A major data security breach at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in Manchester could cost the Adventist-run institution millions of dollars as hackers have encrypted accounting and other files and are demanding payment for their release. A...

Law enforcers who have traditionally focused on hunting the triggermen behind Jamaica’s gangland violence are now targeting critical support cronies who repair and modify guns. The recent capture of an alleged armourer, dubbed ‘a ghost’, and.....

WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has rebuffed calls for his resignation amid an escalating homicide rate and pledged that Jamaicans will soon see the gains of an assault on violent crime. The country ended last year with.....

FAIRY HILL, Portland: The Portland police have confirmed that they have received reports that truckloads of white sand are being stolen in the dead of night from Winnifred Beach in east Portland. Commanding officer of the Portland police,...

Residents of the western St Thomas community of Grants Pen have slammed the access route to the under-construction South Coast Highway as unviable, but the state agency tasked with the roll-out has rubbished the counterproposals as impractical....

Following public outrage about new and increased fees, the National Commercial Bank (NCB) has moved to announce a new type of account, On The Go Lite, which will not incur charges, including at its own point-of-sale or automated teller machines (.....

WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has said that allegations of abuse by soldiers within the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, will be probed by the army. Residents in the troubled...

Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown has divulged that she has had preliminary dialogue with People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell over a controversial racial comment he made about Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)...

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Fitz Bailey says the police are getting support from their international counterparts in piecing together the puzzle of the major gun find at the Sangster International Airport in St James last week. There have.....

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...