The cold, haunting streets of Kingston were frozen with fear on Monday night as the capital’s nomads snuggled in corners or retreated to shelters in the aftermath of the grisly murders of four homeless men and the wounding of two others. The...

Health facilities have been partnering with hotels to offer PCR tests for as much as US$300 (J$43,000) following requests from some of Jamaica’s main international travel partners for a negative COVID-19 test from travellers. A negative PCR test...

Children under the weight of suicidal ideation are at greater risk of going unnoticed because teachers are less able to identify adverse behavioural change in online classes. That observation comes in the wake of the hanging of Ackeem Williams, a......

WESTERN BUREAU: Nine-nights, wakes and a general disregard of protocols are being blamed for the uptick in the COVID-19 cases in Manchester, leading to tighter curfew hours being instituted yesterday as its public hospitals come under increasing...

Six persons were shot in Denham Town, Kingston, on Sunday night as men travelling on a motorcycle opened fire at patrons at a party being held in contravention of the Disaster Risk Management Act. According to police reports, a party was in session....

The attack of six homeless persons as they slept on the streets of the Corporate Area on Sunday night, leaving at least four dead, has triggered condemnation as the police try to determine who was responsible for the fatal assault. The men were...

With tighter curfew measures announced for Manchester, which is currently seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases, Mandeville Mayor Donovan Mitchell feels vindicated after he was ridiculed when he warned that continued blatant disregard for protocols...

With not much improvement since the new academic year began last October, residents of Epsom in St Mary are still calling for the two schools in the rural district to be reopened for face-to-face classes. Epsom Primary School is a multi-grade...

Opposition Spokesperson on Education and Training Dr Angela Brown Burke has expressed surprise at a Sunday Gleaner report that some schools have been asking parents and guardians to sign COVID-19 indemnity waivers without the knowledge of the...

Western Bureau: By the end of this week, 34 schools in St James, Hanover, and Westmoreland – which make up the Ministry of Education’s Region Four – are expected to be involved in a blend of face-to-face and online classes as more COVID-19-......

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...