A multipronged investigation has been launched into whether a deregistered plane bearing the Mexican flag that crash-landed in Rocky Point, Clarendon, on Saturday evening was on a smuggling mission. High-level security officials have been tight-...

Ken Allen, the journalism giant whose probing mind, searing wit, and stentorian voice were hallmarks of a near-seven-decade career at The Gleaner, passed away at the University Hospital of the West Indies on Sunday after a long ailment. He was 87......

Despite a near 100 per cent overrun and two-year delay in completion of the Junction roadworks in St Mary, “billions of dollars more” will be needed to rehabilitate a discrete gutted stretch of the key corridor linking Kingston to the northeaste...

An audit of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) registry’s business processes has found that students had been allowed to participate in the institution’s graduation ceremony without actually being graduates. The eyebrow-raising finding was....

Registrar and administrative vice-president of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), Dr Mark Broomfield, has filed a notice of application for leave for judicial review in the Supreme Court challenging the decision by the university to advertise....

The new building to house the Portmore Municipal Corporation will be occupied by the end of the first quarter this year, according to Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas. He told The Gleaner that the first floor of the building will be occupied initially,......

Even as the Holness administration pushes to pass its highly touted proposed identity law, it is apparent that officials will have to buttress their public-education campaign amid pockets of unawareness that could jeopardise public buy-in and...

The scandal at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) over the loss or misuse of $3.3 billion in two years is deepening with the impending resignation of at least one member from an embattled board and revelations that 60 recommendations....

In the last two weeks, there have been a reported 1,046 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in Jamaica. Multiply this number by eight and there is an estimated 8,368 people who Government believes are currently infected and can actively pass the...

Late last year, the body of Vincent ‘Scandal’ Reid was found in an abandoned catchment tank near the house in which he lived. A community drunk, he did odd, labour-intensive jobs when he was sober, “but never troubled anyone”, residents of M...

Marcia Salmon* took Spoiler* into the home she shares with her two children in her community in a rural area shortly after they crossed paths. She had met him in a neighbouring parish, when she accompanied a friend to visit relatives. Two weeks...

For six times less than the amount an average student would pay for tuition at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in three years, a counterfeit degree can be obtained within days by anyone wishing to bypass the rigours of intellectual......

Jamaicans were left in shock yesterday with news of the passing of former Reggae Boy Luton Shelton. Shelton, 35, died at home after ailing with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) since 2017. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a...

Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate Peter Bunting is suggesting that provisions dealing with consumer protection in the Microcredit Act, 2021 should be widened to include banks and companies that have hire-purchase arrangements. The...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Floyd Green has stressed the need for the adaptation and implementation of modern agricultural practices in order to move the sector forward. Green, who declared the CASE Alumni Association’s Jamaica Agriculture....

Mexico and Jamaica are preparing to execute a pilot project under which teachers from the Central American country will tutor Jamaican students in Spanish. Education Minister Fayval Williams made the disclosure following a meeting yesterday with......

At 103 years old, Roslyn Stephens’ hearing is almost perfect. She also speaks clearly and has a good sense of humour, making known her total commitment and devotion to the Lord. Now blind, the Spaldings, Clarendon, resident shared that she made a....

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is to spend $20 million to resuscitate an islandwide micro dam project to assist farmers to access water during periods of drought. The announcement was made on Thursday by Agriculture and Fisheries...

Western Bureau: Squatters who have built houses on former sugar lands at Parnassus in Trelawny will soon be required to pay for the plots as the Government moves to establish a structure under which the lands will be used for housing and...

WESTERN BUREAU: John Byles, chairman of the Tourism Resilient Corridors Committee (TRCC), has refuted a claim by Dr Marcia Graham of the Westmoreland Health Department that tourism players in the parish are disregarding established COVID-19 health.....