Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s bid to unseat Baroness Patricia Scotland as Commonwealth secretary general is likely to succeed amid waning support for the incumbent and favourable backchannel canvassing for the challenger, one of....

Eight Campion College students have earned places in Ivy League Colleges in a year when some have reported low admissions. Harvard University’s acceptance rate fell to 3.19 per cent, the lowest since it was founded in 1636. The students have...

Lawyers for ex-constable Lescene Edwards, whose murder conviction was overturned by the Privy Council Monday, say they are pleased that their client has been vindicated in the death of his children’s mother and will be seeking compensation for...

The stepmother of murdered 17-year-old student Jason Whyte Jr is still in disbelief that the Central High schoolboy won’t push open the door to their home in Effortville, Clarendon. Residents of Sevens Heights, also in the central Jamaica parish,....

With the assistance of the military, the St Andrew North police yesterday increased their presence in the Grants Pen and Cassava Piece communities, conducting walk-throughs as they searched for illegal guns and wanted persons, three days after a...

Fresh on the heels of a report that a number of William Knibb Memorial High students in Trelawny were turning to guard rings for protection, firebrand bishop, the Rev Dr Alvin Bailey, has called for the retention of devotions and other Christian...

WESTERN BUREAU: “Is this how my life is going waste away? Is this where my future ends?” Those are the painful reflections of 11-year-old Calyssa Walker, who was hit by a stray bullet during a gunfight as she travelled in a taxi along McCatty.....

A Clarendon pastor who had raped a 15-year-old schoolgirl at a church in the parish capital May Pen in 2012 has lost his appeal against his 20-year sentence but will now be eligible for parole after serving 13 years and 11 months. Oraine Ellis,...

With most hotels reporting full or near-maximum occupancy, the shortage of workers in the tourism sector remains critical, with outreach being made with overseas work programme directors to help ramp up training locally. In the meantime, two of St....

After becoming bored with his mother, La-Toya Samuels-Cousins, reading him bedtime stories authored by others, eight-year-old Liam Cousins began making up his own tales as a new night-time tradition. Those narrations of his wildest thoughts to his.....

After suffering more than $1.5 million in losses from two burglaries at her business place in less than two months, Blossom Paige is heartbroken after a predawn fire at the New Forum Fishing Beach in Portmore wiped out her restaurant Sunday. Paige�...

Electronic media regulator the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica has been without a board of management since November 2021 when the term of the previous guardians expired. But government and executive officials have sought to allay concerns about....

BURLINGTON, Snow Hill: The Portland police are probing what is believed to be the accidental shooting death of a man arising out of a deer-hunting incident that went horribly wrong. A senior police officer, who requested anonymity, told The Gleaner....

A 30-gas station probe by The Sunday Gleaner and Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has found that consumers in the western end of the island are seemingly getting more value for money at the pumps than at other stations across Jamaica. The...

As further strife looms, CARICOM is now scrambling to organise an emergency session with the regional leaders after Jamaica again broke ranks, this time naming its own candidate for the post of secretary-general of the Commonwealth. Antigua and...

He has stoked many a political fire, throwing stones at Old Hope and Belmont roads, the headquarters of the two major political parties, and has swum upstream against popular tides, challenging the status quo at all levels. The fearless and brave......

Nearly $280 million in fines was extracted from Jamaicans under the legislation used by the Government to manage the local outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, new figures have revealed. The $276 million windfall came from 19,423 cases against 17,288....

With witness intimidation still a major concern dogging the justice system, the country shelled out more than $758 million on its witness protection programme between April 2016 and March 2021, with the bulk of the spend recently being on gang...

Tensions are running high in Morgan Lane, Grants Pen, St Andrew following the gun killing of the community don, his brother and a third male from the area yesterday afternoon. The third man who was shot and injured was rushed to hospital but...

Imagine seeing the body of your beloved eight-year-old son sinking underwater with his hands bound every time you shower. That has been the grim reality for Dudley Buchanan since his son, Galen, was killed in a devilish and callous manner by his......