Two claimants who filed a lawsuit against their employers, Cari-Med Group and its subsidiary Kirk-FP Limited, complaining that the COVID-19 policy breached their constitutional rights, want the Supreme Court to grant an injunction blocking the...

Describing the recent wage offer made by the Government as an attempt to rob rank-and-file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James has warned that demoralised law enforcers could not provide.....

Garnet Johnson, whose board house was crushed by a tree on September 30 and who lamented having spent years in state homes as a child, has finally been reunited with his mother. Days after The Gleaner shared the 28-year-old man’s story, his mother...

When Derran Wright saw his neighbour’s house inside Richie Lane on fire during the wee hours of Sunday morning, he was jolted into action and sought to help extinguish the blaze. Little did he know that it was an act of arson allegedly committed b...

Residents of Orangefield and Orangefield Village in St Catherine took to the streets on Monday, blocking access roads to force the National Water Commission (NWC) to address the supply crisis affecting the adjoining communities for more than a...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes received a resounding thank you from the hungry group of accused One Don gangsters yesterday after his intervention yielded news that they will be allowed to consume food prepared by relatives starting today. The accused,.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite Prime Minister Andrew Holness seemingly not being convinced that there is a dire shortage of policing manpower in western Jamaica, crime-weary residents and overworked cops are adamant that more boots are needed on the...

Security concerns are mounting among staff at Clarendon College in Chapelton after the school’s groundsman was killed on the compound Sunday night. The victim, 37-year-old Roydel Senior, also known as ‘Tay’, was reportedly gunned down sometim...

The 46-year-old deportee who allegedly shot and killed his grandniece, Sorika Picart, in east Kingston on Saturday was arrested in the community of Seaview Gardens Monday afternoon. The 16-year-old girl was reportedly killed by Gilford Henry in...

A 16-year-old girl who was slain in bizarre circumstances at her home was among 12 persons killed over 24 hours on the weekend in a psychological blow to the states of emergency (SOEs) imposed nine days ago to rein in runaway murders. Five of the.....

Jamaica’s garbage watchdog and chief collection agency has pledged to probe the transformation of a Paddington Terrace open lot into a massive dump and has vowed to crack down on the widening scourge of construction-industry rogues who scatter...

At least two prominent alumni of Jamaica College (JC) are not anticipating a financial fallout from the saga surrounding Saturday’s resignation of scandal-plagued principal Ruel Reid.. Reid, who is facing fraud charges relating to his secondment a...

A mother who says she was unable to identify her dead son because his face had decomposed beyond recognition, is calling for an investigation of the Government-contracted Archer’s Funeral Home in Spanish Town, where the body was being stored....

Clement Lewis has been living in Salt River for more than 60 years and never thought the day would come when he could enjoy a shower in his bathroom. On Saturday, he rejoiced at the experience as water gushed from his pipe. Lewis generally spends......

What was shaping up to be a precedent-setting court battle between four employees of AIC Jamaica Limited and their bosses over COVID-19 vaccine-or-test policy fizzled last Friday when the workers withdrew their application for the court to grant an....

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): Two of 17 members of a missionary group who were kidnapped more than a month ago have been freed in Haiti and are safe, “in good spirits, and being cared for,” their Ohio-based church organisation announced Sunday.......

WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has announced that with some 300 Jamaicans seeking a place in the country’s infirmaries, those facilities may soon open their doors to welcome new arrivals of homeless residents, if the......

Disgraced Jamaica College Principal Ruel Reid yesterday inked a multimillion-dollar deal at the eleventh hour with the St Andrew-based boys’ school he led for 14 years. The last-minute settlement was reached to avert his return to the Old Hope Ro...

At least two hundred and seventy-two of the persons charged for serious crimes in the last decade have committed the same offence while out on bail. To make matters worse, sexual intercourse with a minor, rape, and grievous sexual assault top the.....

Jamaica must employ more evidence-based anti-crime strategies to permanently eliminate the scourge of crime, instead of hastily arranged states of emergency (SOE) that only offer a temporary fix to the problem, Jamaican criminologist Sanjay...