The Ministry of Transport and Mining says it has received a formal application for a fare increase from the Route Taxi Association Alliance, RTAA. Transport Minister, Robert Montague, accepted the application which requested an 80 percent increase, giving his...
A woman was stabbed and chopped to death at the weekend after a dispute with her common-law husband escalated in the community of Clarke's Town, Trelawny. Dead is 31-year-old Nickeisha Keeling of the same community. Reports from the Jamaica Constabulary Force's...
The European Union announced yesterday it has removed Barbados from its blacklist of countries it deems non-cooperative in matters of taxation, and added Dominica. The EU's review of Barbados' status comes just four months after the bloc's finance ministers voted to...
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security Colette Roberts Risden says the PATH programme is currently undergoing a comprehensive review. She revealed the information after legislatures raised concerns over $270 million dollars in unclaimed PATH...
More Women have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic than men. That's the sentiment expressed by Women's Rights Activist, Nadeen Spence. Ms Spence was responding to statements by PAHO Director, Dr Carissa Etienne. Dr. Etienne recently addressed the impact the...
Award Winning black actor, Cicely Tyson, has died. She was 96 years old. The pioneering black actor gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the share cropper’s wife in Sounder, a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in The Autobiography of...
Popular comedienne and media personality, Elva Ruddock has died from the autoimmune disease Lupus. Elva, as she's popularly known, died yesterday at the Kingston Public Hospital in Downtown, Kingston. Elva, born and raised in Rollington Town, become a professional...
The case involving the Commissioner of Corrections, Ina Hunter, who's charged with breaches of the Public Health Act is scheduled to return to the St Catherine Parish Court today. Hunter was charged on September 17, after she allegedly disobeyed a 30-day notice from...
The National Environment and Planning Agency, NEPA, is warning members of the public, who may be seeking to purchase pets as gifts for the Christmas season, not to buy protected species. Protected animals include the Yellow-billed and Black-billed Parrots, the Crested...
The extradition hearing of controversial Jamaican born Muslim cleric, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Faisal, is scheduled to resume in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish court today. The hearing is to determine if Al-Faisal is to be sent to the United States to stand trial for...