Motorists and businesses have been hit by spiralling fuel prices, and industry interests are clamouring for intervention amid an overall 10.8 per cent jump at the pump over the last nine weeks. Operators of diesel vehicles have borne the greatest......

Denying that there is tension in the hotel sector over the Government’s COVID-19 containment measures, Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett says some players are merely anxious for normality having witnessed other countries lift restrictions, easing the.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Lawyers representing Hard Rock Café have applied to the Supreme Court to have a default judgment in favour of claimants Caribbean Producers Jamaica Limited (CPJ) struck out after the food and beverage manufacturer and distributor......

Hope Pastures residents are seeking a mandatory injunction from the Supreme Court ordering the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to restore and maintain the supply of underground electricity to the community and to remove its overhead supply....

Were it not for creativity, a shifting of target market and riding the tides of the pandemic, Recycling Partners of Jamaica (RPJ) said it would not have increased its 2021 collection of plastic bottles by 49 per cent when compared to the previous......

Business executive and chartered accountant Anthony Shaw is to take over as managing director of the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) on April 1. He will replace Milverton Reynolds, who has been leading the Government’s main development financin...

The January 20 ransomware breach at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is expected to be resolved soon as administrators and the state-run cyber response team work assiduously to complete ongoing systems improvements. Byron Buckley, NCU’s head of...

The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has announced more tweaks to proposed administrative changes in the building application process that will see greater efforts in the cross-checking of approved construction projects....

British Royals Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge Kate are slated to visit Jamaica in March as part of a Caribbean tour to mark the platinum jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.  Gleaner sources have confirmed that the couple is expected to...

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...