Tuesday night’s attack on a family of four in Havannah Heights, Clarendon, is a stark and chilling reminder of the predawn quadruple murder in the community on September 12. Residents in the central Clarendon community have been on tenterhooks......

Christopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer WESTERN BUREAU: Effective Monday, December 20, persons who have received the COVID-19 vaccine will be able to download their vaccination verification cards from the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ website to sho...

The shooting death of project manager and Jamaica Labour Party activist Anthony Scully halted a drain-cleaning and beautification project in Waterford, Portmore, on Wednesday. Suzette Greenland, who was being consoled by friends on Wednesday, told.....

A few minutes off the Golden Grove main road in St Thomas lies a place of refuge for endangered species called the Holland Crocodile Sanctuary. And it’s crawling with more than 170 of them! A long, narrow, and rocky track leads to the wetland,...

Applications for residences built by the National Housing Trust (NHT) at Perth Estate in Manchester were almost 20 times capacity, an observation Prime Minister Andrew Holness cited as evidence of the huge appetite for affordable accommodations in.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Sudeen Hylton, the woman charged with the August 12 shooting death of Richard ‘Jimmy’ Baker in Glendevon, had her bail revoked when she appeared in the St James Parish Court to answer the charge. Hylton’s freedom was reportedly...

A massive fire that consumed three buildings in the heart of Spanish Town on Wednesday has disrupted post-mortem examinations at Archer’s Funeral Home and caused heartbreak for householders and school authorities. A house and early childhood schoo...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) infrastructure in Hanover is now under siege as thieves have removed street lights and power wires with impunity, blanketing roads in many communities in total darkness at night. The Orange Bay......

Importers must make an accurate declaration of the contents of their shipment and submit proper invoices to Customs to avoid or reduce delays. . Where applicable, importers must apply for the requisite permission, permits, and/or licences from the....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has expressed confidence in Edward Gabbidon as chairman of the HEART/NSTA Trust despite a litany of controversies plaguing the institution in recent times, including allegations of conflict of interest facing the board....

WESTERN BUREAU: Kingston Central Member of Parliament (MP) Donovan Williams may have breached tenets of the Agreement and Declaration on Political Conduct (Code) by allegedly overseeing the painting of sidewalks in his constituency in the...

CARICOM Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett stopped short of definitively supporting COVID-19 vaccine mandates across the region on Tuesday, opting instead to point out that governments have a right to protect their citizens. There has been strong.....

A massive clean-up exercise has been announced for the holiday season, with 500 ‘sweepers’ to be employed by the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) across the country and 300 private garbage and dump trucks retained to help in...

The CARICOM Secretariat has conceded that there is little advocacy it can muscle to push member states off a European Union (EU) anti-money laundering blacklist but rapped developed countries for constantly shifting international benchmarks....

More than 400 students on state welfare are set to be brought to school under the ‘Back on Track’ transportation initiative just in time for the start of the new academic year, commencing January 3. Six St Catherine schools will benefit from the...

A resident of Waltham Park Road in St Andrew said a concrete wall saved him from being struck by a bullet as gunmen fired indiscriminately, hitting four others during a drive-by attack on Tuesday. “We are not safe in Jamaica. You can be here today...

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the global surge in the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Jamaica’s tourism stakeholders are confident they will experience 70 per cent occupancy this Christmas into January 2022. The island’s winter tourist season...

Bail extended for UIC's Patterson, co-accused President of the United Independents' Congress, Joseph Patterson, and his co-accused had their bail extended when they appeared before Senior Parish Judge Lori-Ann Cole-Montague in the Kingston and......

The world is becoming increasingly digitised, with businesses offering products and services online and consumers preferring to access goods and services by this method. Online shopping is associated with convenience, flexibility, and a broader...

Former President of the Senate Floyd Morris says the Government is likely to face “major embarrassment” in the future if Senator Kamina Johnson continues her protest against Opposition Senator Lambert Brown, with whom she has had bad-tempered......