An urgent call has been made for the Government, through the state-owned oil refinery, to suspend its current pricing arrangement to ease the burden of the escalating oil prices on local businesses and consumers. Opposition Spokesman on Energy...

The Jamaica 4-H Clubs has pledged to support further agricultural science studies for standout member and Guy’s Hill student Delano Tucker, whose story of academic excellence amid the grips of poverty has warmed the hearts of Jamaicans. The 17-yea...

A mother is concerned about the future of her mentally challenged son who was among 25 men detained by the security forces during a predawn Joint Anti-Gang Task Force operation along Mountain View Avenue. But the police have claimed success,...

Two good Samaritans who were assisting a gunshot victim to the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland on Wednesday night died from injuries they sustained in a motor vehicle collision along the Haddo main road in Westmoreland. The deceased have......

Some ex-sugar workers in St Thomas who lost their jobs at the shuttered Golden Grove Sugar Factory are counting that displacement as a blessing in disguise. Some cultivators have established their own farms on sugar lands that have been repurposed.....

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Anthony Hylton has suggested that the Government protest the alleged discriminatory treatment meted out to Jamaican students fleeing the war in Ukraine. “We have heard all kinds of stories, some of them cause fo...

The body of 65-year-old villa manager Clyde Taylor was discovered in the trunk of his 2013 Nissan Note motor car in Top Hill, near Runaway Bay, St Ann, on Thursday. The body had several chop wounds to the upper body, including the head. One man,.....

Eleven firearms that were detected to have been used in the execution of 10 murders reportedly orchestrated by the Clansman-One Don Gang are directly linked to 35 shooting incidents, which include at least 27 other murders, a ballistic expert...

The Ministry of Education and Youth’s ‘Yard-to-Yard’ initiative is said to be bearing fruit, with at least 40,000 of the 120,000 students who could not be accounted for since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020 now located and being offered sp...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has left the possible imposition of sanctions on Russia to individual member states following hours of intense deliberation on the second day of the 33rd Inter-Sessional Meeting of Heads of Government in Belize.......

Nineteen-year-old Jellisa Williams, who has club foot and suffers from seizures, has never sat in a classroom in all her life. Her mother, Brenda Ramsay, told The Gleaner that she was not aware, two decades ago, of affordable options for...

The police have partnered with operators at the Forum Fishing Beach in Portmore to crack down on crime, including the smuggling of guns and drugs. The beach-watch programme, which was launched two Fridays ago, is part of a wider neighbourhood watch....

Despite St Ann South East Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna’s claims that Irish potato production is uneconomic, leaving many farmers impoverished, an agricultural expert has countered that the market is profitable. Hanna argued that the Christiana....

WESTERN BUREAU: A 40-year-old reputed violence producer who pleaded guilty for his role in an $8-million heist in the upscale Westgate Hills community of Montego Bay in May 2020 will spend 15 years behind bars before being eligible for parole....

In the 1990s, all you needed was a juice box, four bottle caps, and a string to join the most amateur race of everyday leisure-seeking kids. In 2022, Jamaicans Tyreik and Akeem Pennicooke have taken this Jamaican pastime digital with Box Juice...

The ‘60/60 year’ is how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has dubbed its milestone anniversary, which coincides with Jamaica’s diamond Independence. Over the past six decades, USAID has invested in excess of US$1....

Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has conceded that Russia’s war against Ukraine may impact the global economy and critical projections made by the Government in the 2022-2023 Budget. The Government had forecast that the...

A handgun that was reportedly recovered from the alleged bodyguard of reputed One Don gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan featured in three of the 10 murders that have been linked to the notorious St Catherine-based criminal organisation. The co...

WESTERN BUREAU: WESTMORELAND SUPER­CENTENARIAN Virginia Atkinson-Johnson was a picture of jubilation as she celebrated her 110th birthday with family, friends and members of her beloved People’s National Party (PNP) in Caledonia at the weekend......

The district constable allegedly held with an illegal firearm in Seaview Gardens on Monday had not reported to work for more than three years and was not a paid employee of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. Head of the St Andrew South police, Senior....