POLICE PROBE The board of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) has reported “specific matters” from a report on the procurement activities of the hospital to the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Fraud Squad and the Jamaica Customs Agency. Following the...
Documents missing for $521m in contracts, UHWI admits tax-exempt import abuse The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) failed to provide procurement documentation for 51 contracts valued at more than $521 million to auditors from the Auditor General’s Department, preventing a full assessment of compliance with...
Holness: Cutting-edge investment key to GDP growth Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has urged Jamaican manufacturers to capitalise on government policies favouring investors and to step up their role in driving economic growth. Speaking during yesterday’s opening of Wisynco Group’s new brewery and...
INDECOM recommends charges for 26 state agents during 6 months in 2025 The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has revealed that 26 recommendations for criminal charges and 23 for disciplinary actions, were made against state agents for the six-month period April to September 2025. The information is...
Audit reveals procurement failures at UHWI Exposing a glaring practice by the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), of utilising a retrospective process to validate procurements, Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis says this action by the institution served to corrupt the process...
Parliament weighs tripled juror stipend amid backlog crisis Nearly two years after Justice Minister Delroy Chuck announced a 200 per cent increase in the stipend paid to Jamaicans who report for jury duty, the long-promised change has been formally brought to Parliament. On Tuesday, Chuck tabled amendments...
‘I did not kill Donna-Lee’ In an unsworn statement from the dock on Tuesday, Constable Noel Maitland told the Home Circuit Court that a “tiny spot of blood” found in his Chelsea Manor, St Andrew, apartment resulted from his girlfriend Donna-Lee Donaldson’s miscarriage during...
Black River Fire Station relocation suggested after Melissa crippled operations WESTERN BUREAU: Mark Edwards, the assistant superintendent at the St Elizabeth branch of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB), is raising concerns about the location of the Black River Fire Station after it was flooded and rendered inoperable during...
Bullets bonanza More than 4,000 bullets were allegedly found inside a St James home that was searched by the security forces last month as part of coordinated operations to arrest key figures in the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud at the collapsed investment...
‘Tide shift’ The bloodiest week of 2025 came just days into the new year. Between January 4 and January 11, at least 29 people were murdered across Jamaica, a violent upsurge that reignited fears that the country was headed for another year of unrelenting...