WESTERN BUREAU: One of the island’s most respected gender specialists is calling on the country’s men to resist the urge to use demeaning or derogatory terms to refer to women. Dr Opal Adisa Palmer was responding to comments made on social media...

Feared reputed gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan had expressed confidence that he could not be convicted under the anti-gang legislation as the police had nothing concrete on him and, worse, were clueless that he was responsible for the split i...

The 30,000-strong Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) has sent an ominous warning to the Government that it cannot guarantee normality in service if the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service does not meet with it by February 25 to settle.....

Three attorneys-at-law on Tuesday pooled together inside the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court to pay a $5,000 fine for a 69-year-old woman charged for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA). Beverley Isaacs, a street sweeper of a...

Irene Morgan, a resident of Corn Hill in Smithville, Clarendon, who is now in her late 60s, says she has nothing much to look forward to except to “live and fret”. She lives in a dilapidated house with the flooring threatening to give way, wattl...

Dr Pauline Watson-Campbell, the woman who started Jamaica’s first inclusive early childhood institution 36 years ago with special needs students, has welcomed Monday’s long-awaited effecting of the Disabilities Act. Watson-Campbell, an occupatio...

So, the plan was to visit five places in St Elizabeth and overnight in Westmoreland to visit three more places the following day to get stories for The Gleaner’s Jamaica 60 monthly parish feature. After leaving the other members of the Gleaner tea...

Detectives attached to the Freeport and Barnett Street police stations in Montego Bay, St James, have launched probes into Friday morning’s back-to-back daylight murders of two men in separate incidents in the Second City. The victims have been......

Melrose Gordon, the common-law wife of murdered Trelawny farmer Winston Stewart, is hoping that the men held for his death will get the maximum sentence of life imprisonment if found guilty. The family was still in mourning when The Gleaner made...

Reputed leader of the One Don Gang, Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan, had reportedly promised that he was going to get rid of all his cronies who had turned against him while he was in prison. An ex-member of the Clansman-One Don Gang who had secretly......

Shion Allen was just about rounding a kerb leading to the Kingston waterfront on New Year’s Eve in 2021 when she saw a man walk up to the sidewalk and take off his bag. What should have been a routine walk to work ended in a hellish nightmare....

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has expressed concern about the police’s interaction with mentally ill persons, noting t hat there have been three fatalities stemming from four incidents since the start of the year. Speakin...

Cecile Walker, acting president of the Greenwich Town Community Development Committee (CDC), used Thursday’s handover ceremony for green spaces at the St Andrew Primary School and Greenwich Town Fishing Village to call attention to the deplorable....

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has said that despite requests, it has never received footage from body-worn cameras to assist with any of its probes into the actions of agents of the State. INDECOM Commissioner Hugh Faulkner....

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is reminding the security forces of the agreed criteria which subject its members to being retrained and recertified in weapons handling. The reminder comes against the background of recurring....

After 19 months of a strong police-military presence with the aim of dismantling at least seven heavily armed gangs and restoring peace in August Town, St Andrew, the build phase of the zone of special operations (ZOSO) has formally commenced. A...

Dennis Meadows, the former deputy chairman of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) who is embroiled in an unfolding scandal at the entity, has denied claims that he was part of a group that granted gun permits to persons previously denied, without....

WESTERN BUREAU: The head of the Westmoreland Police Division wants the Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) social intervention committee to prioritise the issue of job placements for youth in the troubled Russia community who have already received......

The late Winston Witter, the jocular talk-show host and academic whose use of Jamaican vernacular and saucy wit wowed radio audiences and bucked mainstream trends decades ago, has been praised by friends and colleagues as “a voice for the poor”...

The Jamaican economy expanded by six per cent in the December quarter, largely spurred by the continued relaxation of global COVID-19 containment measures that facilitated increased domestic and external demand. Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ....