‘NOT THE FULL PICTURE’ Former Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Curtis Ward says the key reason for Marco Rubio’s visit to Jamaica this week has not been revealed, asserting that the trip is to make demands on CARICOM states. The United States (US) Department of...
Financial analyst wants Williams to comment on wage bill As the 2025-2026 Budget Debate comes to a close today, one financial analyst wants Finance and the Public Service Minister Fayval Williams to comment on two critical issues, including the current wage bill. Financial analyst Dr Adrian Stokes said...
Deadly roadway shootings piling up in Corporate Area A series of deadly stoplight gun attacks in the Corporate Area, and along main thoroughfares, is becoming a growing concern for potential bystanders and unsuspecting motorists going about their lawful business day to day. In the latest roadway...
Right Reverend Leon Golding is Anglican Diocesan Bishop-elect The Right Reverend Leon Paul Golding has been elected Diocesan Bishop for the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (Anglican). Golding received 204 of the 214 votes cast by Clergy and Lay Representatives who attended The Special Synod, known...
St James High School stakeholders reportedly upset over retention of chairman Western Bureau: A cloud of concern yesterday hung over St James High School, in Montego Bay, as staffers on the morning shift turned up to find the school’s gates padlocked and police personnel present on the compound. While it could not be...
Sam Sharpe monument gets unwanted coat of green paint WESTERN BUREAU: Lorna Bailey, the Jamaica National Heritage Trust’s (JNHT) director of public education, public relations and communication, is calling for greater security protection of national monuments after the Sam Sharpe monument in Montego...
Former Morant Bay mayor unveiled as PNP candidate for Western St Thomas St Thomas: Former Morant Bay Mayor Hubert ‘Ryan’ Williams was on Sunday night presented as the People’s National Party (PNP) standard-bearer for Western St Thomas ahead of the next general election due by September. It was the party’s president,...
BETRAYED AND BROKEN An elderly retired nurse, brutally attacked in her Norbrook, St Andrew, home by her longtime gardener, has been forced to sell her house – now a haunting reminder of the violent ordeal that has left her living in fear. The 89-year-old victim, once...
Vaz: Gov’t committed to roll out affordable rural school-bus system in September Rural students struggling with high transportation costs and an unreliable public transit system are set to benefit from a new school bus programme launching in September, according to Transport Minister Daryl Vaz. Speaking with The Gleaner...
‘The man for the job’ Warren Newby emerged victorious yesterday in an internal poll to select the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) standard-bearer for Clarendon North Western in the upcoming general election. The former JLP senator won most of the votes from delegates in all...