Steer Town Academy in St Ann is being investigated by the education ministry for alleged academic misconduct in this year’s sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations. Reports are that some students were given......

The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) paid its former president Professor Fritz Pinnock close to $15 million, before deductions, as part of a separation package when he resigned in February, Gleaner sources have indicated. Pinnock’s contract......

A man has been held in connection with the fire that killed four-year-old Sariak Kowen early Tuesday morning in Dean Pen, St Mary. Deputy Superintendent Kevin Francis, acting commandant for the St Mary Police Division, told The Gleaner that the...

Every October 15 for the past eight years, Donharley Harley would host a memorial fish fry on his late father’s birthday. But last Saturday, as the 36-year-old prepared to host the event near his family home on Willow Drive in Cockburn Gardens, h...

The tightly held “secret and confidential” information in relation to Quarterly Contract Award (QCA) reports of public bodies may once again see the light of day as officials at Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body continue to push for an...

Director of Information and Complaints at the Integrity Commission, Craig Beresford, shed light Tuesday on the certification of statutory declarations, which signals that the anti-corruption body has examined the income, assets, and liabilities of.....

The Sagicor Group Jamaica on Tuesday hosted its motivational conference with the aim of pushing its sales employees to work towards accomplishing their goals and that of the company. Sheryl Lee Ralph delivered the keynote address under the theme �...

WESTERN BUREAU: With the start of the winter tourist season weeks away, local tourism stakeholders are forecasting that the buoyancy in stopover arrivals will continue into 2023. Aiming to surpass 2019 pre-pandemic numbers – the best year in trave...

WESTERN BUREAU: MEMBER OF Parliament (MP) George Wright has thrown his support behind disgruntled vendors who have pushed back against a police campaign to clamp down on illegal vending on the streets of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, and to rid...

Eight months after Winston Thorpe made a life-saving call to the police, notifying them that their colleague had been shot and left for dead in bushes in Portmore, St Catherine, the 66-year-old hero remains homeless and struggling. Thorpe, a...

As sprint icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce crossed the stage on Monday to be officially inducted into the Order of Jamaica (OJ), her son Zyon consumed her thoughts. In that moment, the 35-year-old multi-Olympic and World Championships gold medallist......

Following a complaint that one of the operating theatres at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) had ceased operations owing to a massive leak from the ceiling, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said that when such problems arise, a.....

Residents of Greenwich Town in St Andrew South Western are hoping that rehabilitation works will be carried out soon at the sewage treatment plant in their community to bring an end to years of torment from the stench it emanates. “From mi born an...

A promising high school footballer who dropped out of Holy Trinity High School this year, reportedly as a result of the deadly ongoing feud between the Darksyde and Genasyde gangs in Kingston Central, was gunned down in a brazen daylight gun attack....

The Manchester farmer who slaughtered his lover, their teenage son, and his brother in April 2014 had reportedly told a taxi driver three weeks before the tragedy that he was going to kill the woman because she owed him $20,000 and was refusing to.....

TOKYO, Japan: Chitaru Shimizu, director of Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Division at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says expanding relations with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is paramount and Jamaica, its oldest partner in the....

Jeffery Bowen, who braved crocodile-infested sewage water on the night of July 31, 2020, to rescue a drowning young boy, said he would not have been able to live with himself if he had turned a blind eye to the boy’s plight and he ended up dying.....

Days ago, when a spiritual leader strolled between the zinc fences in the community of Frog City, St Andrew, trying to warn residents of dreadful violence that would soon befall the area, some persons reportedly threw water on her and chased her...

The Integrity Commission says a document outlining the incomes and assets of Prime Minister Andrew Holness has not been published because it has not yet been certified. “The Commission is not in a position to certify it, and in the circumstances,...

WESTERN BUREAU: THE NATIONAL Solid Waste Management Authority’s (NSWMA) Western Parks and Markets Waste Management Limited (WPM) continues to face an uphill battle with waste collection across St James, with the parish having a collection backlog....