The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has intervened on behalf of former Education Minister Ruel Reid in the controversy surrounding his tenure as principal of Jamaica College (JC). Reid, who is a long-time member of the powerful teachers’ uni...

An inconsolable girl who witnessed a gunman, posing as a customer, murder her grandaunt at close range on Wednesday is wracked with guilt after letting him inside their Passage Fort Drive yard. The tragedy unfolded after the gunman gave the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Former Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin believes that the Andrew Holness-led Jamaica Labour Party could reap political benefits from the timing of the states of emergency (SOEs) declared on Sunday as the local...

Nineteen-year-old Yashieken Campbell decided to forego the last two terms before her graduation at Kellits High School in Clarendon in order to generate income to take care of her young daughter and other family members. Campbell, who previously...

The prosecution’s second witness in the Clansman Gang trial yesterday testified that an ex-soldier accused of being a member of the One Don Gang had spent his free time guarding reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan. “When he is not at work,...

Opposition Spokesperson on Education Dr Angela Brown Burke has lashed out at the Ministry of Education’s decision to remove special-needs students from the Adonijah Group of Schools over unpaid fees. But on Wednesday, Education Minister Fayval......

A special audit into the operations of the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) has found that 275.6 million litres of fuel with Customs value of more than $12 billion, representing sales by Petrojam to a major local petroleum operator, its subsidiary and.....

The leadership of Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) is taking issue with the auditor general’s claim that deficiencies at the agency led to $2.1 billion in financial exposure. In a statement on Thursday, the JCA said it disagreed with the auditor...

The Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) has come in for increased scrutiny in the wake of a special audit detailing weaknesses in its procedures and accountability that resulted in three importers that operated private bonded warehouses owing more than $.....

Leading healthcare professionals have insisted that they would not support preferential treatment for patients who are vaccinated against COVID-19. That caution from Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) President Dr Brian James and Nurses...

Lottery scammers and obeah practitioners in western Jamaica are reportedly buying up snakes, thus sparking a market for their capture, a survey conducted by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has unearthed. The island has eight...

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has reported that a major importer of bunker fuel into Jamaica (BFO1) failed to declare a total of 50.08 million litres (315,268.67 barrels) of imported fuel on five shipments, with a cost, insurance and freight.....

After suffering days without electricity and water last week, Prime Minister Andrew Holness offered reassurance to residents of Port Royal on Wednesday that the Goverment would come good on its promise of improved sewerage and other infrastructure.....

Spanish hotel chain RIU has flatly denied claims that its staff profiled and battered a Jamaican man who was a guest at its Ocho Rios, St Ann, resort in October. In a statement issued to The Gleaner on Wednesday, RIU said that it rejects and...

The National Works Agency (NWA) has said that there are no plans to destroy the Roselle Falls in St Thomas as work continues on the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project. NWA Communications Manager Stephen Shaw gave the assurance amid...

The island’s 63 members of parliament are to receive 100 tablets each to distribute in their constituency over the next few weeks. Education Minister Fayval Williams made the disclosure yesterday as she spoke with The Gleaner at a tablet handover....

Last Sunday when Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced the imposition of states of emergency in seven police divisions, many residents of crime-plagued communities rejoiced, saying the measure was long overdue. However, some tourism...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given the clearest signal that concrete steps are being taken to remove the shield of lockdowns and restrictions that have been introduced since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, signalling that so-...

Chargé d’affaires at the United States Embassy in Kingston, John McIntyre, has seemingly broken from the isolationist rhetoric of former ambassador Donald Tapia, insisting that China’s deepening relations with Jamaica will not sour the islandâ€...

Two weeks after the health ministry resumed administration of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine under strict guidelines that only children aged 12 to 18 and people due second doses would get the jab, it has backtracked on that restriction, expanding the....