WESTERN BUREAU: A cloud of mystery surrounds the death of 20-year-old Christie ‘Kiddy’ McBean, who was found dead with a single stab wound to the chest at her home in Hurlock, St James, on Monday morning. According to a relative, McBean, who wor...

Educators at three Clarendon high schools say it has been a struggle firing up students having returned to the classrooms, with many fifth-formers showing no interest in sitting their external examinations. Adrian Sinclair, principal of Alston High....

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica-born four-time Olympian Sanya Richards-Ross has moved her prowess from on the track to cameras of the popular cable network series, The Real Housewives of Atlanta. On Sunday, Richards-­Ross made her debut on Season 14 of the...

There were a number of times in 22-year-old Valicka Pryce’s life when she, her mom and her sister had to literally run for their lives. Years ago, community violence forced them to flee their inner-city community in the capital city and head for.....

A father is thankful his son and other children were spared the wrath of gunmen travelling in an SUV before going on a shooting rampage on Fitzgerald Avenue in St Andrew Sunday night. Reports are that one man was shot and injured about 9:30 p.m.......

An expert witness in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial testified on Monday that he had not detected any evidence of tampering with the data stored on three phones, including secretly recorded conversations of defendants. That testimony could be key......

Ancile Gloudon, the orchid enthusiast who immersed himself in botanical studies and travelled the hills and valleys while cataloguing plants in his pastime, has died. Serving as secretary, vice president, and later president of the Jamaica Orchid......

Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith, and senior executives from the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) are expected to provide an explanation to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today on the...

Jamaica’s capacity to nab and prosecute the perpetrators of criminal violence against children has been questioned by a grieving father, who said the family has been in the dark over the rape and murder of his 14-year-old daughter almost four year...

As concerns continue to swirl over the Sixth-Form Pathways Programme (SFPP) scheduled to start in the next four months, Jamaica’s chief education officer is calling for principals to direct outgoing 11th-graders they cannot accommodate to the...

NEWPORT, Manchester: It is less than three months away from her 100th birthday and Dorothy Sconce is as full of life as they come, hardly ever missing a beat as she electrifies Bethabara Moravian Church every Sunday with sounds from the piano she.....

Minister of Education and Youth Fayval Williams has come under fire for failing to outline hard deadlines on a number of unfinished multimillion-dollar projects at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE). Williams’ failure to...

With her mother’s death numbered among at least 33 along the Bog Walk gorge in St Catherine in the last decade, Elorine Smith said she has not used the stretch of road since the 2021 tragedy. Valerie Ennis, 59, died in a crash last June and the.....

A cop’s death has rekindled debate about unfettered access for emergency vehicles, with the Police Federation and St Ann South East Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna calling for a rationalisation of arrangements between the constabulary and the Toll...

Associate Editor ­– Investigations Schools and public health facilities are failing to observe the phased sugary drinks ban introduced by the Government just over three years ago that was largely designed to improve the health of the nation’s.....

As the shaken soda oozed from the half-opened cap, grade four student Shania Acorn* gasped with disappointment. To her, it was as if liquid gold was being wasted, forever lost as the carbonated beverage muddied the ground below. “That’s the bes...

Faced with an increase in the childhood obesity rate on the island, Jamaica, in 2019, banned sugary drinks in schools and public health facilities, but a wide variety of overly sweetened beverages are still being sold at these institutions. An...

A Sunday Gleaner undercover investigation carried out at a public health facility and four schools across Clarendon revealed that they were in breach of the Government-imposed ban on sugary drinks. In 2018, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton...

Dr Lorane Moodie Reid, principal of Albion Primary and Junior High in St James, admits that students are allowed to purchase beverages that exceed the sugar level allowed by the Government at her school, but is faulting a chronic supply shortage...

Career diplomat, lawyer, wife, mother and Stoke City for life football supporter, British High Commissioner to Jamaica Judith Slater, is delighted to be posted here. She is fascinated by the Jamaican culture and believes there is nothing else in...