Just last month, Marva Vernon-Jackson celebrated her fifth wedding anniversary and was looking forward to many more years of bliss. But her happily-ever-after was cut short after gunmen invaded Pleasant View Lane in Eight Miles, Bull Bay, Sunday...

WESTERN BUREAU: Last Friday’s Negril Great Morass fire, which caused jitters among several tourists vacationing in the Long Bay area, is being blamed on the delay in implementation of a US$3.1-million grant from the United Nations Environment...

Burdened by a multiplicity of woes, fisherfolk in eastern St Thomas have joined the choir of forlorn beach stakeholders with a familiar refrain: “We are suffering!” They say their boats have been forcefully docked by a double whammy: constantly...

Entrepreneur Richard Shepherd says that he was spurned by insurance companies years ago when he explored the prospect of protecting his business investment. His upholstery shop was located on High Holborn Street on the fringes of the downtown...

Three decades of dedicated and distinguished service to the police force in the United Kingdom have earned Jamaican Clifton John Williams the Queen’s Police Medal on Her Majesty’s Birthday Honours List 2022. “It’s still sinking in,” the r...

Siblings Ulett Steer and Everton Richards say they will never be able dispel the grief and agony they endure one year after their younger brother was brutally murdered in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew. Gradley Richards, who was said to be mentally ill....

Fleeing detection at a police checkpoint on Sunday, three alleged gunmen were killed in a motor vehicle collision along the Barbican main road in Hanover. Four tourists and a tour bus operator were hospitalised after sustaining injuries in the...

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....