WESTERN BUREAU: Wild celebrations erupted in Clifton, Hanover, yesterday as a community gripped by tension breathed a sigh of relief as five days of searching came to a joyous climax after relatives acted on a vision a cousin received in a dream to....

WESTERN BUREAU: Relatives of 27-year-old Chaleen Evans, the Hanover woman who went missing on Christmas Day, were in a joyful mood yesterday after the University of the West Indies student was found alive on a beach near the Hopewell High School...

INVESTIGATORS IN Montego Bay, St James, are trying to determine if the unidentified male who was fatally shot yesterday morning while attempting to stage a robbery at the Scotiabank branch in Sam Sharpe Square in the parish had a history of mental.....

With nearly two months before local government elections are constitutionally due, Director of Elections Glasspole Brown says the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has sent a budget of more than $1 billion to the Ministry of Finance and the Public.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Michelle Pinnock, regional director for the Ministry of Education’s Region Four, says plans remain in place to balance rotational face-to-face learning with virtual learning if the established COVID-19 vaccination rate of 65 per...

Following my visit to the Taj Mahal, I travelled to Akbar International in Agra, where I got a detailed demonstration of parchinkari, which is the painstaking art of inlaying precious or semi-precious stones in marble. Parchinkari began in India......

Investigators probing Sunday morning’s multimilion-dollar heist at the Red Stripe brewery on Spanish Town Road in St Andrew have recovered nearly half of the stolen beer and have seized one of two trucks believed to have been used in the robbery.....

Thirteen-year-old Sherinaé Brown took to the streets of the Corporate Area during the holidays to feed and clothe the homeless and most vulnerable in the society so they would not feel left out. The grade eight student at Immaculate Conception...

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......