Two days after former foreign affairs minister A.J. Nicholson called out the country’s current chief diplomat Kamina Johnson Smith for allegedly fabricating harassment claims, emails apparently in support of her allegations against him were made.....

With penmanship that rivals the calligraphy of his teachers, a 14-year-old student of Ferncourt High School has become a hero of sorts in Queenhythe, St Ann, where he has taken on full-time tutoring of community children while attending online...

Parliament is to debate a bill proposing that tattoos and other symbols be used under the powerful anti-gang legislation to identify criminals as it moves to further clamp down on the country’s most notorious organisations. Currently, the Crimina...

Government members of a parliamentary oversight committee on Tuesday caused eyebrows to arch when they insisted that Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis divulge the name of a Gleaner journalist who contacted the country’s chief auditor to confirm ...

News of the sudden death 17-year-old Triston Graham, who collapsed in May Pen on Monday, sent shock waves through the school community of Lennon High School and rural Alexandria in Clarendon. The family told The Gleaner that the teen had been...

Taxi and bus operators are prepared to strike on Thursday as they press for a long-overdue fare increase. President of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), Egeton Newman, said if Transport Minister Robert Montague does....

A Kingston labourer who had been in custody for nine years awaiting his trial was on Tuesday freed of murder in the Supreme Court. Thirty-one-year-old Dwight Leslie, otherwise known as ‘Catfish’, had the case against him dismissed after his......

A 15-year-old suspect is being sought in the shooting death of his six-year-old cousin in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Jadaine Miller, who lived in the same yard as the accused. Reports by the police.....

Following a plethora of queries by some government members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as to why Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis was absent from an exit interview by auditors from the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service in...

A bizarre twist of incidents in Red Hills, St Andrew, on Monday, left a bloody trail as investigators processed a crime scene twice following a early-morning multimillion-dollar robbery at a petrol station. The gas station operator has been left...

A group of teenage boys who recently expressed a desire to represent Jamaica in the Olympics will be given an opportunity to train as divers for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. The boys, who live in Port Royal in East Kingston, have been.....

The trek to catch water at the pumping facility in Luna, St Mary, is a treacherous journey downhill through a private property. One step forward, two steps back, the residents said, as the pipes leading from the pump house were fixed just a month.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Dancehall artiste Moses ‘Beenie Man’ Davis was fined $150,000 or 35 days in jail when he appeared for sentencing before the St Elizabeth Parish Court in Black River yesterday, having previously pleaded guilty to breaches of the.....

There has been an outpouring of grief among councillors in the Portmore Municipal Corporation following the death of the Greater Portmore East Division standard-bearer, Yvonne McCormack, last Friday. The passing of McCormack, who had been serving......

Opposition senators have called on their government colleague, Kamina Johnson Smith, to release what she describes as harassing and threatening emails she received from former Senator A.J. Nicholson. Pointing to the statement Johnson Smith made in.....

After the father of her child moved out of her home in August Town in April 2019, Brittany Burke* changed all her locks. Not even her mother, who lives in the same yard, had a key. But since then, she has been haunted by an obsessive stalker who...

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas escalates in the Middle East, Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs Lisa Hanna has urged the United Nations (UN) to move swiftly to bring a resolution to the violence that has claimed the lives of nearly......

Canadian resident Garfield Patterson says that for the past five months, someone has been using his picture on a Facebook page they created and has been targeting his friends for money and asking for his personal contact information. Patterson,...

Raam Naraysingh, 50, was diagnosed with mild hypertension last September. It came as a shocker to him as at previous doctor’s visits, he was encouraged to continue on the same trajectory, as his readings were normal. The former technical service...

Although it took more than a decade for Rita Marley, the widow of music icon Bob Marley, and his 11 children to get control of his musical assets, they “never give up the fight”, which is the message portrayed in one of Marley’s songs entitled...