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Taxpayers are bearing the weight of an $81-million and rising salary bill for seven suspended public officials as a result of drawn-out investigations and administrative limbo within government agencies. The $81 million represents the total pre-...
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Two months after a strong showing in the local government elections (LGE) in which the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) pulled out more votes than in the 2020 general election, its president, Opposition Leader Mark Golding, still trails...
A debit card belonging to an elderly woman residing in the United States (US) was allegedly used by a scammer based in Jamaica to purchase a new Mercedes-Benz motor car in Japan and to cover shipping costs. In another case, an accused lottery...
They enjoy protected status and pride of place atop Jamaica’s coat of arms – a symbol of unending resilience and the strength of the Jamaican people. Yet over decades, their habitats have been decimated to make room for development, and their...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mention Mount Salem, St James, and a community rocked by gang violence may enter the minds of many Jamaicans. However, Sitara English-Byfield, the newly appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of PAC Kingston Airport Limited (PACKAL...
WESTERN BUREAU: RELATIVES OF Carson Barrett, the 16-year-old Grange Hill High School student who was shot dead on Thursday, believe that his death stemmed from a relationship he had with a female who lives in the community. That relationship...
WESTERN BUREAU: “WHAT I need is either for him to stop doing what he’s doing or they remove him from the school, because he can’t just be kicking students out of school.” That was the militant stance of Alicia R., the mother of one of the two...
Calabar High School’s acting Principal Sian Wilson is cautioning the school’s old boys’ and parent-teacher associations against making decisions that may not be in the best interest of students. The message follows a decision by the Calabar Old...
With little more than a month before the start of what is expected to be one of the most active hurricane seasons on record, the Jamaican Government has secured US$150-million insurance coverage through its World Bank catastrophe bond programme....
Dr Pauline Mullings has stepped down as the chairperson of the National Child Month Committee. Her announcement surprisingly came on Thursday at the launch of Child Month 2024 at the Lecture Hall of the Institute of Jamaica in downtown Kingston and...
It was a festive atmosphere at the Manchester High School in Mandeville, Manchester, on Friday as it hosted the main event for National School Moves Day 2024 – a celebration of physical activity and wellness. Under the theme ‘Live Life Moving,...
WESTERN BUREAU: LABOUR AND Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr is giving assurance that meetings will soon be held between his ministry and other government portfolio ministries to ensure that the Programme of Advancement Through Health and...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE METEORIC rise of comedian Curley C. Roberts has come as no surprise to those who are familiar with the popular actor and businessman’s journey. He is a past student of St Catherine High School who had plans to become an attorney...
MINISTER OF Tourism Edmund Bartlett heads the list of people who will be honoured at the Northern Caribbean University International Development Foundation’s (NCUIDF) Impact Gala tomorrow. The other honourees are Pamela Appelt, retired judge of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: GANG VIOLENCE within the community of Grange Hill, Westmoreland, has left a grade 10 schoolboy, 16-year-old Carson Barrett, dead and his female schoolmate of Grange Hill High School hospitalised. The incident, which took place some...
Jamaica’s largest banking and financial conglomerate NCB Financial Group Limited has offered more than $53 billion worth of bonds to the market since March to refinance existing debt. One of the bonds currently on the market seeks to raise $6...
