Jamaican Jason W arrived in New York 10 years ago, seeking the American dream. Because he has remained there illegally, he has lived in the shadows, taking whatever jobs he can to survive financially. When his mother died, he was unable to attend.....

United States Vice-President Kamala Harris is expected to leverage her history of advocacy in pressing the White House on economic and social justice for blacks and other minorities, Jamaican academics have said. Joseph Biden assumed the presidency....

A total of $1.8 billion has been dedicated to the procurement of laptops and tablets for students in the Jamaican education system. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke said that the $1.8 billion excised from the budget of the Ministry of Education,......

Western Bureau: Residents of Jointwood in St Elizabeth are frustrated with the lack of responsiveness by the State in repairing the road to their community after three sections of the thoroughfare collapsed during last November’s flood rains....

Tears rolled down the face of Norma Walters as she watched her former schoolmate’s daughter being sworn in on Wednesday as vice-president of the United States. Walters, who attended school alongside Donald Harris decades ago in the northern Jamaic...

Claudius Brown, the ex-cop who has a master’s degree and wanted to become a taxi driver this year, is no longer homeless. Brown, whose story The Gleaner recently captured, was deported from the US in 2006 for overstaying after visiting his sick....

Hotels to fund vaccine for staff Several Jamaican hotels have registered with a partnership with the Government to pay for COVID-19 vaccines for their staff. The initiative, which is being spearheaded by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association....

Two men who were fatally shot by the police in Waterford, St Catherine, on Wednesday are believed to have been on a mission to kill, investigators have said. The police are hunting for a third suspect. Two firearms were recovered. Residents of...

Lawmakers were left peeved on Wednesday after a startling revelation that two newly constructed municipal corporation buildings have run afoul of their own guidelines for public buildings by failing to create full access by the disabled. Members of....

Fifty-eight-year-old Donald ‘Oney’ Taylor has spent almost four decades beautifying gardens in communities across St Catherine. The resident of Independence City in Portmore made a switch from working as a jeweller and loader man after an accid...

WESTERN BUREAU: The long-awaited trial of the three police officers who are facing multiple charges arising from the controversial 2014 death of Mario Deane has been rescheduled by the St James Circuit Court on September 16. Corporal Elaine Stewart....

The Holness administration has rejigged expenditure to help bolster its capacity to fight the coronavirus outbreak as Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke unveiled a $3.5-billion cut for the 2020-2021 fiscal year when he tabled the third...

Three billion dollars is being spent to vaccinate 16 per cent of the population against COVID-19, and the bill will climb with the Government giving early signals that the medicine could be introduced into the regular inoculation schedule for the.....

A Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) worker whose salary skyrocketed by 304 per cent on an initial promotion after two months on the job, and ultimately 583 per cent on a second elevation within 13 months, has been described by the management of.....

For more than half of his life, nine-year-old Joshua Ramsay battled with acute myeloid leukaemia, a cancer of the blood cells. Today, his family holds on to handprints, photos depicting his fighting spirit and a bundle of hair from 2017 when he...

Passion for children has spurred Edwinna Nelson-Thomas to open the doors of her home to a host of happy feet in Logwood, St Thomas. The 58-year-old, who has been lauded for her kindness, currently cares for approximately 10 children during the days...

Three of four men charged with the cultivation of ganja inside an upscale Stony Hill home walked free from the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Tuesday following successful arguments by their lawyers to have the case dismissed. The case...

Deputy Auditor General Marlon McAdam dismissed on Tuesday a suggestion by Permanent Secretary (PS) Dr Alwin Hales that the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) did not breach government guidelines when it racked up $1.2 million in car-...

Pro-vice-chancellor and principal of The University of the West Indies, Mona, Professor Dale Webber, said the tertiary institution will have to forgo J$1 billion in grants for students’ internal scholarships this year because of COVID-19. Speakin...