Less than 48 hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the military to activate its deterrence forces, which include nuclear weapons, Moscow’s man in Kingston sought to downplay a nuclear conflict as the war in Ukraine escalates. Putin...

As Marcia Taylor examined the charred ruins of her dreams, she sank into spiralling despondency as she pondered her next move. The 55-year-old is one of 66 vendors in the Oxford Mall Arcade whose goods, equipment, furniture, and livelihood went up.....

The Russian Government has urged Jamaicans to remain calm about the future of UC Rusal, seeking to give the assurance that sanctions imposed by the West over the military conflict in Ukraine were unlikely to undermine the operation of its bauxite......

A Clarendon father whose two-year-old son was badly bitten, allegedly by a neighbour’s dog, is livid and is demanding that owners do more to keep their animals leashed and confined within their homes. Gregory Bryson, who lives in the central...

WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright was unceremoniously thrown out of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Area Council Four meeting held in Savanna-la-Mar in his constituency on Sunday. Wright, who resigned from the.....

A recent landmark ruling by the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court against the publication of the identity of a person under investigation by a regulatory body could strengthen the Government’s insistence on maintaining the gag clause in the local.....

The killing of 62-year-old Delroy Walters in Long Acre, St Elizabeth, has prompted rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) to call for the Government do more to educate society about how to care and engage with vulnerable groups. Walters, who was.....

The late Guiseppe ‘Pino’ Maffessanti has been praised for his integral role in the development of the architecture of Jamaica’s tourism industry. For more than five decades, through his companies, Maffessanti Builders and Maffessanti Bros, he ...

A member of parliament, at least 10 current and former permanent secretaries and 10 senior local government officials are among more than 150 names that the Integrity Commission (IC) submitted to two financial institutions last year for key...

Omar Anglin swears that if his eyes did not stray to the computer screen of the Wexford Court Hotel general manager who was about to interview him for a job to wash pots in the hotel’s kitchen, he may have been condemned to a short life expectancy...

The RJRGLEANER Communications Group dominated the 2021 Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) Awards last night, copping the top prizes in 14 categories. Senior Gleaner journalist Jovan Johnson took the prestigious 2021 Journalist of the Year Award for...

In recent weeks, even before Fitz Brown stopped at the petrol station, he would quickly work out how much fuel he could afford to put in his tank. With energy prices rising steadily, filling up was out of the question, the Guyanese taxi driver...

WESTERN BUREAU: Andrea Timmonds* had an out-of-body experience, expressing that her heart went straight to her gut when Russia launched a military assault on Ukraine last Thursday. The single mother of twin boys studying medicine in Ukraine, who up....

WESTERN BUREAU: Just like the blast that shook the buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, last Thursday, this was the same impact news of the invasion had on two Ukrainians living in Jamaica. “I was shaking, and it was very difficult to stop,” journalist....

Surrounded by strangers in a bomb shelter deep underground in Kharkiv, Ukraine, a 21-year-old Jamaican medical student desperately wants an end to Russia’s invasion of the Eastern European nation that is clinging relentlessly to its independence.....

Paula Downer wailed for belly pains as reality set in that her grandson, four-year-old Jordane Clarke, would not be coming home after he was sent to school for what should have been a day of fun and frolic for Jamaica Day celebrations on Thursday......

A Jamaican organisation in Florida, Jamaican Men of Florida, has offered to provide financial resources to pay airfares for Jamaican students currently stranded in Ukraine, which is under attack from Russia. In a statement to The Gleaner, the...

A former member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), who was allegedly working with the Clansman-One Don Gang while in the army, reportedly wanted his cronies to attack the gang’s rivals in Shelter Rock, St Catherine, and to kill anyone that was......

Residents and business operators on St John’s Road in St Catherine are fuming after a truck yesterday accidentally pulled down guy wires in their community disrupting power to several areas and damaging motor vehicles. The Jamaica Public Service (...

The Women Without Blemish Ministry of the Liberty for Living Ministries International presented the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) with a DC-30 ultrasound machine valued at US$18,000 at a handover ceremony on Friday. The system is expected to...