Sprinting sensation Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is among 10 people who will be inducted into the Order of Jamaica (OJ) as the island prepares to honour 143 persons with national awards this year. The OJ is the country’s fifth-highest honour and is...

Ten years ago, when Jamaica marked its 50th anniversary of Independence, we stressed the urgency of attending to the country’s many problems if the assessors in another half a century’s time were to avoid the lament of the present crop of “to...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared that the most outstanding achievement of the nation in the last decade was the political consensus around sustainable fiscal management and debt. At the same time, Opposition Leader Mark Golding wants...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday said he envisions a future in which the Court of Appeal is viewed as a “world-class” court. Noting strides made in recent years to have the court staffed with a full complement of judicial clerks, the...

CHARLES TOWN, Portland: Charles Town Maroons Colonel Marcia Douglas says the residents of her enclave are joining in the island’s celebration of Independence just as they celebrated on Emancipation Day. Douglas told The Gleaner that the Maroons.....

One of the attorneys representing a policeman implicated in the July murder of a tiler in Red Hills, St Andrew, is insisting that the case against her client is weak. Twenty-nine-year-old Phillip Wallace, of an East Kirkland Heights address, was...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has signalled its intent to take action against UC Rusal, the Russian company which operates Windalco, over the latest contamination of the Rio Cobre by caustic effluent from the bauxite and...

WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that Jamaica has now recorded its third confirmed case of the monkeypox virus, with the latest patient being the result of local transmission. The two previous cases...

Three men, two of whom were alleged to be motorcycle thieves, were mobbed, chopped and shot to death by angry residents in Negril, Westmoreland, on Thursday night. The victims have been identified as 43-year-old Devon Hendricks and 42-year-old...

Lascelles Anderson was not home on Thursday morning when his house was set alight. Its burnt-out shell now stands among more than a dozen razed by gunmen since Tuesday in the tense Mexico area of Gregory Park in Portmore, St Catherine. “Everything...

The independent state of Jamaica wasn’t the only gem that was born on August 6, 1962. So, too, was Topaz Kirlew - one of 224 native babies who share their birthday with Jamaica’s statehood. Her mother, Sylvia Kirlew, knew that her baby was...

A 27-year-old Jamaican man who travelled to Mexico on Monday but who was denied entry by immigration officers has determined that he was wrongfully detained and sent back to the island as the number of Jamaicans being rejected by the North American....

Twenty-two-year-old Sutanya Ellington, who was on Monday crowned National Farm Queen at the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show, is aiming to get more women and youth involved in agriculture. Acknowledging that she was heartened to see......

Lawmakers will today converge on Gordon House, the seat of Jamaica’s bicameral legislature, for a joint sitting of the Senate and the House of Representatives in commemoration of Jamaica’s 60th anniversary of Independence. The special sitting wi...

The Government is now seeking contractors to undertake a massive overhaul at the Spanish Town Hospital amid rising demand for services and a boom in road and housing construction projects across St Catherine. “It’s been a long journey that we ha...

Culture Minister Olivia Grange has vowed to revive the flagging fortunes of Jamaica’s traditions amid mounting concerns that cultural practices are at risk of drifting into oblivion. Grange said she would be courting support from global agency...

In a twist of fate, Vanacia Johnson-Lee, the 33-year-old St Andrew businesswoman who has been charged with the attempted murder of her husband, Edward Lee, had been pushing for his arrest for reported assault when she was, in turn, taken into...

The Government is banking on the newly opened US$17-million Kingston Logistics Park (KLP) to boost economic growth as the island positions itself as a global destination in cargo trans-shipment and logistics services. At Wednesday’s opening of the...

Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) President Adrian Saunders has argued that the fundamental reason for the paucity of Jamaican cases that go to the Privy Council was the crippling expense that acts as a barrier to many. He said that the filing fees.....

The General Legal Council (GLC) is being hauled over the coals over its “unconscionable” policy of withholding the practising certificates of senior lawyers who are said to be facing “extreme” challenges in completing its Continuing Legal......