WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s chief construction industry lobby has raised concern about a legislative order exempting China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) from procurement rules and which also sets employment benchmarks for local workers. The...

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the Government making the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 jab available, some 10 per cent of the prison population has so far declined the offer to take the shot. The disclosure was made yesterday by Senator Matthew Samuda,...

Dena Golding, aunt of 37-year-old taxi operator Renford ‘Hector’ Mowen, who died in a multi-vehicle collision on Tuesday, said she warned him about the dangers of the road the previous day. Golding said she saw Mowen on Monday morning debushing ...

The head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Jamaica said that she is fully seized of the island’s COVID-19 vaccine need but has brushed aside notions that Europe has not pulled its weight in assisting the global effort. Without naming any......

WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Matthew Samuda says the Government’s ambitious drive to bring unregulated security companies in line with established operating policies and guidelines has been hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The pandemic has hit the...

A truck laden with marl overturned, crushing a Suzuki Grand Vitara with two men on board in a bizarre accident along the Rio Nuevo main road in St Mary on Thursday afternoon. But the driver of the Vitara and the passenger, his brother, both...

The Ministry of Education is reporting a general decline in the number of students who have been registered this year to sit exit exams. Dr Kasan Troupe, acting chief education officer (CEO), responding to a query from The Gleaner at Thursday’s......

WESTERN BUREAU: Days before the resumption of face-to-face school on the back end of a second coronavirus wave, operators of the state-run bus company have warned that it would not be feasible to allocate any of its fleet solely for the...

After a horrific encounter in which he was forced down a 55-ft hole, 66-year-old George Smart said he has forgiven his abductors and is ready to spend the rest of his life serving God and preaching love for humanity. The Portmore cab driver related....

There will be no tender process for the multibillion-dollar Montego Bay Perimeter Road project that has been designated a national development project by the Government and which is to be funded by Jamaican taxpayers. For the current fiscal year,......

Howard Spencer and his wife of 26 years, Beverley, just want to hold their newborn granddaughter. The usual bonding and snuggling in the first few weeks of life have been replaced by photos and videos. Though COVID-19 has robbed the grandparents.....

Jamaica Teachers’ Association President Jasford Gabriel estimates that it will take between two and three years to reverse most of the learning loss since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, following the disclosure that 120,000 students have been...

Several projects are to be undertaken by the Special Economic Zone Authority to build out an additional 400 acres of space worth US$1.3 billion. Construction on these projects is expected to begin during this financial year. This was announced by....

The Independent Commission of Investigations turned the spotlight on the often vexed issue of stop-and-search exercises carried out by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) even as the oversight body reminded law enforcers that the court had ruled......

Clarendon College principal David Wilson said he never imagined that his interaction with school bus driver Keith Dunkley on Tuesday evening would have been his last. In an interview with The Gleaner, he said when he visited Dunkley following the......

The Holness administration has played down concerns that acting Permanent Secretary Dr Grace McLean’s authority in the education ministry poses a conflict of interest to the ongoing investigation of programmes for which she held responsibilities.....

The police hierarchy is rejecting claims that it is denying promotions in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) for cops who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19. Senior communications strategist Dennis Brooks said the claim is an unfortunate......

A 15-million-gallon water treatment plant to serve the Corporate Area is to be built within two years, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Everald Warmington has announced. Construction of the plant is...

Students poised to sit a range of exit and external examinations are set to return to school for face-to-face engagement, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced. The declaration covers the Primary Exit Profile (PEP), the Caribbean Secondary...

A three-vehicle crash on the Chapelton main road in Clarendon has left a little boy an orphan. His father, Hector Mowen, a taxi operator who plies the May Pen to Chapelton route, was flung from his vehicle into a culvert on Tuesday afternoon and...