Jamaica’s two leading politicians – Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding – are both linked to non-profit organisations that are not in good standing with the respective state entities tasked with regulating t...

Jamaica’s crime chief Fitz Bailey says the nine weapons and hundreds of bullets seized on the North-South Highway on Friday evening could have “slipped through the cracks” if he had not taken the actions he did. Bailey, a deputy police commiss...

Defined as the illegal occupation of land and/or buildings, it is estimated that approximately 20 per cent of Jamaica’s population resides in squatter settlements. The matter of informal settlements has remained a perennial problem for decades,......

There is no political will to solve the problem of squatting, as politics is the biggest beneficiary, noted outspoken political scientist, public commentator and attorney-at-law, Dr Paul Ashley. “Why would anyone want to solve squatting when every...

It’s not often that a seasoned diplomat gets emotional when talking about his countrymen, but Cuban Ambassador Fermîn Gabriel Quiñones Sanchéz choked up in calling them the most resilient, patriotic, hard-working and long-suffering people he kn...

Improper waste disposal and poor garbage collection in informal settlements across the island are among the issues that pose a danger to the environment, noted geologist Dr Parris Lyew Ayee Jr. It is even more detrimental when there are droughts,......

Wanton chaos and a blatant disregard for law and order have cast clouds of despair over communities in St James, including the city of Montego Bay, as the northwesterly parish reaches the unflattering century mark in homicide in five months....

There is a small informal community on the outskirts of Seaview Gardens in St Andrew, where residents live isolated from the rest of the area on bushy swamp lands strewn with board and concrete dwellings. Here, there are no roads. Dirt tracks,...

Two months after Jamaica announced the candidature of Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith for the post of Commonwealth secretary general, the country remains in the dark as to the cost and source of funding for the campaign. The Ministry.....

As we seek to get answers on issues of national importance, each week The Sunday Gleaner will be publishing questions posed to Government ministries and agencies that have remained unanswered for quite some time. As servants of the people, the...

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.....