Abysmally low public confidence in soldiers and the police presents a grave threat to law and order in Jamaica, experts say, with overexposure of the army cited for the increased risk of being “somewhat contaminated”. The analysis is drawn from ...

A gut-wrenching wail shattered the atmosphere at a Clarendon vigil on Monday as relatives and loved ones gathered in prayer, hoping for a safe reunion with two young brothers who vanished after jumping from a bridge while swimming in the United...

For nearly three decades, Michael Smart has been making the purchase of textbooks more affordable for Jamaicans as they conduct back-to-school shopping in downtown Kingston. “They get the books a little bit cheaper, they avoid the crowd that is......

Bauxite-alumina producer JISCO Alpart Jamaica has suffered a blow in its more-than-decade-long legal battle over land in Waltham, Manchester, after the Supreme Court dismissed its claims of trespass and recovery of possession brought against a...

WESTERN BUREAU: A permanent mobile police post, equipped with modern equipment such as cameras, is to hit the streets of downtown Montego Bay within a week as the authorities in the Second City push to restore public order. The high-tech vehicle is....

Once a below-average student, Trench Town native Terraine Wright graduated from the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) with the highest honours – magna cum laude – on Sunday, proving that where one if from does not define their destiny. Wright,...

WESTERN BUREAU: RETIRED ASSISTANT Superintendent of Police Elana Nisbett was burnt to death in a fire that destroyed her home in Hopewell, Hanover, on Monday morning. When the fire subsided, grieving onlookers gathered at the 89-year-old’s 12-...

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...