An audit conducted into the $46.8-million government contract awarded to Rahim’s Cleaning and Trucking Limited to sanitise and clean eight locations in Ocho Rios, St Ann, has unearthed worrying findings, including exorbitant pricing costs and...

WESTERN BUREAU: A 77-year-old man who has lost 11 friends and his personal doctor to COVID-19 is appealing to Jamaicans who have taken their first jab to return for the critical second dose as health officials say the UK variant is the most...

Senior officers who presided over the $46.8-million contract awarded to Rahim’s Cleaning and Trucking Limited to clean and sanitise eight locations in Ocho Rios, St Ann, last March have come in for sharp criticism in a revealing audit obtained by....

Justice Georgiana Fraser believes that there are no prospects for rehabilitation for convicted murderers Carlos Batista and George Gardener, who have maintained their innocence in the daylight murder of well-known businessman Roderick ‘Bunny’......

The umbrella group of municipal officials has been urged to lobby the Cabinet to speed up legislative reform to protect women and girls from abuse. The call by Scean Barnswell, councillor for the Hayes division, comes in the wake of several acts of....

The 85-year-old mother of businessman Robert Fletcher, who was killed at his Old Hope Road sports bar in St Andrew on Monday, said she has refrained from visiting the location ever since her husband was murdered there. Now, Pearl Fletcher’s...

The defence in the murder cases involving Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, who has been identified as the mastermind behind the killing of his two wives, requested time on Thursday to peruse new evidence recently presented b...

MANCHIONEAL, Portland: Three suspects, including a woman, are now in police custody for the brutal slaying of a couple in Manchioneal, Portland, on Wednesday. Commanding officer for the Portland Police Division, Superintendent Duane Wellington,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Tears streamed down the cheeks of Dr Pauline Foster, councillor for Ulster Spring division, as she on Thursday delivered an emotional condemnation of gender-based violence, a scourge that has led to the deaths of several women and......

The trial of dancehall artiste Ryan 'Rytikal' McFarlane, who is on gun charges, has been postponed to May 19. The matter was scheduled to begin in the Gun Court yesterday but was pushed back. The 25-year-old entertainer's bail was...

With about 5,759 or 3.4 per cent of the 170,000 persons directly employed to Jamaica’s tourism sector receiving vaccination against COVID-19 to date, concerns have been raised that the country could become less attractive to visitors if its...

House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert has suggested that it is her discretion whether to entertain a divide call on vote-taking in Parliament, arguing that the mechanism only becomes necessary when there is a clear contention. Dalrymple...

WESTERN BUREAU: A 28-year-old businessman, who allegedly shot and killed 27-year-old pool attendant Kimmorlay Anthony Forbes on Sunday night while they were having drinks on the compound of the Spicy Hill Farm in All-Side, Trelawny, has been...

Most persons know Tanyalee Williams as councillor for the May Pen North Division in Clarendon, but not many know that she is an ordained minister, a proud grandma, and was a high school dropout. In a one-on-one with The Gleaner, Williams shared how...

Rudolph Genius’ last memory of his mother was her jovial mood as she handed him $100 to buy food from a nearby shop on Tuesday. But that cheerfulness was stilled in the wee hours of Wednesday when residents of Barracks, Manchioneal, were jolted b...

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has turned scrutiny on the death of one of two men suspected to have killed businessman Robert Fletcher before being cut down in a shoot-out with cops at the Trafalgar-Waterloo-Hope roads...

The Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of a man who had been ordered to pay $515,000 or serve two months in prison after he was found guilty of transporting 1,613 pounds of ganja. The appellant, Allan Gardner, was taken into custody and...

With decibel levels increasing sharply, Heroy Clarke on Tuesday insisted that as a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), he had a right to know why Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis did not attend an exit interview of an audit done by...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade to scrap the 9th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference scheduled for June 16-18. The event, which was due to be held virtually, has been postponed till 2022. A two-......

A Kingston taxi driver who killed two pedestrians in 2018 when his car ploughed into a group of persons at Heroes Circle in Kingston was on Wednesday remanded for sentencing on June 18 after pleading guilty in the Home Circuit Court. Six persons......