizens, and the business community is being credited for a significant reduction in crime across Clarendon, including a 51 per cent drop in murders since the start of the year. The disclosure was made by...
Some five decades after its predecessor was destroyed by fire, Jamaica’s state-of-the-art government forensic pathology autopsy suite was reopened on Thursday, aiming to tackle a mounting backlog of more than 300 autopsies. However, while plans are...
The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has slammed a proposal by government backbencher Everald Warmington to remove Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis from the the rank of commissioner at the Integrity Commission. The party said it would...
With social equity and national development as top priorities, the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSSE) and the Jamaica Society for the Blind (JSB) have committed to full transparency through a transformative partnership set to improve the lives of...
The Administrator General’s Department (AGD) says it does not perceive any conflict in overseeing the estate of Jodian Fearon, the young mother who died after being denied treatment at several hospitals in the Corporate Area five years ago. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon has issued a firm rebuttal to recent criticism of his administration and the city, suggesting that the negative commentary is politically motivated and damaging to the efforts of ordinary residents....
Reading is to be returned to the primary-school timetable, says Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, minister of education, skills, youth and information, who yesterday acknowledged there is a literacy crisis impacting schools across the country. Morris...
A key technical support whereby auditors general have sat on the Integrity Commission for more than five decades might soon be brought to a halt as, yesterday, government lawmakers made the decision to remove the current auditor general, Pamela...
Jamaica is bracing for potential fallouts from the Donald Trump administration’s funding and job cuts at the primary weather forecasting agency in the United States, which supplies the island with some satellite information for local weather...
There has been increased interest in the computer sciences, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), both locally and internationally; and Caribbean and African states have much to do to catch up with AI’s cultural, economic and social revolution...
WESTERN BUREAU: At 100 years old, Austin Wright of Mafoota, St James, is a symbol of discipline, hard work, and perseverance, having endured many trials, including health issues, which spanned from his childhood days to old age. Wright, who was...
President of the People’s National Party (PNP) Mark Golding has slammed the Andrew Holness-led administration, accusing it of repeatedly breaching the principles required to govern Jamaica. Golding was speaking yesterday to a large crowd of orange-...
A politically influential businessman is listed as a director of the company that owns the luxury Mercedes-Benz sedan that was involved in a highway crash in which four people were killed, official documents have revealed. The vehicle was being...
The ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has selected two recently minted senators, Ambassador Audrey Marks and Delano Seiveright, to be its standard-bearers in Manchester North East and St Andrew North Central, respectively. Marks, the former...
A United States (US) citizen narrowly escaped deportation to Jamaica after he was wrongly picked up, jailed and prepped for ejection from the country by law enforcement in that country. American Peter Brown was saved from deportation after the...
The acting director of corruption prosecutions at the Integrity Commission (IC), Roneiph Lawrence, has ruled that three councillors at the St Catherine Municipal Corporation should be charged for breach of Section 43(1) (a) of the Integrity...
Abandoned and deteriorating motor vehicles, large pile-ups of garbage at premises near two public schools, and a series of planning meetings to buttress the capital city against the 2025 hurricane season were among the top priorities of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Embedded in their bloodline, brothers Stephen and Luke Josephs are the latest torchbearers of a family deeply rooted in service to the vulnerable. Through the newly established Crisis Support Charity and Burn Foundation, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Wavell Hinds, the opposition spokesman on labour and sports, has stated that the People’s National Party (PNP), if elected, will implement stricter regulations around the issuance of work permits to ensure that qualified Jamaicans...
WESTERN BUREAU: Amid growing unrest in the tourism transport sector, JUTA, JCAL, and Maxi Tours are slated to meet with Transport Minister Daryl Vaz in Kingston today to address what they say is a direct threat to the industry’s structure and...
Clad in pink, the colour that nine-year-old Kelsey Ferrigon loved most, mourners gathered on Monday at the Spanish Town Seventh-day Adventist Church to say farewell to a child whose life was tragically cut short. Kelsey, a grade-three student at St...
Western Bureau: Three persons were arrested and over J$28 million in local and foreign currencies seized during a series of targeted police operations in Montego Bay, St James, between last Thursday and Saturday, during which several high-end...
The Reverend Dr Barry Davies, the beloved Kingston College Chapel Choir director for more than a decade, beginning in the mid-1950s, has died. A long-standing pillar of musical and spiritual life in Atlanta, Georgia, and Florida, both in the United...
More than 70 per cent of the roughly 220 grade-seven students at Pembroke Hall High School are unable to read or do so only at a grade-three level, according to the school’s principal, Reverend Claude Ellis. Alarmingly, many of these students...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Andre Haughton has hailed Monday’s Supreme Court injunction as a “victory for the people”, following a ruling that bars the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) from removing campaign signs belonging to prospective People’s...
