Category: News

The long-promised ban on plastic lunch boxes will take effect on December 31. The date was announced on Thursday by minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Matthew…

OCHO RIOS, St Ann – The St Ann police are urging truck drivers who do deliveries in sections of the parish to be on the lookout for fake calls and also robbers on…

“Kam, kam, kam!” is how 13-year-old Deno Griffiths imitates the piercing sounds of gunshots echoing throughout his Arnett Gardens community in St Andrew anytime of the day. The gun violence, he said, often…

The Jamaica Cancer Society is still in need of a mobile screening unit after years of seeking assistance, and it would appear as though it will not come to fruition any time soon….

MORE than 4,200 reports of child abuse in all forms have been made to the National Children’s Registry (NCR) since the start of this year. The figure was disclosed recently by Michelle McIntosh…

BOGUE VILLAGE, Montego Bay – Even after yet another brazen double murder rocked St James less than 24 hours into a state of public emergency (SOE), those who welcomed the security measure still…

Hundreds of Jamaicans on Thursday celebrated the life of former Immaculate Conception High School principal, Sister Maureen Clare Hall, during a mass of thanksgiving and funeral rites at Sts Peter and Paul Catholic…

ORVILLE Johnson was elected as the new chairman of the Jamaica Medical Foundation (JMF) at a meeting of the executives held at Insurance House in Kingston, recently. The JMF has been in operation…

FACED with stinging criticisms over the massive salary increases granted to members of the political directorate, Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday launched a counter-offensive as he fired back at critics. According to…

One of the United States most powerful Government officials, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, vacationed in Montego Bay, St James, days before the US State Department issued a travel advisory urging Americans…