A man has been warned for prosecution after a fatal crash reportedly claimed the life of his friend, a taxi operator, he was transporting to hospital, after a drive-by on Lincoln Avenue on April 25. The dead man is 38-year-old Ricardo Bailey,...

In a revolutionary move, for the next two weeks the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) will pay the owners of electric vehicles (EV) who opt to charge their vehicles at the Boot Service Station in Draxhall, St Ann, utilising the country’s first....

The five persons charged in connection with a case of buggery committed against a 13-year-old girl in St Ann on April 26 were remanded when they appeared in the St Ann Parish Court yesterday. The accused, two 16-year-old boys and three men aged 18....

The Government has launched the low-income housing design competition aimed at coming up with ideas on how to provide more affordable shelter for persons who cannot afford a house on the open market. As part of the competition, engineers,...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Ministry of National Security is to review legislation governing private security firms with a view to establishing the requisite operational standards by which they can operate effectively. Senator Matthew Samuda, minister...

Nichael Garcia Hyman, a single mother of three, knows what struggle is all about as she balances her job as a janitor and a coach at the Wood Hall Primary School in Clarendon, and still hangs on to her dream of being a certified coach. With her...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Independent Schools Association (JISA) and the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (JAPSS) are of the view that special efforts must be made to reclaim boys who are among the 120,000 students that the.....

Between operating Quality Grains, an import and distribution business at 99 Newport Boulevard, St Andrew, and managing a 305-acre farm in Claremont, St Ann, Sylvia Tomlinson-Hird still finds time to enjoy the company of husband Locksley, their...

St Margaret’s Bay, Portland Not even the travel advisory issued to persons from the United States (US), which stated that Jamaica is a high-risk country plagued by crime, could prevent Alene Ricketts-Gilzean from returning to the tropical island t...

Portland: A Jamaican student in the United States, Audley Lindo has been conferred with a Master of Architecture degree from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU). Lindo, who hails from Port Antonio, Portland, is a graduate of......

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s chief construction industry lobby has raised concern about a legislative order exempting China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) from procurement rules and which also sets employment benchmarks for local workers on a Mont...

Dena Golding, aunt of 37-year-old taxi operator Renford ‘Hector’ Mowen, who died in a multi-vehicle collision on Tuesday, said she warned him about the dangers of the road the previous day. Golding said she saw Mowen on Monday morning debushing ...

The head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Jamaica said that she is fully seized of the island’s COVID-19 vaccine need but has brushed aside notions that Europe has not pulled its weight in assisting the global effort. Without naming any......

WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Matthew Samuda says the Government’s ambitious drive to bring unregulated security companies in line with established operating policies and guidelines has been hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The pandemic has hit the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the Government making the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 jab available, 10 per cent of the prison population has so far taken the shot. The disclosure was made Thursday by Senator Matthew Samuda,...

A truck laden with marl overturned, crushing a Suzuki Grand Vitara with two men on board in a bizarre accident along the Rio Nuevo main road in St Mary on Thursday afternoon. But the driver of the Vitara and the passenger, his brother, both...

The Ministry of Education is reporting a general decline in the number of students who have been registered this year to sit exit exams. Dr Kasan Troupe, acting chief education officer (CEO), responding to a query from The Gleaner at Thursday’s......

WESTERN BUREAU: Days before the resumption of face-to-face school on the back end of a second coronavirus wave, operators of the state-run bus company have warned that it would not be feasible to allocate any of its fleet solely for the...

After a horrific encounter in which he was forced down a 55-ft hole, 66-year-old George Smart said he has forgiven his abductors and is ready to spend the rest of his life serving God and preaching love for humanity. The Portmore cab driver related....

There will be no tender process for the multibillion-dollar Montego Bay Perimeter Road project that has been designated a national development project by the Government and which is to be funded by Jamaican taxpayers. For the current fiscal year,......