WESTERN BUREAU After years in a cramped space under threat of eviction, police in Little London have moved into a modern station that leaders call a turning point for security and public trust in western Jamaica. Sergeant Arlene McBean, chairman...
When the gates of the historic Monymusk Sugar Factory in southern Clarendon closed years ago, many residents felt an era had ended and their futures had dimmed overnight. For generations, the factory had been the lifeblood of the Vere plains — a...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The family of a Colombian man has filed the first formal challenge to US military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, arguing in a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas that his death was an...
A motion to suspend the fiscal rules to allow for additional spending towards Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts was on Tuesday scrapped and then re-tabled after a senior opposition lawmaker pointed to a flaw in the document. Finance and the...
Trailblazer Ena Collymore-Woodstock, who was Jamaica’s first woman resident magistrate, now called parish judge, and a World War II veteran, has died. Collymore-Woodstock passed away on Tuesday at age 108. She was born in Spanish Town, St...
The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) says greater accountability is needed in the distribution of hurricane relief aid and called for the Government to ensure that its planned tracking system takes into account full transparency....
The case against bauxite mining company Windalco, which is before the St Catherine Parish Court over a 2019 fish kill in the Rio Cobre, continues to face delays. The trial resumed today in court with the defence calling its second witness,...
Motorists will pay less for gas come Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move down by $0.25 to sell for $155.17 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will go down by $0.25 to sell for $161.78. Automotive diesel oil...
HAVANA (AP) — A blackout hit Havana and the rest of the western half of Cuba on Wednesday, leaving millions of people without power on an island struggling with chronic outages blamed on a crumbling electric grid. Lázaro Guerra, general director...
Some 60,000 customers of the National Water Commission (NWC) in western Jamaica are still without piped water more than a month after the passage of Hurricane Melissa. Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) on Wednesday said that it will launch a new initiative in Jamaica this week in the wake of the disaster caused by Hurricane Melissa, which left thousands...
The Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) has announced that students attending schools in Westmoreland, St James, Hanover, St Elizabeth, and Trelawny will each receive a $60,000 grant under a new post–Hurricane Melissa support programme. SLB Executive...
Information Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon has disclosed that the millions collected by the Government through the Support Jamaica Hurricane Melissa relief website will be used to buy building materials to support reconstruction, particularly homes...
Minister of Agriculture Floyd Green has indicated that the World Bank has estimated the damage to Jamaica’s agricultural sector at J$60 billion or US$300 million. Green, speaking at a press briefing at Jamaica House on Wednesday, said that...
Abigail Malcolm, People’s National Party councillor-caretaker for the Cornwall Mountain Division in Westmoreland, said she has been seeking assistance to help persons rebuild and bury their loved ones arising from Hurricane Melissa. This follows...
Three of the leading construction and engineering groups in Jamaica are urging the Government to prioritise permanent, hurricane-resilient housing over temporary container units as the country moves to rebuild following Hurricane Melissa. In a...
Police are investigating a daring early morning shooting and robbery attempt along Oxford Road in St Andrew on Wednesday. Explosions were reportedly heard about 8:50 a.m., and men seen running away from the scene. An eyewitness said one of the...
A parish court judge has ordered 16 Haitians to leave Jamaica after they were found to have overstayed the three-day period granted to them upon arrival. The order was issued today after the group was taken before the court on charges related to...
A 45-year-old St Elizabeth man died from injuries he sustained in a vehicular crash in the parish on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Hayne Foster, a farmer of Park District, St Elizabeth. Reports are that about 1:50 p.m., Foster was...
(AP) — India’s telecoms ministry on Wednesday rolled back its order for smartphone manufacturers to preinstall a government-run cybersecurity app on new devices. The Ministry of Communications on Monday asked smartphone makers to install the...
