The bloodstained floor and mattresses bore the gruesome reminder of gun violence that claimed the lives of the parents of an eight-year-old boy and two others in southwestern Clarendon on Sunday. The child’s father, 25-year-old Michael Solomon; hi...

Gunmen have been on a murderous rampage, killing at least 18 people over a 48-hour period on the weekend. Seven of the murders occurred over an eight-hour period on Saturday, while 11 killings happened on Friday. A two-year-old infant was shot and.....

Shanice Hawthorne telephoned a relative from her hospital bed at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James on August 29 complaining that her complexion had turned “black and blue” and she was “stifling” - signs she believed signalled ...

Despite a whirlwind controversy bedevilling Merl Grove High School in Kingston, board Chairman David Hall has defended the decision to suspend principal Dr Marjorie Fullerton and insisted that everything is being done to ensure that the students...

The deaths of two nurses from COVID-19 over the weekend has triggered anguish and despair among hospital workers, with senior healthcare personnel exasperated by the failure of the lockdowns to drive down infections fast enough. The latest victims.....

After 10 months, the Gordon Town main road in St Andrew has been fully reopened to vehicular traffic, bringing relief to residents who hassled to travel to work and move goods and construction material to their homes. Cabinet approved a $187-...

WESTERN BUREAU: Not even the death of two close relatives and the hospitalisation of his spouse, owing to the COVID-19 virus, has convinced a hesitant Seventh-day Adventist pastor in Montego Bay, St James, to embrace vaccination. The revelation...

An official of Airports Authority of Jamaica’s (AAJ) finance committee in March 2021 said he was not convinced that “proper due diligence” was done before the group pumped almost a half a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money in start-up First...

The Carnival Sunrise cruise ship is set to dock in Ocho Rios, St Ann tomorrow, a designated no-movement day in Jamaica. Approximately 1,700 cruise passengers are on board. However, arrangements have been made to open a few attractions to accommodat...

Investors across several sectors are calling on the Government to rethink its infection control strategies employed to counter the rapid spread of COVID-19, as the no-movement days are sending them to the brink of bankruptcy. A sharp increase in...

Shanon Stephenson, a Jamaican living in the United States (US) illegally, and Audrey Johnson, an American citizen, got ‘married’ in a seemingly normal ceremony held in the state of New York on March 1, 2012. Days later, Stephenson applied to the...

The Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) Group invested almost a half-billion dollars of taxpayers’ money in start-up First Rock Capital Holdings (FRCH), despite an initial board recommendation against the move, a Gleaner investigation has found......

AAJ BOARD MEETINGS January 23, 2019 • Proposal discussed to amend the AAJ Group Investment Policy to allow for investments in stocks and IPOs. • Discussion of investment offers from Sterling Investments Limited (SIL) and First Rock Capital....

Howard Hamilton QC passed away late Friday evening of natural causes, family members told The Gleaner. He was 85. Described as one of the most brilliant defence attorneys Jamaica has ever produced, Hamilton began his legal career in the chambers of....

Just over a week after the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the Mu strain of COVID-19 a “variant of interest”, Jamaica confirmed 26 cases on Thursday, triggering concern locally about its potential to evade protection provided by vacci...

Taxpayers are still financing multimillion-dollar salaries for the scandal-scarred Ruel Reid and Fritz Pinnock, the putative heads of Jamaica College (JC) and Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), respectively, who have gone on leave since 2019....

Administrators at Edward Seaga Primary School in Kingston are seeking to increase participation of students in remote learning for the academic year that began on Monday. Acting principal Shernet Clarke-Tomlinson told The Gleaner that...

Popular Arnett Gardens community activist George Phang, who miraculously survived 19 bullets in 2003, was yesterday advised to consult his personal physician before taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Phang told The Gleaner that the advice was given...

A seven-month timeline has been given to the Gordon Shirley-led COVID-19 task force to ramp up the country’s vaccination rate as the new COVID-19 variant, Mu, threatens an already buckling health sector. Just over 600,000 Jamaicans have received....

Every day after Deron Daley leaves a blank canvas on Jamaica’s streets, pedestrians and motorists dump volumes of garbage for him to clean up after them. But that’s not the biggest concern weighing on the mind of the street-sweeper. It’s the f...