The aftershocks of the nightly curfew, lifted almost two weeks ago, are still being felt by operators of fast-food chains and service stations islandwide as social and spending patterns disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic have been slow to...

The leadership of the Old Hope Road-based Jamaica College (JC) is seeking an account of how funds totalling $3.1 million, which were reportedly collected by the old boys’ association on behalf of the 232-year-old institution, were used. The...

The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) has denied as false claims in a Sunday Gleaner article that it has sold voter data access, but the national election authority did not say it had not collected money from credit bureaus and financial...

WESTERN BUREAU: The 1951 childhood wattle-and-daub house where the late Millie Small of My Boy Lollipop fame lived at Cacoon Piece, Welcome, remains standing but abandoned by its owners. But the rich history left by Small in the rural Hanover...

As the longstanding debate surrounding the role of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) continues, St Andrew East Rural Member of Parliament Juliet Holness is calling for improved and increased distribution of welfare services through central...

Corporal Conrad Martin was inside his office at the May Pen Police Station when another cop alerted him to a young man who wanted to talk with a counsellor. Martin, a peer counsellor assigned to the Clarendon Police Division, is one of the ‘prayer...

WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has named former senior medical officer of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), Dr Jeffrey East, as chairman of the revamped oversight committee that will monitor the...

Quick and effective intervention saved a 15-year-old ­gymnastic rising star who had been experiencing mental challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic to be back at peace with her favourite sport – and life – after her mother stumbled on a troubl...

The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) has been granting privately owned credit bureaus and other financial institutions paid verification access to the island’s voter identification database with the country’s information commissioner admitt...

The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) currently has contracts with eight financial institutions, granting them paid verification access to its voter ID database under similar terms as the credit bureaus. Parliamentarian Julian Robinson, who...

A plot to kill a “potential witness” in a criminal case is among over a dozen crimes investigators have traced to a Clarendon gang that allegedly counted eight cops among its members, a top police official has revealed. The crimes mainly include...

If effervescence was a person, it would be the beautiful Eldemire girl who married Hugh Shearer and has been championing causes for senior citizens in Jamaica. Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer is a medical doctor and the island’s resident ageing....

One of the three men shot dead in Norwood, St James, yesterday morning is believed to have been among the gunmen who carried out a deadly attack in the Warrica Drive section of the community on Friday night, killing another man. Those slaughtered......

The best are smooth and amicable, cordial and easy, while the worst are inflamed with raw resentment, lies, and sometimes, even hatred. Yet Jamaicans are increasingly filing for divorce – a record 4,381 last year alone – as fingers point to COV...

Charging that numerous members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force are involved in the island’s underworld today, former Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams said he is not surprised by yesterday’s arrest of four members of the force, all...

Earnest prayers were made for the protection of the residents of Maverley in St Andrew Friday morning, a little more than 12 hours after a brazen gun attack by gangsters who shot six people, leaving three dead, on Thursday night. Old-time gospel...

Schools across Jamaica have been directed to utilise metal detectors daily, as part of measures to improve the safety of students and staff. This directive from the minister of education, Fayval Williams, follows Monday’s fatal stabbing of Khamal...

WESTERN BUREAU: With the impact of COVID-19 still fresh in their minds, key players in the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ), formerly known as the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ), are urging their business...

WESTERN BUREAU: OMAR SWEENEY, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), is urging beneficiaries of the fund’s grant projects not to sell the equipment they get from programmes meant to bolster their businesses if they no...

Defence lawyers in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial are fuming over its seven-week adjournment for which they will not be paid although they have a mountain of work to do, and are calling for the intervention of Justice Minister Delroy Chuck. The...