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DR AMA Eyo, senior lecturer in Law at Bangor University in the United Kingdom, has urged large local companies to collaborate with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to grow and benefit from government procurement agreement contracts....
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IF YOU cut Evad Campbell you might perhaps see musical notes and not blood flowing from his veins. He is music personified, and when he received his Prime Minister’s National Youth Award for Excellence in the field of music on Saturday, April 20 it...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH APPROXIMATELY 50 new garbage trucks expected on the island by late June, executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Audley Gordon, is predicting that residents will benefit from improved...
WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY Mayor Richard Vernon is urging garage and workshop operators in St James to get their businesses regulated within the next two months. Vernon warned that enforcement will take place after that period against any such...
Some 1,065 uniformed firefighters and civilian staff of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) are expected to benefit from training and certification through an agreement with the HEART/NSTA Trust. Stewart Beckford, commissioner of the JFB, said the...
Three full academic scholarships to The University of the West Indies (UWI), Jamaica for the upcoming academic year have been named in honour of Violet N Edwards, the oldest Jamaican to have graduated from college in 2022 at 96 years old. The...
NEW YORK (AP) — The decision by New York's highest court to overturn the rape conviction of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has reopened a painful chapter in America's reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures — an era...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council tasked with bringing political stability to Haiti was installed today in the capital of this Caribbean country, which is marred by gang violence and soaring hunger and poverty. The freshly...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti opened a new political chapter today with the installation of a transitional council tasked to pick a new prime minister and prepare for eventual presidential elections, in hopes of quelling spiraling gang...
Twelve motor cars have been added to the fleet of the Transport Authority, which will be used to improve the authority's capacity to monitor and regulate the public transportation sector. Managing Director of the Transport Authority, Ralston...
The 14-year-old Irwin High schoolboy charged with the murder of his schoolmate was today granted bail in the St James Family Court. The accused his being represented by attorney Maurice McCurdy. McCurdy told The Gleaner that his client is...
The police have charged the 14-year-old Irwin High School student for the fatal stabbing of his 15-year-old schoolmate Raniel Plummer during an altercation. His court date is being finalised. The police report that Plummer and a schoolmate had...
A man who attempted to rob a taxi driver and passengers in Clarendon last night was disarmed by the cabbie and fatally shot during a struggle. The deceased has been identified as 24-year-old labourer Bobby Bruce of Frazer Content in Spanish Town,...
Omar Collymore, who is on trial for allegedly orchestrating the murder of his wife, and co-accused Michael 'Crayboss' Adams, the man whom he allegedly contracted to carry out the hit, both have a case to answer in the murder of...
The Government is looking to establish a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) innovation teaching centre at National Heroes Circle in Kingston. Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, in making the disclosure, said the facility will be...
Human rights lobby group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is renewing its call for the appointment of a permanent Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). JFJ says it's of the view that there is no ambiguity that the office was rendered vacant as of...
