Hotel mogul Adam Stewart does not have the backing of his counterparts in his campaign for the lifting of travel restrictions and mandates imposed by the Government to limit the spread of the coronavirus. In a Gleaner interview on Monday, Couples.....

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes signalled on Monday that secret recordings of conversations between alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang might not be accepted as evidence in the trial. The recordings, on which the prosecution is heavily relying.....

In 2009, Wayne Anthony Reid gave up life as he knew it so he could provide ‘round-the-clock care for his ailing mother, Elmena O’Conner. Driven by love for the woman who had sacrificed much to ensure he got ahead in life, he ditched the taxi...

National Works Agency (NWA) CEO E.G. Hunter has challenged Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas to provide evidence that the agency had ever given a commitment to upgrade the Braeton Parkway from two lanes to four. Thomas had earlier told The Gleaner that...

It has been days of tears for one Lionel Town, Clarendon, farmer since thieves made off with his herd of 30 cows more than a week ago. Shawn Edwards, who developed a love for farming after his grandfather gifted him some cows as a child, told The......

Kemar ‘Doggy’ Campbell, over the past five days, has been second-guessing if he would mount another utility pole after his heroics last Wednesday when he rescued Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) contractor Ainsley Scott in Arnett Gardens,......

WESTERN BUREAU: AN EVENT to raise funding for a cancer patient’s medical bills was transformed into a scene of death, robbery and bewilderment, as two persons were killed and six left nursing gunshot wounds after an invasion by armed men in the......

Simeon Ramsay, the “teddy bear”-like son who became increasingly reclusive and is alleged to have slain his parents in St Catherine last Friday, wrestled with psychological turmoil from a controlling father who ruled the household with an iron f...

Janet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer WESTERN BUREAU: The hours of travel between Sandy Bay, Hanover, and Kingston weekly to earn a university degree, while juggling vending in the popular Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, have paid off...

Muted celebrations at the Trench Town Culture Yard museum on Saturday, the eve of the birthday commemoration of late reggae legend Bob Marley, was a stark contrast to the busloads of tourists that the Kingston attraction usually attracts. That was.....

The historic former home of late reggae icon Bob Marley remains a crumbling shell in Trench Town, Kingston, after fire gutted the top floor of the building last September. Still living at the Second Street house are 47-year-old Yvette Gordon and...

Antigua and Barbuda’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Anthony Armstrong, says he will not resign from the post after Jamaica’s General Legal Council (GLC) last Monday found him guilty of professional misconduct. Armstrong, a Jamaican who...

There is mounting unease among several Jamaican students pursuing tertiary studies in Ukraine who are without the relevant visas required to leave on short notice, as tension between the Eastern European country and Russia heightens. The students.....

In-limbo education ministry permanent secretary Dean-Roy Bernard is threatening legal action against Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis over alleged defamatory statements made in her damning report on the Joint Committee on Tertiary Education (......

Human rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has welcomed the move by the Access to Information (ATI) Appeal Tribunal to overrule the withholding and redaction of documents related to the deadly May 2009 fire at Armadale Juvenile Correctional...

WESTERN BUREAU: Local authorities say they are now cooperating with their international counterparts after a Jamaican policewoman attached to the Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) was jailed in the United States on accusations of being a major...

Education Minister Fayval Williams says efforts are being made to appoint a permanent president of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) by August, amid concerns from key stakeholders over the near two-year wait for the position to be...

Timar Jackson grew up in Bull Bay, St Andrew, and recalls that as a teenager he and his family once fled the community as the vicious cycle of gun violence raged and took with it several of his innocent young peers. But the super-private, high-...

An autopsy has returned inconclusive into the death of a newborn girl allegedly buried by her 13-year-old mother and grandmother in St Thomas, an eastern parish in which half the persons most wanted by police are suspected sex offenders. At least......

Hundreds of Jamaican children are being held hostages of gang violence, not only as homicide and trauma victims but also as innocent onlookers of their guardians’ criminal and deadly deeds, noted the State’s child protection agency. Up to late.....