Amid the sharp increase in the cost of living and the depreciation of the Jamaican dollar, business and sector leaders have advocated for a 30 per cent rise in the minimum wage, offering a safety net for low-income workers whose personal budgets...

St Andrew West Rural Member of Parliament Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn has described as politically motivated lobbyists in Golden Spring demanding improved roads, but a citizens’ association president and other residents have cited the thoroughfares as ...

The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has been hauled to court for J$3.267 million in uncollected rent for residential premises in Harbour View, Kingston. The claimant, Michelle Knott-Neckles, has accused the SERHA, which manages state......

With a bullet lodged in the leg since 1980 serving as a daily reminder of how her life suddenly changed in a matter of seconds, Cherline Hoyes has had to painfully navigate Jamaica’s streets with a limp ever since. The disability has made life...

Wayne Reid cut a glum, down-on-luck figure earlier this month as he despairingly got out of his bed to care for his ailing 76-year-old mom in the northern Clarendon district of Arthur Seat in Crofts Hill. Now, he is overjoyed and giving thanks for.....

Identity thieves have cloned the social-media account of Courtney Edwards, Independence City councillor and minority leader in the Portmore Municipal Corporation, and sought to fleece contacts by soliciting $50,000 in investment capital with the...

Late former government minister Dr Paul Robertson has been lauded by People’s National Party (PNP) stalwarts as a devoted patriot and tremendous leader. Robertson died at St Ann’s Bay Hospital on Saturday following a brief illness. He was 75. H...

When three armed thugs entered Jo Jo’s Supermarket two days before Christmas last year and executed the husband-and-wife operators, it marked the fourth robbery at the Chinese-owned business located in St Elizabeth. That was three years after the....

The disbelief was unmistakable on Charles Brown’s* 82-year-old tear-stained face. Brown, a church deacon, was trying to come to grips with allegations that his first granddaughter, Jamaican cop Shelian Allen, has been accused of drug smuggling an...

Today, his remains could have been nearly 20 years old, but instead, his life was saved by a certificate of excellence in instructional technology mounted on the wall of the August Town home he shared with family members. Ricardo Allen vividly...

WESTERN BUREAU: Six members of a Westmoreland family are now homeless and a manhunt launched for a man who is believed to have set their house on fire, minutes after he fired several shots on the dwelling. The incident occurred shortly after 2 a.m.....

Many Jamaicans who left their homeland in pursuit of better fortunes overseas have abandoned plans to return to the island as a result of its high murder rate. One diplomat serving on the world stage said Jamaica will continue to lose many of its.....

WESTERN BUREAU: One of the island’s most respected gender specialists is calling on the country’s men to resist the urge to use demeaning or derogatory terms to refer to women. Dr Opal Palmer Adisa was responding to comments made on social medi...

Feared reputed gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan had expressed confidence that he could not be convicted under the anti-gang legislation as the police had nothing concrete on him and, worse, were clueless that he was responsible for the split ...

The 30,000-strong Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) has sent an ominous warning to the Government that it cannot guarantee normality in service if the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service does not meet with it by February 25 to settle.....

Three attorneys-at-law on Tuesday pooled together inside the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court to pay a $5,000 fine for a 69-year-old woman charged for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA). Beverley Isaacs, a street sweeper of a...

Irene Morgan, a resident of Corn Hill in Smithville, Clarendon, who is now in her late 60s, says she has nothing much to look forward to except to “live and fret”. She lives in a dilapidated house with the flooring threatening to give way, wattl...

Dr Pauline Watson-Campbell, the woman who started Jamaica’s first inclusive early childhood institution 36 years ago with special needs students, has welcomed Monday’s long-awaited effecting of the Disabilities Act. Watson-Campbell, an occupatio...

So, the plan was to visit five places in St Elizabeth and overnight in Westmoreland to visit three more places the following day to get stories for The Gleaner’s Jamaica 60 monthly parish feature. After leaving the other members of the Gleaner tea...

Detectives attached to the Freeport and Barnett Street police stations in Montego Bay, St James, have launched probes into Friday morning’s back-to-back daylight murders of two men in separate incidents in the Second City. The victims have been......