PATSY EDWARDS HENRY President of the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) The year 2021 was one of great uncertainty, anxiety and dread, yet at some point there was hope and optimism that this dreaded pandemic would come to an end and life as we....

Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles is investigating the ceremonial head of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Chancellor Robert Bermudez, using a committee that reports to him, as a rift between the top two leaders enters unprecedented and “....

Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, who is set to be deported from Jamaica tomorrow, was reportedly inside the private quarters of Jovenel Moise, along with a band of mostly heavily armed ex-Colombian soldiers, when the Haitian president was...

Sarah ‘JetSetSarah’ Greaves-Gabbadon, a Miami, Florida-based travel writer and influencer, has had to travel for work. Since November 2020, she has flown to the Caribbean 18 times and cruised four times. Greaves-Gabbadon beams whenever she spea...

Stanford University Economics Professor, Jamaican Donald Harris, is suggesting that the failure of the Jamaican economy to grow and sustain the level of economic growth necessary to lift the country out of poverty rests largely on a failure of the.....

Just four minutes after many Jamaicans would have popped the champagne, raising wine glasses to toast to a new year, 18-year-old Celena Cunningham gave birth to the first baby of 2022 at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in downtown Kingston....

The parish of St James closed out the year with bloodshed yesterday with the brazen daylight gun murder of a municipal warder and his uncle, who were shot, in a drive-by attack. The victims have been identified as 46-year-old Peter Stewart and his.....

Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) President General Kavan Gayle says that the State, private sector and trade unions should push for the establishment of more pension schemes in 2022 for workers who are not currently on a plan. The BITU boss....

WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH MINISTER Dr Christopher Tufton says that overseas visitors who are reportedly complaining about getting positive COVID-19 results from polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing after previously getting negative results from...

Marsha Norman has chosen to honour her late husband and master potter, Christopher, in a manner to have his work outlive him. Christopher, who had made exquisite teapots and taught at St Andrew High School for Girls for 24 years after doing a short....

It was a bittersweet moment yesterday for two female friends who found themselves behind bars following an alleged attempt to smuggle contraband into a lock-up, after one was granted bail and the other left in tears when she was remanded. Twenty-......

PARIS (AP): Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were – again – the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered in 2022. New Year’s...

WESTERN BUREAU: PEDESTRIANS AND motorists who utilise the Orange Bay to Negril roadway in Hanover have welcomed the move by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to replace street lights that were stolen months after they were placed along a two....

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Portland: The body of a man found floating in the murky waters of the Rio Grande in Portland on Thursday is believed to be that of 20-year-old Tyreke Grossette, who went missing on December 24. The partially nude body, which was.....

WESTERN BUREAU: It is safe to say that Jamaica has now entered the fourth COVID-19 wave, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has confirmed to The Gleaner. Impelled by the high rate of increase in COVID-19 cases, the minister made.....

The Government is facing a conundrum with the planned resumption of face-to-face classes on January 3 and a steady increase in COVID-19 cases as the highly transmissible Omicron variant continues its rampage globally, but Health and Wellness...

“Mommy, mi feel like mi paralysed” were the last words 10-year-old Jezariah Tyrell spoke fluently before she lost consciousness, alerting her frantic mother to a single bullet wound although there was no sighting of blood. The household was fi...

In what residents suspect to be a retaliatory attack in a dispute over domestic issues, arsonists on Thursday morning continued their spate of destruction by setting fire to a three-bedroom unoccupied house after destroying three adjoining houses......

Iris Coley today celebrates a remarkable milestone, having survived 100 years – a feat she credits to placing God at the centre of her life, thankful that He has guided her through many of life’s challenges. Born on December 31, 1921, the sevent...

WESTERN BUREAU: Some police officers assigned to the zone of special operation (ZOSO) in Norwood, St James, since the inception of the security measure in June are complaining of fatigue, saying that they desperately want to be reassigned to other.....