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Outgoing Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson (left) hands over command of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to Commissioner of Police Dr Kevin Blake at the JCF Change of Command ceremony at the Office of the Commissioner of Police on Ol

THE JAMAICA Constabulary Force’s (JCF) 14,094-strong members will today embark under the leadership of Dr Kevin Blake at the helm, boasting among them new and existing constables with degrees in forensic science, forensic chemistry and law. The man...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding

Economist and financial analyst Dr Adrian Stokes says he is expecting Opposition Leader Mark Golding to explain to the country, in his contribution to the 2024-2025 Budget Debate today, how he would fund his proposed increase in the income tax...
Rebecca Pringle (right), president of the National Education Association in the United States, embraces Fayval Williams, minister of education and youth, during the Jamaica Teachers’ Association Status of Women Conference, held at The Jamaica Pegasus hot

The low salaries paid to teachers can be attributed to the fact that the profession is dominated by women, President of the National Education Association, United States (US) Rebecca ‘Becky’ Pringle has asserted. Pringle, who was the guest speaker...

While recognising that their birth country is buckling at its knees, due to high levels of crime and violence, a handful of Haitians who now reside in Jamaica are throwing support behind the Government’s decision to deny entry to their fellow...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) paid $1.3 million for the rental of a luxury vehicle to transport Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, following a motor-vehicle crash that disabled the 2023 BMW X6 assigned to him. The payment...

With Jamaica recording a reduction in birth rates in recent years, obstetrician-gynaecologists are blaming skin bleaching creams for lower sperm counts in the island’s younger generation of men. Along with the country recording lower birth rates in...

It was a remarkable discovery when the Jamaican Iguana (Cyclura collei) reappeared in 1990 after being thought to have gone extinct for nearly half a century. They were once commonly found along the south-central sections of Jamaica and on the...

As the Jamaican Government intensifies its efforts to have the United States (US) Department of State either rescind or roll back the Level 3 advisory placed against the country, high-level meetings have been taking place in Washington to reach an...

Western Bureau: Outgoing Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson, says he feels a sense of accomplishment as he leaves the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) today, describing his tour of duty as a leg of a relay that he has completed...

Amid fears that the decision to overturn the murder conviction of popular entertainer Vybz Kartel and co-accused has exposed a major defect in existing laws, Jamaican authorities are now moving to hastily plug the gap that could allow accused...
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