The spate of schoolyard brawls since the full resumption of classes this year is evidence of heightened human-resource challenges facing Jamaican administrators who might be sitting on a public-health time bomb if the crisis is not averted. That’...

UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima has urged the Holness administration to repeal the buggery law, arguing that governments that criminalise anal sex have a higher rate of HIV within their population than in countries where same-sex activity....

WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has declared that George Wright, the member of parliament for Westmoreland Central, should be pardoned by the Jamaican people once he has sought to make amends for wrongs he may have committed......

WESTERN BUREAU: One of the world’s largest cruise shipping companies, Carnival, says it is hiring some of the most qualified candidates directly from Jamaica’s Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMU). The cruise line launched a partnership with th...

Francesco ‘Billy’ Reid, one of 33 fishermen who returned to Jamaica Friday following detention in Colombia for illegal fishing, said he has no intention of going offshore in the future. The 48-year-old told The Gleaner that he mainly fishes...

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the Seivwright Gardens division, Delroy Williams, openly criticised colleagues from the party’s powerful Area Council One who he accused Sunday of being derelict in their duties. Williams, the mayor of......

Detectives probing the murder of nine-year-old Gabriel King in a reported carjacking in St James in January say they have been faced with numerous roadblocks in the investigation, including legal manoeuvrings and lack of cooperation from persons...

A clean town and Christmas fireworks are two of the immediate plans Hubert Williams, the mayor-in-waiting, has on his agenda for Morant Bay when he assumes the role next Monday. Williams, the People’s National Party (PNP) councillor for the White....

Gunmen struck again in Homestead, St Catherine, Sunday morning, killing 34-year-old barber Alanzo Bennett at his home. This follows on the heels of Thursday night’s gang-related killing of 33-year-old Damian Marlyn and the wounding of three other...

Cybercriminals used an Internet protocol (IP) address based in Jamaica last Thursday to distribute some 1,160 malware attacks per hour to devices here and overseas, the agency that monitors the country’s cybersecurity space has disclosed. This...

For Patricia* to ever accept that Kevin Smith, the late leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, is dead, she would have had to witness the reported cremation of the body of the man herself. Likening Smith to Jesus Christ,......

Jamaica’s second-highest court has turned away a last-gasp attempt by a convicted drug boss to hold on to his portfolio of assets worth over $500 million. The Court of Appeal, on Friday, refused an application by lawyers for Andrew Hamilton for......

Retired Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Novelette Grant had anticipated that at least one female would have been on the panel which interviewed her for the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) top job in 2017. Instead, as she sought to become th...

Real estate company Coldwell Banker Jamaica is pushing ahead with an internal policy to offer a minimum commission of 1.5 per cent in co-broking transactions after government regulators ruled that the implementation of a similar policy across the......

Forty-one years on, it is no longer considered a death sentence but instead a chronic disease, in some cases inactive with on-time and consistent treatment. Still, inequality threatens efforts by the Joint United Nations programme for HIV/AIDS (...

Dr Nicholeen DeGrasse-Johnson, who was suspended as principal of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in 2019 at the height of a sexual harassment scandal, has lost her bid to be reinstated and for disciplinary proceedings...

As Jamaicans attended Remembrance Day events on Friday to honour soldiers who served in World Wars I and II, Beulah Coombs took The Gleaner on a journey into the past, through the service of her uncle, Robert Smith. She shared that it was her...

When Celine Lobban commenced her studies at the University of Technology, Jamaica, in 2017, she was the only deaf person in her year group in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing. Lobban knew from the outset that it would have been an uphill...

Tamekia Meeks did not own a laptop upon being accepted into university and, mere days before she was expected to move on campus from her home in Barham, Westmoreland, she did not have the first dollar for the deposit to secure boarding. The 23-year....

Six months of disaster and pain is how Jameal Mendez Sr describes the uncertainties surrounding the whereabouts of his two-year-old son, Jameal Jr, who has been missing since May 12.