Today’s By-Election held in the Greater Portmore North Division has been won by the People’s National Party. The PNP candidate Accountant Gary Nicholson won the crucial seat, thus ensuring that the party maintains control of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation. Nicholson polled 2,125 votes to the 995 by his Jamaica ...

Now that the People’s National Party is in the hands of a new leader Dr. Peter Phillips everyone has joined in the fanfare. This after veteran Politician and former Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller bid her farewell yesterday. People’s National Party members,were ecstatic when Damion Crawford declared that Holness is ...

One of the co-owners of a St Andrew furniture store, Moncrieffe’s Patio Shop, is dead and three people injured following an alleged attack by a male employee at the establishment today. The slain woman, Barbara Moncrieffe, died on the spot. Her husband Vassell Moncrieffe, better known as ‘Teddy’, as well ...

Jamaica and Brazil appear to be heading towards a trade row over the island’s ban on corned beef imported from that South American country. The Brazilian Embassy in Kingston asked the Jamaican Government to lift what it described as the “unilateral ban”. However; Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Karl ...

Jamaica’s speed skater Romaine is a winner. Austin who led from the beginning won the historic gold medal for Jamaica yesterday in division 15 of the 500m race inside Liebenau ice rink stadium at the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Austria. Austin, won in a time of 1:18.971 minutes, ...

The last thing one wants to hear is that they have lost a loved one. It is a very devastating time for the family, friends, teachers and community members  of 14 year old Kimberly Phillips. Kimberly, who is  from the McCooks Pen community in Old Harbour, St Catherine is alleged ...

With the current fiasco surrounding the importation of corned beef to Jamaica and the rest of the world from Brazil, authorities are trying to clear the air. The Brazilian Embassy in Jamaica is now indicating that Jamaica is not on the affect list. However, in a report by the Jamaica ...

Ask yourselves this question, what has successive governments really done to alleviate poverty? They have all proclaimed to be lovers of the poor and the people of this beautiful Island home Jamaica, but once they enter the parliamentary chambers that switch is turned off. On the political platform they revel ...

Paul Hanniford, the Pentecostal pastor convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. The sentence was handed down by Justice Lorna Shelly Williams in the Home Circuit Court today. The 55-year-old City Mission pastor was convicted last month. Hanniford, a father of ...

With the recent headlines about who’s recording behind bars and whose music should be taken off the airwaves comes these new announcements from the security ministry. The National Security Ministry has announced that all correctional officers, inmates and recruits are to be polygraphed as part of new measures aimed at ...