LONDON (AP): Prince Philip, the irascible and tough-minded husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wife in a role that both defined and constricted his life, died on Friday at age 99, Buckingham Palace...

Charles: Royal family ‘deeply grateful’ for world’s support LONDON (AP): Britain’s Prince Charles says the royal family is “deeply grateful’’ for outpouring of support they’ve received following the death of his father, Prince Phil...

Two policemen who had held up and robbed a Manchester man of his licensed firearm and an undisclosed sum of money in 2013 are now serving time behind bars. The two lawmen, Constable Gary Gassop and Corporal Gregory Givans, were sentenced on Friday....

Robert Fowler, the 50-year-old mechanic who has reportedly confessed to the murder of 20-year-old accounting clerk Khanice Jackson is scheduled to return to the Home Circuit Court on July 8, after he was remanded yesterday. The accused made his......

Overwhelmed by a surge in the number of persons with COVID-19 visiting the health facility for medical attention, the Spanish Town Hospital yesterday received a well-needed boost with a 40-bed COVID-19 field hospital established at the...

The country remains on tenterhooks awaiting confirmation of whether a body of an unidentified female found in Sandy Bay, Clarendon, on Thursday is that of missing 44-year-old teacher Nattalie Dawkins. The gruesome discovery yesterday brought a nine...

For half a decade, two multibillion-dollar education ministry programmes, troubled by conflicts of interest concerns, saw the Western Hospitality Institute (WHI), whose leader wielded significant influence over ministry resources, earning more than....

Resume hanging with immediacy. Elevate gun and drug crimes to the level of treason – punishable by death; handpick a special-ops squad. And while all that is being done, empower communities, particularly their younger, vulnerable residents, to tak...

WESTERN BUREAU: Three months after flying the historic flight delivering the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines in the world, FedEx pilot Muriel Zarlingo still gets goose pimples. The female captain, who was invited by chief pilot Tom Gregory to......

Labelling as “overly ambitious” Jamaica’s target to have roughly 70 per cent of the population immunized by March 22 next year, The Economist Intelligent Unit says COVID-19 herd immunity will not be achieved in the island until late 2022. The...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has said that the people with COVID-19 vaccination appointments will be afforded free movement to and from inoculation sites during the weekend lockdown. Addressing a press conference on Thursday......

Jamaica’s chief state agency tasked with the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines has been bombarded by fraudsters seeking to cash in on the global hunger for the jab. The revelation by Howard Mitchell, chairman of the National Health Fund, is a stark...

A study conducted last year to evaluate the attitudes of pre-service early childhood teachers towards mathematics has found that a large number of them have no interest in tutoring the subject. The finding has triggered alarm bells in the education....

WESTERN BUREAU: Fire destroyed the iconic 129-year-old Railway Corporation Train Station building in Balaclava, St Elizabeth, on Wednesday morning, wrecking the livelihoods of the persons who were using it as a furniture shop. The Balaclava police.....

As if the economic pressures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic weren’t enough, thieves have been cleaning out farmers in Lawrence Tavern. Donald Clarke came close to tears as he told The Gleaner of how thieves are reaping the fruits of his...

Reeling from financial losses running into hundreds of thousands of dollars, Maureen ‘Angella’ McDermott was forced to dump rotting fish on Tuesday in the wake of the resurrection of the economy after the COVID-19 Easter weekend lockdown. McDerm...

WESTERN BUREAU: A female taxi operator was shot and killed by attackers posing as passengers along the Tucker main road in St James on Tuesday. The murder is likely to increase the temperature of national outrage against violence against women amid....

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Robert Scott, a 60-year-old Manchester single parent, has been watching his ‘rainy-day’ savings drying up over the past few months as his earnings dwindle from his daily hustle amid curfew and other COVID restrictions. Fo...

Three relatives of incarcerated Tivoli Gardens don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke and four others who were charged in connection to the death of an alleged gangster from Denham Town in 2018 were further remanded on Wednesday after their trial was...

The son of a 50-year-old Jamaican woman whose body was found with stab wounds in her Stamford, Connecticut, apartment last Friday has been charged with her murder. Denise McLaughlin, who had been missing for days, was discovered after friends...