WESTERN BUREAU: There is noticeable increase in cancellation of rooms and a fall-off in the rate of forward bookings as Omicron threatens to put a dent in the Jamaican tourism industry, particularly the small hotel sector. Most of the island’s...

WESTERN BUREAU: Seven weeks after American tourist Antiellia Sterling rented a 2017 Toyota Corolla from Sixt-Rent-A-Car in Montego Bay, St James, the company has only been able to recoup seven days of payment. The other six weeks for which the...

Vice Chairman of the National Road Safety Council Dr Lucien Jones says he is not surprised that the country has surpassed last year’s total road fatalities , but noted that this year’s figure, which stood at 473 yesterday, is most disturbing.......

Glenister Estate, which operates out of Bernard Lodge in St Catherine, will next week export its first batch of Chinese and Indian bitter melon to the United Kingdom (UK). Bitter melon resembles the fruit which grows on the cerasee vine, but it is.....

CHUDLEIGH, Manchester: Although 20-year-old Sashanya Hart knew her new bundle of joy could have arrived sooner or later than her delivery due date, she was pleasantly surprised when her baby girl arrived four days later than expected to become the....

Following Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ announcement last Thursday of an impending Cabinet shuffle early in the new year, members of Generation 2000 (G2K) – the Jamaica Labour Party’s young professional affiliates’ group – have backed cal...

WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY businessman Dr Guna Muppuri has revealed that he would be donating the TT$500,000 (J$11.4 million) in prize money from the Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Award to fund medical scholarships for “needy and deserving” studen...

Principal Director of the National Integrity Action (NIA) Professor Trevor Munroe wants the urgent implementation of institutional and legislative reforms as well as robust law enforcement to reduce corruption, punish the corrupt and rebuild trust.....

The number of persons searching for missing University of the West Indies (UWI) student Chaleen Evans is expected to swell today as extensive combing of bushes by anxious relatives, friends, and the security forces up to late Monday had to be...

Soothing to soft music in the aftermath of losing a son and her one-year-old granddaughter battling for life, a Central Kingston matriarch says she is leaving everything in the hands of God. The woman, whose identity The Gleaner will withhold, was....

A gunman believed to have been seeking to exact revenge on another man opened fire at an illegal party in Old Folly, Discovery Bay, St Ann, early Monday morning, leaving two persons dead and three others injured. Up to late Monday evening, police.....

Electors in Barbados will vote for a new government in January 2022. Mia Mottley, the country’s eighth prime minister, yesterday announced that general election will be held on January 19. Nomination day will be on January 3, 2022. Mottley’s......

Jamaicans are deeply distrustful of the Government’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, a viewpoint that has contributed to vaccine hesitancy, according to a recent study by Northern Caribbean University (NCU). Of the 1,071 people surveyed across the...

A Jamaican man has been convicted in the United States (US) for leading a drug syndicate that operated in several American cities. Oneil Wilks, 42, was also found guilty of money laundering and identity fraud by a federal jury in Connecticut after.....

Silent Hill, Manchester When Novelette Gayle made the financial sacrifice to expand her family home in the Silent Hill community of Manchester by adding a kitchen to the building, just ahead of the Christmas season, she had no idea that she would.....

Donahue Nelson knows all about survival. At age 10, he slept under a tree after being kicked out of the house by his grandfather. His stepgrandmother never wanted him in her house, and so he found a tree close to a gully in the community of Moores.....

WESTERN BUREAU: At 5 a.m., the Rose Mount Gardens community in Montego Bay was quiet, pitch dark, and distinctive. The only evidence of life was the carollers, with their candles flickering, signalling a welcome to another Christmas Day. Now in its....

Chuck Dillion has not had a normal Christmas for eight years, however, this year, the season has been one of reflection for the 42-year-old homeless man as he ponders who will bring some cheer. Taking up residence at the Cross Roads bus stop for...

As tributes pour in for anti-apartheid stalwart Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, former Prime Minister PJ Patterson is recommending that his example be used to achieve consensus to tackle issues facing Jamaica. Tutu, who was a driving force for...

Outgoing Jamaica Country Representative and Caribbean General Manager of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Therese Turner-Jones, is convinced that Jamaica’s chances of surviving the economic onslaught of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are....