The last words 13-year-old Omarion Haniford reportedly cried out after he was fatally stabbed two days ago are seared into the memory of his mother, who is still traumatised after a seemingly routine Sunday morning was transformed into a hellish...

The Jamaica College Old Boys’ Association (JCOBA) has painted acting principal Wayne Robinson as a meddling interloper and accused the school board of sabotage in a roller-coaster dispute over a botched uniform and merchandise sales contract. In a...

Kimberlee Palmer, 22, still recalls the final embrace of her mother Lorna Johnson on Glen Drive, northern St Andrew, hours before the 60-year-old bar operator took her last breath early Monday. Palmer had just taken a break from studies to join her....

One of four police officers who were on Friday busted in an operation targeting the Clarendon-based Ranko Gang was released following the refusal of two witnesses to take part in an identification (ID) parade exercise. Assistant Commissioner of...

Eight men who were reportedly among 16 accused of gang-raping a woman at gunpoint in Kingston four years ago were acquitted last Wednesday in the Home Circuit Court. The defendants were found not guilty of illegal possession of a firearm, rape and....

Seventeen-year-old Tehanna Williams dreams of someday becoming a teacher and a successful businesswoman. Born with a skeletal disorder called rickets, the resident of Race Track in Denbigh, Clarendon, is hoping to have corrective surgery on her...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke has been elected chairman of the 48-member board of governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He was elected on Monday morning at the annual meeting of the board of the IDB...

After stumbling upon a crocodile and having to flee from a raging pit bull just days after having now been forced to walk a mile to access public transportation with the partial opening of a section of the under-construction highway, residents of......

A £35.5-million (approximately J$7-billion) project to bring irrigation water to farmers in the Breadbasket Parish is set to get under way shortly, after being stuck in the pipeline since 2017. Joseph Gyles, CEO of the National Irrigation...

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...