A leading voice in coronavirus care management in Jamaica has suggested that the Holness administration has been overhasty in scrapping pretesting requirements for entry into the island and lifting the mask mandate in enclosed public spaces amid......

Two young girls abducted last October are being saluted for their courage after they summoned the strength to face their alleged tormentor, pointing him out on an identification parade despite trepidation. The accused, Davian Bryan, was recently...

Scores of Canadian businesses are looking to set up shop across the Caribbean amid the retreat of the coronavirus pandemic, the North American country’s minister of international trade and export promotion, Mary Ng, has said. Ng, who arrived in.....

With the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) reporting a 41 per cent increase in emergency calls to motor vehicle crashes last year, Commissioner Stewart Beckford is seeking to ramp up the brigade’s operational response to save more lives from serious...

The Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) will be seeking to increase the speed of its trains that run from Kingston to Montego Bay once the track is restored. At the time the rail service was discontinued in 1992, trains chugged away at 30 miles per.....

Fish vendors hoping for a bountiful Easter season after two years of flagging sales as a result of the pandemic are keeping their eyes peeled, hoping for a miracle as the traditionally buoyant period is yet to spring to life. Easter is...

The younger sister of the man accused of sexually abusing their five-year-old sister and her two-year-old baby girl has expressed hope that her brother will spend a long time in prison after he was taken into police custody. The 29-year-old man,...

WESTERN BUREAU: School administrators in western Jamaica are calling for security to be beefed up in light of an attack on a security guard by a parent at a St James-based institution earlier this week. On Monday, a 54-year-old security guard at...

A Westmoreland gang believed to be heavily linked to lottery scamming is at the centre of Monday’s major cocaine bust in Kingston. A senior lawman with impeccable knowledge of the investigation told The Gleaner on Tuesday that the 140 parcels of....

Opposition Spokesman on Energy Phillip Paulwell is suggesting that Jamaica should prepare to carry out a diplomatic dance and re-engage Venezuela at a time when oil-importing countries could soon be scrambling to find new sources of fuel as...

The mother of the two-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted, allegedly by her own uncle at their home in Negril, Westmoreland, wants retribution for the 29-year-old when he is caught. The attacker is also accused of molesting a five-year-old...

While many residents and farmers in the rural township of Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, welcome the rain, the darkening clouds and roll of thunder drive fear into 70-year-old Howard Williams. The family is left to battle a leaky roof in the ramshackle...

The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has passed a resolution calling for the National Water Commission (NWC) to repair all outstanding damaged roads across the Corporate Area within the next three months. That declaration is...

WESTERN BUREAU: Principal of Corinaldi Avenue Primary, Deon Anglin, said her staff are fearful of a repeat of the violence that resulted in the injury to a security guard who was involved in a bust-up with a student’s step-parent on Monday. Classe...

A Hanover car parts manager who is wanted by the United States (US) for allegedly fleecing Americans out of millions of dollars in the fraudulent lottery scheme was on Tuesday remanded when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court....

Two men who were charged with the execution-style killing of a two-year-old boy in downtown Kingston in 2016 were recently freed of murder after the two main witnesses, including the boy’s father, opted to end the matter, claiming it took too long...

The Ministry of Education and Youth’s ‘Yard-to-Yard Find the Child Initiative’ is gaining momentum, with 87,446 students now re-engaged from the 120,000 that could not be accounted for during the earlier part of the coronavirus pandemic. The.....

When heavily armed attackers began firing indiscriminately at a party in Franklyn Town, Kingston, on Sunday night, many thought men from the community were engaging in an illegal gun salute as Aidonia’s Badman Salute (Real Killa) blared through th...

Principal of Dunrobin Primary, Sacheel Grant-Henry, has walked back the contents of a warning letter issued last Wednesday to a grade five student for an offending hairstyle, saying the threat was not meant to bar him from school but to be a note......

Debate has intensified about plans by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service to discontinue the 20 per cent duty concession on motor vehicles and weave it into travelling officers’ salaries, with one major union expressing concern about th...