With the slim success that the Jamaican authorities have scored over the last three years with the prosecution of four criminal organisations, much rides on the ability of the much-touted anti-gang legislation to secure convictions against 33...

Fatigued by dithering across political administrations for almost a decade, a coalition of deep-pocketed investors has pulled out of a multibillion-dollar commercial project that was targeted as the axis of the redevelopment of downtown Kingston.......

The United Kingdom does not recognise the vaccine code for Jamaica, causing locals who are fully inoculated against COVID-19 to be designated unvaccinated on arrival in that European country. The majority of Jamaicans have been vaccinated with the.....

A grieving Ean Richards is still wishing that his daughter, 32-year-old Annakaye Richards, had heeded his agonising plea to flee for her life from Comfort, Manchester. About an hour after warming Annakaye’s dinner and bidding her farewell on...

On Tuesday, September 7, a coronavirus no-movement day, heavily armed gangsters from Stevens Lane traded bullets in the Chinese Cemetery on Waltham Park Road with rival gunmen from Pretoria Road affiliated with the Spade Corner Gang. The fury was a....

The National Intelligence Bureau has warned police personnel in the St Catherine North Division to be on the alert in the wake of a fatal attack on a cop in Gregory Park, St Catherine, early Sunday. The advisory coincides with today’s start of the...

Gang violence in the St Andrew South Western constituency is crippling efforts to drive up vaccination against COVID-19 in several communities there, increasing concerns that the most vulnerable may be left behind. The constituency, represented by.....

Although most Jamaicans believe mask-wearing – not vaccines – is the most effective tool to fight the deadly COVID-19, it is also the one the majority of people admit they struggle to comply with, an RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll has...

A father of four young children cannot come to terms with how he was chopped several times, resulting in the loss of use of both hands while doing a good deed for one of his co-workers on June 13, 2019. Christopher Perkins, 34, shook his head and.....

There is a dark side of the Sunshine City that often goes unseen – a side woven by egregious criminals bent on turning the municipality into a bloodfest. For some 300,000 Jamaicans facing the challenges of COVID-19, the dormitory coastal...

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...

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...