The Mexican government has toughened immigration processes in permitting landing to Jamaicans amid growing concerns over an illegal “human-smuggling” corridor to the United States. The development has caused increased scrutiny on travellers on b...

The father of 11-year-old Ananda Dean, whose rape and murder sparked national outrage more than a decade ago, is reliving that agony after his 23-year-old daughter Shanice was killed in a shocking funeral attack on Tuesday. Gunmen struck early in......

More than 300 Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) workers have rejected a proposed 15 per cent salary increase, triggering a fresh round of talks between the central bank and the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) amid a tense industrial climate across the....

Governments have been urged to make health services more comprehensive in a bid to reduce unintended or unplanned pregnancies, including the extension of greater social protection as a safety net for those vulnerable to poverty. The warning comes......

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind has said that the South Asian country is willing to share its technical skills with Jamaica to advance the island nation’s prospects in education and commerce. Speaking at Tuesday’s joint sitting of Parliament,....

WESTERN BUREAU: An avid reader of The Gleaner for 88 years, nonagenarian Fitzroy Buchanan has credited his development to the knowledge and awareness gained from reading the near-200-year-old newspaper. Buchanan, who turned 95 on Monday, picked up.....

The Government is moving to address the misuse and overuse of fertilisers which has been having an adverse effect on crop production. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Pearnel Charles Jr said the administration is collaborating with the main...

The Government will be spending another $70 million on land acquisition and promoting alternative crop production in the Monymusk cane belt in Clarendon this fiscal year to improve the lives of former sugar-cane workers. Minister of Agriculture and....

Industry players are hoping for strong action after tests on illegally imported brown sugar seized by the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) have proven that it was not produced by either of the island’s two sugar factories. The illicit trade, they...

Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has vowed to launch a campaign to scrub some colonial-era names from the capital city. Moments after Monday’s renaming of a section of Tower Street in honour of late civil-rights activist Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, William...

The Government is to mirror the Indian model in its implementation of the controversial National Identification System (NIDS) that is expected to come on stream later this year. Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Floyd....

Sixth-graders at a Corporate Area school have pledged to honour their late teacher with exam success in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP). Carlos Gordon, who taught at One Way Prep in St Andrew, died in hospital last Wednesday after a suspected heart.....

Upset over a lack of regular electricity supply, angry residents of Retreat, St Ann, blocked the main road leading from their community to Stewart Town, Trelawny, on Monday, causing scores of students to miss school in both parishes. Several...

Seizing on national foment that has sparked days of strikes and a rash of rural road protests, People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding amassed scores of supporters on the doorstep of the finance minister’s headquarters to press for ...

Under-fire lawmakers Daniel Lawrence and George Wright have appealed for patience from enraged constituents who mounted barricades that left commuters stranded in Westmoreland Central and Eastern. Scores of angry residents blocked at least 10 miles....

A legal officer at Petrojam recalled on Monday that she had advised Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh, before he was promoted to chairman of the oil refinery, to consider resigning from the board if he was going to be living in the United States. The...

National Works Agency CEO E.G. Hunter has disclosed that the project to rehabilitate the Oracabessa to Free Hill road is being tendered as frustration boiled over in western St Mary yesterday morning. Angry taxi operators and residents of Hamilton.....

Had Clarrisa Palmer been home, she might have played her routine role of referee in a long-running, bad-tempered dispute between two brothers that turned deadly on Saturday. In her absence, a teen, who on Saturday reportedly carried through on...

The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) said it would not agree with a reimposition of pre-travel testing for incoming visitors to the island even as health experts suggest that a fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is under way. JHTA...

The mother of missing two-year-old Jahmeal Mendez believes that a sudden urge to scroll through photos of her young son might have been an omen that something was wrong. That intuition caused 26-year-old Kera Williams, of Rasta Corner in Free Town.....