JAMAICANS ARE being told not to expect an overnight transformation of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) under the watch of Carl Williams as commissioner of police.
The Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) has committed to hold discussions with the Ministry of Finance and Planning to determine whether revenues could be more efficiently spent to allocate more towards crime fighting.
A mother of four is now crying out for assistance to relocate after her four-bedroom house was inundated by muddy water following a massive landslide at Belle View in the Rio Grande Valley in Portland Sunday night.
While supporting concerns raised about the wisdom of investing without a guarantee on returns, investors in the business of constructing ready-to-use facilities for the information and communication...
Prospects are rapidly fading in the search for the ill-fated, single-engine, turboprop aircraft, with prominent American real-estate developer Larry Glazer and his wife, Jane..
Houses made from bamboo? Far-fetched? Not at all, for Jamaica is to embark on large-scale production of bamboo for the construction of low-cost houses and value-added products such as furniture and charcoal.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is looking to ramp up production at agro parks and increase greenhouse farming and aquaculture as part of measures to combat drought and reduce food imports.
The quarterly report from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica, released in July, showed a decrease in the total number of unemployed persons in the country.
Executive Director of the Montego Bay-based Pregnancy Resource Centre of Jamaica, and coordinator of the Daughters by Design programme, Christina Milford, has expressed concern that more emphasis is not...
Minister of state in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, says billions of dollars of private investments in infrastructure and other developments would be involved in the Logistics Hub Initiative.She pointed out...
WISYNCO Chairman William Mahfood has responded to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge by donating a whopping $250,000 to the Lupus Foundation of Jamaica to push the awareness of the disease and highlight its impact locally."We...
Three of the four youngsters who successfully completed this year's Grade Six Achievement Test and were selected for special mention among the LIME-Gleaner 18 Achievers came by the newspaper's North Street offices in Kingston last week to collect their...
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Derrick Kellier, has expressed full confidence in the board that manages the National Insurance Fund (NIF) and provides advice on investments for the National Insurance Scheme (NIS).
Some of the island's private schools facing shutdown because of the current economic challenges have been challenged by Education Minister Ronald Thwaites to retrofit and capitalise on the growing need for classroom space for children with special needs.
Dr Barry Wade, the recently installed chairman of the human-rights entity Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ), has rejected claims that the lobby group has sold out to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
Jamaica's first female permanent secretary from the civil service ranks dead at 86Distinguished public servant Merle Brown, wife of the late Lloyd Phillpotts Brown, was called to higher service on Tuesday August 26.
The fate of between 200 and 400 children suffering with heart problems and waiting anxiously for life-saving surgery is hanging in the balance as completion of the region's first paediatric cardiac centre at the Bustamante Hospital for Children has been stalled.
Influential members of the local Christian community are worried that domestic violence in the Church is a problem that is widely under-reported, as the mainly men who are doing the beating and the mainly women who are being beaten remain quiet.
The country should shortly know more on the proposal by the Chinese for a multibillion-dollar development of a section of the planned logistics hub on the Goat Islands.
The failure of motorists to remain in their lanes has been identified as the main contributor to the deaths of 18 persons in road crashes between Thursday, August 28, and Wednesday, September 3.
