Jamaicans are being urged to rush to hospital immediately after the onset of a stroke amid worryingly slow response rates and revelations that a third of local victims die from the brain attack and its complications. There are also fresh concerns.....

Kemar ‘Doggy’ Campbell, the man who earlier this year executed a daring rescue mission as a contractor was being electrocuted atop a light pole in Trench Town, Kingston, is being sought by sleuths probing a June 29 murder. Campbell was widely......

United States-based attorney-at-law Stephen Drummond believes that Finn Partners’ listing of Jamaica’s Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith as principal on a controversial filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) holds no...

Ian Bell, People’s National Party (PNP) councillor for the Beecher Town Division in St Ann South Eastern, says the pending departure of Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna from representational politics will not negatively affect his chances of...

Young entrepreneur Alex Robinson has seized on water-quality concerns to forge a mobile experiment, tapping a delivery boon that many businesses capitalised on during the coronavirus outbreak The 30-year-old kick-started his mobile purified...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has bemoaned that not enough local professionals are cashing in on Jamaica’s culture as he made a rallying cry for more people to join the orange economy. He was speaking on Wednesday at a ground-breaking ceremony.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica on Wednesday confirmed a fourth case of monkeypox in the island, the second instance of local transmission on record. In a statement, the Ministry of Health and Wellness disclosed that the male patient, who is from St James.....

Shareholders in 1834 Investments Limited gave the go-ahead Wednesday for a scheme of arrangement that will see the merger of the remnant company with the RJRGLEANER Communications Group. Piloting the resolution before the vote, independent director....

St Ann South Eastern Member of Parliament (MP) Lisa Hanna had become a lightning rod for disgruntled party supporters, forcing her to announce a premature departure from representational politics, a senior member of the Opposition People’s Nationa...

Lisa Hanna’s looming departure after 15 years as St Ann South East member of parliament (MP) has left a damaged legacy in the historical People’s National Party (PNP) stronghold. Internal strife has eroded a near impregnable support base, leavi...

Jamaican cop-turned-drug dealer Shelian Allen has been sentenced to nearly three years in an American prison for smuggling more than 1,000 grams of cocaine into the United States (US), court documents have revealed. Allen was handed a 33-month...

Less than a year after moving into National Housing Trust (NHT)-constructed units at Twickenham Glades in St Catherine, residents say that the $14-million structures are falling apart. The Housing Trust presented the keys of 110 two-bedroom,...

The inability to control crime and violence is deemed Jamaica’s biggest failure since the country gained Independence 60 years ago. In an RJRGLEANER-commissioned poll conducted by Don Anderson, 46 per cent of Jamaicans flagged that...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Tuesday that the Government would review the scope of the zone of special operations (ZOSO) currently in Parade Gardens to include the community of Spoilers on the heels of an alleged firebomb attack....

At least two academics have sided with the majority of Jamaicans who are in favour of removing the Queen as the country’s head of state. Jamaica spent centuries as a colony of Britain until it gained political Independence in August 1962. Dr...

Evergo Jamaica Limited is now eyeing suitable sites in St Thomas as it prepares to import an additional 44 electric vehicle charging stations over the next two months. “Our intention is to have 150 chargers by year end,” Wayne McKenzie, preside...

High teacher migration rates are raising a new threat to school administrations beyond the struggle of stretching manpower. Principals are now facing the dilemma of perhaps abandoning some curriculum programmes in the upcoming academic year amid......

The man arrested on suspicion of being a major gun supplier to the underworld was issued two firearm permits despite a drug-related conviction in the United States (US), top law-enforcement sources have disclosed. His name is being withheld by The.....

The Jamaican Government is facing mounting pressure from one of the country’s most powerful private-sector groups for full disclosure of the details of funding for Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed bid to oust Commonwealth.....

The site of flattened tenement yards, the ground covered in soot, and the despondent faces of shell-shocked residents of Central Kingston stirred the rage of Rae Town division Councillor Rosalie Hamilton. Days after the patriotic show of the...