The number of Jamaicans who travelled to Canada as part of the overseas employment programme in 2023 declined by five per cent to 9,587 persons as weather challenges and the negative publicity surrounding the farm work programme persisted. More...
Despite the Government’s pledge in 2018 to create a First World, high-tech court system, many members of the Supreme Court staff said this week that they were working in inhumane conditions. The staff outlined in detail some of the problems they...
Convicted killer Omar Collymore and his three accomplices in the contract-style killing of his wife are set to face another trial in relation to an alleged gun attack reportedly orchestrated by Collymore on his ex-lover. A date for the trial of...
Brigadier Mahatma Williams, the senior army officer who commanded the unit linked to the death of businessman Keith Clarke, was subjected to additional sustained questioning from the prosecution yesterday as they sought more information on the...
The family and friends of a Kingston woman are praying and hoping for the best amid concerns that she might lose an eye following an acid attack yesterday at her workplace at Pavilion Plaza in St Andrew. They also believe that she was the target of...
WESTERN BUREAU: “This is a double blow,” was how yam farmer Robert Powell described the assault on his two south Trelawny farms by Hurricane Beryl and the destructive yam rust disease. “This yam was supposed to be ready by next month, but as you...
The Manning’s School in Westmoreland secured its third consecutive victory in the annual Junior Minister of Tourism Competition after 16-year-old Taj Melbourne captured the 2024 title on Tuesday. In 2022, Sanecia Taylor won the public speaking...
In a significant move to enhance national recovery efforts, the Government has allocated $1.3 billion for a comprehensive post-Beryl recovery clean-up and drain-cleaning campaign. The initiative, divided between two key agencies, aims to bolster...
Residents of the Morant Bay division in St Thomas on Wednesday expressed dismay over the Government’s decision to use its parliamentary majority to postpone their by-election by 90 days. Councillor Rohan Bryan’s death on May 1 created a vacancy in...
The Government used its majority in the House of Representatives yesterday to pass a bill that will delay for three months the holding of a by-election to replace former Morant Bay Councillor Rohan Bryan who died in May. Bryan’s death created a...
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has sought to temper frustrations over prolonged service disruptions with a hurricane relief programme to slash the bills of hundreds of thousands of residential customers as of August. The company made the...
The Norman Manley Law School (NMLS) in Jamaica has confirmed that the majority of students who sat the exam for its ethics, rights and obligations of the legal profession course in May failed. This was disclosed by Principal Carol Aina in a letter...
With an estimated 8,700 houses across the country damaged by Hurricane Beryl, the Government has announced financial support to affected persons to aid in the recovery and rebuilding efforts. Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles...
Brigadier Mahatma Williams, who commanded a unit linked to the 2010 death of businessman Keith Clarke, on Tuesday maintained that the five soldiers said to be involved did not provide him with specifics regarding the shooting incident. The senior...
What was supposed to be a 15-minute drive to her workplace aboard an illegal taxi turned into a 30-minute horror story for an unsuspecting female security guard caught in a reckless high-speed chase involving the police in the Corporate Area...
The day after Hurricane Beryl’s onslaught, Marvin Lawrence went to his place of business and found that a large tree had fallen on to the roof, compromising the structure. The resident of Mountainside in St Elizabeth was all smiles last week when...
Thirty-one-year-old Trishana Brown has now lost the roof of her home for the third time, most recently during Hurricane Beryl’s passage three weeks ago. Having also lost her roof during hurricanes Ivan in 2004 and Dean in 2007, the Portland Cottage...
There has been radio silence on a date for the by-election to fill the vacancy left in the Morant Bay division in St Thomas, following the death of Councillor Rohan Bryan almost three months ago. Bryan, who ran on a People’s National Party (PNP)...
A bizarre series of events at the Half-Way Tree Police Station in St Andrew on Monday ended in the shooting deaths of a well-known businessman and a respected police sergeant. It was pandemonium at the St Andrew Central Divisional Headquarters on...
The prosecution was on Monday granted permission to treat Brigadier Mahatma Williams as a hostile witness as the Keith Clarke murder trial continued in the Home Circuit Court. Williams was the commanding officer for the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF)...
Residents in sections of St Elizabeth feel that Jamaica at large has yet to comprehend the magnitude of Beryl’s devastation. They describe the July 3 storm as a blend of hurricane, tornado, and earthquake, which severely damaged homes and farms in...
The Court of Appeal on July 6 upheld a June 2020 ruling of the St James Parish Court in favour of a former business process outsourcing (BPO) worker who took her employer to court insisting that she is entitled to redundancy payment. The worker was...
Sixty-eight-year-old Janet Sinclair, who faces a hearing impairment, partial blindness, and speech challenges, and her daughter Alvernia Johnson-Rhoden are grateful that their lives were spared despite Hurricane Beryl’s onslaught in Portland...
One local reparations campaigner believes that the Archbishop of Canterbury did not go far enough in apologising to Jamaicans on Sunday for the Anglican Church’s role in the transatlantic slave trade. Delivering the sermon at the Diocese of Jamaica...
Several prominent figures in the Jamaican Diaspora have hailed the decision by United States President Joe Biden to pull out of the 2024 presidential race as the right thing for him to do. On Sunday, Biden, 81, bowed to weeks of intense pressure...
