A number of commanders have said that since the Government imposed states of emergency (SOEs) in seven police divisions two Sundays ago, more residents have been feeding them with information as the gangsters flee the space. The disclosure was made....

Fraud and corruption charges against Kim Brown-Lawrence, councillor for the Brown’s Town division in the St Ann Municipal Corporation, have not immediately disqualified her candidacy for the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as it fine-tunes...

WESTERN BUREAU: Calyssa Walker, the 10-year-old child who suffered a bullet wound during a major shooting incident in downtown Montego Bay on October 6, is desperately in need of financial help to secure the US$50,000 (J$7.8 million) needed for...

Guiding his protégés to success in the inaugural Evergo Jamaica Secondary Schools’ E-Mobility Robotics Competition on Wednesday has brought a sense of fulfilment to Jamaica College coach Paul Pounall. “As a past robotics student, this is my wa...

As Jamaica joins the world in commemorating International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, People’s National Party junior shadow spokesperson on gender, Krystal Tomlinson, is calling for lawmakers to reshape legislation to....

Legal luminary and former president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Seymour Panton, has shredded arguments by legislators who crafted a gag provision in law to restrict the Integrity Commission, Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body from announcin...

The lead investigator in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial testified on Wednesday that he and an ex-gangster had made an arrangement for him to secretly record conversations between himself and the alleged criminals. The detective sergeant further...

Buoyed by big second-quarter bottom-line improvements, Radio Jamaica Limited, which trades as RJRGLEANER Communications Group, is looking to capitalise on the one-two-three ranking of its divisions among media outlets on social media. CEO Gary...

The United States has reissued a visitor’s visa to opposition lawmaker Phillip Paulwell just over two years after it was revoked. The Kingston Eastern and Port Royal member of parliament confirmed on Tuesday that he’s now in possession of the.....

Chairman of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Robert Montague, is facing a quiet-but-potent challenge headed by the party’s powerful Area Council One to oust him amid a trail of scandals spanning two ministries he has headed since 2016......

When Macquisha Smith never returned to her workstation last Thursday afternoon after leaving to meet a family friend, her employer, Natisha Miller, became anxious. Her unease was further fuelled when the salon’s receptionist phoned her the...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has been buoyed by the early success of the newly formed Maritime, Air and Cyber Command (MACC) that intercepted a drug run by smugglers off the island’s southwestern coastline, netting cocaine value...

An early-morning fire on Tuesday flattened a tenement building along Hanover Street in Kingston, putting a damper on plans for Christmas cheer for some residents, while others have been plunged further into poverty having lost all their possessions....

An arduous and sometimes raucous hours-long debate on the extension of states of public emergency (SOEs) ended with the Government side easily passing the measure with its superior majority, while the parliamentary Opposition slammed the Holness......

A man believed to be of unsound mind who allegedly murdered his 46-year-old mother in Greater Portmore, St Catherine, was fatally shot early Tuesday after going on a rampage in which he attacked security guards and hijacked a motor vehicle. The...

Dennis Wright, the former deputy chairman of the board of the Clarendon Alumina Production Limited (CAP) who is at the centre of the controversy involving the final in a series of contracts issued to CCA Capital Partners, has vowed to break his...

Two of three transcripts of the secret recordings of alleged members of the One Don Gang were blocked on Tuesday from being entered into evidence after defence lawyers raised objections. The prosecution’s first police witness and the third of 42 i...

Two claimants who filed a lawsuit against their employers, Cari-Med Group and its subsidiary Kirk-FP Limited, complaining that the COVID-19 policy breached their constitutional rights, want the Supreme Court to grant an injunction blocking the...

Describing the recent wage offer made by the Government as an attempt to rob rank-and-file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James has warned that demoralised law enforcers could not provide.....

Garnet Johnson, whose board house was crushed by a tree on September 30 and who lamented having spent years in state homes as a child, has finally been reunited with his mother. Days after The Gleaner shared the 28-year-old man’s story, his mother...