A high-profile party promoter has warned critics flagging emerging breaches of safety regulations at parties not to blame the entertainment sector if COVID-19 infections surge. Already, videos have started to circulate of maskless patrons huddled.....

Jamaica’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie and the cadre of workers on front-line duties during the 16-month fight against the spread of COVID-19 were the big winners at Thursday night’s RJRGLEANER Honour Awards Ceremony. ...

Pulmonologist Dr Kimberly Johnson vividly recalls the male patient who clung to her like a baby as he made the transition from life to death during treatment on the COVID-19 ward at the National Chest Hospital in Kingston. She remembers the trauma....

WESTERN BUREAU: State Minister Alando Terrelong has come out in support of black girls who wear Bantu knots, denouncing critics as self-haters. “It is discriminatory and reeks of racial prejudices steeped in self-hate,” Terrelonge, the junior......

Jamaica’s anti-corruption oversight body has recommended that parliamentarians and government officials be required to declare a raft of other financial assets as part of their statutory declarations to the Integrity Commission. In its annual...

Councillors of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation have almost unanimously demanded that they receive similar allocations as members of parliament under the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). All 63 members of parliament are allocated $20...

Haiti, the hemisphere’s poorest and most unstable state, is now under a state of emergency following the predawn assassination of President Jovenel Moise and the wounding of his wife, Martine-Marie, on Wednesday. There are now fears that its...

Former Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Derick Latibeaudiere has supported a proposal from Jamaica’s anti-corruption watchdog for senior central bank personnel who are involved in regulations, examinations, or inspections to be restricted from...

Charging that the United States has had a “bad track record” in dealing with Jamaican seafarers under the Shiprider Agreement, prominent attorney-at-law Bert Samuels is insisting that details surrounding the newly established protocols and...

Hope Zoo, Jamaica’s primary wildlife park, is facing possible closure because of a slump in revenues. The shutdown could force administrators to find new homes for its approximately 1,100 animals. The Ministry of Agriculture, which helped fund th...

A policeman’s admission that he made a false entry in the station diary and the prisoner charge book resulted Wednesday in 64-year-old businessman and farmer Derrick Martin being freed, on a no-case submission, of possession and dealing charges fo...

Members of Clarendon’s Indian community have expressed enthusiasm at the erection of a bust honouring Mahatma Gandhi at the May Pen Parish Library on Wednesday. The installation was in commemoration of the 150th birth of Gandhi, a political...

WESTERN BUREAU: Correspondence denouncing the wearing of African Bantu knots by graduates of Manning’s School in Westmoreland two weeks ago was not evidence of a discriminatory hair policy, principal Steve Gordon has said. The western Jamaica...

Deputy Superintendent of Police Collin Millaneise has pledged to crack down on a gang feud plaguing sections of Stony Hill in the St Andrew North Police Division. “We will be mopping up some of these gang activities,” Millaneise told The Gleane...

WESTERN BUREAU: Police investigators from Area Three are trying to ascertain the motive behind Tuesday night’s shoot-up at an illegal party in New Town, St Elizabeth, which resulted in the deaths of two men and serious injuries to two others. Thos...

Businessman Louis Smith of Montego Bay, St James has been granted leave to appeal a Full Court ruling in his multi-million-dollar money laundering case. Last year, the Full Court denied his application for permission have the charge quashed....

Two parliamentarians and six public officials have been referred for prosecution for allegedly providing false information to the Integrity Commission in their statutory declarations. In its annual report, which was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday....

CARICOM leaders ended their annual meeting on Tuesday with a bullish pronouncement that they are targeting 80 per cent herd immunity from COVID-19 in the region by December 31 amid concerns about vaccine supply. Chairman of the bloc, Gaston Browne....

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the imposition of additional security measures in St James, the parish’s bloodletting continues to trend upwards as four more murders were recorded over the past four days. Police data show that up to July 6, murders in the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica is poised to welcome more than 300 travel agents and tour operators for the upcoming Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX) and the Jamaica Bridal Expo, which will be staged back-to-back at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in...