The Jamaican Redevelopment Foundation (JRF) Inc has filed a constitutional lawsuit against the 46-year-old Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) claiming that it is not an independent and impartial arbiter of labour conflicts. The challenge may pose.....

WESTERN BUREAU: A 23-year-old Warsop, Trelawny, woman who was viciously stabbed in April is now begging the courts to drop the case against her alleged attacker, an ex-boyfriend. Stephina Ralston appeared at the Trelawny Parish Court in Clark’s......

WESTERN BUREAU: Gunmen snuffed out the life of a 26-year-old man in full view of three children in Salt Spring, St James, on Monday, spraying him with bullets during a brazen daylight home attack. The deceased has been identified as Daniel McDuffus....

Residents of Seaforth in St Thomas are appealing to the authorities to action promises of river-training works to be carried out at the Johnson and Negro rivers in the parish. They fear that if this is not done immediately, then the 2021 hurricane.....

A senior executive of Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body says lawmakers should step up to the plate to ensure that the country’s legislative framework is conversant with international best practices. Greg Christie, the executive director of ...

WESTERN BUREAU: The male nurse assistant accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old patient at the Noel Holmes Hospital in Hanover was charged on Monday and is slated to appear in court on Wednesday. The accused has been identified as 45-year-old....

The former National Commercial Bank (NCB) manager who robbed the bank of $34 million over a three-year period said she had struggled with her behaviour as she looted funds to finance a spending spree on clothes, handbags, and renovation of her four....

National Health Fund (NHF) Chairman Howard Mitchell has sought to calm fears about Jamaica’s immediate vaccine inventory, disclosing on Sunday that there is sufficient stock of Oxford-AstraZeneca doses to cover the masses who turned out for a COVI...

The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) was forced to seek the intervention of the HEART/NSTA Trust board chairman in March to get the agency to explain an unauthorised tax on travelling officers, documents show. HEART falls under the direct...

Manufacturers have revealed that a recent shortage of refined sugar in Jamaica has eased after some local competitors were forced into short-term borrowing of the commodity within industries to keep their production lines humming during the acute......

It has been three years since her two sons were killed by rival gangsters in April 2018, but Janice Solomon, a resident of the battle-torn community of Salt Spring in St James, still weeps for her boys as if it were yesterday. While admitting that.....

The failure of the Jamaican State to roll out broadband width that is reliable, affordable, and accessible to poor inner-city students will come back to haunt the country, with fears of a lost generation of schoolchildren. That is the dire warning....

As Davian Hopwood watched People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding laying a block for under-construction home in Petersfield, Westmoreland, on Saturday, she beamed with happiness at the fulfilment of a months-long political pledge....

Confirmation has come from Justice of the Peace (JP) Robert Buchanan that he has met with one of three young women at the centre of a sex scandal involving People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell. Campbell has denied all...

Allowing Dr Dayton Campbell to remain in his position as general secretary of the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP) “weakens the leadership” of the political organisation, one of his predecessors has warned. Almost six months into...

After living through years of bloodshed and lawlessness, residents of Salt Spring in St James have welcomed efforts by the authorities to bring order to their troubled community, but there are concerns that this new-found peace could be temporary.....

Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the recent events in Negril, Westmoreland, which led to the Government issuing a closure order on the popular tourist attraction and entertainment spot Rick’s Café, shows the unequal application of the rules an...

The mission to re-establish peace and further develop Trench Town and the surrounding communities in the Corporate Area is expected to receive a boost with the construction of the Joy Town Family Resource and Wellness Centre. The Joy Town Community....

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the resort town of Negril were not surprised at Wednesday’s police crackdown at Rick’s Café Negril, many telling The Gleaner that it was long overdue. The residents contend that flouting the Disaster Risk Management...

The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) on Wednesday handed down a $12.5-million award to Dr Sandra Williams-Phillips, a consultant cardiologist who was unjustifiably dismissed some 11 years ago from the Bustamante Hospital for Children. In arriving....