Newly installed Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Pearnel Charles Jr, says he'll be working to improve several areas of the sector, especially praedial larceny regimes. Minister Charles explained that despite the many challenges of 2021, the sector closed the...
The National Workers Union, NWU, is urging employers to desist from instructing employees, who have tested positive for Covid-19, but are asymptomatic, to report for work. NWU General Secretary Granville Valentine, suspects that this is playing a major role in the...
Police sources are tight lipped about the investigation into the brutal killing of 9 year old Gabriel King last Thursday in St. James. It's understood that the police are making good progress in their attempts to crack the case that rocked the country. It's further...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force Corporate Communications Unit, CCU, has confirmed that the mother of the 9 year old whose body was discovered along the Fairfield Main Road in St. James has been interviewed. According to the police more people are still to be...
The Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors, JAPHI, says the country's solid waste crisis has spilled over into institutions. President of JAHPHI Michael Myles, says the issue has moved away from only communities. Myles explained that the interim measures...
Mayor of Kingston, Delroy Williams says several administrative changes have been made to improve the transparency and the work of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation, KSAMC, and the Building and Planning Committee. Speaking during Nationwide at 5...
Leader of the minority caucus in the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation, KSAMC, People's National Party Councillor, Andrew Swaby, is defending their decision to resign from the Building and Planning Committee. Councillor Swaby explained that their...
Clinical coordinator at the Western Regional Health Authority Dr. Delroy Fray says the Cornwall Regional hospital is bursting at the seams, amid an increase in Covid-19 hospitalizations. Dr. Fray noted that more than 90 members of staff were off duty today, leaving a...
The Public Defender, Arlene Harrison-Henry, is reporting that several residents of St. Mary, are being adversely affected by compulsory land acquisition, without being properly briefed. Phase one of the longstanding $1 billion Junction Main Road Rehabilitation Project...
The Small Businesses Association of Jamaica, SBAJ, says the country has a better chance of recovering this year, following the Prime Minister's re-iteration on Sunday that the government will not be relying on lock downs, to curtail the spread of the Covid-19 virus...