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Updated 12 hours ago by Corey Robinson - Senior Staff Reporter

‘Taking us for fools!’

Former Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin has accused the Government of crippling investigations into fatal police shootings by repeatedly delaying the full deployment of body-worn cameras during high-risk operations.
Lewin charged that the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is routinely being left with little or no evidence to challenge police accounts after controversial fatal shootings.

Updated 12 hours ago

Gov’t pockets 70% of $1 billion allocated to poor under Solidarity Programme

A revelation by Dione Jennings, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, that about 77 per cent, or $$770 million, of the $1 billion set aside for the Government’s Solidarity…

Updated 12 hours ago by Sashana Small

Business leaders endorse Anderson for NaRRA but demand oversight, transparency

Three of the country's largest business groups have endorsed Major (Ret’d) Antony Anderson's appointment to head the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), the…

Updated 12 hours ago by Kimone Francis

J’can medical students in Cuba there by their own volition, says foreign ministry

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Jamaican medical students who continue to study in Cuba do so at their "own volition", even as it continues to monitor the situation in the…

Updated 12 hours ago by Sashana Small

Small businesses slow to embrace digital payments amid cost, fraud concerns

Despite evidence that digital payments can drive business growth, only eight per cent of small merchants in Jamaica use point-of-sale (POS) systems, with the country averaging 11 POS terminals per…

Updated 12 hours ago by Andre Williams

Baby Ramontay laid to rest as mother demands justice and answers

The tiny casket lowered into the earth last Friday brought an end to weeks of agonising uncertainty for western Jamaica mother Shandale Ballentine, but not the grief that has consumed her since she…

Updated 7 hours ago

Defence presses analyst on fourth person theory after DNA results in Acadia Drive trial

A forensic analyst on Wednesday could not dismiss the possibility that a blood sample from an unidentified male found inside a blue Mitsubishi Outlander linked to the 2013 Acadia Drive police shooting…

Updated 13 hours ago by Albert Ferguson

PM urges early preparations as hurricane season nears

With the start of the Atlantic hurricane season only days away, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has urged Jamaicans to begin preparations at once, rather than waiting until a storm threatens the…

Updated 13 hours ago

Sagicor Foundation, MoBay City Run restore Maldon High farming facilities

A Labour Day partnership between the Sagicor Foundation and the Jill Stewart MoBay City Run charity has helped restore critical farming facilities at Maldon High School in upper St James, an…

Updated 13 hours ago by Albert Ferguson

PM says some of donated hurricane funds will go to the JDF, ODPEM

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) are to receive part of the $1.4 billion in hurricane recovery donations to replenish emergency…