The Jamaica Police Federation (JPF) says it will not be backing down with its demand for the Government to pay what it claims are billions of dollars owed to cops for actual overtime work since 2008 after the Full Court failed to grant the...

Sargassum season is back, and the livelihoods of fishermen in the small community of Castle Gordon, located between Galina and Port Maria in St Mary, are already being adversely affected. In addition, the community is complaining of the stench...

One year after the Government reported that roughly $300 million in COVID-19 welfare relief was uncollected, some Jamaicans have still not been able to collect their disbursement as they do not have the requisite identification documents. The COVID....

The proposed introduction of the central bank digital currency (CBDC) could help to reduce the targeting of retail and wholesale businesses by criminal gangs who go after large cash receipts, according to Peter Bunting, leader of opposition...

“The sufferation is over,” Lelieta Morgan, the first daughter of 58-year-old Beverly Toban, proclaimed as her mother joined the list as one of the recipients of a home through the Government’s New Social Housing Programme on Friday. At the han...

The Supreme Court has encouraged the management of Jamaica College (JC) and its Old Boys’ Association President Major Basil Jarrett to settle their ongoing feud through other means, following a months-long quarrel that has spilled over into the......

People’s National Party (PNP) caretaker for Clarendon Central Zuleika Jess on Wednesday urged the Andrew Holness administration to stick closer to the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) original mandate, cautioning that the Opposition will not “si...

Led by President of the Senate Tom Tavares-Finson, members on both sides of the political divide on Friday expressed best wishes to Leader of Government Business and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith in her bid for.....

WESTERN BUREAU: OUTSIDE OF groceries and other essential items, residents of the Three Miles River and Paul Island communities in Westmoreland say there is nothing that they can do to militate against being flooded out of their homes during...

WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE proposed Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill creating a stir over its proposed mandate of penalising teachers who are not sufficiently qualified, one Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s (JTA) presidential hopeful is urging.....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday issued a call to the country’s most unscrupulous players in the criminal underworld, arguing that there is a space for them in the formal economy. The call came during the unveiling of the Amber HEART...

Lorna Goodison-Chamberlin will forever cherish the fact that her late sister – the hard-hitting journalist, opinionated radio talk-show host and prolific playwright Barbara Joy Gloudon – served as a gateway to opportunities not only for family.....

A former police constable, who was charged for a sexual offence involving a minor and suspended from the force for two years, has lost his case in which he was challenging his non-re-enlistment in 2014 and was instead saddled with a $90,000 court......

Former Senator Herbert Arthur ‘Turo’ Ziadie, the stalwart figure in Jamaican golf who passed away in Canada on Thursday morning, has been lauded as an excellent leader, true philanthropist and public servant. He was 87. Ziadie was born in St......

Simpson Finance Jamaica Limited, an in-house financing company for vehicles and industrial equipment sold by the Stewart’s Automotive Group, is seeking leave to apply for judicial review into a $5.2-million award by the Industrial Disputes Tribuna...

The St Andrew North police are probing a daring daylight robbery in which a retired business executive was relieved of an undetermined sum of cash along East Kings House Rd in St Andrew by men posing as Good Samaritans. The Gleaner understands...

With underage gambling putting children at increased risk for substance use and abuse and poor academic performance, parents are being urged to look out for indicators such as gambling paraphernalia, significant sums of money unaccounted for,...

Fifty-three-year-old Clarendon resident Evadney Morrison is in need of urgent heart surgery to clear blocked arteries and restore a sense of normality to her life, having been on a roller-coaster journey for the past five years. The condition,...

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has blamed a sharp 53 per cent year-on-year rise in homicides in western Jamaica on the annual inflow of US$1 billion in illicit funds that are used to buy guns to target rival gangs involved in lottery...

WILLIAMSFIELD, Manchester: Residents of Hope Village, which is located near Williamsfield in Manchester, have now joined those from other districts in voicing their displeasure at the effects of ongoing work on the Williamsfield to May Pen leg of......