A Jamaican fisherman traumatised by the loss of his right arm in a shark attack on the weekend has recounted the harrowing brush with death in what seemed like a 15-minute battle. Michael Simpson, who spoke with The Gleaner at May Pen Hospital...

She is 96 years old and just graduated with an associate degree in science and liberal arts. Jamaica-born Violet Edwards, who put her education on hold for years as she put her daughter through medical school and raised...

Jamaicans domiciled abroad will soon get the chance to become members of the People’s National Party (PNP) as the organisation bids to expand its footprint with a beefed-up registration drive. That decision was ratified during Sunday’s National...

The revised Emergency Powers Regulations governing the state of emergency (SOE) in St Catherine has broadened the circumstances under which an individual may be arrested and detained or may be asked to leave their communities because of perceived......

Out-of-favour councillor for the Papine division, Venesha Phillips, has pledged not to leverage influence among her supporters to interfere with the political ambitions of People’s National Party (PNP) prospective candidate Peta-Gay Ferguson....

One of the seven persons shot in a drive-by gun attack at Greenwich Park Road in Kingston on Friday evening is fearful he may have to undergo an orchiectomy because he was shot in his testicles. The shooting victim had just undergone surgery on...

A fraudulent ‘SIM-swap’ scheme, which allows cybercriminals to “hijack” cellular phones and gain access to sensitive personal information, has been used to swipe nearly $100 million from more than two dozen bank accounts over the last 18 mon...

The potency of marijuana since its decriminalisation in 2015 has reportedly increased threefold, which may give some users higher doses than they can manage, a chief researcher at the Caribbean Toxicology Unit (CARITOX) at The University of West...

It appears that the Government may have breached a tenet of the multimillion-dollar loan deal it signed with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to fund the Security Strengthening Project (SSP) in the Ministry of National Security by paying......

Three years after the implementation of the ban on certain single-use plastic products, local businesses are lamenting that they have yet to receive a dollar of the millions they say they were promised in compensation from the Holness...

Without disclosing any supporting data, the labour ministry has asserted that there were no financial losses to taxpayers from the nearly $3 billion worth of shares the National Insurance Fund (NIF) purchased more than seven years ago in breach of.....

Marianne Van Steen took up her post as the European Union (EU) ambassador to Jamaica in October 2020, just over six months after the first case of the coronavirus was detected in the island. It was the first time in her diplomatic career that she.....

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...