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Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, says there are no plans to use the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC) complex for another purpose. He made the disclosure during Wednesday's post-Cabinet press briefing at...
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The fire department in Trelawny is concerned about the escalating number of bush fires across the parish. "We started with eight in January and to date we are at 90,” Superintendent Roland Walters told The Gleaner. “To respond to...
Bail was today further extended for three St Catherine-based policemen who are accused of corruption. Corporal Stephen Peart and constables Morris Foster and Lariston Bogle are charged with solicitation of a bribe. Senior parish court...
Fifteen young Jamaicans have gained scholarships to pursue tertiary training in medicine, nursing and civil engineering in the Republic of Cuba, under the Jamaica-Cuba Bilateral Scholarship Programme. Speaking at the awards ceremony for the...
The Island Traffic Authority is reporting that tax offices are currently unable to issue certificates of fitness to drivers due to challenges with its system. The authority says motorists who go to renew their fitness certificates will have their...
The board of management of St James High School has referred the matter of the expulsion of two schoolgirls who were seen kissing in a video to its personnel committee for deliberation on the next steps to be taken. The school's principal...
After being on the run for almost three years, 45-year-old Waterford, Portmore, St Catherine photographer Darian Clarke has been charged in connection with a 2021 gun attack in the municipality that left two men injured. Clarke turn himself in to...
The Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation (JDIC) will be pursuing the establishment of newer protection schemes to minimise the potential occurrence and impact of financial crises during fiscal year 2024/25. Implementation of these and other...
DR AMA Eyo, senior lecturer in Law at Bangor University in the United Kingdom, has urged large local companies to collaborate with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to grow and benefit from government procurement agreement contracts....
IF YOU cut Evad Campbell you might perhaps see musical notes and not blood flowing from his veins. He is music personified, and when he received his Prime Minister’s National Youth Award for Excellence in the field of music on Saturday, April 20 it...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH APPROXIMATELY 50 new garbage trucks expected on the island by late June, executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Audley Gordon, is predicting that residents will benefit from improved...
WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY Mayor Richard Vernon is urging garage and workshop operators in St James to get their businesses regulated within the next two months. Vernon warned that enforcement will take place after that period against any such...
Some 1,065 uniformed firefighters and civilian staff of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) are expected to benefit from training and certification through an agreement with the HEART/NSTA Trust. Stewart Beckford, commissioner of the JFB, said the...
Three full academic scholarships to The University of the West Indies (UWI), Jamaica for the upcoming academic year have been named in honour of Violet N Edwards, the oldest Jamaican to have graduated from college in 2022 at 96 years old. The...
NEW YORK (AP) — The decision by New York's highest court to overturn the rape conviction of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has reopened a painful chapter in America's reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures — an era...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council tasked with bringing political stability to Haiti was installed today in the capital of this Caribbean country, which is marred by gang violence and soaring hunger and poverty. The freshly...
