Former managing director of the Transport Authority, Willard Hylton, has criticised Transport Minister Audley Shaw as being out of touch and ineffective, citing his “chaotic” management among the chief reasons he did not renew his contract. Hylt...

WESTERN BUREAU: FACED WITH a reported high prevalence of crime by repeat offenders, Westmoreland police commander Senior Superintendent (SSP) Wayne Josephs is urging parish judges to exercise greater discretion when granting bail to accused...

A former administrative assistant at Petrojam testified on Monday that then general manager Floyd Grindley had dismissed her when she enquired about the energy ministry’s approval for a refund he had ordered for then chairman Dr Perceval Singh for...

WESTERN BUREAU: RELATIVES OF Khamal Hall, the 16-year-old William Knibb Memorial High student who was stabbed to death by a schoolmate on March 21, are dissatisfied with the killer’s prison sentence of four years and 10 months which was handed.....

No need is too great for The Salvation Army to attempt to fulfil, says Major Nana Boakye-Agyemang, the divisional commander striving to boost the charity’s donations through its annual Christmas kettle initiative. ‘Donate Today – Be A Champion...

After scaling back services for the last two years as a result of the pandemic, local churches are fired up for a return to their 2022 Christmas productions with capacity audiences. The recitals typically feature a range of choral and solo...

UNICEF Jamaica has moved to clarify statements by Opposition Senator Damion Crawford last week about Jamaica’s school dropout rate’s link to teenage pregnancy and a recommendation to increase the age of sexual consent. The international agency s...

Parish Judge Venice Blackstock Murray is to rule on December 13 to submissions by the defence that Jamaican attorney-at-law Anthony Armstrong, the director of public prosecutions in Antigua, committed no fraud. Attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman, who is.....

President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), La Sonja Harrison, is urging patience from her membership as the union continues wage negotiations with the Government. At least 17 unions have signed on to the new compensation package and......

During the sitting of the Senate last Friday, Opposition Senator Damion Crawford called for the age of consent to be raised from 16 to 18 years old in light of a high number of teen girls leaving school after becoming pregnant. The age of consent.....

Local egg farmers are struggling to ramp up production to satisfy the traditional pre-Christmas surge in demand as stakeholders emerge from the shadows of the COVID-19 economy, Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) President Lenworth Fulton has said......

Jamaicans have been urged to temper their appetite for foreign-produced essential oils and to invest in local production to tap a global industry valued at US$8.8 billion and which is expected to exceed US$15 billion by 2027. State Minister for...

Security firm KingAlarm Systems Ltd has been accused by a former guard of using aggressive detention tactics, including the use of handcuffs, in an industrial relations hearing, but the company has defended its investigative practices as legitimate....

WESTERN BUREAU: Public-private partnerships should be utilised to finance national projects geared at reversing the degradation of living conditions in Jamaica, a leading banker has suggested. That dealmaking could speed up deliverables with...

One thing that Jamaica-born Lou-Shane Daley, a third-class petty officer, has learned from enlistment in the United States Navy is the value of philanthropy, especially for the benefit of children. Daley learned about the hospital ship USNS Comfort....

WESTERN BUREAU: Gloria Henry was honoured Saturday for her pioneering role in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry and her influence on the build-out of the sector in Montego Bay, Jamaica’s western city. Henry, the Nearshore Executive o...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) made amends on Sunday for the gun salute blunder that marred the funeral of Corporal Oliver Mullings, which drew the ire of Police Commissioner Antony Anderson and caused an investigation to be launched....

A need to use the bathroom at one of the main public hospitals in western Jamaica while there on a medical emergency proved too much for Sandra*. As ill and desperate as she was, the stench and nasty state churned her stomach so much, she would...

Opposition Spokesman for Health Dr Morais Guy is blaming the Christopher Tufton-led health and wellness ministry for the unkempt, unhealthy state of several restrooms at public facilities unveiled in a Sunday Gleaner probe. But Tufton says that...

The Supreme Court has awarded Muriel Fraser just over $2.4 million for the death of her son, Imran Ferguson, who died as a result of injuries he received from being badly beaten in police custody in 2010. Fraser had sought $20 million as redress...