Strenuous attempts by the Opposition to get the Government to delay debate on the Disaster Risk Management (Amendment) Act (DRMA) or to impose parliamentary checks on the prime minister's power were defeated on Friday. The bill to amend the...

Tanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter Donovan Powell, who had appealed his 12-month prison sentence and $1 million fine after he posted nude pictures and videos of his ex-girlfriend on the Internet, has been successful in getting his sentence halved....

Judana Murphy/Gleaner Writer Crowded wholesales, a jam-packed downtown Kingston market district, and scores of vehicles and delivery trucks parked on the road as Jamaicans prepared for the first of three consecutive weekend lockdowns. COVID-19...

At 11 years old, he held his father as the elder choked on injuries from a gunman’s bullet. At 13, he and friends made their first two ‘duppies’, and by 17, that body count had tripled. Now, after countless run-ins with the law, serving time o...

When Nurse Jodeen Gayle began planting vegetables and other cash crops a few years ago, she was sowing seeds she hoped would grow a relationship with her absentee father, a man she first met at 12 years old. While the harvest was bountiful, the...

They needlessly occupy in-demand hospital beds and at times add to the din of pleas being shouted at healthcare workers by those in distress in the crowded Accident and Emergency units. Now, they are adding to Jamaica’s COVID-19 numbers, even...

Jamaica has secured some 20,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to arrive in the island within two weeks, National Health Fund (NHT) Chairman Howard Mitchell has confirmed. Mitchell told The Gleaner yesterday that he was......

WESTERN BUREAU: A St James family has been plunged further into mourning as tragedy struck on Wednesday night, claiming the life of a four-year-old boy, who was struck by a car as he tried to cross the road to greet his dad, even while the family......

The Integrity Commission, Jamaica’s main anti-corruption watchdog, is probing a multimillion-dollar Independence Grand Gala contract as Culture Minister Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange remains silent over a damning audit on the operations of the Jamaica...

Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has been hospitalised. In a statement, his daughter Sherene Golding Campbell said the former Prime Minister was this evening admitted for a recurring health condition. Golding is under observation at the Tony...

The body of a fifth-form student at the Manchester High School was this morning found in a tank near his home in the Mile Gully area. The police were alerted by residents after the body of 17-year-old Ackeem Blythe was seen in...

Uncertainty looms over whether the Jamaican Government’s immunisation drive will be hamstrung after India placed a temporary hold on all exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Rising infections in the subcontinent have driven up...

Comrade Karen Cross, who wrote a scandalously damaging letter alleging paedophilia by a senior official of the People’s National Party (PNP), is refusing to say whether she has made a report to the police or will withdraw the comments. That...

Owen Dixon was a picture of grief as he lay on the grave of his late nephew taking selfies against the backdrop of emblazoned photos of the soccer star on the headstone on February 26. Dixon last saw Rushawn Duncan alive in the Cayman Islands in...

With tears streaming down his face, veteran racehorse groom Linval ‘Pickings’ McFarlane could hardly contain his emotion hours after learning that 18-time champion trainer Wayne daCosta had died. DaCosta, who had COVID-19, passed away on Wednes...

As Jamaica prepares for the pilot phase of a digital delivery system to be rolled out in the imminent lockdowns, several food and pharmaceutical stakeholders have expressed reservation about its success. Others just don’t have a clue. The...

Omar Johnson, a reputed high-profile member of the G-City Gang, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a home-invasion murder in Montego Bay, St James, last year. Justice Stephanie Jackson Haisley, who imposed the sentence, ordered that...

Despite the initial fear of contracting COVID-19 and the dreaded stigma that plagued their communities following state-ordered lockdowns last year, many residents of York and Bamboo River in St Thomas are adamant that they will not be taking the...

A pastor in Brown’s Town, St Ann, who had been waging a campaign on social media against Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the COVID-19 measures he had been implementing had predicted from as early as August 2020 that he was going to be arrested.....

Fresh on the heels of dancehall star Tommy Lee Sparta’s three-year imprisonment on gun charges, Superintendent Vernon Ellis, commanding officer for St James, is warning members of the Sparta Gang that their days are numbered. The artiste, whose......