The country’s two main political parties should avoid trying to “weaponise” data about critical economic indicators, an economist has warned. However, if the two parties cannot resist the urge to cite economic data in their public squabbles amid...
The controversial St Andrew housing development undertaken by suspended National Water Commission (NWC) boss Mark Barnett and his wife is already the subject of an internal investigation by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC),...
One of the aspirants seeking to head the country’s football governing body has sought to publicly distance himself from a last-minute legal action that has placed its contentious presidential election on hold. The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF)...
It was the Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) that botched the potential criminal prosecution of suspended National Water Commission (NWC) boss Mark Barnett and his wife for breaches of a permit for their St Andrew housing development...
The police are defending their response to a daring early morning robbery at the entrance to Jamaica House yesterday during which two men, including the son of a prominent businessman, were shot and injured. Jamaica House is the office of the...
There has been a “discernible” rise in the number of children killed, maimed or sexually assaulted over the last decade as “deliberate collateral damage” in domestic violence cases, Jamaica’s prosecutorial authority has revealed. In particular,...
A recommendation, made over a decade ago for the creation of a new national honour called the Order of Jamaican Heritage, is now being “actively reviewed”, Culture Minister Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange has revealed. The disclosure comes amid a new...
Discontinuing the controversial multibillion-dollar annual drawdown from the National Housing Trust (NHT) for budgetary support would not be in Jamaica’s best interest at this time, two economists have suggested. Over the past two decades,...
Jamaica-born retired American special agent Wilfred Rattigan provided no “authority” from any Jamaican in the diaspora to file his failed lawsuit against Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith, a High Court judge has ruled. Justice Dale...
Attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan has been found guilty of professional misconduct for offensive comments he directed at the country’s chief prosecutor, Paula Llewellyn. Buchanan pleaded guilty before a disciplinary panel of the General Legal Council (...
CRAIG BUTLER, head coach of Mona High School, says no other team in this year’s ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup football competition “has the quality” to match his team. “I expect this team to go all the way,” Butler said yesterday after his team...
XAVIER GILBERT, interim head coach of Jamaica’s senior women’s football team, has received high marks for his and the team’s performance over the two Concacaf Gold Cup qualification games he was in charge of. The Jamaica Football Federation’s (JFF...
ST CATHERINE High School’s quest for their first ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup football title face a tough hurdle today when they visit many-time champions Wolmer’s Boys’ School for a second-round return-leg clash. The Anthony Patrick-coached St...
Wasted chances overshadowed a gutsy display by Jamaica’s make-shift senior women’s football team in their second Concacaf Gold Cup qualifying contest against Guatemala on Sunday. When Mexican referee Diana Perez sounded the final whistle at the...
THE JAMAICA Football Federation (JFF) says no member of the women’s World Cup team has complained about any discrepancy with the payments it said was made to them on Friday. “No, none,” said JFF general secretary Dennis Chung when asked if he was...
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) says it expects to settle all outstanding payments owed to disgruntled members of the senior national women’s team by today. JFF general secretary Dennis Chung made the disclosure yesterday hours before members...
The woman charged with killing eight-year-old Danielle Rowe is disappointed that her application for bail was not heard yesterday, her attorney, Donnovan Collins, has disclosed. A judge at the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court was expected to...
THE WOMAN charged with killing eight-year-old Danielle Rowe is “very surprised” about the accusations levelled against her, according to her attorney Donnovan Collins. Kayodi Satchell, a 30-year-old dental assistant, is facing a charge of murder...
A teenage girl who was the victim of a string of sexual assaults, starting when she was nine years old, seemingly, has overcome her ordeal and is now doing well academically, her mother has revealed. The disclosure came yesterday, hours after an...
Nikita Noel, the nine-year-old girl whose body was found in bushes in Hanover earlier this year, died from “manual strangulation”, prosecutors disclosed in court yesterday, citing a post-mortem report. The post-mortem examination also found “recent...
American missionary Teri Nichols Hinds disclosed yesterday that she refused a request by police investigators to identify the body of her deceased husband, Harold. Sara Hentzel, another American missionary, also turned down a request to identify...
A DECISION by a disciplinary panel of the General Legal Council (GLC) to exonerate an attorney accused of misconduct in the sale of a property has been overturned by Jamaica’s second-highest court. Instead, the Court of Appeal, in a decision on...
A Jamaican man who was part of a crew that staged a string of armed robberies in the United States (US), then blamed his conduct on the violent culture in his homeland, has been sent to prison for 10 years. Alex Josephs, 23, was sentenced in a...
A rollback of the contentious wage hike for Cabinet ministers would have a “cascading negative effect” on the salaries of senior bureaucrats and other public sector workers, a senior government official has said. That assertion late yesterday by...
