The head of the island’s chief lobby against animal cruelty has criticised the culture of provocation at Jamaica Zoo in Lacovia, St Elizabeth, as “reckless endangerment” after a worker’s finger was apparently ripped off by a lion. Managing...

As Oblique Seville cruised through the finish line in a scorching 9.86 seconds on a cool night at the National Stadium, he celebrated with his manager, Norman Peart, trackside and wondered aloud about the possibility of running 9.6 seconds in the......

A Clarendon school operator has slammed national training agency HEART/NSTA Trust for crushing the future of many at-risk youths by terminating a partnership with Meadowlands Centre of Excellence in Bushy Park. Sharon Minott, director of...

As the Atlantic hurricane season nears, householders of Kintyre in Kingston 6 have heightened fears that their homes, precariously sited along the banks of the Hope River, may be washed downstream in the event of torrential rainfall. That concern.....

Amid a ferment of labour protests in recent weeks, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie and Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) Commissioner Stewart Beckford have signalled their commitment to improving worker welfare after firefighters staged two...

“It feels wonderful!” That sums up the emotions of Jamaican author Diana McCaulay, who is now a two-time Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner for the Caribbean. In 2012, The Dolphin Catchers earned her the prize, followed, a decade later, by.....

Rose Byfield is a broken woman. A vendor selling clothes for more than 20 years in the Morant Bay Arcade, she was shell-shocked as she surveyed the wreckage caused by an early morning fire at the St Thomas site. She is among 19 shop owners who are.....

A teacher accused of repeatedly engaging in sex acts with underage female students at two high schools where he was employed has been jailed on over a dozen sex-related charges, The Sunday Gleaner has confirmed. In addition, investigations have...

Staff at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) are becoming increasingly agitated over health risks at the New Kingston building from which they work and are fixing to file a lawsuit against the agency seeking redress...

A plan to evict squatters living along the old train track between Montpelier and Montego Bay in St James is facing strong resistance from the New Ramble residents, many of who captured portions of the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) property and....

A grave “miscarriage of justice” resulted in the conviction of a hotel worker, who spent four years in prison before he was freed this month by the Court of Appeal. “I have been robbed of four valuable years of my life because of a flawed just...

WESTERN BUREAU: Powered by the feats of their nationalist grandfather, the late Cecil Hugh Donaldson, four of his grandchildren committed to carrying on his legacy as torchbearers during a thanksgiving service at the St James Parish Church...

Growing up in one of Kingston’s toughest neighbourhoods, Waterhouse, 19-year-old Jamaica College honour student J’Voughnn Blake has defied every stereotype of young people born in such communities, blazing a glorious trail in both the sporting a...

WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has spurned the Opposition’s latest call for a rollback of the gas tax amid what it dubbed a worsening cost-of-living crisis, noting that this would affect revenue targets. “The Government considered...

NEW YORK: Maurice Gordon Sr believes his son did not receive justice after the family was blindsided by a grand jury decision this week not to file criminal charges against a white New Jersey state trooper who shot and killed their unarmed Jamaican....

Despite a shortage of nurses islandwide, several recent nursing graduates are expressing frustration at being unable to land jobs in the public health sector. A group of 2021 University of Technology, Jamaica graduates, who have also been...

MANCHESTER: Mining Minister Audley Shaw is again calling for focus to be placed on the diversification of mining and extraction activities in the island, to sustain the industry beyond the bauxite era, which is projected to come to an end in the...

Kingston Wharves Limited (KWL) showcased the benefits and efficiencies of the port community system (PSC) to a high-level public-private sector delegation from Barbados on Friday, with CEO Mark Williams using the occasion to impress upon them the ...

The alleged robbery-turned-murder plot mastermind, whose girlfriend and uncle were convicted in the same scheme for the murder of businessman Roger Chang, is to return to the St Mary Circuit Court on July 14. The accused, Gaveen Hurd, who hails...

The fraud trial involving two former Petrojam executives was prematurely adjourned in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday after an administrative assistant who had worked with Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh, who was expected to take the...