Robert Morgan, adviser to Opposition Leader Andrew Holness, has criticised the media for its lack of coverage of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in recent times."The leader of the opposition, almost every weekend, is somewhere else.
POLICE STATISTICS have revealed that less than half of the over 1,600 serious crimes reported this year, including murders and shootings, remain unsolved, prompting a warning from some prominent security experts that this...
BUSINESSMAN Christopher Carr is facing another legal hurdle as he is scheduled to appear in court today on fraud charges.Carr's attorney, Hugh Wildman, confirmed yesterday that the businessman has been formally charged by detectives from the Major...
A JOINT select committee of Parliament, which has been set up to review the Sexual Offences Act, will also broaden its scope to examine other crucial pieces of legislation...
PUBLIC-SECTOR workers across the island are to be trained in customer service.Horace Dalley, minister without portfolio in the finance ministry, said the process of human resource management reform, as part of the reform of the public sector, was not...
There is nothing the Government can do to provide redress for Jamaican consumers who feel undone by the restriction on voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) applications by telecoms providers Digicel and Lime....
The Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) is being accused of a cover-up of the sums being spent to renovate the mayor's parlour with marble-style tiling at its Church Street offices in downtown Kingston.Duane Smith, Jamaica Labour Party councillor...
The health sector, which is already reeling under the pressure of shortages of vital supplies and malfunctioning equipment, suffered a further setback...
The term 'hung-over' aptly described the patrons at the Triple Century Sport Bar on Knutsford Boulevard, New Kingston, where they had gathered to witness Netherlands challenge Argentina in the second semi-final of the World...
Although the predictions are for a below-average active hurricane season this year, Jamaica has very limited resources available to respond in the event of a major storm.According to Noel Arscott, minister of local government and community development...
With no substantial amount of rainfall projected for the rest of the year, Jamaica is headed for critical drought conditions. According to projections from the Meteorological Service, from July to September, the parishes of Manchester, Clarendon...
TOWN CLERK Robert Hill has refused to disclose, at this time, how much has been budgeted to renovate the mayor's parlour at the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation.Asked why he...
As the final match for the 2014 FIFA World Cup draws near, Jamaicans are supporting their favourite teams with the regular loud-mouthed banter and by flying the teams' national flags in their cars, in their offices at work,...
Twenty days have gone by without a clue as to the whereabouts of Samunya Bloomfield, otherwise called 'Poochy', who mysteriously disappeared from her Grove Farm home in Old Harbour, St Catherine."We are yet to get a lead ...
A member of the second-tier leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) feels the decision of mining minister Phillip Paulwell to revoke the Special Mining Leases of UC Rusal in respect of the Alpart and Kirkvine...
Dennis Daly, Q.C., one of the founding members of the Jamaican Council for Human Rights, died on Monday from what family members said was an apparent stroke.Daly was a former chairman of the Jamaican Council for Human Rights...
A research centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, said it has discovered the presence of anti-cancer properties in purple yams.Dr Dennis Bailey from the Biotechnology Centre made the discovery while conducting doctoral studies....
POWER 106 FM ONCE again blazes into uncharted territory with the introduction of veteran broadcaster and renown newsman, Cliff Hughes. Hughes, on Monday joined the team at Power 106 FM as the host of its new midday...
AS THE country continues to mull over preparations for making Jamaica the fourth node in the global logistics chain, one international body has launched a suite of courses it said would offer Jamaicans international...
THE GOVERNMENT has accepted legal blame for the deaths of seven girls during a fire at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre in St Ann, five years after the incident.The May 22, 2009 fire at Armadale resulted...
A St Elizabeth mother and her 16-year-old son are among three persons who have become the latest convicts to receive prison sentences for lottery scamming.This brings to nine the number of persons sentenced for lottery scamming in the just-concluded...
RUSSIAN-OWNED UC Rusal has until New Year's Day 2015 to restart operations at its Alpart and Kirkvine refineries or lose the rights to mine bauxite at the two facilities.Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell, in closing the...
THE Jamaica Public Service has been given the right to replace its generation capacity, an authorisation which was given in exchange for an amendment to its licence to allow the Cabinet, through the Electricity Sector Enterprise Team (ESET), to take...
Paralysing disbelief preceded pandemonium as patrons packed inside the SportsMax Zone at the Chinese Benevolent Association in St Andrew witnessed World Cup...
Derrick Smith, the opposition spokesman on national security, has made good on his promise to seek answers from the minister of national security on the sudden departure of Police Commissioner Owen Ellington....
