Yesterday’s announcement that embattled Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright had resigned from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was not enough for former parliamentarians who have served the constituency, while Kevin O...

WESTERN BUREAU: Immediate past president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Owen Speid, believes the crippling effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – including closed borders and economic uncertainty – have helped the local education sect...

AS THIEVES continue to prey on local farmers, causing them great distress and frustration, the Government has signalled that steps are being made to amend two important pieces of legislation to increase the penalties for those who continue to...

A bit of apprehension hangs over Old Harbour Bay in St Catherine as residents keep their fingers crossed that no significant weather system will affect the area during the hurricane season. “We in these parts suffer a great deal as we are at the.....

Friday’s planting of 20 mangrove saplings at three islets along the Palisadoes strip leading to the Norman Manley International Airport within the Palisadoes-Port Royal Protected Area was a major step in the right direction for the country. That�...

Twenty alleged members of the St Catherine-based Clansman gang, who were among 50 individuals arrested and charged under the anti-gang legislation, have been freed as the evidence against them did not meet the threshold for prosecution. Thirty men....

The security forces have ceded ground in Southside, one of several communities in the Kingston Central Police Division, where rival gangs have unleashed a reign of terror this year. That is the view of a relative of 23-year-old Shedaine Richards,......

With less than 25,000 Jamaicans now fully vaccinated, health officials are hoping the more than 600 persons who took their jabs at the National Arena in a blitz on March 27 will come out today for their second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine....

Criminal defence lawyers weary of Parliament granting powers of appeal to the country’s main prosecutorial body need to “grow up” and enter the 21st century, Paula Llewellyn, the state’s chief prosecutor, has argued. “The pendulum of just...

A 54-year-old Clarendon woman who bears the scars of maternal love may be at death’s door if she doesn’t get her schizophrenic son readmitted to rehab. The cry comes as the mother says she was beaten within an inch of her life on Monday by her ...

The image of a bloodied five-year-old with his pants torn off, shirt soaked in blood, and flesh torn from his arm and head shook Jamaicans on November 16 last year, when The Gleaner broke the story of Mickele Allen being mauled by dogs in St D’Acr...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has laid the blame for some of the ills that now characterise everyday life in the country on the poor quality of education being delivered in schools. Giving the keynote address at a ceremony to officially rename the.....

While the number of tips to the National Crime Prevention Fund (Crime Stop) fell by roughly a third last year as the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the island, the administrators of the effort to help the police crack cases and retrieve illegal weapons.....

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) is urging lawmakers to create a stand-alone offence under the Cyber Crimes Act, 2015, which would criminalise the rising incidence of revenge porn. A senior prosecutor in the ODPP told a...

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewelyn has blamed careless parenting and an increasing consumption of pornography as triggers for many of the graphic cases of child-on-child sexual abuse coming before her office. Llewellyn, who has......

Politicians had to fork out more money to buy votes in the September 3 general election last year as electors increased the price for ballots because of the risks associated with the throes of a second wave of coronavirus spread, a new report...

Justice Vinette Graham Allen warned on Wednesday that the murder of a witness will not stop a criminal case from being tried. The judge gave the caution in the Home Circuit Court as she refused the bail application for Portland businessman Everton....

WESTERN BUREAU: Jermaine ‘Crabby’ Morris has vowed to claw his way back to establishing an even more successful enterprise after thieves raided his crab pen on Tuesday night, making off with the vast majority of his male crabs. Despite being...

With its critical role of assessing development projects to reduce the likelihood of disasters that can impact the economy and well-being of Jamaicans, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) was strongly criticised on.....

The Jamaican economy is expected to grow by between 7.0 per cent and 9.0 per cent for the April-June 2021 quarter, the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has projected. The positive outlook reflects recovery from heavy declines a year ago when.....