The majority of Jamaica’s 700 sex workers have no plans to take the COVID-19 vaccine, a worrying revelation that presents health ministry officials with grave concerns for a high-risk group that operates in the shadows. “Most are opposed to getting...
The series of lockdowns and other tightened COVID-19 measures have had a devastating effect on many of the island’s senior citizens, some of whom have now sunken into depression. According to two ministers of religion, many of the seniors are...
Last Saturday, a family in Trelawny woke up to find their 15-year-old daughter missing. The usually reserved and well-behaved teenager who had an appointment to get vaccinated on Saturday went into hiding to avoid taking the jab. Her frantic...
Victims of domestic violence who are unable to pay for legal services, including divorce or custody application, will soon be able to access help under a programme that is being spearheaded by The Jamaican Bar Association (JBA). The programme,...
A man who was sentenced to two years and nine months for having 50 rounds of ammunition at his home, has been denied bail pending an appeal of his conviction and sentence. Ramon Seeriram, who claimed he had found the box with ammunition at his...
One of the country’s leading distributing company, Chas E Ramson, which had wrongly classified one of its import products resulting in a loss of $22.5 million in revenue, plus interest to the Jamaica Customs Agency, has lost its bid to have the...
The two St Andrew businessmen who were arrested and charged with kidnapping and thrashing a customs broker after a multimillion-dollar drug shipment, said to be theirs, was confiscated, are accusing the broker of fabricating the story about being...
British solicitor Michael Lloyd Wilson, who was sentenced to three years in prison in England in 2016 for taking £100,000 from a fine wine investment scam, has been expelled from the Jamaican Bar. Wilson, who has also been struck off the roll of...
Education Minister Fayval Williams yesterday urged stakeholders in the education sector to focus on increasing the achievement level of students without resorting to “finger-pointing” or “blame”. Addressing the Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s 5th...
The Jamaican Redevelopment Foundation (JRF) Inc, which has filed a constitutional lawsuit against the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT), claiming that it is not an independent and impartial arbiter of labour conflict, is now seeking the help of...
KLAS Sports radio has been ordered by the Supreme Court to disclose, before September 24, copies of its audited financial statements for 2015-2020 to the Jamaica Association of Authors, Composers and Publishers Association (JACAP), which has...
Controversial People’s National Party (PNP) activists Karen Cross and Natalee Stack both have until today to pay their fines of $750,000 after their attorney-at-law, Robert Collie, failed in his last-ditch bid to secure a stay of execution...
A Westmoreland fisherman who was sentenced to life in prison for holding up a woman with a knife and raping her near a police station has had his sentence reduced to 20 years. Ian Wilson was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of...
West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) is to be charged for breaches under the Wild Life Protection Act after an investigation by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) found that the bauxite company is responsible for Monday’s fish...
Fisherfolk and residents in the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine are again appealing to environmental authorities to take decisive action to stop the pollution of the Rio Cobre after a fish kill on Monday. Findings of a test analysis of water and the...
Five people who were accused of being part of a lottery scam ring that fleeced a United States citizen of more than US$100,000 were on Thursday freed of various offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) when they appeared in the Westmoreland...
Incarcerated reputed gangster Tesha Miller was on Thursday freed of fraud charges after the prosecution abandoned proceedings against him in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Miller’s attorney-at-law, Isat Buchanan, hailed the dismissal of...
MIND-BLOWING hardly seems appropriate to describe Corporal Norris Barrett’s natural toy-making skills. The St Mary native who, like many other Jamaican boys from the country, grew up making his own toys from juice boxes and other discarded items,...
Reinstated Senior Superintendent of Police James Forbes, who yesterday went off on his final vacation before his official retirement from the police force in November, says he regrets not having been able to give ultimate service to the country. “...
Members of the fractious People’s National Party (PNP) executive yesterday maintained that the party has not suffered a “fatal blow” as a result of the recent resignation of the three vice-presidents and the party chairman. Vice-presidents Damion...
Controversial People’s National Party (PNP) activist Karen Cross, who was last week given two weeks to pay a $750,000 fine for contempt of court, says she does not have the money to pay the fine and is seeking help via a GoFundme account to...
Phillip Paulwell, the opposition spokesperson on energy, is advising the Government to end its practice of dishing out waivers and concessions on the bauxite levy. The former energy minister made the suggestion in the wake of Concord Resource...
Citing unjust treatment, defence attorney representing controversial People’s National Party (PNP) activist Karen Cross and United States blogger Natalee Stack says he will be appealing a $750,000 fine that was imposed on his clients for contempt...
A chartered accountant who was recently sanctioned by the Public Accountancy Board (PAB) for professional misconduct has written to Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke alleging widespread corruption on the board. Dion Staple, managing director of DGS...
The defence for former Foreign Affairs State Minister Arnaldo Brown says Pastor Boswell Raymond of Harvest Tabernacle is to be held accountable for a land deal that went sour as he had reportedly tendered a ‘bad cheque” and was delinquent in his...
