The files of six developers have been handed over to the police for them to be investigated for various alleged crimes, the Real Estate Board (REB) has disclosed, as regulatory state agencies come under scrutiny for their work. The REB’s chief......

The targeted swelling of the ranks of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) through its Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC) has been a lightning rod for critics adamant that it is a political tool that has diluted the quality of the army. But Rear...

Dr Delroy Fray, clinical coordinator of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), believes that the Omicron strain of the virus which causes COVID-19 could be a godsend to herald the end of the pandemic with the world moving into an endemic...

There is a drastic increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19-positive patients at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC) in St Andrew, with a record of 29 admissions since numbers skyrocketed at the start of the year, putting a strain on the....

Haiti will not resist the United States’ attempt to claim custody of a suspect linked to last July’s assassination of President Jovenel Moïse being held in Jamaica, senior officials of the Haitian government have revealed as their own investiga...

Colonel of the Moore Town Maroons in Portland, Wallace Sterling, has rubbished suggestions that a decision to accept an invitation to meet with Prime Minister Andrew Holness without Accompong Chief Richard Currie was an act of betrayal. Currie has.....

The killing of two women and a man in Bounty Hall, Trelawny, yesterday morning has been described by the police as an unfortunate case of mistaken identity. Twenty-four-year-old Daniel Williams, otherwise called ‘Alkaline’ of Bounty Hall; 25-yea...

Western Bureau: The Gleaner understands that the 20 handguns and 40 magazines that were found at the Sangster International Airport cargo on Friday were intended for a gun shop in another jurisdiction. The guns were reportedly shipped to Jamaica......

A grieving father yesterday lamented that Jamaica’s crime problem turned up at his doorstep snatching his beloved daughter who was killed at the hand of a gunman inside a shop at Royale Plaza, St John’s Road, in St Catherine. The victim, 24-ye...

Lenworth Fulton, president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), is warning consumers to brace for an increase in the price of chicken from small farmers across the island beginning month-end. This follows the announcement by Jamaica Broilers.....

Investigators probing the killing of nine-year-old Gabriel King who was recently murdered in St James are reportedly struggling to make a breakthrough in the case. Deputy Commissioner of Police in Charge of Crime, Fitz Bailey, indicated that...

Despite the threat from strong economic headwinds with global inflation rates also a major factor to contend with in 2022, the Jamaican economy is on a solid platform to withstand these challenges, according to Don Wehby, government senator and...

The roll-out of digital birth certificates is the next on the agenda as the Government gears up towards implementing the National Identification System (NIDS) that will see bedside birth registrations done electronically, and millions of records...

It was a historic change of command parade as outgoing Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Lieutenant General Rocky Meade, passed the baton to the first woman CDS, Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman yesterday. The military tradition represents a...

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court denied an application to vary the bail conditions for Kadisha Thomas-Jackson, a British resident who allegedly tried to smuggle one pound of cocaine through the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay....

WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie has announced the deployment of additional technical support to the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), on the basis that it is performing at an unacceptable.....

Dismissing sporadic calls for the disbandment of the army, Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman has described the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) as the backbone of the State and the axis of major disaster-response operations, including the coronavirus...

When storm-like conditions years ago threatened to capsize the vessel a young Antonette Wemyss Gorman was commanding, a verbal lashing from the feisty captain caused panicky crew members to regroup and steady the ship. The crew had left the...

Maureen Dwyer, acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education and Youth, has acknowledged the concerns of disgruntled staff of the Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI) but said that she could not give a timeline for their...

The nation’s leaders are being urged to put aside “juvenile” partisan politics in order to move the country forward as it looks to celebrate 60 years of Independence this August. Amid a spiralling crime problem and challenges from the COVID-19...