Belize is the latest country to support Jamaica's candidate, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, to become the next Commonwealth Secretary General. The Belizean Prime Minister, John Briceno, in announcing his country's endorsement of Mrs. Johnson Smith, says she's well...
Minister of Education and Youth, Fayval Williams, has revealed that authorities receive more than twelve thousand reports of child abuse annually in Jamaica. The startling figure was disclosed at this morning's National Policy Dialogue on Ending Violence Against...
More than 11,000 undocumented Jamaicans are set to benefit from the provision of free birth certificates as part of a new project initiated by the government. The disclosure was made by Minister Without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Floyd Green. The...
Health officials are ramping up surveillance at the nation's borders as fears are mounting of a possible arrival of monkeypox in Jamaica. The virus has now been detected in parts of Europe, the US, Canada and Australia. Director of Family Health Services, Dr. Melody...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says it may become necessary to increase government support for the most vulnerable as the fall out from the food crisis affecting the country intensifies. Jamaicans have been grappling with rapidly increasing food prices amid global...
The National Environment and Planning Agency, NEPA, has determined that the Jamaica Zoo in Lacovia, St. Elizabeth has failed to comply with its licences to operate the facility. The determination was made following a visit to the attraction yesterday. The visit to...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is seeking to assure Jamaicans that the government is conscious of the difficulties being faced as a result of rising fuel prices. The prime minister acknowledged that citizens are feeling tremendous pressure at the pumps, but he says the...
Five people have pleaded guilty to the robbery and murder of popular businessman Roger Chang. Chang was brutally murdered in 2020 on a beach in Dover St. Mary in 2020. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in a statement this afternoon revealed that...
A team of officers assigned to the St. James Police Division seized one Intratec 9mm sub-machine gun with a magazine containing seven 9mm rounds of ammunition during an operation in Amity Hall, St. James yesterday. Reports from the Amity Hall Police are about 9:30...
Education Minister, Fayval Williams, is urging school administrators not to lock out students who may turn up to school without a mask. Her comments follow yesterday's directive that mask wearing is mandatory in the nation's schools following a surge in cases. At the...