The Cabinet has approved the establishment of a commission to conduct an in-depth study of the issues surrounding reparations for Jamaican descendants of former slaves.
An application brought by retired President and Chief Executive Officer of Scotiabank William Bill Clarke to bar the bank from evicting him from the house to which he was assigned has been set for hearing on February 3 in the Supreme Court.
The police are still to determine the circumstances leading to the death of a woman in Phase 1 of the Seaview Gardens Housing Complex in Kingston between last night and this morning.
A 36 year old Jamaican man who was deported twice from the United Kingdom has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for raping an 18 year old woman in Bristol.
In an effort to curtail the spiralling crime rate in St. James, police in the division yesterday carried out a series of raids and spot checks across the parish.
Opposition backbencher Ronald Thwaites has suggested that government withhold funding for public sector bodies that are delinquent in submitting yearly reports to parliament.
The University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU) has written to the labour ministry seeking its intervention in a dispute between managerial staff and the management of the National Water Commission (NWC).
The Information Ministry has advised that the resignation of Sonia Christie from the post of Executive Director of the Social Development Commission was due to an illness that has affected her eyes.
The government has disclosed that provisions are being made to have four billion dollars needed to pay public school teachers the recent increases in salaries included in the supplementary estimates.
Issues affecting Jamaicans and other Caribbean nationals are to be discussed during a meeting of Regional leaders with United States President Barrack Obama in April.
A former member of the untamed gang, which operated out of Phase 2 of the Seaview Gardens Complex, was shot dead by gunmen at Artic Boulevard in the community yesterday evening.
A former member of the untamed gang, which operated out of Phase 2 of the Seaview Gardens Complex, was shot dead by gunmen at Artic Boulevard in the community yesterday evening.
Dancehall artiste David ‘Movado’ Brooks was fined $3,000 or ten months imprisonment when he appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning.
