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The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is joining the public appeal for information on missing 29-year-old St Peter Claver Primary School teacher, Danielle Anglin. Anglin, who lives in the Hellshire area of Portmore, St Catherine, was...
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The Government will be rolling out a programme to retrain and recertify drivers in the public transport system. Minister of Transport, Daryl Vaz, made the disclosure following a meeting of the National Road Safety Council on May 16, at the...
An employee at the Transport Authority's pound in Lakes Pen, St Catherine has been arrested for breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act. The police are probing a case of alleged collusion and fraud with a driver whose Toyota Hiace...
Health specialists from Nigeria are to come to Jamaica as part of efforts to train more nurses and other healthcare workers in the country's public health system. The Ministry of Health and Wellness, in a media release today, stated that eight...
The police in the Cayman Islands today reported that the three people who were killed a fiery crash on Monday are all Jamaicans. They have been identified as 41-year-old Shakara Stewart, 30-year-old Junior Whittaker and 53-year-old Vinroy Grant....
Six St Elizabeth schoolboys have been arrested and charged in connection with a break-in at a house. Head of the St Elizabeth Police Division Superintendent Coleridge Minto says the boys, who are between the ages of 13 and 16, were picked up on...
Senior Parish Judge Maxine Ellis is to deliver her summation and verdict on December 10 in the case of the two former Petrojam executives who are charged with defrauding the state-owned petroleum company of more than $10 million. They are former...
A new Outpatient Waiting Area has been opened at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine as part of efforts by the Ministry of Health and Wellness to improve patient care and provide a more comfortable environment. The facility, which has the...
Effective Saturday, May 18, rehabilitative works will be undertaken by the National Works Agency (NWA) along a section of Patrick Drive in St Andrew which will result in traffic restrictions. The project is targeting the section of roadway between...
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is looking to table the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Bill in Parliament before the end of the fiscal year. The Bill is intended to repeal the Factories Act (1943), which is limited in scope and...
St Andrew businessman Andrew Palmer has been charged with fraud in relation to a car part deal. The police say a man visited Palmer's business establishment last year where he made payments amounting to $115,000 for a 2018 Honda Civic RHD...
The murder trial of the three Jamaica Defence Force soldiers implicated in the shooting death of Keith Clarke was yesterday postponed until next Monday in the Home Circuit Court. The matter was postponed to give both the prosecution and the defence...
JAMAICA’S TOURISM Mecca, Montego Bay, will be inundated with tourism stakeholders from various parts of the world starting on Monday, May 20 and culminating on Thursday, May 23. It is the 42nd staging of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association...
WESTERN BUREAU: ABEAN COOPER, manager of band planning at Jamaica’s Spectrum Management Authority [SMA], has noted that the country will require up to 10 years to catch up to the rest of the world technologically, even amid the current global shift...
JUDITH SLATER, British High Commissioner to Jamaica, is pleased with groundbreaking castor bean research under way at the Mona Institute of Applied Sciences (MIAS) at The UWI, Mona. The high commissioner visited the institute on Monday to see...
THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE partnership between Jamaica Post and the GK Group continues to grow from strength to strength as the corporate headquarters of the island’s postal network now boasts a new sign that was erected at their 6-10 South Camp Road,...
