The National Commercial Bank (NCB) has indicated that it will not reverse its decision to increase fees, which took effect earlier this month, despite protest from customers and a caution from the Government that the banking sector’s disregard for...

Opposition Senator Damion Crawford has lauded Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr for his courage in broaching the suspension of the Common External Tariff and other stamp duties on imported chicken leg quarters in a bid to...

The woman who lost her life brutally in St Catherine in 2017 in a murder-arson was reportedly visiting her lover for the first time when gangsters allegedly aligned to the Clansman-One Don Gang kicked open the door and sprayed them with bullets...

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the confirmed local presence of the Omicron strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, the Western Regional Health Authority’s (WRHA) regional director, St Andrade Sinclair, is confident that the medical facilities under his...

A suspected arson attack on Tuesday morning at approximately 10 a.m. has left 15 persons in White Lane in Naggo Head, Portmore, displaced. Homeowner Collette Williams, 56, told The Gleaner on Wednesday that she believes that the house was set...

People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dayton Campbell has been hauled over the coals for an offensive racial remark aimed at Robert Montague, the chairman of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Businessman and public commentator Kevi...

Permanent Secretary in the recently formed Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Wayne O. Robertson, on Wednesday assured the Public Accounts and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) of Parliament that his team had hit the ground running even...

Two additional firearms were seized in the Nannyville area of St Andrew on Wednesday. The police reaped further success in their ongoing operation at Stadium East where an AK-47 and a shotgun were found, bringing the total number of illegal...

Registrar at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Dr Maurice Smith, says the tertiary institution is targeting a “revenue revolution” in the next five years. With The UWI facing financial challenges, Smith said that the university had starte...

The Jamaica Bankers’ Association (JBA) has defended the decision of two of its member institutions to introduce new and increased fees to customers, insisting that local banks have suffered greatly since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Bot...

Major poultry producers Jamaica Broilers and Caribbean Broilers have cautioned the Holness administration against the proposed suspension of the Common External Tariff (CET), as well as stamp duties on imported leg quarters. That action, it is...

In the wake of a damning report alleging administrative breaches by the State that allowed foreigners to snare local jobs, a leading trade unionist has warned that every effort be made to prioritise qualified Jamaican workers. President of the...

WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTERN Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has frozen all vacation leave over the next two months because of skeletal staff treating swelling numbers of COVID-19 patients at the four major hospitals in the region. Approximately 15....

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has pushed back at claims by former People’s National Party (PNP) Chairman Phillip Paulwell that the organisation would suffer dire consequences for its decision not to support the extension of states of emergency (....

Jamaica’s persistent pall for corruption remains a cause for concern for business and civic leaders, with failure to implement key legislation cited among reasons for the country’s stagnation in the latest edition of the Corruption Perception In...

A police witness in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial disclosed in testimony on Tuesday that photographs taken at a murder scene on Chancery Street in northwest St Andrew in August 2017 could not be located. The crime-scene investigator further...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has dismissed claims that the Government has abandoned COVID-19 measures, making it clear that the protocols have not changed and the current restrictions will remain in force as “guard rails” to mitigate against �...

Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie on Tuesday rebuffed Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s urgings for the Government to halve the one-year postponement of local government elections that were slated to be held by February 27. In tabling the....

Amid a call to expand zones of special operations (ZOSOs) across more violence-plagued communities, the Opposition has laid down a two-month ultimatum to Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson to curb crime or quit. ZOSOs – joint...

LONDON (AP): The Partygate scandal that threatens to derail United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s administration deepened Tuesday as police opened an investigation into gatherings at government offices that allegedly violated COVID-19...