A new study on the state of housing in Jamaica has highlighted a number of negative implications of the shift of residential construction out of the Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA), facilitated by the country...
Transport Minister Mike Henry says the government cannot force the developer of the North-South Highway to reduce the proposed toll rates without taxpayers footing the bill. Henry says the proposed toll rates published last week are not magical...
One of the country's largest chicken producers, Jamaica Broilers, says it expects that the current shortage of chicken on the market should begin to ease by the end of the week. Wholesalers and consumers have been complaining that they have not...
The police have released new statistics indicating a 20 percent increase in murders for the first eight months of the year compared with the similar period last year. In particular, the data is showing that rural parishes have overtaken...
Tropical Storm Erika has left a trail of death and destruction in Dominica. Works and Communications Minister Ian Pinnar has said 14 bodies have been recovered so far and at least 25 other persons are missing. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has...
Justice Minister, Senator Mark Golding, says former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has misunderstood the proposal for a review board for INDECOM. In a letter to the editor published in The Gleaner today, Former Prime Minister Golding said he is very...
The National Security Minister Peter Bunting this afternoon revealed that the Finance Ministry has written to the Jamaica Police Federation inviting the union to return to bargaining table, amid a major all-island protest. Rank and file cops...
United States President Barack Obama has said it is sometimes necessary for countries to shame other nations into changing some of their cultural practices which may be wrong. He was addressing a question from a representative from the Global Fund...
United States President Barack Obama has declared that legalising ganja is not a "silver bullet" for solving problems associated with the drug. Responding to a question at a town hall meeting at the University of the West Indies this...
