A 21-year-old man who, as a boy, raped his schoolmate after stealing her pen, had his five-year prison sentence reduced last Friday by the Court of Appeal to a three-year suspended term following a misstep by the sentencing judge. The offender was.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Placed in a girls’ home for uncontrollable behaviour at age 14, Phelisa Ricketts-Graham has made a 360-degree turn and now operates the Western STEM Academy, focusing on transforming the minds of Jamaican students. The 25-year-old...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica is experiencing its largest hotel and resort development boom in any single year, with 8,000 rooms, mainly European investor-led, under construction in varying stages. In an interview with The Gleaner from travel and tourism....

The police are combing through social-media exchanges, including voice notes with death threats, as they seek to snare players in feuding factions with connections in Naggo Head and the United States amid a surge in criminal violence in the...

MALTON, Manchester: Two refrigerators. Seven beds. Five phones. Computers and furniture. Even a pear tree in the yard was scorched. But beyond just the loss of possessions, fire in the northeast Manchester community of Malton has left 11...

A festering family feud has been cited as the trigger for the fatal shooting of two persons in Dunkirk, east Kingston, on Friday evening. Two others were wounded in the incident, as gunmen reportedly targeted a wake about 7:45 p.m. Most residents.....

The roll-out of new 5G wireless service in the United States failed to have the much-dreaded result of crippling air travel, although it began in rocky fashion, with international airlines cancelling some flights to the US and spotty problems...

SENIOR Superintendent Christopher Phillips, head of the St Catherine South Police Division, said law enforcers are on the hunt for two other suspects for the October 30, 2021, shooting death of Flow technician Keran McCollin after his refusal to...

The files of six developers have been handed over to the police over the past 10 years to be investigated for various alleged crimes, the Real Estate Board (REB) has disclosed. In recent times, regulatory state agencies have come under scrutiny f...

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...