The Manchester Health Department has closed Mandeville's largest food court over concerns about the risk being posed by a broken sewer main. Public health inspectors ordered the Reliance Centre Food Court closed this morning. The Medical...
Jamaica is to get an additional area code before the end of the year. Potential area codes have already been selected by the North American Numbering Plan Administrators. However, Technical Services Manager at the Office of Utilities...
Eight-hundred persons have so far converted to the pre-paid electricity service being offered by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS). The service became public less than a month ago following its official launch on April 20. Head of Marketing...
Published:Monday | May 11, 2015 | 12:00 AMStaff Reporter
Jennifer Capleton has not seen her daughter in two months. It was a Sunday in March and she was at the hospital with her daughter only to discover the child had left the hospital without her knowledge."My daughter run away before, but the last place...
At the recently held launch of the third United Nations Global Road Safety Week, held at the ATL office in New Kingston, it was noted that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) prosecuted 3,147 motorcyclists this year for not wearing a helmet...
Opposition spokesman on Local Government Desmond McKenzie says the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) should be given strict timelines for complying with the terms of its environmental permits to operate the Riverton City disposal...
Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson says the government will not implement flex work arrangements in the health sector until the task force set up to deliberate on the matter completes its work. Doctors in the public sector had claimed that the...
Opposition Member of Parliament Gregory Mair says he will be relentless in his push for the government to adopt a report to make amendments to the Access to Information Act. Mair made the declaration in parliament yesterday as he expressed...
Published:Tuesday | April 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMDaviot Kelly
Fledgling gym wear apparel company Williams Fitness Clothing (WFC) is conducting a clothes and food drive for two worthy entities.The St John Golding Rehabilitation Centre (Mona Rehab) and the Jamaica Society for the Blind will receive welcome...
Former police commissioner Owen Ellington has confirmed that the United States Government applied the Leahy Amendment Act against Jamaica’s police arising from concerns about human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings. Ellington made the...
Former Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington says he was never advised that a copy of the United States extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was found inside the strongman's Tivoli Gardens office. Ellington said he...
Former police commissioner Owen Ellington says the police did not take steps to man possible escape routes such as drains and tunnels in the lead up to the 2010 West Kingston operation because it was unsafe to do so. Ellington says the police were...
The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) says it is yet to hear from the Government after unions rejected the government's wage increase offer last week. According to the Association, teachers are eager for the government to resume talks...
The junior minister for technology, Julian Robinson, has withdrawn his earlier commendation for Digicel's marketing ploy at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships saying his first reaction was "spontaneous...
Kingston attorney, Patrick Bailey, has been charged with forgery and conspiracy to defraud in relation to the sale of a property in 1996. He was taken into custody today and granted one million dollar bail. Head of the Fraud Squad, Superintendent...
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday rebuked gay-rights protestors who crashed her keynote address at the launch of the 6th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference in New York, United States.As Simpson Miller defended Jamaica's record of...
Prominent attorney-at-law Miguel Lorne who is currently before the courts on fraud related charges, says he believes he’s being targeted by the police for his involvement in the Mario Deane case. Lorne is representing the family of Mario...
