A noted lecturer at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies, Charmaine Henry, has died. Miss Henry died this morning at the Nuttall Hospital, in St. Andrew, after a long illness. She taught Communications and Public Relations at the Caribbean Institute of...
The Police High Command says based on the early findings of its probe into the killing of Constable Lynden Barrett, there's nothing to support allegations by some Denham Town residents, that he was killed by his Police colleagues or that the Police was involved in...
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service has issued a public appeal for help in finding two prisoners who escaped from the Port of Spain Prison today. The men are Hassan Atwell and Christopher Selby. A third prisoner, Allan "Scanny" Martin, was killed by police near the...
Human rights lobby group, Jamaicans for Justice, JFJ, says it's concerned that comments made by Police Commissioner, Dr. Carl Williams, could prejudice the investigation into the killing of Constable Lynden Barrett. Constable Barrett, who was attached to the Denham...
The head of the St. James Police, Senior Superintendent Steve McGregor, has confirmed that the police want to question controversial dancehall artiste, Tommy Lee Sparta, in relation to the recent killing of another entertainer. SSP McGregor says the police want to...
The three PNP Councillors who're feuding with MP, Lisa Hanna, in South East St. Ann could be sanctioned if they're found to have brought the party into disrepute. That's the word this afternoon from General Secretary of the PNP, Paul Burke. His comments follow a show...
Youth and Culture Minister, Lisa Hanna, says she's outraged and deeply disturbed by the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in Trelawny. The Minister has described the incident as a vicious attack. She's also outraged that a video of the incident was posted on social...
An open admission that the IMF programme isn't working! That's how Opposition Spokesman on Finance, Audley Shaw, is describing a letter by five Democratic members of the US Congress to President Barack Obama, asking him to urge the IMF to revisit the terms of its...
A member of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee, Ralston Hyman, is adamant the IMF programme is working. His comments follows an appeal from 5-US lawmakers asking President Obama to urge the IMF to review Jamaica's loan agreement. In their letter to President...
The Office of Utilities Regulation, OUR, has ordered the National Water Commission, NWC, to stop implementing an early payment initiative which the company announced earlier this month. The OUR says the stop order takes immediate effect. It has requested that the NWC...