Reports are that last year June, Graham and Walters had a dispute during which Graham was shot.

Addressing the Small Business Association of Jamaica's Growth and Resilience Conference yesterday, Mr. Golding said these businesses suffered lasting damage to their productive capacity.

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Transport Minister Daryl Vaz has noted that the binding concession agreement negotiated by previous People's National Party administration, in relation to toll rates, does not augur well for Jamaicans. As such, the present Jamaica Labour Party led government continues dialogue with toll operators in a bid to get more favourable agreements.

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CXC says that the major reforms to its SBA framework is aimed at strengthening assessment integrity across Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations. This in response to the rapid rise of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other technological innovations.

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The Health and Wellness Ministry has expanded the Family Care Giver Programme to the Spanish Town Hospital, in St. Catherine. This is another major step in the commitment to delivering compassionate, patient and family centred health care across the public health system.

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A technical review of the report from the JPS is being conducted.

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50 percent of the 33 pedestrians, who have died since the start of the year in road crashes, are between 50 and 70 years old.

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Transport Minister Daryl Vaz has pledged that the government is working on finding a practical solution to the traffic ticket problem. This as the hosting of special traffic ticket days, while temporarily helpful, is expensive and unsustainable.

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This the KSAMC attributes to its signage compliance outreach programme. The Corporation says by taking its services directly into plazas and commercial centres, it engaged 140 businesses, increasing compliance from 9 to 53 percent.

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The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) has described as productive a meeting it had with three senior clerics from the Church of England on Monday, as it pushes for reparations. Member of the Commission's delegation to the United Kingdom (U.K.) and Barbados Ambassador to CARICOM, David Comissong, said the church could be a possible ally in the push for reparation.

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In the Commission's annual report, which was tabled in Parliament last week, it indicated that 29 employees had left.

The Commission explained that the turnover rate for employees for the 2024/25 reporting period was 19 per cent, representing a seven per cent increase over the previous year.

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