At least 1,500 of the nation’s children reported missing in the last five years have not been found, even as the number of reports continues to trend down. Data from the Child Protection...
Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith seemingly has the backing of India in her bid to topple Baroness Patricia Scotland as Commonwealth secretary general, with Indian High Commissioner Masakui Rungsung calling her a “strong and fitful” candidate...
Constitutional speed bumps have slowed the Government’s push to cut ties with the British monarchy ahead of Jamaica’s 60th Independence anniversary celebrations in August, Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte has said...
Poor salaries have been dismissed by Jamaica’s police chief as a contributor to corruption in the constabulary. Major General Antony Anderson’s comments come in the wake of recent revelations of a police-led Ranko Gang based in Clarendon, with...
An immigration officer has accused several senior officials at the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) of victimisation and has levelled allegations of corruption against some officers at the state agency. Kenton Senior, who has...
Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s bid to unseat Baroness Patricia Scotland as Commonwealth secretary general is likely to succeed amid waning support for the incumbent and favourable backchannel canvassing for the challenger, one of...
GM Challenger CEO Nigel Pagon says his company has refunded the $6-million deposit it received from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) to supply a special ambulance despite an Integrity Commission report that said that the state agency was not...
The acquisition of a new intelligence management system by the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) is expected to significantly boost its surveillance of criminal masterminds in the illicit drugs and firearms trade following close to 1,300 busts within...
The Jamaica College Old Boys’ Association (JCOBA) has painted acting principal Wayne Robinson as a meddling interloper and accused the school board of sabotage in a roller-coaster dispute over a botched uniform and merchandise sales contract. In a...
The leadership of the Old Hope Road-based Jamaica College (JC) is seeking an account of how funds totalling $3.1 million, which were reportedly collected by the old boys’ association on behalf of the 232-year-old institution, were used. The...
The aftershocks of the nightly curfew, lifted almost two weeks ago, are still being felt by operators of fast-food chains and service stations islandwide as social and spending patterns disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic have been slow to...
Chastened by public protests against Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade and centuries of colonial exploitation, Prince William expressed regret Wednesday night on the Jamaica leg of a Caribbean tour for the atrocities of the black...
Jon Hendrik von Thiel, chargé d’affaires at the German Embassy in Kingston, has questioned Jamaica’s commitment to its displaced medical students who fled war-torn Ukraine last month. Von Thiel, who is tapped to become Germany’s ambassador to...
The National Housing Trust (NHT) is expected to apply changes to several of its policies as the Government moves to quell disquiet brewing in the housing market, where thousands of contributors continue to be priced out of a home. Prime Minister...
Two People’s National Party-aligned former national security ministers have backed the scrapping of ministerial authority in the approval of gun licences on review amid a firestorm that has cost the Andrew Holness administration a Cabinet member....
Amid increasing calls for greater funding of early-childhood institutions, Education Minister Fayval Williams has suggested that the Government first needs to establish a tighter grip on the sector, approximately 85 per cent of which is privately...
Minister of Education Fayval Williams said the Government would revisit the funding model for low-performing schools and possibly do away with the one-size-fits-all model where resources are allocated equally per student. “We have to do it in a...
Days after the resumption of face-to-face classes, stakeholders in the education sector are calling for changes to the culture of political interference in the appointment of school boards. That concern - linked to the disruption of effective...
Minister of Finance Dr Nigel Clarke has indicated that there will be no rollback of the special consumption tax on fuel, even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent global oil prices to decade-high records. Clarke, who opened the Budget Debate...
Ahead of the global celebration of International Women’s Day on Tuesday, gender and development practitioner Judith Wedderburn has expressed disappointment with Jamaica’s women legislators, who she accuses of not doing enough to tackle fundamental...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has left the possible imposition of sanctions on Russia to individual member states following hours of intense deliberation on the second day of the 33rd Inter-Sessional Meeting of Heads of Government in Belize....
Surrounded by strangers in a bomb shelter deep underground in Kharkiv, Ukraine, a 21-year-old Jamaican medical student desperately wants an end to Russia’s invasion of the Eastern European nation that is clinging relentlessly to its independence....
Facing a conundrum on whether to leave war-threatened Ukraine or remain and complete the six months of study he had left in medical school, time ran out on a Jamaican student and dozens of compatriots in the Eastern European nation. Since his...
A push to reopen the economy was at the top of the Government’s priority list when it gave the clearance for the resumption of horse racing at Caymanas Park “without consideration for vaccination”, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher...
Dennis Meadows, the former deputy chairman of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) who is embroiled in an unfolding scandal at the entity, has denied claims that he was part of a group that granted gun permits to persons previously denied, without...
