WESTERN BUREAU: One month and five days after an alleged severe beating of a two-year-old infant at a daycare centre in Falmouth, Trelawny, the accused perpetrator remained on the job without sanction from childcare watchdogs or other state...

Monday’s killing of the main suspect in the murder of police Constable Jermaine Bennett of Gregory Park, Portmore, has been greeted as welcome news to the family of the slain cop, but they say the agony of their loss has not subsided. Eugene...

WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang believes that the piloted E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS) linking customers in St Andrew; Portmore, St Catherine; and Montego Bay, St James, with food service providers during.....

WESTERN BUREAU: The grieving family of 78-year-old Joyclyne Gordon, the retired farmer whose decomposed body was found in a section of her from Breadnut Walk community in St Elizabeth on Saturday, is still puzzled as to the circumstances under...

“Help Joanna hear!” is the plea from a Clarendon family for their infant daughter who celebrated her fourth birthday last Wednesday. But instead of showering little Joanna with toys, her parents are seeking assistance in getting hearing aids as...

The fear of becoming blind very soon has left 15-year-old Yvonic Bailey traumatised and depressed. “Sometimes I don’t even sleep at nights,” said Yvonic, who is already totally blind in the left eye and is now losing sight in the right. Bailey...

The Sandals Foundation has donated more than $2 million in supplies to the Private Sector Vaccine Initiative to support the Health Ministry’s national COVID vaccination plan. The supplies include infrared thermometers, coolers, tents, chairs...

Errol Green is relieved that his mother is already dead. Had she not been, he believes that news of the discovery of his sister Millicent Robinson's body in a shallow grave would have sent her over the edge. Green...

A 50-year-old toll security guard has been arrested on firearm and assault charges following an incident with a motorist at the Portmore toll booth in St Catherine on Saturday. Norris McLarty of Wareham Road, Kingston 2 has been...

The St Catherine North police are seeking Rumell Anderson, whom they say is wanted in relation to the alleged sexual assault of an eight-year-old girl. Reports are that Anderson allegedly raped the girl several times over...

A massive inter-parish security operation comprising 75 soldiers and police failed to locate missing schoolteacher Nattalie Dawkins or a fleeing suspect during a search of the Bellas Gate and Connors communities of St Catherine on Sunday. The two-....

Rasbert Turner/Gleaner Writer Residents of Central Village and Windsor Heights were rattled by violence during the coronavirus lockdown as gunmen went on a rampage in both communities over the weekend. The attacks have been reportedly triggered by....

Olivia Brown/Gleaner Writer A team of teachers combined forces with the police and the Canine Division as the search for missing schoolteacher Nattalie Dawkins intensified on Sunday. The team combed through several communities in Clarendon, but...

Jonielle Daley/Gleaner Writer The political machinery was critical in mobilising the 1,038 people who received their COVID-19 shot at Saturday's vaccination blitz, but droves of persons under 75 were inoculated as younger seniors tried their luck.....

Rasbert Turner/Gleaner Writer The St Catherine South police have commenced into investigations into the circumstances under which four Haitians who were held in Naggo Head, Portmore, travelled to Jamaica. The four men were held in an intelligence-....

At least 29 people have died this year in motor vehicle crashes that occurred after the start of the nightly all-island curfews, new statistics have revealed. The death toll resulted from 25 fatal crashes that involved a total of 39 vehicles, some.....

Elysa Leonard, 54, a scuba diver from Virginia in the United States, has not travelled in over a year. When the coronavirus pandemic shut down global economies last year – with travel and tourism among the worst hit – Leonard was preparing to fl...

International outsourcing firm Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) has doled out US$1 million to reward its Jamaica employees, after the local operation surpassed all the targets for the financial year 2020-2021. The India-headquartered company began......

HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP): A Jamaican man is among those now being threatened with deportation as federal officials are not honouring an agreement to accept the validity of Connecticut pardons and continue trying to deport people pardoned by a...

Several churches remained closed on Good Friday as worshippers commemorated the most solemn day on the Christian calendar amid a resurgence of COVID-19 infections that have triggered a holiday lockdown....