The British Home Office is reconsidering its “ridiculous” decision to bar an ill 14-month-old boy from entering the country after his mother, a United Kingdom resident, delivered him while stranded in Jamaica at the height of the coronavirus...

Louise Stoddart is now wallowing in grief and regret after her 10-year-old grandson – for whom she had cared since birth and was recently relocated from her Clarendon home to live with his father – died after being found unresponsive in an oven....

Some motorists who traverse the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 are firm in their decision to boycott the toll road, as pressure grows for operators to roll back rate increases that took effect on Saturday. The pushback has primarily come from...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has signalled that the time has come for the decades-old regional health authorities (RHAs) to be restructured, noting that Jamaica was too small to have almost semi-autonomous zones operating with....

Leroy Jagasar and his two nephews Suresh and Sanjay are doing everything they can to keep the Hosay Festival tradition going in Clarendon. Held in August each year, it takes months of preparation to pull off the big event as they have to build the.....

The long-awaited annual general meeting (AGM) of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) slated for Wednesday has been postponed indefinitely. This follows a Supreme Court decision on Monday setting a new hearing date for the case brought by Ian...

Television Jamaica (TVJ) switched on its second NextGenTV transmitter on Sunday as it continues rolling out the latest global standard in television transmission, ATSC 3.0. The second site was commissioned into service at Flower Hill in Montego Bay....

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 ‘wanted�...

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.....