An outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED) in North America poses no immediate threat to Jamaica, but the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is advising pig farmers to remain vigilant and maintain strict...
A recommendation has been put forward for the private sector to be incorporated within the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) as implementation of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market proceeds.This comes following...
The St Thomas police have issued a warning to parents that children seen on the street and at dances after hours, will be taken into protective custody and the parents will have to give an account on their care and protection.Speaking at the funeral...
Students of Bog Walk High School were treated to a different kind of lesson recently when 'Men With a Message', an inspirational group comprising reformed males from various inner-city areas, took their anti-violence message to the St Catherine...
WESTERN BUREAU: Head of the School of Public Health and Health Technology at the University of Technology (UTech) Dr Winston Davidson is charging the Government to immediately address the chronic shortage of housing stock to tackle the illicit act of squatting.
The corporate Communications Unit (CCU) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force reported yesterday that 33-year-old Andrew Campbell, otherwise called 'Dizzy', of Rockingham Road, Kingston, was suspected to have drowned at the Beaumont Beach in the parish on...
Two years after becoming executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Jennifer Edwards still enjoys steering the state agency responsible for the orderly collection and disposal of garbage generated by more than two..
Government senator Imani Duncan-Price's motion for gender quotas in Parliament is an idea whose time has passed. Far gone are the days when persons should be put into positions of leadership purely because of their sex.
A march against crime and violence drew the support of western Kingston residents yesterday as many joined hands in pursuit of change. Minister of National Security Peter Bunting and Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington...
Professor Stephen Vasciannie, Jamaica's ambassador to the United States, has reminded members of the Jamaican Diaspora in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and surrounding communities of major initiatives being pursued by the Government.
PARLIAMENT WILL be asked to consider proposals in two bills tabled in the House of Representatives last week which seek to straight-jacket the behaviour of the minister of finance in administering the affairs of the country.Under what is generally...
More than 10 years after announcing plans to convert facilities such as the Riverton City dump in St Andrew and the Retirement dump in St James to landfills, the state agency responsible for the...
During a meeting yesterday of the Central Executive of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), party leader Andrew Holness revealed that a legal team had been appointed to look into the fairness and impartiality of the imminent commission of enquiry into the...
Jamaica Teachers' Association President Dr Mark Nicely is lamenting what he said was the increasing number of children being murdered in Jamaica.Addressing yesterday's funeral for eight-year-old Ceelena Headman, whose body was found in Top Hill...
During a recent tour of Digicel's Tier III Data Centre, Anthony Hylton, minister of industry, investment and commerce, said information communication technology (ICT) would be a critical part of the technology infrastructure needed to make Jamaica's...
THE MUCH touted Plea Bargaining legislation, passed in 2005 to help local prosecutors go after leading crime bosses while reducing the time taken to complete some cases, is proving to be less than successful.
Jamaica's largest dump, which is operated by the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) in Riverton City, St Andrew, has been existing illegally.
Scores of babies are being placed at risk daily at unregulated day-care centres and nurseries which lack the necessary facilities to keep the children safe.
Jamaica's marine research and development will mark the start of a significant chapter today with the official opening of the Alligator Head Marine Laboratory in San San, Portland.
Buoyed by the United States (US) acknowledgement of its efforts to rid the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) of corrupt cops, the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has moved to clarify claims that half the number of police officers who voluntarily took lie-detector tests in the first eight months of 2013 failed.
Minister of National Security Peter Bunting, has renewed his call for churches and other groups to work with the ministry and the police to prevent criminal activities.
WESTERN BUREAU:Seven police officers who are accused of accepting money in return for not prosecuting a man on ganja charges had their bails extended when they appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court Thursday.
The Red Hills community in St Andrew has welcomed a new primary school, noting that it will equip children with quality education for the best high schools in the island.
