There is a “very obvious double standard” in the police’s handling of an investigation into alleged breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) by fallen Agriculture Minister Floyd Green and others connected to the governing Jamaica La...

Parents in some rural communities are hoping that the health authorities will make a greater push in bringing vaccination sites closer to home to ease the challenges they face in getting their children to various locations to take the jabs in...

Incarcerated dancehall deejay Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer may have a role to play in the Government’s pro-vaccination campaign. Addressing a query by The Gleaner about Palmer’s recruitment in promoting the COVID-19 jab, Prime Minister Andrew...

Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) believe they receive the harshest treatment among public sector workers who commit infractions that lead to disciplinary action resulting in suspension or interdiction. In fact, there are some police....

Nine Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts students who were in the vicinity of a fire, which broke out at the St Andrew-based fine arts institution on Friday, are receiving counselling. The students, most of whom are in their final....

Lawmakers began the debate on the Sexual Harassment (Protection and Prevention) Act, 2021 in the Senate on Friday, as they push to pass the groundbreaking legislation to stop the offensive practice in Jamaica. The proposed law is gender neutral and....

Normally, when British travel professional Dean Schiavi thinks of Jamaica, he often reflects on the wonderful bond he developed with the island since honeymooning here several years ago. However, these days, Schiavi, the managing director of the UK....

Consultant bioethicist Dr Derrick Aarons has described as “unfortunate” that 70 per cent of Jamaicans canvassed in an RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll are opposed to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccination has been a thorny issue......

WESTERN BUREAU: Cleon Miller says he took his father Audley Miller to the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, September 1 after he fell ill and stayed there with him until about 3 o’clock Thursday morning. About an hour....

Firebrand nurse and trade unionist Edith Allwood-Anderson, whose acerbic rhetoric rattled political negotiators and charm salved their wounded egos, passed away on Thursday after a long battle with illness. Allwood-Anderson, who served as president....

Transport and mining ministry representatives were sidelined as the boards of the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and a subsidiary decided on the first part of a $450m investment in First Rock Capital Holdings (FRCH), meeting records have...

The Kingston Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is appealing for financial assistance to alleviate a “crisis situation as its revenue has dried up owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The YMCA is acclaimed for transforming the lives of thousan...

By March next year, the appellate and Supreme courts are expected to clear their backlog of outstanding judgments. Noting that the court system seemed to have had its most productive last year, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes disclosed that the Gun Court....

Vendors in downtown Kingston were asked on Thursday, September 16, for their views regarding the return of nightly curfews and the cessation of weekday no-movement days. This is what they had to say. Pauletta Welsh McDonald: In terms of the...

The business community has welcomed news of the ending of the weekly three-day lockdowns which they complained was threatening the viability of their operations. On Wednesday, as he announced the latest restrictions to curtail the spread of the...

Cabinet colleagues of resigned Agriculture Minister Floyd Green have declared that he will be back. Green, the St Elizabeth South Western member of parliament, quit on Wednesday over a no-movement day party video that showed him among a group of......

Retaining shamed Agriculture Minister Floyd Green in the Cabinet would have damaged public confidence and compromised the Government’s campaign for compliance with COVID-19 health regulations in the worst phase of the disease, Prime Minister Andre...

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has been rocked by the resignations of at least five prosecutors last month amid reports of simmering discontentment over poor wages, heavy workloads, and the leadership. Workers have complained...

The Government has shifted its strategy from weekday lockdowns going forward and has returned to nightly curfews as a more sustained measure to keep businesses afloat while curtailing the spread of COVID-19. Prime Minister Andrew Holness said there....

Jermaine Chamberlain was charged by the police on September 21 last year for using an illegal gun to rob a young woman in east Kingston. But 10 months later, after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court,...