Businessman P.B. Scott has been named the recipient of the Master Entrepreneur of The Year (EOY) 2023 Jamaica award. The announcement was made during a ceremony held Saturday evening at the Hyatt Zilara, where his wife, Jen Scott, received the...
Paediatric surgery, the delicate art of operating on infants, children, and adolescents, recently witnessed a remarkable advancement with the first laparoscopic surgeries performed at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC). The appendectomy...
The Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) is reacting with “shock and outrage” at last week’s murder of an 80-year-old woman in St Ann and is demanding greater protection for the elderly, even as investigators struggle to solve the case....
In an effort to quell violence in schools and among students, the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) is asking the Government to dig deeper into the public purse to employ more guidance counsellors and social workers. JTA President Leighton...
With 12 children killed tragically or violently in Jamaica since the start of the year, and a total of 30 who perished under similarly defined circumstances during 2023, a renewed call to speak out was made yesterday by one of the nation’s youngest...
A former advisor to a Cabinet minister benefited from the National Land Agency’s (NLA) decision to remove, without permission, a globally recognised minimum requirement for a job in a senior position, prompting questions of favouritism and...
Educators at Effortville Primary School in Clarendon regard the institution as a trendsetter, moulding ‘STARS’ bent on improving themselves, parents and a community plagued by social ills and gang warfare. A trendsetter, they said, because...
The software engineer who was ordered to pay a Jamaican attorney over $12 million for allegedly causing the leak of photos and videos of their sexual encounter is facing “financial hardship”, his attorney has claimed. But the claim by Rodrick Brown...
Public service regulations are being reviewed with consideration for modern human resource demands for a time limit on investigations of public officials suspended from work, the Government says. The disclosure from Finance Minister Dr Nigel...
Motorists who for over 15 years paid traffic ticket fines that were illegally imposed should be required to show proof in order to collect a court-ordered refund, attorneys for the Government have proposed. However, lawyers for the motorist whose...
While proclaiming his innocence, one of the alleged murder accomplices in the January 2, 2018 shooting deaths of businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore and her taxi-driver Winston Walters, said he did everything possible to separate himself from...
With the country recording 29 per cent of all visitors who came to Jamaica in 2023 staying at airbnbs, Norman Dunn, state minister in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, believes there is room for much improvement with job creation this...
Despite pleading his innocence and distancing himself from an alleged crime in a widely circulated video, a St James deliveryman was cut down in a hail of bullets on Thursday night in the vicinity of the Barnett Street Fire Station. The Gleaner...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has cautioned gangsters operating in Westmoreland to lay down their arms and refrain from carrying out threats to kill several students from the Crowder community in Grange Hill. “There are...
Concerns have been raised about the quality of plumbing materials being used and how it affects water efficiency. The unease came by way of an observation made by Instant Save Conservation Solutions (ISCS) that three out of every four households...
WESTERN BUREAU: Shane Munroe, chief executive officer (CEO) of MBJ Airports Limited, is hailing the Sangster International Airport’s (SIA) runway extension and associated works project as indicative of the significant potential available for the...
It appears that some members of the Integrity Commission Oversight Committee (ICOC) are unhappy that investigation reports from the Integrity Commission (IC) are tabled and made available to the wider public before the oversight committee gets a...
Lovette Smith has been wanting to open a bank account for her son, a sixth form student at Wolmer’s Boys’ School, for the longest time but simply could not find the time. So when the institution’s parent-teacher association (PTA) organised an...
A senior Cabinet minister yesterday sent a message to the Integrity Commission (IC) urging the anti-corruption body to deliver a report on the six parliamentarians who were said to be under investigation for illicit enrichment. Justice Minister...
The Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) is to recommend that the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) be enshrined in the Constitution without the functions of the political ombudsman, a consensus proposal that the Cabinet will be hard-pressed...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s Mayor Richard Vernon is calling on central Government to create a special fund geared at financing the western city’s continued development and management, particularly in light of the perpetual tourism traffic brought...
Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says concerns about the revenue shortfall in March 2024 are “misplaced”. Clarke, who was responding to several questions raised about the development, including from senior economist Dr...
On Sunday when the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands meets in Montego Bay for their first convocation in six years, Reverend Dr Jooseop Keum, general secretary, Council for World Mission, will have a message to deliver about unity....
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Braco in Trelawny now have access to potable water from the National Water Commission (NWC) for the first time in Jamaica’s history. This was done through a $90 million NWC in-house project and is expected to benefit...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Parish Court is expected to issue a request for Shamoya Green, the St James woman accused of fatally throwing her five-month-old daughter off a three-storey roof in December 2023, to get psychiatric treatment at the...
