The mother of Shanoya Wray, the 13-year-old-old girl who was viciously killed in 2018 and her body almost completely dissolved in caustic acid, said she never believed for a minute that the teacher held for her murder would walk away and is happy......

One of the country’s most senior diplomats has pinned Kamina Johnson Smith’s loss in her bid for the post of Commonwealth secretary general (SG) on an about-turn by some African nations, allowing Baroness Patricia Scotland to continue her mandat...

The Government is maintaining that the country received value for money despite Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed quest to unseat Baroness Patricia Scotland as the Commonwealth secretary general. It is no...

Jamaica-born and new Utah Jazz signee Kofi Cockburn is living his lifelong dream after Thursday’s 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft night, when he became a member of the Salt Lake City outfit. The 22-year-old alum of Illinois...

WESTERN BUREAU: OVERCOMING CHALLENGES to reach high-level goals has become a way of life for 29-year-old Shadane Ferraro, who last month became the first Jamaican and the first international student to give the George Washington University (GWU)...

WESTERN BUREAU: AUDREY DEER-WILLIAMS, the chief technical director in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, is dismissing recent suggestions by National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang that social-intervention programmes have failed to...

Amid growing fears that the historical significance of Sligoville in St Catherine could be forgotten by future generations, a resource centre has been opened in what was Jamaica’s first free village after Emancipation, to preserve its legacy and.....

At 15 years old, Shenelle Campbell became a teenage mother. Suffering scorn and ridicule and faced with the prospect of dropping out of school, she was determined not to give up on her academic pursuits and sought assistance from the Women’s Centr...

WESTERN BUREAU: IN AN to meet the demand for a trained and certified Jamaican workforce, the Negril Rotary Club donated a new $20-million classroom block to the Theodore Skills Training Centre in Westmoreland. The skills training centre is being...

The son of Terry-Ann Mohammed, one of six persons killed in a moment of unimaginable brutality in St Thomas 16 years ago, still finds himself smothering the flickering flame of revenge burning inside. Memories of the 2006 bloodbath came flooding...

Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has indicated that he was unable to say at this time if the state of emergency (SOE) declared last Friday for St Catherine would be extended beyond the initial 14-day period. Chang said he would have...

“This is my only hope,” said a 20-year-old prospective cruise worker from Clarendon as tears streamed down her face at a recruitment exercise yesterday. She told The Gleaner that she left her Race Track home at 4 a.m. to journey to the HEART...

The joint select committee reviewing the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulations) Act 2022 has amended a proposed provision to allow Jamaicans convicted of domestic violence to appeal the revocation of their licences. Prior to its...

WESTERN BUREAU: Hailed as a man who fought for proper working conditions for tourism workers and quality standards of the product, Francis Tulloch was one of four men left standing from an era of great social change. Tulloch died at the age of 81.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, is urging Jamaicans to speak out against anyone who makes an illegal connection to National Water Commission (NWC) pipelines. He issued.....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness used Wednesday’s Commonwealth Business Forum to turn the spotlight on the digital divide crippling the economies of small island developing member states in an attempt to urge assistance. Holness said that beyond the...

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC): Preliminary results late yesterday showed the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) winning Thursday’s general election in Grenada. The NDC has been declared victor in nine of the 15 seats, with the...

Noting that unlike in other sections of the island, interpersonal conflicts as opposed to gang violence was driving up crime figures in St Elizabeth, Police Commissioner Antony Anderson yesterday urged residents to make use of a domestic violence.....

The British Government is expected to launch a new preferential trade system for 65 developing countries, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Thursday. The figure includes 18 Commonwealth countries although Johnson only identified Rwanda...

As the accused members of the Clansman-One Don Gang continue to disassociate themselves from criminal antecedents, another described himself Thursday as just an innocent homebody who does not even know what a gun looks like. The defendant, Dylon......