Plans for the deportation of Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, one of the key suspects behind the July 7 assassination of then Haitian President Jovenel Moise, were in train when they were serendipitously scuttled when the high-profile target in one....

Rallying a call to action in the face of Jamaica’s “vaccine crisis of gargantuan proportions”, public-health specialist Dr Alverston Bailey has urged the Ministry of Health and Wellness to offer AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses to the estima...

A policeman attached to the National Intelligence Unit (NIB) Area One Division has been reassigned owing to his membership in the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries. The police inspector and his wife, a teacher, and their...

WESTERN BUREAU: Flamboyant alleged cult leader Kevin O. Smith was a picture of humiliation on Thursday as he was transported to his Ironshore, St James, home in handcuffs by a police team to facilitate a search of two of his properties located in......

WESTERN BUREAU: Eleven-year-old Jada Wright is no ordinary child, having passed four Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects with distinction, the latest two racked up in this year’s June sitting. Jada, who lives in Junction, St....

For her sixth birthday celebration on December 10, kidney cancer patient Nyla Simpson hopes to have a mermaid party on the beach. However, she first needs to keep her chemotherapy treatment on track at some $140,000 per month, which her family is......

Forty-two year-old Levi Chambers condemned the separate abductions of two girls in St Thomas last week and expressed a desire for the perpetrator to be brought to justice. But in a cruel twist of fate, Chambers was attacked and fatally stabbed,...

Relatives of the elderly Jamaican-Canadian couple who was gruesomely murdered in Retreat, St Thomas, three years ago, say they have forgiven the killer and are thankful that he confessed. The 29-year-old farmer, Fabian Skervin, who had pleaded...

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...