Jamaican migrants rank among the top three groups of foreigners who use the United States military to gain citizenship, data from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) indicate. Between 2017 and 2021, some 2,360 Jamaicans.....

An eight-year-old child who ran frantically from his home and alerted relatives that his mother was killed on Monday reportedly recounted how the suspect lifted him up after the attack and glared at him before leaving. The child, the youngest of......

Jamaicans with disabilities have lamented the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) removal of interest-rate reductions, a move they deem unreasonable. But Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the Trust is not trying to take away money from the poor but i...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has expressed satisfaction with the strategies announced by the education ministry to address teacher migration, casting the phenomenon as both a threat to public education and an economic opportunity. Some 167...

WESTERN BUREAU: Tragedy struck in the Vanzie Land community of Falmouth, Trelawny, early Tuesday morning when a 73-year-old woman was killed, reportedly by a pack of dogs that jumped the wall of their owner’s property. The woman, who was physicall...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday moved to defend the integrity of the New Social Housing Programme, declaring that the selection process is void of nepotism and corruption. Some 89 units, inclusive of just over 200 rooms, have so far been.....

Kaymar Jordan has resigned as editor-in-chief of The Gleaner, nearly three years after steering the newsroom through restructuring and modernisation during the coronavirus pandemic. Jordan handed in her resignation letter on Tuesday and will be...

WESTERN BUREAU: Two men who were held in a foiled contract murder at Hew’s Enterprise Supermarket in Hopewell, Hanover, last Monday have been charged with double murder and illegal possession of two illegal firearms arising from an incident on...

Shantelle McKoy, student: Well, I’m not really prepared, but with COVID and everything, it’s a new environment for everyone. We have to wear masks and sanitise. We still have to protect ourselves from COVID same way. About teachers migrating a...

Education Minister Fayval Williams is being urged by the Association of Science Teachers of Jamaica (ASTJ) to commission an audit of public schools to fully understand the challenges facing administrators as scores of teachers walk off the job. In....

Four out of every five Jamaicans want buggery to remain a criminal offence while 12 per cent believe it should be decriminalised, an RJRGLEANER Group-commissioned Don Anderson poll has found. The remaining eight per cent of respondents were unsure....

Prosecutors came under fire on Monday as six witness statements in the Noel Maitland murder case were withheld from being served on the defence because of an alleged attempt to pervert the course of justice in at least one instance. Maitland, a...

A decade and a half ago, Dwight Duncan and Neisha Williams could stay in their Seaview Gardens community and look across the Sandy Gully to Riverton City in St Andrew. However, their view is now blocked as poor maintenance has resulted in the gully....

WESTERN BUREAU: Former Caribbean Union of Teachers President Dr Colin Greene has called for a change in how schools are viewed, noting that the current system of judging institutions based on academic performances of students could result in some......

BOUNDBROOK, Portland: With the new school year fast approaching, Boundbrook Primary School in Portland is struggling to pick up the pieces, literally, as heavy termite infestation has resulted in sections of the roof and portions of furniture...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has welcomed the move by the Ministry of Education to give school boards the green light to recruit retired educators to fill vacancies in schools that are short-staffed. But the outgoing...

As the clock winds down to September 5, school administrators are fine-tuning pandemic-shelved programmes to be reintroduced and carrying out repairs to run-down facilities to start the 2022-2023 academic year with a bang. At Calabar Infant,...

Declaring that Education Minister Fayval Williams’ head remains in the sand, Opposition Member of Parliament for St Andrew South Eastern Julian Robinson has said that it is time for the Government to step in and address the unfolding teacher-...

Nickeisha Singh Smith, 32, is one frustrated and worried mother. She is pondering the future of her 12-year-old son, who was placed at Foga Road High School 17 kilometres (around 10.5 miles) away from her home in Hayes, Clarendon. With the deck...

St Catherine schools are bracing for battle as the new academic year beckons in September. But the test for many of them is not academic, though they are fighting for hearts and minds. The challenge, for some, is also existential. Naggo Head...