Portfolio minister Fayval Williams has issued a fact-finding directive to a team within the education ministry to determine the scope and extent to which persons are appointed to multiple school boards and for “inordinate” periods. Williams’.....

If Justice Leighton Pusey had his way, the cold-blooded and unrepentant Cocoa Piece killer who snuffed out the lives of five family members would be a distant memory and only be recalled by the judiciary for legal...

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid a rise in cases of gastro-enteritis in St James and St Andrew, doctors at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay have confirmed that a two-year-old boy who was admitted to the medical facility Tuesday night with...

Pamelleta Williams held her stomach and broke down in tears on Thursday upon seeing the team of police officers and officials entering her home in Maxfield Park, St Andrew, to show their support as she grieved the murder of her 22-year-old son,...

Gwendolyn McKnight, the woman whose daughter and four grandchildren were brutally murdered in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, in June, says that convicted killer Rushane Barnett should remain behind bars, adding that she is “a little” pleased with his....

WESTERN BUREAU: Three suspects have been held in connection with the murder of 36-year-old Chinese businessman He Jin, otherwise called ‘Archie’, who was gunned down during a robbery at his supermarket in Orange Bay in the western parish on...

The candidate for fiscal commissioner is close to being selected and should serve to protect Jamaica’s future from a heavy-spending finance minister, EPOC Chairman Keith Duncan said Thursday. Shortlisted candidates have been interviewed for the......

When the pandemic struck in early 2020 and resorts saw tourist figures plummeting and many shuttered their doors, an accompanying ban on large gatherings and restrictions on operating hours meant restaurants also significantly scaled back on...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness and House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert have been urged to “sanction” William ‘J.C.’ Hutchinson, a member of the executive, for actions adjudged to constitute a conflict of interest and for being cited for...

There are concerns within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that a pending United States resolution to the United Nations Security Council seeking support for the deployment of forces to Haiti may be vetoed by China and Russia even as nationwide...

Stung by criticism that he was “ethically reprehensible”, senior government minister Karl Samuda has ridiculed the Integrity Commission after it condemned him for benefiting unduly from the cultivation of 14.2 acres of Mombasa grass by the Jamai...

Dr Trisha Bailey, the Jamaica-born entrepreneur who recently made the largest cash donation in the history of the University of Connecticut, has a number of development projects under way in Jamaica valued in excess of US$41 million. Among the...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has expressed concern that some gated communities could be excluded from the island’s 15th population and housing census because of access challenges. STATIN Director General Carol Coy said that the......

Even as news of a man being murdered on North Street spread through Denham Town on Wednesday, residents remained adamant that the crime situation would have been worse had a zone of special operations (ZOSO) not been declared in the troubled west......

Sixteen thousand students in 25 primary and high schools located in zones of special operations (ZOSOs) will be targeted for behavioural interventions later this month. Fayval Williams, minister of education and youth, made this announcement...

LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Liz Truss described herself as “a fighter and not a quitter” Wednesday as she faced a hostile Opposition and fury from her own Conservative Party over her botched economic plan. Within hours of the defiant......

With a spike in murders within the inner city of Montego Bay, St James, Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers has indicated that the police will be moving to make the Second City safer over the coming weeks as the Christmas season...

Claims of $4m in land sales as school principal charged Five people have already come forward with claims that they paid school principal Suelyn Ward Brown over $4 million for lands near Clifton, St Catherine, police officials have disclosed....

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......