WESTERN BUREAU: Music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson and his co-accused, Tajay Clarke, who are charged with a triple murder committed in Rose Heights, St James, in 2022, will learn next Tuesday if an overseas prosecution witness will be...
Fiscal Commissioner Courtney Williams is suggesting that the Government reintroduce what he describes as a “fiscal rule” on wages and salaries in order to “hold wages and salaries expenditure in check”. At the same time, the Independent Fiscal...
Local law enforcement is vowing that significant gains made in crime fighting in St James will not be eroded by anyone even as they monitor responses to the United States (US) arrest of and immigration hold on Montego Bay native and popular...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mario Deane’s mother, Mercia Fraser, the first witness to testify at the trial of the three police officers implicated in her son’s death, yesterday painted a graphic picture of the battered, bruised, and unresponsive state in which...
Mental health is a crisis that affects people from all spheres of life, but many endure it under different circumstances such as premarital, marital, individual, teen, bereavement, financial, nutritional, and business dilemmas. According to the...
With a 225 per cent increase in break-ins in at least one section of St Andrew, citizens’ associations, and the police are working to empower residents to be nosey and safeguard each other. Up to February 28, the police had recorded 157 cases of...
Transport Minister Daryl Vaz says the Jamaica Urban Transit Company’s (JUTC) expansion of routes outside of the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region (KMTR) reflects the commitment of the Jamaican Government to providing safe, reliable, and...
Mental health issues continue to be a taboo topic among men, despite studies revealing that men are more susceptible to mental health issues such as depression and anxiety in comparison to women, thus making them more likely to resort to self-harm...
Western Bureau: Some stakeholders in Trelawny are now breathing a collective sigh of relief as the roadway from Duncans to Clark’s Town, arguably the most challenging roadway in the entire parish, is now being rehabilitated, thanks to a J$19-...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the empanelling of a jury for the trial of the three police officers implicated in the death of Mario Deane finally taking place, human-rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is calling for an examination of the circumstances...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite ongoing efforts to get the National Identification System (NIDS) fully operational as soon as possible, Bishop Conrad Pitkin, chairman of the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), says NIDS will not be...
Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommuni-cations and Transport Daryl Vaz has indicated that legislation is to be tabled in Parliament in “short order” to combat theft and vandalism of telecommunications infrastructure. Vaz’s declaration follows...
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has conceded that the High Court’s failure to credit a convict for time spent in custody is a constitutional breach of one’s right to liberty and that an individual must be credited even if...
WESTERN BUREAU: With three degrees and well on the way to attaining a PhD, Kirkton Bennett is convinced that he was recently denied a teaching job at a high school in St James because of his weight – a concern raised during his interview to fill a...
Allocation to vulnerable groups under one of the Government’s social programmes has increased exponentially for the 2025-2026 financial year. Under the caption, ‘Public assistance and support to other vulnerable groups’, spending for the new fiscal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Yesterday’s much-anticipated start of the trial of three police officers, who are facing a range of charges in connection with the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane, did not get under way as one of the seven jurors empanelled on...
The stories and conditions of Jamaica’s most vulnerable children are heartbreaking and, while the Peace and Love in Society (PALS) programme has much outreach and counselling to give students, administrators say it simply doesn’t have the financial...
Western Bureau: Shadwayne Ellis, the taxi operator, who surrendered to the Westmoreland police last Friday, two days after he allegedly inflicted fatal chop wounds on jerk chicken vendor, 54-year-old Rodroy ‘Jerky’ Powell, on Wednesday afternoon,...
The Court of Appeal, in a historic sitting of nine judges, is set to decide how convicts should be credited for time spent in custody before trial, specifically in instances where the credit would result in a sentence below the minimum prescribed....
The Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) has sought to clear the air on the identity of a man deported to Jamaica from the United States (US) last week, who has claimed he is American. The agency was responding to a report in The...
The Jamaican Government is being urged to seek a waiver to shield itself from the United State’s (US) recent visa restrictions policy targeting officials from countries that engage Cuban healthcare workers. “Jamaica has to exercise its diplomatic...
The silence of the nine commissioners of the Electoral Office of Jamaica (ECJ), in their role as political ombudsman since they accepted the responsibility to police the political code of conduct, has not escaped the attention of the woman who...
Western Bureau: After more than a decade of frustration as she waited with trepidation for the start of the trial of the three police officers implicated in the beating death of her son, Mario Deane’s mother, Mercia Fraser, says she is finally...
Peace Day 2025 is to be celebrated today under the theme ‘Speak Peace, Live Peace’, with the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), in collaboration with its partners, planning series of activities to mark the occasion. One of the key events will...
As Jamaica’s population ages, projections contained in the Economic and Social Survey Jamaica indicate that, by 2025, 16.8 per cent of Jamaicans will be 60 years or older. With this in mind, the need for comprehensive healthcare services tailored...
