President of the Medical Association of Jamaica, Dr Andrew Manning, believes that Jamaica is now in the midst of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. On Thursday, the country recorded 326 new cases, which is the second-highest number of cases...

TOKYO, Japan: Jamaica will be looking to close out the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on a positive note after enjoying success in the women’s 4x100m relay inside the Tokyo Olympic Stadium as the island celebrated its Independence on Friday. The team o...

Two criminals awaiting sentencing at the Hunts Bay Police Station lock-up made a pre-Independence Day jailbreak and are still on the run. Yesterday, the leadership of the station held an emergency meeting to, among other things, ascertain how the......

An 11-year-old girl, who just passed her Primary Exit Profile examination to attend Westwood High in September, has been left traumatised after gunmen shot and killed her mother at their home in Tank Lane, Oracabessa, St Mary, on Thursday night....

Trench Town residents claim that their community will never return to the days of peaceful living and enjoyment following Thursday night’s senseless attack that left six persons, including a woman, nursing gunshot wounds after a drive-by shooting....

St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has been released from a Barbados hospital where he underwent several tests yesterday morning. Gonsalves was hit on the head with a stone near the Parliament on Thursday as he made his....

The Clarendon police have confirmed that one man died as a result of injuries sustained in an accident in the community of Race Course in Toll Gate, Clarendon, yesterday afternoon. Ramone Henry, an eyewitness, told The Gleaner that overtaking...

In a sweeping condemnation of persons who are using social media to perpetuate misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine, State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Alando Terrelonge, has called on those...

Western Bureau: The Trelawny Co-operative Credit Union (TCCU) has announced that its current asset base is a whopping J$3.6 billion, which means the institution is now on a solid foundation to approach the future with confidence. The good news...

The year 1987 marked a significant milestone in the life of Jamaica as a nation, as the country marked 25 years of independence from Britain. For a female student at the impressionable age of 11, though, seeing Roy Rayon perform his winning...

Professor Donald Jasper Harris will be this year’s only inductee into the Order of Merit, Jamaica’s third-highest honour, for his outstanding contributions to national development. He will be among 144 Jamaicans who will be given National Honou...

Jamaica on Thursday recorded three more COVID deaths pushing the tally to 1,214. At the same time, the number of infections continued to climb. Latest deaths *An 88-year-old male from Clarendon *A 78-year-old male from Westmoreland *A 52-year-...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman Prime Minister Gaston Browne has condemned the physical assault on St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves. And he is warning against the introduction of violence in Caribbean...

Jumping over zinc fences and bearing the weight of old tyres as he ran up and down the hill of Cashew Lane in Port Morant, St Thomas, may have all contributed to the crowning of Hansle Parchment as the newest 110m hurdles Olympic champion....

Jamaica’s health officials are banking on an upswing in COVID-19 vaccinations as new survey data are emerging suggesting a softening of the high levels of hesitancy that have stymied the pace of inoculation. That news is likely to be a fillip for...

In every career, there comes an accomplishment that makes one complete. For coach Fitz Coleman, that defining moment glistened on an Olympic gold medal-winning performance, delivered by Hansle Parchment in the men’s 110m final at the Tokyo 2020......

TOKYO, Japan: Jamaica’s male and female sprint relay teams will be on the hunt for gold medals in their respective events at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium today as the Tokyo 2020 Games nears its end. The women’s 4x100m team of Briana Williams,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Prominent members of the Rastafarian community in western Jamaica and sympathisers of the movement staged a peaceful demonstration in Sam Sharpe Square, Montego Bay, on Thursday to protest what they have described as state-...

A Westmoreland fisherman who was sentenced to life in prison for holding up a woman with a knife and raping her near a police station has had his sentence reduced to 20 years. Ian Wilson was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of......

The Jamaica Employers’ Federation (JEF) has started drafting a proposal for mandatory vaccination of workers amid growing concern about the island’s low rate of inoculation against the coronavirus disease. Those overtures, yet to be dispatched t...