With growing consensus on adjusting the lofty Vision 2030 targets as Jamaica charts developed-country status, Dr Adrian Stokes, a development economist, has argued that it will be very difficult to move the needle on those goals without addressing.....

Seventy-year-old Jamaican, Glen McFarlane, is partly credited for the pristine quality people around the world experience when they watch high-definition television (HDTV). Back in 1991, he was hired by LEMO in England to start the operations to......

Take risks and don’t be deterred by your failures. That was the substance of the charge given to Nothern Caribbean University (NCU) graduates Sunday by Charles Misick, premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Misick, the second commencement speake...

Kayla Wheeler had never watched professional skateboarding before she got involved, but her passion for the sport was piqued after seeing some of her university peers having fun. After four years of dedication, she is now representing Jamaica...

WESTERN BUREAU: MISPLACED VALUE has been cited by Prime Minister Andrew Holness as the reason why Jamaicans are not generally appreciative of improvements to civic infrastructure such as monuments. Holness made the observation while delivering last....

As Jamaica struggles to solve its crime conundrum, a staggering 93 per cent of Jamaicans say they have little or no confidence in the country’s minister of national security. That no-confidence motion was also moved against Jamaica’s police...

At least two civil society advocates are not surprised by the overwhelmingly high number of Jamaicans who have expressed low confidence in the country’s national security minister and the commissioner of police. Horace Levy is one of them. “I am...

Even a seasoned politician like Dr Horace Anthony Chang goes into shocked silence at the barbarity of some of the crimes committed in Jamaica. In a recent sit-down with The Sunday Gleaner, he recalled how his body and mind were jolted as details...

A Sunday Gleaner probe has uncovered troubling details about the processes that resulted in two alleged crime bosses getting gun permits, one of which triggered investigations into several high-ranking members of the police force. An unnamed...

“Heart-rending, if I have to choose one word.” That was the response from a senior member of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) yesterday, immediately after identifying the body of 38-year-old correctional officer Shannon ‘David’ ...

NEW YORK: Members of the diaspora have reacted strongly to Montego Bay Deputy Mayor Richard Vernon’s characterisation of expatriates as cowards for seeking out greener pastures at the expense of developing their homeland. “Only cowards run away...

Retired legal luminary Seymour Panton has argued that any suggestion that the Court of Appeal could serve as Jamaica’s court of last resort was an attempt to extend the country’s ties with the London-based Privy Council which serves as Jamaica�...

Christopher Townsend, the attorney representing Constable Noel Maitland, is questioning the veracity of evidence in the form of bloodstains believed to be Donna-Lee Donaldson’s which were reportedly found in his client’s apartment. Maitland has...

Rastafarian faithful have hailed the posthumous national honour to be bestowed on the religion’s founder, Leonard Percival Howell, as an atonement of sorts and a tectonic shift from the bitter days that characterised the movement’s infancy and i...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) was on Friday shaken when news emerged that former Inspector Ralph Medley was found dead at his Montego Hills home in St James, in a suspected case of suicide. The 62-year-old, who retired from the JCF in August....

WESTERN BUREAU: “I am feeling happy because I know that I am going to walk again.” Those heart-melting words were uttered with conviction on Thursday by nine-year-old Tamara Noble, moments after being informed that she would be getting assistanc...

WESTERN BUREAU: Political and medical stalwarts have expressed sadness at the passing of renowned family physician and former junior tourism minister Dr Henry ‘Marco’ Brown, who passed away on Wednesday. Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ)...

Two Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officers are among three persons who were seriously injured in a three-vehicle accident in Montego Bay, St James, on Friday. Reports by the Freeport police are that about noon, the soldiers were travelling in a...

An equal number of Jamaicans have recommended that reggae icon Bob Marley and folklorist and poet Louise ‘Miss Lou’ Bennett-Coverley be named national heroes. In an RJRGLEANER Group-commissioned Don Anderson poll, 29 per cent of respondents...

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Deputy Mayor Richard Vernon has taken a swipe at Jamaican expatriates who seek greener pastures at the expense of developing their homeland. Vernon insisted that patriotic youths should stay in Jamaica and build their......