More questions have arisen about the quality of oversight state regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), gave to the now-fraud-hit Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) as a 2019 assessment revealed that a string of violations flagged more than two years earlier continued to dog the institution.
Despite howls of protest about the government’s refusal to extend the current traffic ticket amnesty deadline for motorists to pay long-outstanding fines, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is insisting that the January 31 deadline is in place to help sustain law and order.
The seven former employees of the Jamaica Defence Force Cooperative Credit Union Limited charged with defrauding the institution had their matter sent to plea and case management when they appeared in court Friday.
There is a major traffic pile-up around sections of South Camp as hundreds of motorists are now gathered on the road trying to reach to Traffic Court to pay up outstanding tickets before the new Road Traffic Act and Regulations takes effect on Wednesday, February 1.
While disclosing that children are illegally driving vehicles locally, Transport and Mining Minister, Audley Shaw, is vowing to put an end to the long-time illegal practice of persons purchasing their driver's licences.
National Security Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Horace Chang, says the seizure of a large shipment of firearms at Seaboard Warehouse in Freeport, Montego Bay, St James on Friday afternoon was a signal that local law enforcement continues to reap success at dismantling the illegal gun trade.
The Opposition People’s National Party is calling for greater urgency and a more deliberate approach on the part of the Government, with respect to the investigation surrounding the allegations of fraud at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL).
Antigua's Director of Public Prosecutions Anthony Armstrong, who is facing fraud-related charges in relation to three properties, was today re-offered $500,000 bail when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court.
SPORT Minister Olivia Grange says she is hoping the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) conference will foster stronger relationships with stakeholders across the region.
One inmate was treated and released from hospital while at least four others were bundled into a police truck and carted away from the Ocho Rios lock-up Wednesday evening after what a police inspector described as a "major disturbance" at the facility.