News

Updated 1 hour ago

REPORT CLASH - Untabled IC probe findings on FLA spark heated parliamentary standoff

Arguing that the Integrity Commission’s report into allegations of corruption and impropriety at the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) is being suppressed by the Parliament, Opposition Leader Mark…
Updated 40 minutes ago by Albert Ferguson

Liberty Business to establish headquarters in Montego Bay

WESTERN BUREAU: Telecommunications company Liberty Business is “doubling down on Montego Bay” with plans afoot to establish headquarters in the western city. “We are doubling down on Montego Bay,…
Updated just now by Sashana Small

Family of missing British man offers $500,000 reward 

Nearly three years after British citizen Cedric Mitchell disappeared in Jamaica, his family is offering a $500,000 reward for information that could finally bring them desperately needed answers and…
News
Updated just now by Albert Ferguson

St Elizabeth cops wearing body cameras in commercial centres

WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent Coleridge Minto, the commanding officer for the St Elizabeth Police Division, has confirmed that police personnel operating in key commercial districts in that parish…
May 19, 2026

Deadline debate - Gordon House dismisses criticisms of long delay in tabling  FLA report

Gordon House has made no commitment to tabling any of five Integrity Commission reports, including one on the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) submitted seven weeks ago, pointing out that the…
May 19, 2026 by Adrian Frater

FEAR AND FURY - Tensions boil over in Granville as outraged community demands justice after police killing

WESTERN BUREAU: Tensions flared in Granville, St James, on Monday as angry residents mounted fiery roadblocks to protest the fatal police shooting of 45-year-old Latoya ‘Buju’ Bulgin under…
Updated 23 hours ago by Karen Madden

No strike, but tension builds over delayed taxi fare hike - Gov’t signals possible approval in tranches

The Government has signalled to taxi operators in the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region (KMTR) that they will receive word on an outstanding 16 per cent fare increase on June 1. The promise came…
Updated 23 hours ago by Edmond Campbell

UHWI-PAC war of words

A war of words has developed between attorneys representing University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) CEO Fitzgerald Mitchell and the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament. The row has…