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WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica must position itself to seize emerging opportunities in the global services industry, which is projected to generate an estimated US$1.38 trillion globally by 2032, according to Wayne Sinclair, president of the Global...

Water is life. It is the thread that weaves through our history, our culture, and our very survival. Yet, in an era where turning on a tap is second nature, many of us rarely stop to consider the deeper significance of water – how it has shaped...

Jamaica's health and foreign affairs ministers have indicated that discussions are currently being held with both the United States (US) and Cuba as a review of the longstanding Cuban medical missions to the island is conducted. “We have had...

Declaring that “this is the year of decision”, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness made an impassioned appeal to the Jamaican electorate yesterday to join his administration “in writing the next chapter” as a general election looms in the months ahead...

The tearful mother of a child, who was kidnapped as a baby five years ago, says she is “disgusted” by the two-year suspended sentence given to the woman who was held with her son. She had expected the woman to receive at least a 10-year sentence. “...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland Circuit Court yesterday heard the deposition statement of the now-deceased Castel McKenzie, the man who was not allowed to bail Mario Deane after he was arrested for possession of a ganja spliff and taken to Barnett...

The Parliamentary Opposition has filed an affidavit of urgency asking the Supreme Court to temporarily block the enactment of the law passed to establish Portmore as a parish, arguing that it violates the Constitution of Jamaica. People’s National...

Anniesha Ramsay, the young woman who was found with a stolen baby five years ago, was taken into custody yesterday for sentencing today in the Home Circuit Court, where she will learn her fate. Justice Leighton Pusey will hand down the sentence....

Two former elderly employees of the now defunct Office of the Political Ombudsman (OPO), who together contributed nearly 40 years of service to that institution, are, today, in dismay after going on retirement early last year and being told that...

A St Catherine labourer who had brutally injured two teenage sisters with a machete in a near-fatal attack after one of them threatened to expose his alleged sexual interest in her is to serve his 18-year sentence after the Court of Appeal ruled...

A proposal to pass comprehensive legislation to eliminate abusive contractual arrangements which deny workers their basic employment rights has resonated with President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) St Patrice Ennis. In his...

A bitter domestic dispute between relatives is believed to be at the centre of one of two gun murders that occurred within 24 hours of each other and kept crime scene detectives busy in the St Andrew North Police Division. In the first incident on...