Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced the opening of the Timeshare Vacation Registry, effective Sunday May 1. Timeshare describes an arrangement in which several joint owners have the right to use a property for a particular period of time every year. It's...
A 60-year-old St. Mary man died on Sunday as a result of injuries from a fatal collision on the Gray’s Inn main road in the parish. He is Crowley Murray of Long Road, St. Mary. Reports from the Annotto Bay Police are that about 11:00 a.m., Murray was driving a Toyota...
The Counter Terrorism and Organized Crime Investigation Branch, CTOC, say they've seized $1.5-billion worth of items found in breach of Intellectual Property Rights, over the past 12 months. Deputy Commander of CTOC, Senior Superintendent Clifford Chambers, says the...
National Security Minister, Robert Montague, says the Government will be exploring the possibility of resuming hanging in Jamaica. [audio_mp3 url="https://nationwideradiojm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Montague-on-Hanging-APRIL-29-2016.mp3"] Minister Montague says...
Pope Francis has appointed the Most Reverend Kenneth Richards as the new Archbishop of Kingston. Archbishop Richards was appointed today and will be installed as the seventh Archbishop of Kingston at a special service on July 6 at the Holy Trinity Cathedral on North...
Former Finance Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips, says he's not impressed by the 5-percent economic growth target over the next four years that has been set by the newly appointed growth czar, Michael Lee Chin. Dr. Phillips says the previous administration had a 2-percent...
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has lowered its growth forecasts for Latin America and the Caribbean. The Fund says its predicting a continued recession in the region this year as the wider global recovery continues to "struggle to gain its footing." The...
Jamaica has now confirmed eight cases of the Zika virus, as of April 25. That's two more than the last update from the Ministry of Health in March, when 6 cases had been confirmed. Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Karen Webster Kerr gave the update at a press conference this...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that he'll be appointing a commission to review Jamaica's membership in CARICOM. He was speaking this morning at the 75th Anniversary Service of the SEPROD subsidiary, International Biscuits Limited (IBL), where he unveiled...
Public Defender, Arlene Harrison Henry says her office has seen evidence which suggests that 19-residents of Tivoli Gardens were unlawfully killed by the security forces during the May 2010 West Kingston Operation. Mrs. Harrison-Henry says the state should compensate...