Another stimulus package is needed to give Jamaica’s tanking economy a fighting chance, Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has asserted. Robinson said the bailout funds should be channelled into the productive sectors such as...

The Holness administration is seeking to expedite accreditation of coronavirus testing sites amid the mushrooming of informal operators and the slow start by approved private labs. At least four of the eight private laboratories that have been...

Eyebrows were raised during Thursday’s meeting of the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) when works czar E.G. Hunter disclosed that only 22 per cent of members of parliament (MPs) have used the entire allocation for Christma...

Veterinarian Dr Michael Motta on Thursday made a case for significant investment focusing on developing the small ruminant sector, with particular attention to expanding Jamaica’s dairy goat industry through embryo transfer, even as he made a call...

Jamaica’s 2021 Rhodes Scholar, Fitzroy Wickham, who hails from Orange Hill, St Ann, lost his father to cancer when he was just two years old. He and his sister, Kimberly, then grew up in a single-parent home, headed by mom Florence. “I was acute...

WESTERN BUREAU: The chef and girlfriend who were charged in connection with the shooting death of four-year-old Chloe Brown were remanded when they appeared in the Trelawny Parish Court on Thursday. Little Chloe and her father, 49-year-old Dalton......

If Keshtina Bonner had her way, confessed killer Wade Blackwood would spend the rest of his life behind bars for the horrific shooting death of her sister, Simone Campbell-Collymore. Blackwood detailed, in a caution statement recorded by police...

When gunshots rang out in the quiet community of Simon in Content, St Catherine, on Tuesday night, residents did not think twice. The idea of a murder being committed in their midst was the furthest thing from their minds. But the frightening...

WASHINGTON (AP): With a burst of executive orders, President Joe Biden served notice on Thursday that America’s war on COVID-19 is under new command, promising an anxious nation progress to reduce infections and lift the siege it has endured for.....

Western Bureau: The tears of sorrow that flowed two months ago when fire razed their home, killing five-year-old DeAndre ‘Jaydon’ Peterkin, were replaced with tears of joy on Wednesday when a St James family was given the keys to their newly...

Jamaican Jason W arrived in New York 10 years ago, seeking the American dream. Because he has remained there illegally, he has lived in the shadows, taking whatever jobs he can to survive financially. When his mother died, he was unable to attend.....

United States Vice-President Kamala Harris is expected to leverage her history of advocacy in pressing the White House on economic and social justice for blacks and other minorities, Jamaican academics have said. Joseph Biden assumed the presidency....

A total of $1.8 billion has been dedicated to the procurement of laptops and tablets for students in the Jamaican education system. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke said that the $1.8 billion excised from the budget of the Ministry of Education,......

Western Bureau: Residents of Jointwood in St Elizabeth are frustrated with the lack of responsiveness by the State in repairing the road to their community after three sections of the thoroughfare collapsed during last November’s flood rains....

Tears rolled down the face of Norma Walters as she watched her former schoolmate’s daughter being sworn in on Wednesday as vice-president of the United States. Walters, who attended school alongside Donald Harris decades ago in the northern Jamaic...

Claudius Brown, the ex-cop who has a master’s degree and wanted to become a taxi driver this year, is no longer homeless. Brown, whose story The Gleaner recently captured, was deported from the US in 2006 for overstaying after visiting his sick....

Hotels to fund vaccine for staff Several Jamaican hotels have registered with a partnership with the Government to pay for COVID-19 vaccines for their staff. The initiative, which is being spearheaded by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association....

Two men who were fatally shot by the police in Waterford, St Catherine, on Wednesday are believed to have been on a mission to kill, investigators have said. The police are hunting for a third suspect. Two firearms were recovered. Residents of...

Lawmakers were left peeved on Wednesday after a startling revelation that two newly constructed municipal corporation buildings have run afoul of their own guidelines for public buildings by failing to create full access by the disabled. Members of....

Fifty-eight-year-old Donald ‘Oney’ Taylor has spent almost four decades beautifying gardens in communities across St Catherine. The resident of Independence City in Portmore made a switch from working as a jeweller and loader man after an accid...