WESTERN BUREAU: There is growing agitation in the Accompong Town Maroon enclave in St Elizabeth, where some residents are up in arms over what they describe as the dictatorial style of Chief Richard Currie. They alleged that persons close to the......

St James Central Member of Parliament Heroy Clarke’s proposal for a law mandating paternity testing of newborns has been rubbished as simplistic and dangerous.. Making his State of the Constituency Debate address in Parliament on Tuesday, Clarke...

Residents of Wakefield in St Catherine have resorted to robbing the water supply from the local primary school after going more than a month with dry taps at their homes. Principal of Wakefield Primary School, Tameca Riley-Powell, told The Gleaner....

In his first presentation in Gordon House, controversial Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright, who resigned from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) earlier this year, proposed on Wednesday that Prime Minister Andrew...

Controversial football manager Craig Butler is being hauled before the court over alleged unpaid rent amounting to $660,000. The matter is expected to be mentioned in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court (Civil Division) on Sutton Street today.....

Despite claims by the National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica that there has been no recent consultation on the controversial Sixth Form Pathways Programme (SFPP), the Ministry of Education has insisted that sensitisation sessions have been.....

As neglected families in hospitals continue to deprive patients of critical bed spaces, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the Government is taking steps to initiate legal action against their relatives who have abandoned them.....

Shermott Facey, the father of 16-month-old Charlotte, could not contain his joy. His daughter is among 13 Jamaican children currently benefiting from cardiac catheterisation, a non-surgical procedure, through the first medical mission to...

Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has criticised Education Minister Fayval Williams’ decision to allow the board of Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) to examine the findings of a performance audit that revealed its own serious breache...

After months of deafening silence over the scandal bedevilling the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ), Transport and Mining Minister Robert Montague told Parliament on Tuesday that he had dissolved the board of the public body over the FirstRock.....

Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Morais Guy has alleged that there is an ongoing scam involving polymerase chain reaction (PCR) COVID-19 testing with whirlwind turnaround of results in a matter of minutes. He made the claim during Tuesday’s...

A hairdresser brutally attacked in downtown Kingston last Thursday died at the hands of a gunman who, it is theorised, mistakenly pumped bullets into her as she sat in front of a wholesale attired in clothing similar to their intended target’s.......

With two of her children at her side on Tuesday, Amorel Wright screamed at the Rio Cobre, her agonising cry personifying the St Catherine river as a cruel thief who had stolen her 14-year-old daughter. Damoya Grant became the latest drowning...

A psychotherapist in Britain was a picture of frustration as she spoke to The Gleaner five hours before the charter flight with deportees, including her partner, was due to take off at Birmingham Airport in the United Kingdom (UK) for Kingston,...

The prosecution’s first star witness disclosed on Tuesday that he had suspected that the police had a criminal case against him before he came forward with information on the One Don Gang. The witness had previously testified that he voluntarily....

Opposition Spokesperson on Education Dr Angela Brown Burke has described as “utter nonsense” the Government’s decision to disallow fifth-form graduations as it transitions to compulsory participation of students in a seven-year educational pla...

Homeless persons roaming the Corporate Area will soon get the chance of becoming employed in a programme spearheaded by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC). During an interview with The Gleaner after the corporation’s monthly....

Metcalfe Street in the Denham Town division will be renamed in honour of former Councillor Lorna Leslie. Leslie contested local government elections since 1981 for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) without a single defeat. She retired five years ago......

The education ministry has ordered that effective this academic year, no graduation ceremonies should be held for fifth-formers as Jamaica transitions to the now-compulsory seven-year secondary education period. High school principals have also...

The bombshell testimony that Vybz Kartel had ordered murder hits on three persons from behind bars may have already placed the notorious entertainer on the police’s radar for investigation before it was made public, a senior police officer has...