Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has urged the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information to immediately call for full disclosure of all existing contractual and transactional arrangements with connected parties at Nutrition Products Limited (....

Waves of deadly coronavirus infections and the attendant economic hardships from measures to rein in outbreaks have set Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his Government on a precipitous plunge in popularity, commentators agree. An RJRGLEANER-...

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has raised questions about a decision by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information to slash subvention in half to Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) and divert funds to schools while retaining the entire...

The COVID-19 pandemic and four consecutive weeks of three-day lockdowns it spawned are being blamed for the ‘full-for-empties’ policy being instituted by beermaker Red Stripe and which has left a number of businesses out of stock and struggling ...

WESTERN BUREAU: Even after months of demonstrations and threats from residents of Friendship and surrounding communities in St James over poor road conditions, the National Works Agency (NWA) says there is still no definite timeline for a fix. This....

First-time Member of Parliament (MP) Rhoda Moy Crawford used her state of the constituency address on Tuesday to deliver a stinging rebuke of government agencies, criticising the red tape that she says has hindered work in her Manchester Central...

The trial of the 33 alleged members of the One Don Gang will resume Wednesday morning in the Home Circuit Court after technological difficulties forced an early adjournment Tuesday. One of the two main witnesses, a self-confessed member of the...

Ewart Gilzean Board Chairman Chairman – Finance, Planning & MIT and Procurement & Contracts Committees Robert Miller Chairman – Internal Audit & Investigation; Prod, Maint...

The One Don Gang, a faction of the feared St Catherine-based Clansman Gang, was painted on Monday as a well-organised and ruthless criminal enterprise that carried out a slew of murders and arson attacks across the parish. Prosecutors pressed home.....

News that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been found to induce a robust immune response in children between five and 11 years old in a clinical trial has triggered a weary sigh of relief among educators hopeful that this latest victory...

The People’s National Party (PNP) continues to sink deeper into the political wilderness, taking a severe hit to its positive performance rating over a one-year period. An RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll showed the Opposition party...

When Dewayne Cameron received a call on Saturday that his three-year-old son, Jamarie, was allegedly badly injured in a domestic dispute in St Catherine, he became so angry that he had to discontinue his participation in a video shoot under way....

WESTERN BUREAU: A group calling itself Friends of Bluefields Beach in Westmoreland has threatened to take civil action against a prominent business operator in the community if a chain-link fence erected last week is not removed, claiming that it.....

Having been born and raised in Comfort, Manchester, Lisa Thomas has witnessed the decline in the unity among residents, who once made the area lively with an enviable community spirit, and yearns for a return to those days. In May 2014, her brother....

WESTERN BUREAU: Throwing hesitancy out the door and embracing the COVID-19 vaccines, Treasure Beach’s Jakes Hotel and its Jack Sprat restaurant are the country’s first resort to fully vaccinate all their employees. Some 120 people are employed t...

With the Government’s inflation target at risk of breaching the upper limit of six per cent over the next year, the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) is sounding a note of caution that a four per cent salary increase for its membership is a no...

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Health Department’s planned COVID-19 vaccination campaign for prisoners in the parish’s police lock-ups has been pushed back by a month to allow for completion of an ongoing education drive. Lennox Wallace, the paris...

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.....