The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), is reporting that the alarming level of violence in Jamaica has had severely negative consequences for the human rights of the Jamaican people.
The Customs Department will be targeting duty free shops and wholesale shops as it clamps down on the illegal cigarette trade which is causing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue losses.
The fallout has started at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), following the contractor general’s report uncovering several contract award breaches.
The Court of Appeal today ordered telecommunications provider LIME (formerly Cable and Wireless Jamaica Limited) to remove telephone wires, which were supplied to squatters on a section of a two-acre property in Alyssum, St. Andrew.
Detectives from the Major Investigation Task Force have laid additional charges on a prisoner at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston.
Another meeting has been set for next Monday between the unions representing workers at the National Water Commission (NWC), and the company’s management.
Fire officials are still to determine the cause of a massive blaze that destroyed almost 30 wooden houses at 36 to 38 Alexander Road off Waltham Park in Kingston 13 this morning.
Fire officials are still to determine the cause of a massive blaze that destroyed almost 30 wooden houses at 36 to 38 Alexander Road off Waltham Park in Kingston 13 this morning.
The opposition has expressed outrage at what it describes as the woefully inadequate response from transport minister, Mike Henry, to blatant acts of corruption at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC).
A painter who was charged with the murder of 22-year-old university student Harry Harris Jr was freed yesterday after a jury retired for 40 minutes and found him not guilty of the charge.
Agriculture Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton has summoned three members of the board of the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) to a meeting on Monday in relation to a botched fertiliser deal.
