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A local medical expert has encouraged psychiatrists to work jointly with radiation oncologists in providing patients with the holistic care they need as they wrestle with physical and mental health issues. Speaking yesterday at the 31st National...

A former investigator in the Keith Clarke murder case, who had certified photocopied pages from the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) ammunition book, yesterday struggled to figure out some of the data the document had captured. Taneish Wisdom,...

Coining a new term to describe the operations of the People’s National Party (PNP), Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the opposition party has for years projected sheer entitlement, calling it ‘PNPism’. Holness,...

The death of a student at Campion College in St Andrew on Tuesday has raised renewed concerns about the safety risks associated with unanchored goalposts on school grounds. The student, 13-year-old Rashad Richards, was reportedly on the Liguanea-...

A witness from the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) disclosed on Tuesday that an ex-soldier, who is being sought to appear in the Keith Clarke murder trial as a witness, left the island in May and returned in July. Deputy...

Energy Minister Daryl Vaz said that while nuclear energy is a contentious issue with its own challenges, when handled responsibly, it can offer “unprecedented opportunities” for scientific research, medical advancements, and energy production....

Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has labelled claims made by his opposition counterpart, Dr Alfred Dawes, regarding the state of the health sector as “outlandish and extreme” and devised to create an atmosphere of pessimism. “...

Records pertaining to the distribution of guns and ammunition at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), for May 2010, cannot be located. The police are also having difficulty locating the former JDF soldier who was the recordkeeper during the same period...

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay, St James is poised to get an additional 1,350 hotel rooms as Moon Palace Resorts, which already has a substantial footprint in Jamaica, is set to make its mark in the tourist capital with a new property. The Montego Bay...

Time has run out for the announcement of a by-election for the Morant Bay division of the St Thomas Municipal Corporation, meaning there has been a breach of the 90-day extension received through Parliament in July. The extension, which The...

A popular Manchester businessman, who offered another man $60,000 to kill the top executive at the People’s Cooperative Bank (PCB) in the parish so he could have easier access to loans, has been convicted for solicitation to murder. Marvin Morris,...

Jamaica’s budget scorecard has risen by two percentage points since 2019 to reach a still insufficient score of 41, according to the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) which last Thursday evening presented the results of an open budget...