High Court judge Justice Andrea Thomas put on a near-50-minute master class on Thursday as she ruled that the present incarcerated status of dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel and two men he was previously convicted with on a murder charge, did not...
The almost 30 per cent increase in funds allocated to the Programme for Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) for the 2024-2025 fiscal year is not enough to address the needs of those it serves, sociologist Dr Orville Taylor has asserted...
Senator Floyd Morris has become the first visually impaired person to be appointed a full professor at The University of the West Indies (UWI). Morris, who was advised of his promotion yesterday by the UWI Appointment Committee, will be professor...
With a mandate to prevent the transportation of drugs through Jamaica’s borders, searching for firearms, ammunition, and locating missing persons, the Canine Division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), up to late last year, had only one...
A group of supporters of Adidja Palmer, the famed entertainer known as Vybz Kartel, gathered under a mango tree in Waterford in Portmore, St Catherine, on Thursday to hear the outcome of a habeas corpus petition. The petition was filed by Kartel’s...
While many Jamaicans in the United States have welcomed the guilty verdict handed down to Donald Trump in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, others echoed the former United States president’s reaction, declaring it “a disgrace”. Trump was found...
Chen Daojiang, Chinese ambassador to Jamaica, is encouraging the Jamaica and its people to join what his country calls ‘the group of friends’ of its Global Development Initiative (GDI). In September 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping first proposed...
Dr Claudette Clarke, the widow of slain businessman Keith Clarke, was yesterday accused of lying and of putting on a show by throwing temper tantrums when cornered in a lie to avoid answering questions directly. The suggestions came following...
All eyes will be on the Supreme Court in Kingston today where Justice Andrea Thomas promises to ‘school’ the parties involved in her ruling on Vybz Kartel’s habeas corpus application, pending a murder retrial decision in the Court of Appeal. The...
Following Tuesday’s announcement that Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) will be spending $1 billion to retrofit the property it leased in Greenvale, Manchester, the tax body has provided details on the proposed expenditure as it argues that the...
While signalling that investigations into illicit enrichment and other acts of corruption require more time and extensive scrutiny, Director of Investigations at the Integrity Commission (IC) Kevon Stephenson has signalled that the country will...
Norman Brown, the chairman of the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ), has been appointed chairman of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), the state agency that controls billions of dollars worth of government land and real estate. Brown succeeds...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tension is rising between the Trelawny Municipal Corporation and businessman Rushane Taylor over the placement of his storefront along the highway in Hague. Taylor, the sole proprietor of the Trelawny-based companies R Taylor...
Jamaica has an enrolment shortfall of more than 90 per cent in three of the four subjects the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) says it will no longer certify, Education Minister Fayval Williams has disclosed. Two of those subjects are seeing...
Gregory Park Primary School is set to benefit from the construction of a new multipurpose court, with completion expected by the end of the year. Ground was broken yesterday for the project, valued at $6.4 million, which is a collaborative effort...
WESTERN BUREAU: One of Montego Bay’s philanthropic doyennes, Joy Clark, has been appointed chairman of the prominent Digicel Foundation. Clark, who has been with the foundation since its inception in 2004, succeeds communication expert Jean Lowrie...
As the cross-examination of Dr Claudette Clarke continued yesterday, she insisted that gunmen were not on her property during the night of the police-military raid 14 years ago that resulted in the death of her husband, Keith Clarke. While attired...
Past president of the Incorporated Masterbuilders Association of Jamaica Carvel Stewart has raised concern about the hefty expenditure to retrofit a leased property in Mandeville, Manchester, for tax services. Commissioner General Ainsley Powell...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government and Community Development Minister Desmond McKenzie on Tuesday stated that after eight years of making major investments in the agencies under his ministry, Jamaicans are now feeling their impact and becoming more...
Farmer Andrew Martin, of Coolshade district near Linstead, St Catherine, was excited and grateful yesterday when representatives from Hi-Pro Chicks, a division of Jamaica Broilers Group, turned up at his home with 100 chickens, bags of feed,...
Tuesday morning’s gun murder of prolific footballer Rafiek Thomas while he slept at his Denham Town home has dealt an immediate blow to the youth of west Kingston who idolise him. Thomas, 39, was shot dead and a 35-year-old man left injured after...
Just days before the plastic lunch box ban kicks in, importers and distributors are slamming the Government for its deafening silence. Their frustration mounts as they accuse officials of blindsiding stakeholders without the promised consultations...
Dr Claudette Clarke, the widow of businessman Keith Clarke, insisted on Monday that then fugitive Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke was not “harboured” at the couple’s home in Kirkland Heights, St Andrew, in May 2010 when a deadly police-military raid...
Describing the furore over Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s British citizenship as “cass cass”, University of the West Indies professor Dr Christopher Charles says he is alarmed Prime Minister Andrew Holness has joined the talk even though there is...
Damion Crawford, the opposition spokesman on education, has labelled as “exaggerated and misplaced” the concerns raised over the suspension of four vocational subjects by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). Last week, the regional body said...
