While President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) John Mahfood is lamenting the high-energy prices that continue to significantly impact the manufacturing sector’s electricity and transportation costs, former energy...

Executive director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC), Vitus Evans, says Jamaica’s gaming industry can reap more benefits by realising operational efficiencies from the merger of three regulatory bodies, but, eight years after....

WESTERN BUREAU: Local COVID-19 researcher Dr Christopher Ogunsalu, a lecturer in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI), believes that scientists should have referred to previously published medical information......

Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres yesterday urged the Security Council to consider as a matter of urgency the request by the Haitian government for the immediate deployment of an international specialised armed force to...

WESTERN BUREAU: As a struggling single mother caring for her nine-year-old son Elijah Street, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Kameale Ellis is anxious to do her best to ensure her child’s well-being, having had to give up several.....

WESTERN BUREAU: As World Cerebral Palsy Day was observed on October 6, many people around the world, including Jamaica, used the opportunity to turn the spotlight on this medical condition that affects between two or three babies out of every 1,000....

A Jamaican drug boss who amassed a $1-billion portfolio of assets that included more than two dozen luxury homes and cars has lost half of it to the Government. And financial investigators have already gone to court and obtained a restraint order......

Jamaica was never slated to be part of a controversial survey that was to be administered to secondary students in several schools across the Caribbean, the local education ministry has said. But following last week’s uproar in Barbados over the.....

The Montego Bay-based St James High School was once considered a den of lawlessness, where future gangsters and young criminal minds passed the time. The wanton disregard for authority in the many inner-city communities surrounding the tourist...

Shoddy investigations by the police, coupled with lengthy delays in taking accused persons before the court after they have been arrested and charged, could cost the Government millions of dollars in damages for false imprisonment and malicious...

Adam Stewart has under his leadership portfolio 10 major companies, and with Sandals 2.0 a reality, the executive chairman of the luxury-included resort brand is dominating prime time when it comes to creative innovativeness. The Sunday Gleaner...

There has been a drastic increase in the registration of slot machines across the island, but regulators at the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) say they are still grappling with unscrupulous persons who continue to flout the law...

An immigration investigator employed by the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) is lamenting how a grouse he has with the state entity is being handled after being held on interdiction for two years without 50 per cent of his salary....

WESTERN BUREAU: A United States pastor charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition by the Jamaican police walked scot-free out of the Western Regional Gun Court in St James on Friday morning, after being admonished by Justice Martin......

Security consultant Mark Shields believes that security companies should provide more technology-based services instead of relying solely on manpower. His suggestion comes as a 50 per cent cost increase looms over the industry after a recent...

Fifty-two Jamaicans are currently enrolled in a voluntary intervention programme led by RISE Life Management Services, which assists those struggling with their gambling habits in stepping away from such activities and refocus their lives and...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Friday said that his administration has a master plan for 15,000 housing solutions on lands located in the vicinity of Clifton in St Catherine, a day after the Government moved in to bulldoze unfinished structures......

Tanya Williams is growing more anxious daily as her two-year-old son, Jahari Headley, is in need of urgent heart surgery with his condition worsening. In an interview with The Gleaner on Friday, Williams detailed how she took her son to the doctorâ€...

Leader of Opposition Business Phillip Paulwell has given notice that the parliamentary Opposition intends to invoke Standing Order 17B, more commonly referred to as Prime Minister’s (PM) Question Time, on Tuesday, when the head of Government is......

After more than a year of peace, bloody violence rocked the community of Flankers in St James on Thursday night as gunmen ambushed patrons at a shop, killing two men and injuring two others. The deceased have been identified as 34-year-old Bobby...