Opposition Leader Mark Golding said he will seek dialogue with the Government with a view to averting the impending eviction of several families now occupying lands handed down to them in Pleasant Hill, St Catherine. The 65 families, some of whom......

Three alleged gangsters who were sentenced to 20 years in prison for their involvement in the brazen 2011 daylight $50-million jewellery heist at Tropical Jewellers on Constant Spring Road in St Andrew have had their sentences significantly reduced....

WESTERN BUREAU: FINALLY! A date has been set for the unveiling of the statue of legendary sprinter and son of Trelawny, Usain Bolt, in his native parish. Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager revealed the date for the installation of the statue of the double....

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay North East Division Councillor Charles Sinclair is asserting that if adequate laws were in place to ensure law and order and strict enforcement being practised over the years, the ongoing Operation Restore Paradise...

Thirty-two-year-old Nickiesha Bygrave of Bucknor, Clarendon, just wants one main thing to make her life complete: surgery to repair a hernia that has been a major disruptor in her life. Unable to afford the fees to have the operation done, she has.....

As she gazed into the distance at the home in which Michael ‘Mikey’ Graham once lived, Shantal Thomas was at a loss as to how she would carry on in caring for her three children, two of whom were fathered by him. Speaking with The Gleaner on Fri...

When the new $40-million Sister Susan Frazer, R.S.M. Educational Complex was officially opened recently at the St John Bosco Boys’ Home in Hatfield, Manchester, the 74-year-old nun in whose name the building is dedicated cried tears of joy. Afte...

WESTERN BUREAU: Some Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillors in the St James Municipal Corporation on Thursday chastised Spanish Town Mayor Norman Scott for pledging legal support for illegal occupants of lands on the outskirts of Clifton in St...

Ascot High Principal Shannell Talbert said he has been left disappointed after one of his students was physically assaulted by a parent in the vicinity of the Portmore, St Catherine-based school on Wednesday. According to Talbert, the incident took...

High Court judge Justice Vinette Graham on Thursday accused Constable Noel Maitland of using his nine years of experience in the police force to assist him in covering up and getting rid of possible evidence in the murder of his girlfriend. The...

Eight years ago when Kayon Samuels went to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) for laser eye surgery, she thought it was the saving grace she needed to restore her vision. However, it did the total opposite. The mother of boys at the time said she......

The management of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) will have to work to avert three days of industrial action by the country’s immigration officers, who are said to be restive over poor treatment and unpaid special allowanc...

There was a clash of legal opinions on Thursday between Solicitor General Marlene Aldred and Albert Edwards, legal consultant to the Ministry of Health and Wellness, on the question of whether members of the security forces should be captured in...

Twenty-year-old Celine Sitladeen, who hails from Manchester, took a leap of faith when she applied to the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) in Portland to pursue an undergraduate degree in general agriculture. She had worked for.....

The National Works Agency (NWA) came under fire at Thursday’s monthly sitting of the Clarendon Municipal Corporation as the councillor for the Hayes Division blasted their poor work in the parish. Scean Barnswell said that the state agency’s...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday declared that he has passed the stage of needing to win political popularity and favour. “It doesn’t matter to me any more. I have to start to think about legacy: What will Jamaica be? Will it be the sa...

The Government has doubled down on the Broadcasting Commission’s policy to ban songs it says glorify criminality from the airwaves, arguing that radio stations cannot continue to breach their licences. Minister without Portfolio in the Office of....

Wednesday’s sitting of the House of Representatives got under way without a quorum, in breach of the Standing Orders, which are the rules of Parliament. When Leader of Opposition Business Phillip Paulwell pointed out the blunder and noted that th...

Declaring that there is an “evil taking over” in schools, Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison says divine intervention is needed to help stem the tide of violence sweeping many institutions. “I call on righteous m...

Four years after marauding gangsters opened gunfire on a group of mostly teens in the Matthews Lane area of West Kingston, Shinardo Wilson, the most critically injured from the lot, is on his way to a bachelor’s degree in electrical technology on ...