Private schools will independently decide whether they will continue with face-to-face classes, dismissing the education ministry’s declaration that only exit exam students should attend in-person sessions as merely “an announcement”. A meteo...

The densely populated municipality of Portmore should transition to high-rise living as one of the fastest-growing regions in Jamaica. That is one of the proposals that is being mulled by a joint select committee examining the prospects of...

Jamaica has not yet ratified key documentation necessary for the fulfilment of its side of the bargain of the COVID-19 vaccine deal brokered with the COVAX Facility. Documents reviewed by leaders at a CARICOM Intersessional Meeting on Wednesday...

Residents of Passagefort in Portmore, St Catherine, have been wearing masks long before COVID-19 hit Jamaica as the proposed location for a climate-change park across from their community has been a dust nuisance for the last 40 years. The 15-acre....

The UNTIDY affairs surrounding the unauthorised procurement of Department of Correctional Services (DCS) uniforms totalling $55.6 million will be ventilated following an internal audit. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of National...

Jamaica has been urged by a senior technology expert to begin teaching coding to three-year-olds and even younger children who are just learning to speak in order to tap talent in an emerging industry here. That recommendation has been stirred.....

Twenty-six-year old Junior Dwight Bryce walked into the Accident and Emergency Department at The University Hospital of the West Indies yesterday morning shortly after being shot outside the St Andrew-based medical facility. He died while...

WESTERN BUREAU: The murderous rampage in St James since the start of the year has outpaced corresponding 2020 figures by 222 per cent, with disputes between families and friends proving deadlier than gang feuds. Between January 1 and February 24,......

WESTERN BUREAU: Patients are now forced to sit out their stay in the corridors at Cornwall Regional Hospital receiving oxygen – stark imagery of the scale of Jamaica’s coronavirus crisis which is choking public healthcare facilities. “We are i...

Tamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer Standing tall above young coders from 70 other countries, an 11-year-old innovator from Jamaica has copped the top prize in the international XPRIZE Code Games Challenge. One of 17 winners from across the world,...

WESTERN BUREAU: A new prison expected to replace the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre is to be constructed in St Catherine at an estimated cost of J$10 billion. The project will be executed by the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), which has....

The smuggling of firearms, long considered the lifeblood of marauding criminal gangs, as well as the making of home-made guns and ammunition, is to become a criminal offence under Jamaican law. The proposed new offences will be included in the...

The Jamaican Government has declined to confirm whether it had rejected a proposal for the JAMCOVID website to be managed by eGov, the state information systems agency. According to Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of...

WESTERN BUREAU: Parish authorities have expanded their blacklist on backyard burials to Norman Manley Boulevard in Negril, citing health and environmental concerns. The thoroughfare runs alongside Negril’s famous seven-mile white-sand beach. “....

Opposition Leader Mark Golding is demanding that Prime Minister Andrew Holness lay bare the contract it used to engage Amber Group to build out the JAMCOVID-19 application which is under increased scrutiny. Following reports that an alleged second....

WESTERN BUREAU: A 17-year-old student of Rhodes Hall High School in Hanover was shot dead and his older brother seriously injured when armed men kicked in the door to their two-room board house and opened fire in a predawn attack on Tuesday. The...

No more SOEs until appeal is heard - Chang Unless there is an overwhelming upsurge in violent crime, the Jamaican Government will not seek another state of emergency (SOE) until its appeal is heard. The revelation was made by Minister of...

A second person has been detained in relation to the deadly overnight attacks on homeless people in the Corporate Area last month. Three homeless men were chopped to death in downtown Kingston and a fourth killed in southern St Andrew. Two other...

There is more scrutiny on the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) over whether officials there had flagged problems with the JAMCOVID application months ago and well before last week’s shocking discovery that thousands of travellers’ person data ...

As pressure mounts on the Holness administration over Jamaica’s perceived slow pace in its vaccination drive, it has emerged that India had offered up to 50,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca to the Government before it had got the seal of approval.....