Dwight Sibblies, the member of parliament for Clarendon Northern, has stepped aside from his role as chief internal auditor at the University of Technology (UTech) amid deepening enquiry into whether his political role and other public-sector job......

WESTERN BUREAU: More than 80 per cent of the island’s tourism workers who were laid off as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have returned to work, Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has disclosed. An average 170,000 people are employed directly....

Local law enforcers have sought the support of international partners in apprehending the notorious leader of the Bird Nation Gang, Aaron ‘Birdie’ Thompson, who resides in the United States and is believed to be one of the main financiers of gan...

WESTERN BUREAU: A pastor of an Apostolic church in Granville, St James, who has been accused of raping one of his 15-year-old congregants, is believed to be on the run after not turning up for worship on Sunday morning. The teenager made a report......

Despite Jamaica being a long way from acquiring herd immunity, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is forecasting some level of normality here by year end. While observing the administering of second doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca......

WESTERN BUREAU: Two men are dead, a one-year-old baby has been hospitalised, and seven adults are nursing gunshot wounds in attacks in Hanover and St James on the weekend. Aaron Melbourne, 29, and 18-year-old Bagho Anthony Salmon, of Gulf, Norwood.....

Edmund Bartlett, the leader of government business in the House of Representatives, on November 3, referred three motions to the Ethics Committee, one of which related specifically to Clarendon Northern Member of Parliament Dwight Sibblies. The...

The Jamaica Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (JAEMTs) is lobbying for its members to be among first responders on crash scenes to limit the likelihood of worsened injury or fatality. That pressure is mounting amid the collapse of...

A staggering 249 girls have been impregnated from rapes, carnal abuse and other sex crimes between January 2020 and March this year. This is just under eight per cent of the total 3,265 children sexually abused over the period, statistics from...

Jamaica is yet to start genome sequencing to identify variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which may be in the island. Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton told The Sunday Gleaner yesterday that the machine, which Prime Minister Andrew...

Winnifred Jackson’s house now sits precariously near the edge of a gully behind her property in the east Kingston community of Harbour View. The unpaved gully runs behind at least 25 other homes along Harbour Drive and was dug out over five years....

Yesterday’s announcement that embattled Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright had resigned from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was not enough for former parliamentarians who have served the constituency, while Kevin O...

WESTERN BUREAU: Immediate past president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Owen Speid, believes the crippling effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – including closed borders and economic uncertainty – have helped the local education sect...

AS THIEVES continue to prey on local farmers, causing them great distress and frustration, the Government has signalled that steps are being made to amend two important pieces of legislation to increase the penalties for those who continue to...

A bit of apprehension hangs over Old Harbour Bay in St Catherine as residents keep their fingers crossed that no significant weather system will affect the area during the hurricane season. “We in these parts suffer a great deal as we are at the.....

Friday’s planting of 20 mangrove saplings at three islets along the Palisadoes strip leading to the Norman Manley International Airport within the Palisadoes-Port Royal Protected Area was a major step in the right direction for the country. That�...

Twenty alleged members of the St Catherine-based Clansman gang, who were among 50 individuals arrested and charged under the anti-gang legislation, have been freed as the evidence against them did not meet the threshold for prosecution. Thirty men....

The security forces have ceded ground in Southside, one of several communities in the Kingston Central Police Division, where rival gangs have unleashed a reign of terror this year. That is the view of a relative of 23-year-old Shedaine Richards,......

With less than 25,000 Jamaicans now fully vaccinated, health officials are hoping the more than 600 persons who took their jabs at the National Arena in a blitz on March 27 will come out today for their second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine....

Criminal defence lawyers weary of Parliament granting powers of appeal to the country’s main prosecutorial body need to “grow up” and enter the 21st century, Paula Llewellyn, the state’s chief prosecutor, has argued. “The pendulum of just...