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A mining company that proposed a multimillion-dollar business for Alligator Pond in southern Manchester will have to look elsewhere after Jamaica’s environment regulators refused its application for a permit, citing the potential for worsening...

Motorists will have another three months of toll-free travel along the May Pen to Williamsfield leg of the East-West Highway. Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced the extension until March 31, 2024 in a media release yesterday. He said the...

Fifteen-year-old student and philanthropist Sherinae Brown, following a successful third year of Christmas street feeding, is moving to register as a non-profit organisation her initiative dubbed ‘Nourishing Neighbours with Helping Hands’. Brown,...

Amid renaming the administrative block of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona in honour of Sir Kenneth Hall two weeks ago, the former principal is still disappointed that a campus centre has not been constructed over a decade after he...

WESTERN BUREAU: With 2024 two days away, residents from across western Jamaica are voicing very low and lukewarm expectations of the new year in terms of various social issues being addressed, to include crime management, education, and leadership...

WESTERN BUREAU: The passing of veteran tour operator Robert Hendricks has sent shock waves throughout the island’s tourism sector, eliciting expressions of sadness from many, including Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett and Opposition Spokesperson...

A fifth person has been taken into custody in connection with the murder and abduction of opposition lawmaker Phillip Paulwell’s infant daughter and her mother. The male suspect was arrested on Wednesday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Fitz...

Tanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter Following the revelation that 31 members of the original St Catherine-based Clansman Gang have been arrested and are awaiting charges for various serious crimes, the police yesterday warned that it will be ramping up...

The residents of the City of Refuge Children’s Home and the Jamaica National Children’s Home (JNCH) who were fêted by 138 Student Living Jamaica Limited on Thursday, as part of the organisation’s annual Christmas treat, had an enjoyable experience...

A letter sent to Audrey Marks, Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States, by members of the diaspora giving notice of a countrywide protest, has stirred unease among other Jamaicans domiciled overseas who believe that its contents could harm the...

As another year draws to a close, motorcyclists continue to dominate road fatalities, with 129 of them killed in traffic crashes up to Tuesday, when the National Road Safety Council (NRSC) had recorded 415 persons killed to date, compared to the...

Gary ‘Butch’ Hendrickson, chief executive officer (CEO) of Continental Baking Company Limited, on Wednesday implored two university accounting students to become not only an excellent accountant, but an even better ‘controller’. Delivering the...