A manhunt for the presumed shooter was still under way across St James Sunday night in the wake of a spine-chilling murder of a bank executive as she prayed in church. Investigators theorise that the murder was part of a conspiracy hatched by...

Former Opposition Senator Dr Andre Haughton has lashed out at both the People’s National Party (PNP) and the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), claiming that they have conspired to work against the interests of ordinary citizens. Haughton,...

Fifteen businesses and individuals filed for bankruptcy since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic last March, with runaway credit-card arrears and financial illiteracy cited as overwhelming factors for personal debt through to the end of 2020....

August Town residents who were on edge from sporadic gun violence for the first half of 2020 say a zone of special operations (ZOSO) implemented last July has offered an oasis of peace in a community that has been a powder keg of violence for...

Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton warned residents of St Ann on Saturday about a possible lockdown if breaches of coronavirus laws and recommendations continue. St Ann has seen a rise in conoravirus cases over the past few weeks, with six...

The doors of a former health centre in Cassava Piece, St Andrew, were opened on Sunday to host a medical camp, activating calls from residents for the facility to be reinstated. Camps sponsored by the Indian High Commission were held across eight......

Yallahs High closed after student positive for COVID Yallahs High has shut down face-to-face classes for this week after a grade 10 student tested positive for the novel coronavirus. End-of-term examinations that were scheduled to commence today....

Some 22,000 pregnancies are aborted annually in Jamaica, and this is only a rough estimate from research done by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI), which believes that the figures for the clandestine, criminal acts could be more. The.....

WESTERN BUREAU: A 59-year-old businessman from St James is the latest person to be arrested by the narcotics police in Western Jamaica, following a multi-million dollar cocaine seizure along a section of the Flankers main road in the parish on......

With recorded killings of 1,301 in 2020, a new report on Latin America and the Caribbean has revealed that Jamaica now has the region’s highest homicide rate at 46.5 per 100,000 people. InSight Crime’s 2020 Homicide Round-Up released on Friday.....

A twin-engine plane half sunken in the Caribbean Sea, tight-lipped police investigators, and a community divided, teetering even on distrust from a mystery most feel is “bigger than we”. It is a quaint scene, probably a welcome attraction for a....

Despite a number of fiery tragedies in recent years, several state-run and private childcare facilities across the island are still operating well below the requisite safety and public health standards set by the Government, with gaps in basic...

WESTERN BUREAU: As Canada locks out the Caribbean and Mexico from its borders, Jamaican tourism stakeholders are hopeful the United States will not take the same approach. The US is Jamaica’s largest source market, with Canada playing a significan...

There is hope on the horizon for Portmore mother of seven Natasha Jones, whose plight The Gleaner highlighted a month ago after five of her seven children were taken into state care as result of the deplorable conditions the family had been living.....

Police investigators are concerned that the usually quiet Eve Lane, which runs perpendicular to the National Heroes Circle in Kingston, is becoming a choice location for murderers in the Corporate Area. The latest chapter in the lane’s bloody...

Although the Crawl Pass spring never runs dry, the Clarendon farming community of Bois Content and other surrounding areas have been without piped water since the 1990s. They have been relying on trucks making their rounds on alternate days to...

WESTERN BUREAU: Transportation mogul Ralph Smith, who founded the Montego Bay-headquartered Tropical Tours more than 45 years ago, died at his Park Avenue residence in the tourism capital yesterday morning after a long illness. One of the...

Facing a triple threat of lack of employment, no water and the general ill-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on several areas of life, the residents of Planters Hall and its environs in St Catherine are at their wits’ end. “We have to buy water a...

Anna Kay Rose has assumed full responsibility for taking care of her 102-year-old grandmother Myrtle Campbell for the past six years. Campbell, who has three children, is now deaf and blind and lives in White Shop in Spaldings, Clarendon. One of...

WESTERN BUREAU: For the first time in 30 years, Indians residing outside of Kingston have been able to access consular services without having to journey to the capital city. In a programme dubbed ‘High Commission at Your Step’, India High...