The Government has announced that it has reached a deal with the African Medical Supply Platform for the delivery of 1.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, starting next month. The announcement comes as the Holness administration is under...

The only money Narda McKoy had in her purse was her 17-year-old daughter’s college tuition, but she would have spent every cent without hesitation Friday night for some oxygen at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), where she had...

The occupants of a deregistered plane that crash-landed on a Rocky Point beach in January have reportedly fled the country, and the Government has given the clearest indication that the aircraft was on a smuggling mission. The plane had intended to....

Major real-estate investment in higher-density, multistorey residences in Portmore could rehabilitate the blighted housing stock of neighbourhoods like Gregory Park, a community elder has said. Elkanah Mullings has been a pillar of Gregory Park for....

WESTERN BUREAU: As coronavirus numbers skyrocket, all persons entering the island, including Jamaicans, will now be required to present a negative COVID-19 test result conducted no less than 72 hours before the date of travel. The new measures,...

Sargassum has been a significant threat for fishing and tourism interests in the region, but a group of researchers at The University of West Indies, Mona, have found that the notorious seaweed has economic potential despite some negative...

Over the last two decades, only three academics at The University of the West Indies (UWI) appealed decisions not to promote them to professorship, an administrator has disclosed to back up claims of an “objective” selection process. Growing.....

Deputy Mayor Alric Campbell has characterised the Holness adminstration’s proposal to designate Portmore as Jamaica’s 15th parish as a gerrymandering ploy to seize political control of the St Catherine Municipal Council. Campbell, an affiliate o...

More than two centuries after the Moravians landed in Jamaica, a little girl named Lucinda Beverley (now known as Lucinda Grace Peart) was born. By age 12, she had conquered the highest levels of educational assessment in Jamaica for pupils,...

The Jamaican Government, after months of silence, has disclosed that it has signed a five-year J$4-billion contract with the Israeli firm ELTA Systems Limited, but has sought to assure Jamaicans that they have nothing to fear. The disclosure and......

A Sunday Gleaner request for the employment contracts of the police and tax commissioners has been denied, shocking some civil society advocates who are insisting that the holders of the two key public positions cannot benefit from oft-used privacy....

As Jamaica gears up to receive a gift of 50,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from India next week, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has said that unlike Barbados, the island will not be sharing any doses with Caribbean neighbours as the......

The Cyber Incident Response Team in the national security ministry yesterday raised the island’s cybersecurity threat level in relation to government systems to high. The heightened threat level comes on the heels of a number of weaknesses...

Today marks one year since visually impaired university student Jasmine Deen disappeared on her way home from classes about 9 p.m. The passing time has done nothing to ease her family’s pain. Instead, more worry sets in and the emotional trauma......

Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Dr Keith Rowley has said that the member states of the regional bloc are expected to receive the first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine under the COVAX Facility by about mid-March. Jamaica’s Health...

Stung by criticisms that he has been largely absent from the front line in leading Jamaica’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said that he has been working in the background while the country awaits a......

Former Senior Superin-tendent of Police James Forbes, whose 2014 corruption conviction was yesterday thrown out by the Court Appeal, says that if he could go back in time, he would again take part in the events that had led to him being charged...

WESTERN BUREAU: Yesterday’s sentencing of 39-year-old Nadeen Geddes, the Trelawny woman who, along with her two daughters, pleaded guilty to participating in the murder of her sister by a hitman last year, was postponed because of the absence of.....

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PASSLEY GARDENS, Portland: Ryan Gayle, a student of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) at Passley Gardens in Portland, is seeking to make his mark in creating a better future for livestock breeding as climate change takes its.....