The Ministry of Health and Wellness is making a plea for the public’s patience and cooperation as it assesses the islandwide impact, and implements contingencies to mitigate disruptions caused by the impending severance of ties with Cuban health p...

A prosecution witness in the Clansman Gang trial told the court he returned from a shop to find a friend lying across the verandah of his home with multiple gunshot wounds and another man bloodied. The witness, a mechanic, during his evidence-in-chi...

Western Bureau: Twelve-year-old Shaville Moodie, a first-form student at Frome Technical High School in Westmoreland, says she feels “unhappy” and “uncomfortable” after injuries from a motorcycle crash forced her to miss her internal examina...

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Flanker, St James, were in a buoyant mood yesterday as they welcomed the reopening of their postal agency, which was out of service for a protracted period to undergo a J$3.5-million renovation, courtesy of the St James ...

Fiscal Commissioner Courtney Williams has sought to defend the publishing of an economic and fiscal assessment report (EFAR) on the Independent Fiscal Commission’s (IFC) website before the document was tabled in Parliament. There was consternation...

Months after Hurricane Melissa tore through western Jamaica, administrators and students at several special-needs institutions remain in a desperate battle for survival, grappling with a sluggish recovery that threatens to derail the education of th...

Defence attorney Hugh Wildman has urged the court to exclude the testimony of a key prosecution witness in the trial of six policemen charged in connection with the January 2013 fatal shooting of three men on Acadia Drive in St Andrew, arguing that ...

The Jamaica Libraries and Information Network (JAMLIN), an arm of the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ), has launched a Jamaican Sign Language (JSL) training initiative aimed at strengthening accessibility and inclusion across Jamaica’s library ne...

Senior Gleaner journalist Kimone Francis says being named the 2025 Journalist of the Year is a prestigious honour, but is not her “North Star”. “Knowing that a story helped a family find justice or brought resources to a neglected community pr...

Seeing colleague journalists struggle quietly with medical challenges and other personal crises is what moved veteran practitioner Janet Silvera to propose a welfare fund for Jamaican journalists. Silvera, who is also an entrepreneur, will make the ...