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With reports from the Jamaica Constabulary Force revealing that fraudsters have fleeced more than $300 million from commercial banks over the last three years, Opposition lawmaker Fitz Jackson has chided the Bank of Jamaica for not being “...
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Some 40 per cent of the US$4.38 billion that the tourism sector earned for the 2023-2024 fiscal year was retained in the Jamaica economy, tourism minister Edmund Bartlett has disclosed. Addressing yesterday’s post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica...
Omar Collymore, who is accused of masterminding the daring day-light murder of his wife, was yesterday branded a “stranger to truth” as the prosecutor ripped into his evidence, highlighting several apparent inconsistencies and contradictions. “You...
THE LEADERSHIP of Denham Town High School has undertaken the bold task of transforming the institution into a safe haven for its students through psychosocial intervention. The school, which is located in the inner city of west Kingston, has not...
WESTERN BUREAU: ST JAMES HIGH School’s board of management has indicated that it may take another week before its personnel committee will complete its ongoing investigation into accusations that the school’s principal, Joseph Williams, expelled...
Christel House Jamaica (CHJ) has officially launched a second phase of development for its tuition-free school. Sally Porteous, co-founder and national ambassador of CHJ, told journalists during the groundbreaking ceremony yesterday at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: SASHA-GAYE FORRESTER, the girlfriend of Donathon Dillon, the man who died after his motorcycle collided with a cow in Westmoreland last Friday night, has been left infuriated by what she claims was negligence on the part of the...
The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has found itself in a spot of bother, one political commentator believes while another has suggested that the party may have time to correct its path ahead of the parliamentary election due by September 2025...
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is reporting significant growth in the sector for the 2023-2024 fiscal year, with gross earnings amounting to US$4.38 billion, a 9.6 per cent increase over the corresponding financial year. Providing an overview of...
ROVAIRE SHIRLEY is just four months old, but has already undergone eight surgeries to give him a chance at a normal life. He was born with spina bifida, a condition that affects the spine and often results in damage to the spinal cord and nerves....
Former legislator Dwayne Vaz will know his fate on June 6 after he was bound over after his appearance in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court, where he pleaded guilty to the offence of failing without reasonable cause to provide the...
Barbados-born businessman Omar Collymore, who is on trial for reportedly masterminding the murder of his wife for her multimillion life insurance policies, insisted yesterday that he did not know the value of her policies and that he would have...
King’s Counsel (KC) Michael Hylton has revealed some of the constitutional changes that he wishes to see the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) recommend to Cabinet to facilitate Jamaica’s smooth transition to Republican status, and which would...
As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, Kingston Bookshop (KB) Limited has announced that it will provide a $2 million scholarship to an outstanding teacher. Director of strategy and innovation at KB, Shauna Fuller Clarke, said at the company-...
Delfien Edwards, a senior medical social worker, believes that 10 years after concerns were raised about approximately 600 children being born and diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) annually, enough has not been done to lower the...
CLAVERTY COTTAGE, West Portland: Residents in Claverty Cottage in Portland, whose movement has been restricted due to multiple land slippages along the main thoroughfare leading from Chepstowe, are appealing for help to clear the blocked roadways...
