WESTERN BUREAU: Unlike villagers in Belize who caused the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to cancel a scheduled stop, the Rastafarian community in western Jamaica has pledged that it will not stage protests against the royal couple, who are expected....

Talk of Jamaica’s allies in North America and Europe possibly easing sanctions against oil-rich Venezuela to avert an energy crisis amid global sanctions levied against Russia could lead to the Holness administration rekindling the island's...

Despite at least two CARICOM nations imposing sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukriane, Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith has indicated that Jamaica will continue to be guided by the United Nations Security Council on whether to.....

Police targeting of gang activities in the crime hotspots of Newland, Naggo Head, Gregory Park, and Central Village has paid off with a reduction in murders, says Senior Superintendent Christopher Phillips, who commands the St Catherine South...

With the Government’s withdrawal of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) orders last Friday, faithful participants in the annual Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run hope the new freedom will be a silver lining that will allow thousands of persons to......

Nearly seven years ago, during preparations for the arrival of then United States President Barack Obama, crab, corn, and soup vendors who sell along the southwestern end of National Heroes Circle in Kingston were temporarily dislocated. Now, on...

Jon Hendrik von Thiel, chargé d’affaires at the German Embassy in Kingston, has questioned Jamaica’s commitment to its displaced medical students who fled war-torn Ukraine last month. Von Thiel, who is tapped to become Germany’s ambassador t...

A Sunday Gleaner undercover investigation has unearthed that a high percentage of taxi operators are breaking the law by overcharging commuters on a number of routes across the island. During the probe that included eight taxi routes across seven......

The feat is not for the impatient or claustrophobic, and at peak hours, it involves long waits, pushing, shoving, and the deadly COVID-19 disease lurking inches from those who dare. For many Jamaican commuters, however, there is little choice –......

When the financial year ends in March, taxpayers would have shelled out more than $40 billion in bailout support for two of three agencies involved in the provision of public transportation. Stakeholders agree that government subsidy is necessary.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Some route taxi operators in western Jamaica are disregarding the rates set by the Transport Authority and have affixed a surcharge that the commuting public pays with very little protest. In some instances, a Sunday Gleaner...

Like those in other sections of the island, commuters in Portland and St Mary are having to dig deeper into their pockets to pay higher rates by taxi operators in breach of Transport Authority regulations. A Sunday Gleaner undercover probe has...

She may be 80 years old, but Beverley Manley-Duncan’s unmistakable voice still commands attention, whether it’s coming to you through the airwaves, the phone, via a YouTube video or if she is sitting across from you. She has also been the voice....

A pastor in the Southboro section of Portmore, St Catherine, said he will be seeking to put his house up for sale following the brutal murder of a woman in the community yesterday afternoon. The clergyman told The Gleaner that the ongoing tension.....

While expressing joy yesterday that the Court of Appeal had found that she had not acted dishonestly or had stolen any money from businessman Kaon Northover, disbarred attorney-at-law Minette Palmer-Lawrence criticised the appellate court for “......

Taxi operators and residents in sections of Clarendon North western are bemoaning the deplorable state of the roads, calling for urgent action to address the unbearable situation. Roy Walters, who plies the May Pen to Blackwoods route, told The...

Kingston Western Member of Parliament Desmond McKenzie said that students in his constituency have been severely impacted by learning loss after missing out on classes in the virtual set-up ushered in by COVID-19 in March 2020. Speaking during the.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Black River High School star student Yhannai Ferron picked up her latest award this week with the Canada-based Children of Light outreach ministry presenting her with her 61st academic accolade. The 17-year-old lower sixth form...

“Him is no don! Him is no don! Him is a peacemaker!” a niece of Emeilo Morris shouted while she, other women and children protested along Maxfield Avenue in St Andrew on Friday, decrying what they say was a cold-blooded murder by police officers...

With the high levels of gun crimes plaguing Jamaica, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has sounded a warning to Jamaicans overseas who send guns back home. He also took aim at the so-called ‘shottas’ and their girlfriends and mothers who “hang aro...