People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding is demanding that the Government increase the amount of social spending allocated for low-income groups struggling with a cost-of-living crisis and spiralling global inflation. He put the price...

Neither Wednesday’s announcement of Jamaica’s first monkeypox case nor the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was enough to stop carnival revellers from transforming Kingston’s streets into a festival of colour Sunday. The summertime carnival was the...

Hours after Saturday’s shooting death of 50-year-old Denise Bell in Seaforth, St Thomas, Rashelle Bennett was still in disbelief that her mother would never return home. Although the 50-year-old businesswoman’s blood stained the road, Bennett wa...

The stained glass windows of the 1664 church shimmered in the Half-Way Tree summer sun as history unfolded inside last Tuesday. For the first time in the Anglican Church in Jamaica, a dreadlocked priest celebrated his first Eucharist. The Rev...

Nathaniel McCreary was fascinated with the thought of becoming a pilot since he was a child, but, as he grew older, the dream seemed more far-fetched because of limited financial resources. The 22-year-old, who hails from Oracabessa, St Mary, said....

On May 24, 1962, two and a half months before Jamaica gained Independence, The Gleaner published a photo of Ruby Steer, then 16 years old, after she had won a set of Encyclopaedia Brittanica Junior in the newspaper’s Tell Me Why feature. Now, 60....

To commemorate the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) 79th anniversary, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that the party is expanding the number of tertiary scholarships it provides to prospective students. Speaking at the JLP’s anniversary....

A gun that remains in the hands of criminals has been used to murder and maim almost 30 people, leaving a trail of bodies, blood and tears across the Jamaican capital within the last two-plus years. Tests have revealed that this so-called ‘wantedâ...

The monkeypox patient who yesterday fled the May Pen Hospital, where he was under mandatory isolation in Clarendon, could face criminal charges for breaches of the Quarantine Act. The man was subsequently found and returned to the hospital hours...

History-making British Member of Parliament (MP) Diane Abbott pulled on the Jamaican vernacular to describe the embattled Boris Johnson, calling him the architect of his political downfall as he fell on a sword of lies last week amid the collapse......

The Government could soon resume a programme under which it collects and stores DNA samples from prisoners to strengthen its crime-fighting capacity. Zavia Mayne, state minister in the Ministry of National Security, pointed out that the programme......

Already faced with the perils of COVID-19 and reports that a case of the monkeypox virus has been confirmed locally, Jamaicans are again being warned about the long-standing HIV/AIDS pandemic, which researchers at the Northern Caribbean University.....

Potability tests conducted on 10 randomly selected brands of bottled water sold in Jamaica have confirmed that they are fit for drinking. The Sunday Gleaner potability tests were conducted at the Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) Agriculture.....

As news of the assassination of modern Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reverberated around the world, unspoken grief consumed millions in the East Asian country, just over six decades after the famous killing of Inejiro Asanuma,....

Deputy Minister for Investor Outreach in Saudi Arabia Badr Al Badr says investors from his country are ready to invest in Jamaica. Badr, who spoke at a business luncheon on Friday at the Port Royal Cruise Ship Pier, was accompanied by an 80-member.....

Female students who sat the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) this year have outperformed their male counterparts in all subjects. Of the 36,078 students registered, 18,495 were boys and 17,583 were girls. In language arts, 86 per cent of girls received.....

AP: Elon Musk announced on Friday that he will abandon his tumultuous $44-billion offer to buy Twitter after the company failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts. Twitter immediately fired back, saying it would sue the....

One-third of the more than 6,000 surgery cases now in backlog at public hospitals across the island include people suffering from hernia-based problems that require elective surgeries for repair. In May, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher....

The Senate on Friday paid tribute to former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, who died at hospital yesterday after being shot during a political campaign event in the southern city of Nara. Abe, 67, was shot twice in the neck while giving a...

Glenford Fearon, a farmer in the rural community of Rose Hill in Summerfield, Clarendon, is a happy man today having moved into a new home with his family. In the past, when the hurricane season approached, Fearon would be worried sick. His unease....