WESTERN BUREAU Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore has told squatters of Little Bay, Brighton and Salmon Point in Westmoreland that they should stand firm in the fight for the lands they have been living on for many decades. “We will fight, fight,....

WESTERN BUREAU: A foundation to honour the memory of Jennel Walters, a 12-year-old girl who died tragically during flood rains on Tuesday, will be launched later this year. Christine Gilbert, the mother of the late seventh-grader at Montego Bay...

The boards of 1834 Investments Limited and Radio Jamaica Limited (RJL) have announced that they have entered into a scheme implementation agreement, which will lead to the amalgamation of both companies. The amalgamation will be done by way of a...

In the struggle to get access to water, some residents of Whitfield Avenue in St Andrew have no option but to risk their lives and venture behind enemy lines to secure the precious commodity from a makeshift standpipe, even while their community is....

Nadine Braham, a single mother of a 12-year-old blind child who is also diagnosed with sickle cell disease, speech impediment and autism, has been longing to go back to work and regain her independence ever since her son was born. Since Tyrique...

A 25-year-old construction worker, who had maintained from the outset that he was being framed, could not hold back his tears of relief on Thursday in the Gun Court after he was freed of charges of shooting with intent and illegal possession of...

With renewed plans to tighten the screws on plastic pollution across the globe, Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth...

Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, state minister in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, is hopeful that vaccination take-up across Jamaica will increase in the coming weeks, following the confirmation of another COVID-19 variant in the island this week. “I....

Health officials across the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) are sharing the optimism of Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton and Dr Brian James, president of the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ), that the island is in a.....

WESTERN BUREAU: GORDON BROWN, the attorney for businessman Michael Issa, is booked to stand trial in the St James Parish Court on July 21 for obstruction of justice in relation to a case of resisting arrest and indecent language concerning his...

Head of the School of Education at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Marcia Rainford, has expressed concern that the definition of a teacher in the Jamaica Teaching Council Act, 2022, eliminates most educators at the early childhood level....

Embattled president of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), Dr Derrick Deslandes, has declined to say whether he will be applying to continue on in the post after it was advertised in The Sunday Gleaner last weekend. Deslandes.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Head of the Incorporated Masterbuilders Association of Jamaica, Lenworth Kelly, wants unattached Jamaican youth “pulled off the corners” and put to work instead of construction workers being sought from overseas to work in the......

WESTERN BUREAU: Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn says that she has instructed the members of her office to contact the authorities if they receive letters that are purported to have been witnessed by justices of the peace (JPs.....

Human rights advocates are urging the Government to revisit its policy ban on the employment of ex-convicts in the public sector if it is serious about rehabilitation and reintegration. The call is being made against the backdrop of the recent...

Tantalising aromas filled the air yesterday as the newly developed Crab Circle came to life in Kingston with the street food hub donning a fresh, bold look. Vendors sang the praises of corporate giants J. Wray...

Jamaica’s unemployment rate for January 2022 was 6.2 per cent, some 2.6 percentage points lower than reported a year earlier, according to the latest data released by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN). In January 2021, the unemployment...

Residents of Hilloughby district in Cascade, Hanover, have expressed concern over their safety, following the murder of two persons, including a three-year-old boy, and the shooting and injuring of another male on Wednesday night. The slain child.....

The wife and children of former Haitian Senator Joseph Joel John, who has been linked to the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, have been denied asylum in Jamaica but will be appealing to National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang to have......

A man who robbed his ex-girlfriend of a little more than half a million dollars, which included her tuition fee, was further remanded yesterday after he lost his freedom on Tuesday when he turned up in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court empty-....