FARMERS IN Kingston and St Andrew (KSA) continue to be reluctant in registering their livestock with the National Animal Identification and Traceability System (NAITS) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Mining. This concern was raised...
Nigel Jones, the attorney-at-law for government minister Zavia Mayne, has said that millions of dollars paid to his client by the Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) as part of a land acquisition deal in 2011 “would have been justifiable in the...
Reacting to rumours and growing suspicion among segments of the society, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said it was “stupidness” that some Jamaicans and others have recently been criticising the Government over its establishment of new...
USAIN BOLT has obtained a court order for two banks to disclose the transaction history of accounts owned by Jean-Ann Panton, the only person charged in the $3 billion fraud at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL). Supreme Court Justice Cresencia...
The ATTORNEY for the alleged mastermind behind the $160-million fraud at Seprod Group of Companies yesterday complained that his client’s constitutional rights were being breached after the bail hearing was postponed and attempts by him to get an...
WESTERN BUREAU: EVENTS HAVE become the number one priority for driving Jamaica’s tourism sector, says one of the most respected voices in the industry, Nicola Madden-Greig. Essentially, providing different kinds of tourism is critical to Jamaica’s...
VIOLET PINNOCK-Reynolds has been a mother figure and guiding light not only to her own children, but to many individuals within her community of Arthurs Seat, Clarendon. The elder, who celebrates her 100th birthday today, was born in 1923 and has...
THE PASSAGE of legislation to validate and indemnify the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) from being dragged before the courts for prosecutorial actions carried out in good faith against a number of police officers was delayed...
CHAIRMAN OF the Jamaica Police Federation (JPF), Corporal Rohan James, has called for improved firearm training and provision of health insurance for service members. “I believe their training is insufficient and the number of rounds that we are...
The plea and case management in relation to the 2010 shooting death of businessman Keith Clarke is to continue on June 5. The case was scheduled to resume yesterday in the Home Circuit Court but was postponed due to the unavailability of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: ORAIN RUDDOCK, a substance abuse officer with the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) in Westmoreland, says his organisation has launched an intervention programme in the parish to snuff out widespread vaping among students. “The...
FORMER JAMAICA Civil Service Association (JCSA) boss, O’Neil Grant, says his most significant achievement as president was the union’s work with the Government to retain hundreds of public sector jobs. This, they did, by forgoing wage increases in...
A DECISION by a disciplinary panel of the General Legal Council (GLC) to exonerate an attorney accused of misconduct in the sale of a property has been overturned by Jamaica’s second-highest court. Instead, the Court of Appeal, in a decision on...
JAMAICA’S CHIEF Justice, Bryan Sykes, has pitched container courts coupled with technology as a means of reducing time and resources spent on mention date court appearances. He reasoned that in efficiently run courts, mention dates are not more...
IT HAS been nearly four years since a fire razed the dormitory building of the Jamaica National Children’s Home (JNCH), in August 2019. Administrators are still faced with the challenge of not being able to house the full number of children who...
The popular Chinese supermarket owner who was killed during a robbery at his business place in Porus, Manchester, last December, lost his life after his killers abandoned their original plan to rob a Brinks truck and instead targeted his...
WHEN DR Jason Dawson’s mother, Delta Bailey, was fatally stabbed 18 years ago, he knew, at that point, that his life’s mission was to become a medical doctor and to try to save the lives of other persons in dire need of medical care. Bailey was...
FOREIGN AFFAIRS minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, is moving to have the lawsuit filed against her by a former Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent thrown out of the Supreme Court. The lawsuit pertains to donations for her failed 2022 bid for...
FORMER ARMY chief Dr Rocky Meade will be paid $10 million per annum under a two-year contract as director for national strategic initiatives, a role the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) does not believe is “totally overlapping” with the...
O’NEIL GRANT, immediate past president of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA), says that there could be an exodus of talent from executive agencies to central Government, owing to the competitive rates of salaries now being paid by the...
THE ST James police are monitoring the United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention of dancehall artiste Andre ‘Squash’ Whittaker, as it may have security implications for the already troublesome western division, which is...
TO ALLAY concerns of National Housing Trust (NHT) employees, the Union of Clerical, Administrative and Supervisory Employees’ (UCASE) General Secretary, John Levy, is urging swift action in finalising deliberations for implementation of the job...
DEMARIO WAITE never imagined that he would secure a job as a financial analyst at an American multinational corporation immediately after graduation. But looking back, he credits his successes thus far to the value he placed on academic performance...
Superintendent of Police Howard Chambers, commanding officer for St Catherine, is dismissing reports that 16 of the men who were freed in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial have either been killed or gone missing. “We patrol the communities from which...
