Western Bureau: For the second time in recent months, the medical staff at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, has gone public in registering their disgust with the overcrowding and poor working conditions at the Type.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has given a commitment to the representatives at the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation (StEMC) that he will provide them with four containers for retrofitting to create an office that...

The 11th Biennial Diaspora Conference has been set for June 14 to June 18 at the Montego By Convention Centre in St James, with Diaspora Day – a day of service – scheduled to take place on June 16. The Gleaner understands that a theme for the....

Western Bureau: Andrea Purkiss, the opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP) spokesperson on tourism, says she is deeply troubled by the way workers in the tourism industry have been treated since the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which cause...

Candidates vying for representative roles on the Global Jamaica Diaspora Council (GJDC) and the Global Jamaica Diaspora Youth Council (GJDYC) in Canada have until Monday, January 19, to register their interest. The registration deadline precedes...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Male students at Little London High School no longer have to be jealous that the girls' restroom is nicer than theirs. Last Friday, a group of alumni called Global Humanity Network Incorporated (GHNI) dona...

Today is the 102nd day of 2022. There are 263 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space, orbit the Earth and make a safe landing. OTHER EVENTS1606: Great Britain ad...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's Parliament on Monday elected Opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the new prime minister, following a week of political turmoil that led to the weekend ouster of Premier Imran Khan.Sharif took the ...

While the journey of entrepreneurship has been anything but smooth sailing for small grocery store owner Arlene Swaby, she is proof that with the right focus, and a little support, small business owners can thrive."I started out after m...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Programme director, Community Renewal Programme, Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Charles Clayton says the answer to the nation's crime problem is definitely not the resumption of hanging.In fact, Clayton poi...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has reported that the country's unemployment rate was 3.3 per cent in October 2025, relative to 3.5 per cent inOctober 2024. Director General, STATIN, Leesha Delatie-Budair, provided details on the......

A Westmoreland woman is accused of turning a heated argument into a blazing act of revenge after allegedly throwing a bottle that sparked a fire, destroying a Grange Hill home. Twenty-five-year-old Kimberly Wedderburn, otherwise called 'Kim', a.....

A 30-year-old vendor is behind bars after allegedly using a metal chair to hit a woman who confronted her for reportedly bullying her daughter to the point of crying on Tuesday in Lucea, Hanover. The accused has been identified as Mickeisha...

Burnout, overcrowding and what doctors describe as dangerous working conditions have pushed medical staff at Cornwall Regional Hospital to the brink, with doctors joining nurses in protest action at the Accident and Emergency Department....

Four months after being shot in an attempted robbery at a Western Union outlet in Hope Bay, Portland, 26-year-old Rasheed Lyons was on Thursday killed by the police during an alleged shoot-out in his Craig Town, St Andrew community. Lyons was one....