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United States (US) President Donald Trump has hailed the relationship between his country and Jamaica, while pointing to the potential for expanded trade between the two nations as well as more US investment in the island. Trump was speaking...

Disbarred attorney-at-law Don Foote has lost his bid to overturn a 2017 decision of the General Legal Council (GLC), which found him guilty of professional misconduct for his mishandling of a court-ordered property sale. In a strongly worded...

Western Bureau: Residents of Jackson Town and surrounding communities in Trelawny are now more comfortable from a health perspective as the community’s health centre, which was out of service for two years, is now back in service after a J$23-...

Jamaican sprint legend and two-time Olympic gold medallist Veronica Campbell-Brown (VCB) will return to her alma mater Vere Technical High School today to host the second staging of her community-centred health fair. Running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.,...

Cabinet Minister Desmond McKenzie on Thursday urged Jamaicans to reject “evil” taxi men and the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) in his promotion of the Government’s rural school bus transportation programme, warning that it would be a...

WESTERN BUREAU: If current trends hold, the St James Police Division could see 2025 as its best year in crime-fighting in two decades. At present, the parish is seeing at least a 50 per cent reduction in murders, shootings, and rape, which have...

WESTERN BUREAU:i Montego Bay’s Hosanna Preparatory School has again come up trumps in this year’s Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations, with three students – Tenese Mowatt, Derwin Hamil, and Tanner Reid – winning government scholarships....

WESTERN BUREAU: Finance Minister Fayval Williams says Jamaica has reach a historic milestone as more than 24,000 Jamaicans have recently joined the workforce, saying that the number includes over 11,000 people who were previously not seeking...

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says Jamaica has entered a new era in tourism development with yesterday’s official launch of the Gastronomy Academy of Jamaica, saying it is the catalyst for a Caribbean-wide culinary revolution. “...

Buff Bay, Portland: Carol Reece, who has taken time off from Carnival Cruise to care for her son following a horrific accident last year that left him visually impaired and using a wheelchair, has embraced the rural school bus system slated for...

The country’s main road safety advocate group has sounded a “red alert” as the gains made over the first five months of this year in containing the number of fatalities on the roadways have now been wiped out. Up to the end of the first half of...

Suffering the pangs of emotional distress after discovering she had contracted HIV from a man she was cohabiting with over a period of time, a distraught woman, who asked to be identified only as Anica, visited a medical facility, which confirmed...