A severe weather alert remains in effect for the island. A trough and a low-level jet stream continue to produce showers and isolated thunderstorms along with strong winds and large waves. Duty forecaster at the Met Service, Clayton Johnson, spoke with our news...
The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, PSOJ, says it's deeply concerned about the recent spate of bomb threats. PSOJ president, Metry Seaga, says the entity is aware of the negative impacts these threats have on the economy and society. Metry Seaga, PSOJ...
Mining minister, Floyd Green, says payments are set to begin this week for contractors and suppliers who are owed billions by Discovery Bauxite Partners. The contractors and suppliers were growing increasingly restive, as the company struggled to pay them...
Mining minister Floyd Green says the injunction in favour of residents who brought a constitutional claim challenging the lawfulness of bauxite mining under Special Mining Lease, SML, 173 has been lifted. The residents had alleged that bauxite mining took place under...
A man was fatally shot and a firearm seized during an early morning raid in St. Elizabeth on Wednesday. Reports are that a police team conducted an operation in the Burnt Savannah community of Lacovia between 5:00 and 5:45 am targeting criminal suspects from Kingston...
Well-known Jamaican-born graphic artist Neville Garrick has died. This was confirmed by his daughter, Naomi Garrick, in a release to the media. Naomi is the CEO of Garrick Communications Limited. She says her father passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on the...
Education minister, Fayval Williams, is rejecting claims from her opposition shadow, Damion Crawford, that the government has been using misleading statistics to paint a rosy picture of the academic performance of students at the primary level. During his contribution...
Executive Director of the Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal, JAMP, Jeanette Calder, says the public ought to be concerned by any delay in the tabling of anti-corruption reports in the parliament. She was reacting to the guidelines set down by House Speaker, Juliet...
The St. Elizabeth police are probing an incident in which a man was stabbed to death by his ex-girlfriend on Tuesday morning. Nationwide News understands that the woman was in the parish capital, Black River, when she was confronted by the man. It's understood she...
Operations at Meadowbrook High School in St. Andrew have been disrupted due to a bomb threat. In pictures seen by our news centre, the Jamaica Fire Brigade was on location responding to the threat. Deputy Commissioner at the Brigade, Kevin Haughton says classes have...