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A man was shot and killed and another injured in an incident in Roehampton district in St James, on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased has so far only been identified as 'Pressa'. It is reported that shortly after 2 p.m., the men were...
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Just under 500 members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be promoted in the coming weeks, Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson has announced. He made the disclosure as he addressed delegates of the Jamaica Police...
OPPOSITION SPOKESPERSON on national security, Peter Bunting, has asserted that the police were unfairly treated in the recent public sector compensation restructuring exercise. “This needs to be fixed and if not done now, then a future PNP...
PRAEDIAL LARCENY remains a clear and present danger to the agricultural sector and must be dealt with as a matter of urgency, says Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Floyd Green. Speaking at the Westmoreland Agricultural Show 2023, at...
As rainfall continues to affect sections of the island, the public is being advised to exercise extreme caution and be on the lookout for crocodiles, which may have been displaced by the showers, while crossing or walking in the vicinity of swamps...
WESTERN BUREAU: Michael McAnuff-Jones, the vice-president of the Human Resource Management Association of Jamaica (HRMAJ), is hopeful that the Government will abide by a list of recommendations asking for parliamentarians to be paid based on...
Tributes continue to pour in for Jamaican business giant and founder of the LASCO Affiliated Companies, Lascelles Chin, who died on Saturday, May 27. Excerpts are highlighted here. ‘Jamaica has lost a great Jamaican’ – governor General Sir Patrick...
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has released the first batch of new 658 area code numbers to telecommunication companies in the island. This was disclosed by the OUR’s Public Affairs Coordinator, Gordon Brown, in an interview with JIS News...
LIKE THE Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ), the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund is concerned about the high number of Jamaicans who are ailing from cardiovascular disease. Each year, thousands of citizens become...
Project STAR has launched a media campaign to engage the nation in a conversation about societal transformation that prioritises, through a process of consultation, the needs and desires of residents actively involved in their own community-led...
TEARS OF joy concluded a three-year journey to victory for Natoya Williams, a grade 10 student at the St Elizabeth-based Lacovia High School. Williams walked away with the coveted $1 million prize along with the title of 4-H National Female Youth...
PORT ANTONIO, PORTLAND The Portland Municipal Corporation is to carry out an assessment of damages caused by a fire which on Sunday gutted the Musgrave Market in Port Antonio, as it seeks to restore the livelihood of registered vendors. Mayor of...
Amid the ongoing pushback against the recent salary increases which have been granted to Jamaica’s political representatives, the Human Resource Management Association of Jamaica (HRMAJ) is recommending that 30 per cent of parliamentarians’ total...
A MANCHESTER security guard, who allegedly conspired with others to rob a man of a knapsack containing approximately $14 million, after assisting him at the bank, has been released on $900,000 bail following an unsuccessful attempt by the director...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rohan Cummings, the western Jamaica businessman who was reportedly held with cocaine valued at US$850,000 (J$130,008,520) in a bus he was driving, will know his fate on July 5 when the verdict in the case is handed down in the St...
WESTERN BUREAU: It was a classic case of ‘more sellers than buyers’ at Friday’s much-hyped staging of the 2023 Hanover Agricultural Show, on the grounds of the Bioprist Complex (formerly Jockey Factory) in Lucea, Hanover, as while there over 40...
