The number of persons searching for missing University of the West Indies (UWI) student Chaleen Evans is expected to swell today as extensive combing of bushes by anxious relatives, friends, and the security forces up to late Monday had to be...

Soothing to soft music in the aftermath of losing a son and her one-year-old granddaughter battling for life, a Central Kingston matriarch says she is leaving everything in the hands of God. The woman, whose identity The Gleaner will withhold, was....

A gunman believed to have been seeking to exact revenge on another man opened fire at an illegal party in Old Folly, Discovery Bay, St Ann, early Monday morning, leaving two persons dead and three others injured. Up to late Monday evening, police.....

Electors in Barbados will vote for a new government in January 2022. Mia Mottley, the country’s eighth prime minister, yesterday announced that general election will be held on January 19. Nomination day will be on January 3, 2022. Mottley’s......

Jamaicans are deeply distrustful of the Government’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, a viewpoint that has contributed to vaccine hesitancy, according to a recent study by Northern Caribbean University (NCU). Of the 1,071 people surveyed across the...

A Jamaican man has been convicted in the United States (US) for leading a drug syndicate that operated in several American cities. Oneil Wilks, 42, was also found guilty of money laundering and identity fraud by a federal jury in Connecticut after.....

Silent Hill, Manchester When Novelette Gayle made the financial sacrifice to expand her family home in the Silent Hill community of Manchester by adding a kitchen to the building, just ahead of the Christmas season, she had no idea that she would.....

Donahue Nelson knows all about survival. At age 10, he slept under a tree after being kicked out of the house by his grandfather. His stepgrandmother never wanted him in her house, and so he found a tree close to a gully in the community of Moores.....

WESTERN BUREAU: At 5 a.m., the Rose Mount Gardens community in Montego Bay was quiet, pitch dark, and distinctive. The only evidence of life was the carollers, with their candles flickering, signalling a welcome to another Christmas Day. Now in its....

Chuck Dillion has not had a normal Christmas for eight years, however, this year, the season has been one of reflection for the 42-year-old homeless man as he ponders who will bring some cheer. Taking up residence at the Cross Roads bus stop for...

As tributes pour in for anti-apartheid stalwart Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, former Prime Minister PJ Patterson is recommending that his example be used to achieve consensus to tackle issues facing Jamaica. Tutu, who was a driving force for...

Outgoing Jamaica Country Representative and Caribbean General Manager of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Therese Turner-Jones, is convinced that Jamaica’s chances of surviving the economic onslaught of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are....

Jamaica’s runaway crime rate has served as impetus for the full transformation of Kingston into a smart city, fuelling high expectations that heavy investments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) will deliver positive results. �...

Leading hotel operations are losing an entire generation of their skilled labour force to other sectors, following the economic fallout from the COVID-19-induced disruptions to the travel and leisure industry. The tourism sector contributed 9.8 per....

Retired Court of Appeal Justice Hillary Phillips says the pace of modernisation of the justice system in Jamaica should be expedited. “We have been speaking about getting to a paperless registry, getting into paperless offices, but I don’t know...

WESTERN BUREAU: In the trenches fighting the coronavirus pandemic over the last two years, 58 healthcare workers recognised as ‘Heroes’ on the COVID-19 ward at the Cornwall Regional Hospital were honoured by the Montego Bay business community la...

Words cannot express the joy businessman Lester Rhooms felt last week when he described an order by the Supreme Court for the police to return his money and surveillance security system as “the best Christmas gift ever”. “I was feeling mental....

Olympic Way is home to the first baby born at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital on Christmas Day, after mother Denesha Simmonds delivered a bouncing boy shortly after 1:00 yesterday morning. Thabang Jordine, at roughly seven pounds, entered the world......

DR BRIAN JAMES President, Medical Association of Jamaica It is hard to come up off the cuff with a wish list but the most important things are, one: the population becoming cognisant of the reality of COVID-19 and how easy it is to actually put....

Haiti has escalated the diplomatic pressure to get custody of suspected Colombian assassin Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, turning to an 19th century legislation to compel Jamaica to hand him over, new court documents have revealed. An imperial......