Cruise ships will be making calls to Jamaican ports very soon, but Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who made the disclosure last evening, failed to provide any details about the timeline even as he emphasised the importance of walking a tightrope...

While some parents are making plans for the new school year, mother of five Tanisha Sewell is just trying to keep food on the table and keep a roof over her and her children’s heads. She cannot even look as far as a month ahead as her children...

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has said that there is no excuse for Jamaicans to now not take the COVID-19 vaccine, emphasising its importance in crippling the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking yesterday at the commissioning of 207 new justices of the...

A Gregory Park family is mourning the loss of two relatives who were killed in separate incidents a day apart in the low-income St Catherine community, which has recorded three murders since Sunday. In the latest killing yesterday, unknown...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday hailed the acquisition of the Jamaica lll, a state-of-the-art utility vessel, by the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) as an indication of the Government’s thrust to modernise public infrastructure and...

Negril’s Hedonism II has confirmed that some staff and guests have tested positive for COVID-19 in what it has described as “a very small outbreak” at the resort in recent weeks. However, the resort has taken issue with yesterday’s Gleaner l...

KLAS Sports radio has been ordered by the Supreme Court to disclose, before September 24, copies of its audited financial statements for 2015-2020 to the Jamaica Association of Authors, Composers and Publishers Association (JACAP), which has...

WESTERN BUREAU: With the judicial system in western Jamaica taking a battering from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the shutting down of the parish courts in St James and Westmoreland earlier this week, the St James Health...

WESTERN BUREAU: A cluster of COVID-19 cases numbering close to 50 within the last two weeks – the majority discovered in recent days – at the Hedonism II resort in Negril has triggered a wave of concern as health authorities seek to contain what...

Twenty-six-year-old Rejeen Morrison was admitted in hospital on March 11 for diabetic ketoacidosis, a complication associated with lupus. Morrison has several comorbidities, including trigeminal neuralgia, idiopathic autoimmune hepatitis,...

Jamaica-born nurse Dr Sandra Lindsay is urging the Government to determine the main reasons Jamaicans are hesitant about taking the COVID-19 vaccine in order to provide practical solutions and boost take-up amid rising infection numbers in the...

President of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) Lloyd Distant has indicated that if a decision has been made to prosecute parliamentarians who have breached the Integrity Commission Act and this was akin to a charge and arrest being made, the...

WESTERN BUREAU: St James yesterday passed the grim mark of 100 homicides since the start of the year, when a man said to be a top-tier member of the notorious Granville-based ‘Big Yard’ Gang was shot and killed gangland-style in the parking lot ...

President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) John Mahfood is bemoaning the “disastrous effect” crime is having on the society and economy. A surge in violent crimes this year has pushed the murder rate up by eight per....

Residents of Ten Miles in Bull Bay, which borders two constituencies – East Rural St Andrew and Western St Thomas – say they feel slighted after years of neglect by their political representatives and the Caribbean Cement Company with the lack o...

Less than seven weeks after the initial opening up of the entertainment sector, the Government has pulled the plug as the island is experiencing a third wave of COVID-19 with high levels of hospitalisations, climbing infection rates and mounting...

Although relieved that the man accused of raping her 12-year-old daughter at gunpoint on Mother’s Day has met his demise, a St Catherine mother is harbouring fears that with the pre-teen exhibiting signs of pregnancy and battling a sexually...

ST THOMAS: Olympic gold medallist Hansle Parchment is encouraging the undiluted support of all athletes, regardless of how one may have performed. The shine of his medal dimmed in comparison to the intensity of the love the 31-year-old champion......

Grassroots Windrush organisations in the United Kingdom (UK) have renewed calls for a cessation or moratorium on deportation flights until the Windrush Scandal is fully addressed. At least 30 Jamaicans have been issued deportation orders for a...

WESTERN BUREAU: As the island grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases, readjustments are being done for shift assignments and monitoring of oxygen usage at medical facilities in under the umbrella of the the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA.....