With hours on the clock before the special leave of scandal-scarred former Education Minister Ruel Reid was set to expire, negotiations between the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Jamaica College (JC) board to determine the way forward were still......

Members of the security forces operating in the Corporate Area are peeved at the recent declaration of states of emergency (SOE), lamenting the distress among officers who are being asked to make do with insufficient resources. Kingston Western was....

Leader of Government Business in the Senate Kamina Johnson Smith has given the assurance that the proposed national identification card will not bear the addresses of Jamaicans who sign up for it. She made the disclosure after Opposition Senator...

Despite inking a wage agreement on behalf of the senior uniformed officers within the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), Leslie Campbell made it clear that their acceptance of the four per cent wage increase offer should not be interpreted.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Thursday said that no elections will be held until the Government is able to stimulate the economy and bring stability to the nation’s crime problem. He was speaking during a tour of sections of the...

Twenty-three-year-old Tonia Williams, Jamaica’s 2022 Rhodes Scholar, said it was a moment of shock and emotional highs when she learnt that she was being awarded this year’s scholarship on Thursday afternoon. “I’ve had a couple of hours to p...

Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) Chairman Dr Derrick Deslandes has dismissed the traditional method of pasture-grazing cattle as an outdated and wasteful way of feeding. Speaking during Thursday’s launch of the National Livestock Genetic...

The self-confessed member of the One Don Gang yesterday dismissed a suggestion that he had fabricated a story about an alleged gang member’s desire to drink blood from a skull because he wanted to spark sensation in the media. The prosecution’s...

Mining Minister Robert Montague has maintained his silence on the controversial Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) contract issue that has seen board chairman Norman Reid resign in protest. Approached by The Gleaner on Friday at a function in Ocho.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is hopeful that the construction of the Western Children and Adolescents Hospital, which is being built on the grounds of the Cornwall Regional Hospital, in Montego Bay, will...

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’ un...

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...