A man, allegedly using a fictitious identity, got a total of $352 million in mortgage loans from four financial institutions over a one-month period in 2024, the proprietors of a privately owned firm have charged in a lawsuit. The loans were made...
Accountability advocates are warning that accepting good intentions as justification for breaching procurement laws could undermine Jamaica’s system of public administration, following an auditor general’s finding that senior government minister...
WESTERN BUREAU: In classrooms across western Jamaica, empty desks still tell the unfinished story of a hurricane whose most lasting damage may not be measured in roofs lost, but in children still unable to find their way back. Principals, guidance...
A Jamaican farmworker has joined a legal challenge to New York’s Farm Labourers’ Fair Labour Practices Act (FLFLPA), raising concerns that unionisation – while promising higher wage rates – could ultimately leave farmworkers with less money in...
Western Bureau: Heavy rains that lashed sections of Hanover this week took a heavy toll on the parish, causing major flooding in the OceanPointe Housing Development and land slippage in other areas, including some that were impacted by Hurricane...
Finance Minister Fayval Williams says Jamaica is looking to deepen its relationship with CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, noting that the financial institution has grown more sensitive to the country’s needs. Williams, who...
PANAMA CITY, Panama The business matchmaking roundtable, organised by CAF within the framework of the International Economic Forum, was the first of its kind in Latin America and the Caribbean. It brought together more than 400 business leaders,...
Godfrey Wade, the 65-year-old United States (US) Army veteran who was detained in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility for months, has been deported to Jamaica. Wade arrived in the island on Thursday. Wade’s attorney, Tony...
The Government says it is intensifying efforts to ensure that persons with disabilities are fully integrated into the national discourse and are able to access justice with dignity and opportunity. State Minister in the Ministry of Justice and...
A search is now under way at the police central store to locate key ballistic evidence collected in the January 2013 fatal shooting of three men along Acadia Drive, St Andrew. The revelation came yesterday in the Home Circuit Court during the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of McAlpine, in Westmoreland, recently benefited from a medical outreach initiative conducted by Canadian entity Team Broken Earth, which partnered with the Westmoreland Public Health Department and the Canadian Red Cross...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jason Russell, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has welcomed the Organica Whole Foods Store to Montego Bay, saying it is timely and aligned with the city’s growing push towards healthier lifestyles and...
The first prosecution witness was subjected to nearly two hours of sustained cross-examination on Thursday as the high-profile Clansman Gang trial against reputed leader Tesha Miller and 24 co-accused continued in the Home Circuit Division of the...
Fifty alleged cases of sexual harassment – mostly involving public-sector workers – have been referred to the tribunal established under the Sexual Harassment (Protection and Prevention) Act to hear and adjudicate complaints. The disclosure was...
A female relative of Melissa Silvera was seen leaving the downtown Kingston-based Gun Court in tears yesterday morning, saying the family is praying for justice after the court accepted a guilty plea to manslaughter from her husband, Jolyan Silvera...
A police witness told the Home Circuit Court that he was informed by six policemen – now on trial for murder – that the three men killed along Acadia Drive, St Andrew, in January 2013 had engaged them in a shootout. The witness, an investigator in...
WESERN BUREAU: At the mention of JAMCO Entertainment, laughter is usually the first thing that comes to mind. The company is the force behind the popular comedy series Come Av A Laugh, which has delivered rib-tickling humour to local and...
Ten public servants are facing scrutiny after being cited by the Integrity Commission (IC) for breaches of the Integrity Commission Act, with eight set to be charged and two cases referred to the director of corruption prosecution for a ruling. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Delroy Chuck has cautioned Jamaicans that it is far better to avoid criminal convictions than to rely on the recent passage of the Criminal Records (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act to...
Jamaica’s ability to develop at a faster pace is being hampered by “excessive bureaucracy”, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is arguing. Holness, who was speaking at the official handover ceremony of the Essex Valley Agro-Processing Facility and...
A startling incident outside the courtroom brought renewed tension to the ongoing anti-gang trial involving reputed Clansman gang leader Tesha Miller and 24 other accused yesterday, shortly after the matter was adjourned on day one at the Supreme...
The Jamaica Medical Doctors’ Association (JMDA) has issued an ultimatum for the management of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) to take steps to resolve a number of long-standing issues. Failing this, the JMDA said it could not...
Agriculture Minister Floyd Green yesterday maintained that he would have taken no further action after sending an anonymous letter to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) about a 2013 Acadia Drive, St Andrew shooting, saying he...
It has been a hellish week for two elderly siblings whose four-bedroom home in May Pen, Clarendon, was engulfed by fire, taking all their possessions and decades of hard work and accomplishments. Chef Byron Desport, 67, said he was at his cook...
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has raised concern that the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) purchased food items, tarpaulin and water costing $59.6 million for Hurricane Melissa victims but failed to document...
