Under-fire National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Transport and Mining Minister Robert Montague are the big survivors in a Cabinet reshuffle that saw Prime Minister Andrew Holness retaining all cards in his deck in what has been described......

On his 40th birthday and just 117 days after he was forced to resign in shame, Floyd Green, considered one of the brightest sparks in the Holness administration, was reappointed to the Cabinet. The two-term St Elizabeth South Western member of...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ assembly of key members of the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) election machinery under his wing has caught the eye of political commentator Lloyd B. Smith, who said the administration is fine-tuning its organisation ...

Prominent figures in western Jamaica last night welcomed news of Homer Davis’ appointment to coordinate special projects and major developments in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) amid a shuffle in the Executive. Davis, a former mayor of...

Kingston Central Member of Parliament (MP) Donovan Williams is adamant that despite the surge in murders in his constituency, which triggered the declaration of a zone of special operations (ZOSO) in the Parade Gardens community on Sunday,...

If the six students aboard the two trains that pulled into the Spanish Town terminal for the start of the new commuter rail service yesterday is any indication of its future passengerload, it could bring into question its viability, especially at a....

The Government will today put forward the Second Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure in Gordon House, the seat of Jamaica’s Parliament, ahead of next month’s tabling of the 2022-23 Budget. The Gleaner understands that it became necessary for...

Delivery man killed by cops A 20-year-old bike delivery man was allegedly fatally shot by the police at his Zacky Avenue home in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, on Monday. Residents said that Quacie Harriot, otherwise called ‘Chad’, was kille...

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is calling on Prime Minister Andrew Holness to explain how a breach of an environmental permit was accommodated in the push by a company to mine limestone in the ecologically sensitive Dry Harbour...

WESTERN BUREAU: DELEGATES OF the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) will be meeting this Friday, January 14, to determine whether to accept the Government’s latest offer in ongoing wage talks. Providing a brief update on the protracted wage...

WESTERN BUREAU: HARD HIT by praedial larceny, Hanover farmers have been urged to report matters of stolen property to the police, and also develop a close relationship with the lawmen to reduce incidents and recover losses by having the culprits...

WESTERN BUREAU: The local government representative for the sidelined Accompong Maroons has criticised Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ allusion to the separatist group as dangerous, suggesting that the characterisation of the centuries-old enclave....

Caribbean political philosophy expert Professor Clinton Hutton has warned the Holness administration that its policy directive not to engage with separatist Maroons lends credence to the claim of sovereignty in the western Jamaica territory of...

The Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) has rejected as misguided Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ strategy to halt runaway coronavirus infections, insisting that the proposed ramping up of vaccination could not stave off the current avalanche of.....

Charging that the two-thirds voting majority bar for the extension of states of emergency (SOE) poses a significant challenge and may be used as a political ploy, the Government signalled on Sunday that it was reviewing the requirement as part of.....

Mounting back taxes and health issues are suspected to have driven 70-year-old businessman Donald Anthony Thompson to have allegedly committed suicide overnight on Saturday, his wife, Paulette Thompson, has said. The elderly man, who operated a...

A construction boom in Portmore has triggered calls for an expansion of the road network in the fast-developing St Catherine community. Besides the erection of business process outsourcing centres and other emerging buildings, the impending...

The late Hyacinth Chen, matriarch of the family-owned Super Plus Food Stores supermarket chain and mother of billionaire businessman Michael Lee-Chin, has been lauded as “a voice of wisdom” and a pioneer who made an “inestimable contribution�...

* Don’t suppress your feelings; if you are having downtime, let yourself feel the emotion. * Journal your experiences and moods. * Do the opposite of what the ‘depression voice’ suggests. * Set attainable goals and reward your efforts.

Bengal Development’s quest, which has been backed by the prime minister, to mine in the ecologically sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains is going ahead after the State’s environmental regulator accommodated the late payment of a $40-million bond......