Therese Turner-Jones, the Caribbean economist and noted development advocate, says she has no ill will towards the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or its president, Mauricio Claver-Carone, who this month pulled the plug on her nearly nine-...

An ongoing rift between rival factions in the Gulf area of Gregory Park, St Catherine, has triggered new tensions in the crime-plagued community as residents blame the St Catherine South police and political representatives for taking sides in the.....

Pressure is mounting for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to remove Edward Gabbidon as chairman of the board of HEART/NSTA Trust because of the relationship between the multibillion-dollar training agency and Gabbidon’s company, SynCon Technologies.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Still basking in the afterglow of calling her two sons to the Bar at the Supreme Court ceremony last Thursday, Queen’s Counsel Sandra Minott-Phillips says she has not taken the double delight for granted. Jacob, 27, and 28-year-old...

Evergreen Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is urging sportswomen to continue to advocate for gender equaity in track and field and other disciplines and not be overshadowed by male dominance. Fraser-Pryce, 34, has caught a second wind...

An employer of murdered mechanic Marlon ‘Irons’ Salmon said news that his mentor had been shot was a horrifying reminder of an incident in which Salmon was shot at his Denbigh Crescent-based workshop in Clarendon last year. Remembering the 2020....

Elaine Thompson-Herah, the world’s fastest woman alive, zipped into Banana Ground, Manchester, on Saturday and brought Christmas cheer to residents who turned out for their hometown hero. The five-time Olympic champion personally distributed care....

A man who has been on the run for two months after he mysteriously “walked out” of a police lock-up in St James is now a “major suspect” in the killing of the complainant in his assault case, a top police official has revealed. The male comp...

WESTERN BUREAU: With entertainment events still being restricted as the usually party-heavy Christmas into New Year’s Day period approaches, sector players as well as those in the culture and creative industries have welcomed yesterday’s...

Corruption allegations have been levelled against the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) after it admitted that an “administrative error” led to the approval of strata plans for 14 apartment units at a controversial Birdsucker,...

There are days when Shaunee* assesses her economic situation and bursts into tears. Life is tough for the 38-year-old Trinidadian mother-of-three, who earns little as an itinerant geriatric nurse. Trying desperately to fight back tears, and with......

Retired fishing vessel captain Jeffery Steadman is now homeless but he is not giving up the fight to ascertain how his father, the late custos of Portland, John Henry Stedman, who died 25 years ago, was allegedly swindled out of 267 acres of prime.....

Although saddled with the seemingly unshakeable burdens of crime, corruption, under-education and a huge social deficit as it takes a blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, Keith Duncan believes there is hope for Jamaica lying in social transformation,......

After losing an estimated $6 billion in produce and animals to thieves annually with little or no redress, and having seen at least 12 of their colleagues murdered this year alone, many of the island’s farmers are now awaiting the maturity of thei...

Members of the previous Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) board of directors were not able to verify the price its business partner, the Noble Group, obtained for Jamaica’s share of alumina produced by Jamalco, a Sunday Gleaner investigation has....

Twenty-six-year-old Constable Orlando Irons, who died from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident which also claimed the life of controversial pastor Kevin Smith on October 25, was laid to rest in St Ann on Friday after a service in which......

Education Minister Fayval Williams yesterday rubbished comments made by William Knibb Memorial High School Principal Linvern Wright, which characterised her stewardship of the portfolio as “poor”, declaring that she and her team have done a...

Opposition senators while supporting the passing of the Corrections (Amendment) Act, 2021 yesterday charged that the bill, which is seeking to institute tougher penalties with fines of up $3 million and sentences of up to five years, would have...

The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) is to erect a six-storey $238-million complex geared towards elevating the services and offerings of the facility to international standards. The disclosure was made yesterday as the St Andrew-based....

Some 390 farmers in Little Park, St Elizabeth, are now benefiting from a reduction in the cost of irrigation water, thanks to an upgrade to the National Irrigation Commission’s (NIC) pump station in the area. The station has been retrofitted with ...