WESTERN BUREAU: Stakeholders in western Jamaica are clamouring for Senator Matthew Samuda to be promoted to the national security portfolio, replacing his boss, Dr Horace Chang, amid a soaring murder rate islandwide. The call came after Prime...

Employees of Cari-Med who recently brought the company to court over its COVID-19 vaccination policies have broken their silence after the Supreme Court’s decision to throw out their claim that the company’s vax-or-test mandate breached their......

Time is running out and frustration is building for the family of Taneka Gardner, the woman whose throat was slashed during a sacrificial ceremony at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration church last October as her insurance claim process...

When non-violent offender Craige Garricks was told that Food For The Poor (FFP) Jamaica stood in the gap for his family and paid the $300,000 fine for his release from prison in time for Christmas, he was beyond excited. The 25-year-old said he was....

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has cautioned against overplaying the scale of infection of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, a day after the health ministry advised that the fast-spreading strain was likely in the population....

Vendors at the meat market in Cross Roads have welcomed the uptick in sales for the Christmas season and are able to meet the increased demands of Jamaicans. Linroy Sewell told The Gleaner that his customers have mainly been purchasing oxtail and......

WESTERN BUREAU: Affirming its confidence in the Jamaican tourism industry, Sandals Resorts International is pumping US$240 million in investment during a pandemic that has forced the sector into a spirit of resilience. The company’s executive...

Deviating from the traditional expressions of Christmas stories, author Valrie Kemp-Davis has collaborated with illustrator Richard Natto to birth an interactive and culturally inspired children’s book to not only bring holiday cheer but to...

WESTERN BUREAU: The lightning-fast Omicron coronavirus variant could generate a daily record of 1,500 COVID-19 cases by mid-January if the infection rate goes unchecked, a sober warning of the scale of spread that could be unleashed after the high-....

WESTERN BUREAU: Forty days after an American woman rented a 2017 Toyota Corolla from Sixt-Rent-A-Car at the Sangster International Airport, she seems to have disappeared into thin air and the vehicle is nowhere to be found. The woman, Antiellia M.....

Four ageing Bibles dating back to the 1800s are among the most valued possessions in the century-old Connolley house and serve as compasses for those who have lived within its walls, including cultural and creative industries expert Dr Deborah...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: There will be increased police presence at gaming outlets and other high-risk businesses to deter criminals as Christmas nears. That move is aimed at heading off the threat of robberies which traditionally spike at year end.....

Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke says the Government is moving full speed ahead with the implementation of the public-sector compensation review despite not achieving full buy-in from union heads of its four per cent wage increase offer. “We have...

Three siblings who filed a claim against their father under the Mental Health Act to get a court order to manage his financial affairs were forced to back down after a medical report showed that their dad was capable of managing his money. The...

A revolving beekeeping project that is creating a buzz in Tranquility, Portland, has earned Demar Demontagnac one of 50 Sagicor Community Heroes Awards. A marketing student at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) and 2018 Prime....

After delivering the keynote address at the annual patients’ banquet at the Bellevue Hospital in Kingston, one of the patients asked Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton whether there was any law to mandate that his relatives take hi...

The imposition of stiffer penalties for the smuggling of contraband into Jamaica’s penal institutions is not likely to dent the inflow of illegal items as correctional officers are sometimes forced to comply with the demands of dons while others.....

The Greg Christie-led Integrity Commission is under increasing pressure to revisit the court matter involving former Hanover Western Member of Parliament Ian Hayles, almost five years after the Supreme Court granted an injunction blocking the...

The economic impact of the pandemic on consumers has become more pronounced with a decline in retail sales for the holiday period, but senior economists have said that there is very little the Government can do to loosen the screws of inflationary.....

Like most residents in Merrivale, St Andrew, Hylton Anderson had settled in overnight prepared to enjoy rest and relaxation at typical Sunday pace. But on December 12, around 4:30 a.m., the rumble of a convoy of concrete-mixing trucks at the...