A three-month-pregnant woman and an anaemic colleague who is reportedly preparing for surgery are among five women who have filed a constitutional challenge against Cari-Med Group, a leading pharmaceutical company, over its mandatory COVID-19...

WESTERN BUREAU: Taneka Gardner became so bewitched by her cultish pastor that she tried to remove her son and mother from her life insurance policy, making Dr Kevin O. Smith her beneficiary. Smith had the power to get his congregation to fund his......

A year after a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court that the months-long detention of five men without charge was unconstitutional, the Government has revisited aspects of the Emergency Powers Act in hopes of satisfying the requirements of the...

Western Bureau: With Prime Minister Andrew Holness hinting that mandatory COVID-19 vaccination could be on the horizon amid substantial local hesitancy to the jab, the Rastafarian community says such a move would be a breach of their religious and....

A digital future is coming into sharp focus for the RJRGLEANER Communications Group as the company readies for digital switchover (DSO). The company is planning to spend about $1.5 billion on the project to digitise its operation, according to CEO.....

Jamaica’s employed labour force grew by 8.3 per cent in July, according to the latest data from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN). The July 2021 Labour Force Survey (LFS) found that more than 1.2 million (1,215,000) Jamaicans were in....

COVID-19 infections and deaths have declined in most countries in North America although more hospitalisations are being seen in Canada’s distant provinces. The rate of COVID-19 infections is also on the decline in Central and South America with....

Jacky Wright, who has featured on the Powerlist since 2018, has topped the 2022 list as the most influential black person in the United Kingdom. Born in London of Jamaican parents, Wright is the corporate vice-president and chief digital officer at....

WESTERN BUREAU: Meakof Jarrett, the elder brother of 39-year-old Taneka Gardner, the woman whose throat was slashed during a sacrificial ritual at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Paradise, Montego Bay, St James, on...

WESTERN BUREAU: Kevin O. Smith, the man who presided over a murderous ritual in Montego Bay, St James, enjoys a commanding presence on social media, with posts detailing his objection to, among other things, mandatory vaccination, likening it to...

WESTERN BUREAU: As discernment is replaced by manipulation, one of the most respected voices in the Baptist denomination is warning that personality cultism has no place in the Kingdom of God. Former head of the Calvary Baptist Church in Montego...

A St Catherine woman who reported her daughter missing almost two years ago has accused the Portmore police of doing little to locate the 33-year-old, theorising that her child’s sexual orientation may have impacted their efforts. Sandra Williams...

Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding has expressed concern that Jamaica’s leading anti-corruption bodies were failing to hold government officials accountable despite a litany of documented irregularities and impropriety in ministries and agencie...

The pass rate of Jamaican students in mathematics at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) level has plunged by 23 percentage points. In the June-July exam administered by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), only 38.2 per cent.....

A former executive of the now-defunct used-car dealership CarMax, who was implicated in a multimillion-dollar fraud probe at the company, was freed of fraud charges last Friday. Businessman Darren Blake, who was arrested and charged in March 2015.....

Blood trails led cops to a dead end in their search for a suspected fugitive who escaped after a shoot-out on Grants Pen Drive in St Andrew yesterday morning. The investigators could not determine whether the man, who narrowly escaped them, was...

WESTERN BUREAU: A Hanover woman who was among the congregants at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Paradise, St James, on Sunday when deadly violence erupted is now emotionally drained after realising how close she came......

WESTERN BUREAU: The bloodstained concrete where Taneka Gardner, the woman who was reportedly sacrificed in a bizarre ritual in St James on Sunday, was testament to the horror that unfolded at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration...

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Kevin O. Smith’s Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries raked in close to $1 million per week from offerings, consultations and spiritual encounter, The Gleaner has learnt. Smith, who assumed the title His...

St Elizabeth businessman Jason Henzell yesterday expressed sadness at the passing of former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, who died on Monday from complications associated with COVID-19. Powell, 84, who was born in New York to...