If the management and board at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) have their way, party promoters will soon need to secure a solid waste permit before they can host events in Jamaica. In a move geared at holding promoters...
A tense calm hung over the Mountain View Road area yesterday in the vicinity of Baron Road, where gangsters engaged in a fierce gunbattle between Thursday night and Friday morning. Some residents say the flare-up is believed to be as a result of...
A crane being used at a construction site along Wellington Drive in St Andrew has been lifting tension sky high as residents of the area and motorists traversing the roadway express safety concerns. “Up to Tuesday, I drove up there and said, ‘What...
As its drivers withdrew their services to protest the killing of a colleague and death threats reportedly made to other workers, the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) has appealed for calm. The transport sector in the Corporate Area...
Local corruption watchdog National Integrity Action (NIA) says the recent findings in the Global Corruption Barometer underline the serious challenges that Jamaica and the wider Caribbean must confront in combating corruption more effectively. If...
It was a ‘WOW’ affair at the National Arena yesterday for the 81st annual conference of the People’s National Party (PNP) as energised Comrades vowed to “work, organise, and win” the next general election. Bright orange-clad party supporters were...
At 11a.m., the People’s National Party (PNP) anthem was blaring through the speakers, signalling a start to the 81-year-old party’s annual conference inside the National Arena. Party Chairman Fitz Jackson’s voice was then heard...
The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) has revealed that occasionally, debris from other countries washes ashore in Jamaica after being swept here by ocean currents. In recent months, Jamaicans have been capturing images of debris, including plastic...
National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has signalled that public order and safety will improve significantly with the handover of 80 Yamaha motorcycles to the police and a revamped ticketing system set to be rolled out next month. “We are...
Dealing with parents who lose children to suicide might be hard, but it’s possible to reach them, says psychologist Faith Thomas, Thomas, director of counselling at Choose Life International (CLI), whose counselling repertoire spans three decades,...
Dancehall, soca and even some gospel music blared from the speakers of both the Rise United camp, led by Peter Bunting, and Dr Peter Phillips’ One PNP camp yesterday, as delegates were kept energised during the high-tension presidential election...
Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS) Executive Director Yulit Gordon is calling on the Government to craft a national policy to enable easier access to prostate cancer screening for all men over the age of 40. Gordon made the call while speaking with The...
Former concessionaires at Fort Clarence Beach are restive, having closed down their operations last week after a decade to make way for upgrade works at the property by Guardsman Hospitality Limited (GHL), which will manage the premises for the...
The head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s traffic division has indicated that more cops than normal were on duty at major intersections across the Corporate Area to monitor the situation as the new school year got under way. Assistant...
Come Sunday, the police will embark on a tour of the Corporate Area to examine the tidying up of roadworks being undertaken and to make their final assessments ahead of Monday’s start of the new school year. The tour will guide their final plan as...
The September month-end deadline originally projected for the completion of works to relocate the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) main entrance on South Camp Road will be missed, according to the National Works Agency (NWA). NWA Communication and...
A police sergeant is the latest member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to be dragged before the court on murder charges following a ruling by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP). The policeman, Inspector Howard Wilks,...
Some players in the multibillion-dollar lottery scam have latched on to an emerging industry in which they solicit large sums of cash from mainly elderly men overseas for cybersex services with local women via video link. Members of the criminal...
Residents of Potterdale Avenue in Cumberland, St Catherine, are urging detectives to carefully probe the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman in their community, allegedly at the hands of her husband of many years. Reports reaching The...
Signs are emerging that the legacy road projects in the Corporate Area, which have missed their March deadline, are also set to go beyond their month-end completion date despite officials repeatedly expressing that they would be wrapped up by the...
The Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ) says that a lack of adequate infrastructure in rural areas is hindering expansion plans for the sector as it seeks to woo more youth to take up business process outsourcing (BPO) jobs....
The parent of a former Campion College student who waited several months to collect a $40,000 sixth-form tuition grant is breathing a sigh of relief after the Ministry of Education made good on its promise to hand over the funds. In July, the...
The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) has moved swiftly to address concerns raised by parents about the names of two booted Cabinet ministers among persons on a wall of fame at the Palisadoes Park-based institution in Kingston. The concerns were...
The Jamaica Police Federation is now breathing a sigh of relief following years of negotiation as they were yesterday outfitted with eight motor vehicles – five Toyota Coasters and three Toyota Hiace buses – to transport police officers to and from...
Parents of prospective students of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) got a shocker recently as they toured the grounds of the Palisadoes Park institution in Kingston and noticed the names of booted Cabinet ministers Ruel Reid and Dr Andrew...
