WESTERN BUREAU: A jealous boyfriend in Great River, Hanover, is on the run after allegedly dousing a woman with gasolene and setting her afire yesterday, much to the horror of bystanders. The incident is the latest in a grim roll of cases of...

Disgraced attorney Jennifer Messado, who has reportedly defrauded international dancehall star David ‘Mavado’ Brooks of $30. 7 million, yesterday told the Supreme Court that she is bankrupt and was given time to file an affidavit explaining her....

The ownership debacle over Jamaica Moves has finally been settled, with Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton announcing yesterday that the brand has been transferred from Market Me to the Ministry of Health. Tufton noted yesterday...

Tempers flared in Old Pera, St Thomas, yesterday as residents defended what they described as their right to utilise the disputed island, which was reportedly captured by leisure entrepreneurs who set up a camp site that generated revenue for the......

A retired policeman has been admitted to hospital after he was stabbed and beaten yesterday on the burial day for his deceased brother, Earl Lewis, reportedly over a growing dispute surrounding a minibus the latter operated. Residents of Fern Hill.....

WESTERN BUREAU: A dark cloud of grief hung over a family in Barrett Hall in Lilliput, St James, yesterday after a mid-morning fire destroyed their board and zinc dwelling, claiming the lives of two infant brothers trapped inside. The deceased...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has said that new designs done for 11 of 13 health facilities are being reviewed for final approval under the Health Systems Strengthening Programme. The health facilities include the Spanish Town.....

Just over half of the vouchers the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information had issued to help with the purchase of tablets and laptops have been redeemed. This was revealed by portfolio minister Fayval Williams, as she gave an update on the......

A call has been made for the creation and maintenance of a central coordination unit for social or anti-violence interventions across Jamaica by the Citizen Security Secretariat, which was established in October 2020. Though all interventions have....

Judges have received a pay increase effective April 1, 2020. The Judiciary (Salaries) Order 2021 reflects the adjustments in the salaries, which were approved by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service. The order was considered by the...

WESTERN BUREAU: After what was pitched as pivotal proceedings against the King Valley Gang foundered last year because of insufficient evidence, the police believe they now have an airtight case against the Westmoreland-based network. Deputy...

Two days after former foreign affairs minister A.J. Nicholson called out the country’s current chief diplomat Kamina Johnson Smith for allegedly fabricating harassment claims, emails apparently in support of her allegations against him were made.....

With penmanship that rivals the calligraphy of his teachers, a 14-year-old student of Ferncourt High School has become a hero of sorts in Queenhythe, St Ann, where he has taken on full-time tutoring of community children while attending online...

Parliament is to debate a bill proposing that tattoos and other symbols be used under the powerful anti-gang legislation to identify criminals as it moves to further clamp down on the country’s most notorious organisations. Currently, the Crimina...

Government members of a parliamentary oversight committee on Tuesday caused eyebrows to arch when they insisted that Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis divulge the name of a Gleaner journalist who contacted the country’s chief auditor to confirm ...

News of the sudden death 17-year-old Triston Graham, who collapsed in May Pen on Monday, sent shock waves through the school community of Lennon High School and rural Alexandria in Clarendon. The family told The Gleaner that the teen had been...

Taxi and bus operators are prepared to strike on Thursday as they press for a long-overdue fare increase. President of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), Egeton Newman, said if Transport Minister Robert Montague does....

A Kingston labourer who had been in custody for nine years awaiting his trial was on Tuesday freed of murder in the Supreme Court. Thirty-one-year-old Dwight Leslie, otherwise known as ‘Catfish’, had the case against him dismissed after his......

A 15-year-old suspect is being sought in the shooting death of his six-year-old cousin in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Jadaine Miller, who lived in the same yard as the accused. Reports by the police.....

Following a plethora of queries by some government members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as to why Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis was absent from an exit interview by auditors from the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service in...