Lieutenant General Rocky Meade’s decision to officially decline the appointment of Cabinet secretary is an indictment on the Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Government, a civil-society advocate and the parliamentary Opposition have...

General secretary of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Dayton Campbell, has declared that poll numbers showing the party well behind the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will change once its election machinery is launched. “W...

President of the Police Federation, Corporal Rohan James, says rank-and-file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force are “getting restless” over the snail’s pace at which the Government’s compensation review process is moving. In a Gleaner...

WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is urging members of the security forces to shoot to kill when confronted by armed gunmen, noting that the country was spending too much to treat criminals at public-health facilities....

The police have launched an investigation into the discovery of a newborn’s corpse in the Rio Cobre and are also trying to locate the mother. The discovery of the baby girl in the vicinity of Nugent Street, popularly known as Buck Town in Spanish....

Attorney and privacy practitioner Chukwuemeka Cameron has criticised Jamaican banks for “focusing too much on going digital” and not placing sufficient emphasis on data privacy and data-processing standards that are mandated by law. Cameron was....

As school administrators and parents continue to draw battle lines in the long-running clash over students’ grooming policy, Minister of Education Fayval Williams said she is choosing to stand on the “side of discipline”. The tumultuous clash...

Cocoa Piece killer hit with assault, contraband charges Rushane Barnett, the 23-year-old who pleaded guilty to the murder of a mother and her four children in Clarendon, has been charged following an alleged confrontation with cops at the Half-......

WESTERN BUREAU: A 54-year-old man who returned to the island from England just over three weeks ago to bury his mother was shot dead by a lone gunman in Green Island, Hanover, on Wednesday night, just hours after participating in the grave-digging....

People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding says the party made several offers to St Ann South Eastern Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna prior to her announcement not to seek re-election when the current political cycle ends. Those offers....

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) says it is seeking legal advice on the appointment of Lieutenant General Rocky Meade as Cabinet secretary, arguing that the Holness administration has several questions to answer on the matter....

WESTERN BUREAU: Some caterers providing food for schoolchildren under the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) are considering packing it in as their current arrangement with the Government is no longer economically viable......

Despite a survey of 35 schools by the health and education ministries finding that most were non-compliant with the interim guidelines for beverages in schools, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said no action would be taken...

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is conducting an investigation into Wednesday’s blaze at Khemlani Mart in Manor Park, St Andrew, following reports that a transformer that had allegedly exploded may have started the fire. Director of...

GRAND CAYMAN: Superseding all growth figures for any city in the English-speaking Caribbean, Montego Bay, Jamaica’s tourism capital, is enjoying a 23 per cent increase in stopover arrivals in 2022. The western Jamaica city has contributed...

People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has revealed that the 84-year-old political movement is now in a healthy financial state, having cleared its legacy debts. As the PNP gears up for its annual conference this weekend, senior part...

WESTERN BUREAU: A three-year-old boy, who was among four persons shot on Tuesday in a drive-by attack that claimed two lives in Goodwill, St James, has been released from the hospital. The deceased have been identified as 38-year-old former St...

Dezreen Miller and Anita Stephenson, the mother and daughter from Olympic Gardens whose heartbreaking story was highlighted by The Gleaner on August 20, are now comfortably settled in a new home. The house was constructed on Wednesday by Food For.....

Lieutenant General Rocky Meade’s appointment as Cabinet secretary has been met with scepticism by former senior civil servants who have expressed concern that it may not be in keeping with a provision of the Jamaican Constitution. Meade, the form...

Three business moguls have defended their multimillion-dollar sponsorship of Jamaican Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed candidature for the post of Commonwealth secretary general, insisting that they were motivated only by patriotism...