Shanique Armstrong, the 27-year-old woman who accused healthcare workers of callous ambivalence as she reportedly delivered her baby unassisted at Spanish Town Hospital in May last year, has died without getting closure on that tragedy. The young.....

Even as the hierarchy of Jamaica’s police force has cited mounting gun seizures at the Stadium East field in St Andrew as evidence of incremental gains, security chiefs consulted with Cabinet on a response to an avalanche of murders. Killings have...

A young man remains unconscious in a Corporate Area hospital since early Sunday morning after he leapt from a building in Stony Hill, St Andrew, suffering head and other serious injuries. The man, who is believed to be in his early 20s, was...

Noted business scholar Professor Alvin Wint is the new chairman of the troubled HEART/NSTA Trust, the Government’s multibillion-dollar skill-training agency rocked by a series of questionable management decisions. And the managing director positio...

Some educators across Jamaica have expressed concern about the lack of penmanship skills among students since they have returned to face-to-face classes. Learning loss has been a key concern of stakeholders since schools were shuttered in March...

Five years after the then members of Parliament’s Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) called for the immediate divestment of the Jamintel building, owned by the Transport Authority (TA), the property remains a choice place to...

Two police witnesses have insisted that they never fired a single shot at the alleged member of the Clansman-One Don Gang who fired at them repeatedly before he was chased and allegedly held with an illegal handgun in 2017. Both officers recalled,.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Bertel Moore, chairman of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), has said that he will not be forced to disrupt the livelihood of small business operators in order to build a fruit and vegetable market in Negril. Speaking at.....

WESTERN BUREAU: STAKEHOLDER groups have begun planning to alleviate traffic congestion in two of the major towns within the parish of Hanover – Hopewell and the capital Lucea. Both are noted for the long traffic delays and representatives from the...

A 21-year-old man who, as a boy, raped his schoolmate after stealing her pen, had his five-year prison sentence reduced last Friday by the Court of Appeal to a three-year suspended term following a misstep by the sentencing judge. The offender was.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Placed in a girls’ home for uncontrollable behaviour at age 14, Phelisa Ricketts-Graham has made a 360-degree turn and now operates the Western STEM Academy, focusing on transforming the minds of Jamaican students. The 25-year-old...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica is experiencing its largest hotel and resort development boom in any single year, with 8,000 rooms, mainly European investor-led, under construction in varying stages. In an interview with The Gleaner from travel and tourism....

The police are combing through social-media exchanges, including voice notes with death threats, as they seek to snare players in feuding factions with connections in Naggo Head and the United States amid a surge in criminal violence in the...

MALTON, Manchester: Two refrigerators. Seven beds. Five phones. Computers and furniture. Even a pear tree in the yard was scorched. But beyond just the loss of possessions, fire in the northeast Manchester community of Malton has left 11...

A festering family feud has been cited as the trigger for the fatal shooting of two persons in Dunkirk, east Kingston, on Friday evening. Two others were wounded in the incident, as gunmen reportedly targeted a wake about 7:45 p.m. Most residents.....

The roll-out of new 5G wireless service in the United States failed to have the much-dreaded result of crippling air travel, although it began in rocky fashion, with international airlines cancelling some flights to the US and spotty problems...

SENIOR Superintendent Christopher Phillips, head of the St Catherine South Police Division, said law enforcers are on the hunt for two other suspects for the October 30, 2021, shooting death of Flow technician Keran McCollin after his refusal to...

The files of six developers have been handed over to the police over the past 10 years to be investigated for various alleged crimes, the Real Estate Board (REB) has disclosed. In recent times, regulatory state agencies have come under scrutiny f...

The targeted swelling of the ranks of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) through its Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC) has been a lightning rod for critics adamant that it is a political tool that has diluted the quality of the army. But Rear...

Dr Delroy Fray, clinical coordinator of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), believes that the Omicron strain of the virus which causes COVID-19 could be a godsend to herald the end of the pandemic with the world moving into an endemic...