Describing extradition as a powerful anti-crime tool, a senior United States law-enforcement official said that two Jamaican players in multimillion-dollar lottery scams were now involved court proceedings locally and could be sent abroad for trial....

Opposition Senator Lambert Brown has been warned to retract his endorsement of vigilante justice or be deemed unfit to serve as a lawmaker. The call by a civil-society pressure group comes in the wake of a series of scandals in the Parliament and......

Former and current male senators aligned to the People’s National Party (PNP) have joined the call for Senator Kamina Johnson Smith to produce the harassing emails she alleges were sent to her by a member of the Opposition and which sparked a...

WESTERN BUREAU: Although pleased with the fall in COVID-19 cases over the last month, Lennox Wallace, acting parish manager of the St James Health Services, is warning residents not to get into a state of complacency as the battle against the...

By the time Dawn and Jermaine Wilks received a telephone call at 4 o’clock Monday morning that fire had destroyed the meat mart they operated in Oxford Market in downtown Kingston, the source of their livelihood had already been turned into glowin...

Jamaica is leveraging the influence of high-level congressional officials and other backchannel lobbyists in talks with the White House scheduled for Tuesday to tap hundreds of thousands of doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from a stockpile of......

BILLINGS, Montana (AP): Dozens of Jamaican citizens recruited to work as cooks, servers, and housekeepers at a Montana ski resort for the ultra-rich have reached a US$1-million settlement over allegations they were discriminated against and paid...

WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Spokesperson on Land Senator Sophia Frazer-Binns is pushing back against plans by the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) to construct 800 low-income houses on 148 acres of former sugar cane lands in Parnassus, Trelawny,...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has taken flak for closing its investigation into the assault saga involving Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright. Matondo Mukulu, former acting public defender, has also criticised...

As calls mount for the resignation of under-fire Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright, pastor and confidant Custos Hartley Perrin sought on Sunday to cast the politician embroiled in an assault scandal as the victim of detractors....

A St Catherine housewife who took her ex-husband to court for an equal share in a house that he had bought before their marriage was left empty-handed after the judge ruled that she was not entitled to the property, having not contributed towards......

The parents of 16-year-old Damar Patterson of Tawes Pen, Spanish Town, have disputed police claims that their son was the driver of the Honda motor car that smashed into a concrete utility pole in Kingston and killed all four occupants in the...

Seprod Group CEO Richard Pandohie has raised concerns about what he referred to as an escalation in the incidence of cane arson in St Thomas over the last two years. His concerns follow last week’s fiery destruction of more than 100 acres of suga...

WESTERN BUREAU: A multifunctional agro-processing plant estimated to cost $35 million is being established at the Sydney Pagon STEM Academy in St Elizabeth as a gift from the JWN Foundation, the charity and community outreach arm of the rum...

The Constant Spring Golf Club (CSGC) had its $22 million in property tax arrears slashed by more than half after it was hauled before the courts by Jamaica’s tax authorities, a Sunday Gleaner investigation has revealed. The arrears span a seven-....

With their own reputations – and that of their schools – on the line, many teachers have been making significant adjustments to school-based assessments (SBA) for Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) candidates to ensure good pass ra...

It is not very often that Canon Hartley Perrin, rector of the St Peter’s Anglican Church in Petersfield, Westmoreland, can recall his church member George Wright being absent from Sunday worship since the embattled member of parliament (MP) was......

Jamaicans are walking away from their marriages in droves amid the throes of a coronavirus pandemic. Since January 1 this year, some 1,220 divorce applications have been filed in the courts, figures compiled by Court Administration Division (CAD)......

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Stephanie Lindsay has advised that the police have shelved investigations into the surprise birthday party held last August for retired sprinter Usain Bolt as the information was received after the event. The......

The temperature in the Senate soared by the minute yesterday as female lawmakers sparred over the issue of the viral video, even as George Wright was the target of sharp rebukes for much of the session. It was Opposition Senator Donna Scott-...