Citing its small footprint and underwhelming state, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that Nelson Mandela Park may be relocated to a more spacious venue befitting the honour of the late South African anti-apartheid agitator. The park,...

In blistering criticism of Mayor Norman Scott and the St Catherine Municipal Corporation, lawmaker Kerensia Morrison accused the local government authority of keeping her in the dark about the official parish Labour Day project in her constituency.....

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr is unfazed by a threat by his opposition counterpart, Lothan Cousins, to take the Government to task for not doing enough for the sector when Parliament sits today. Speaking at the People’s...

Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland has urged integrity watchdogs in the Caribbean to be resolute in the war against corruption, which she said undermined the social and economic fabric and was one of the biggest impediments......

Christopher McKay of Rhodes Hall in Kellits, Clarendon, is thanking God after surviving a motorcycle crash on Monday while he was volunteering. McKay, who was knocked down by a bike Monday morning as he painted a kerb, said he lost consciousness...

Randy Finnikin says that 23 years ago, God gave him a vision to build up the desolate areas surrounding what is today the Institute of Vocational and Professional Training (IVPT), the training arm of the St Catherine-based Spring Village...

Jamaica’s Forestry Department CEO Ainsley Henry has cautioned against the growing practice of tree-chopping by protesters, classifying the troubling incidence as “wanton destruction”. Not only are demonstrators hauling on to thoroughfares old ...

WESTERN BUREAU: While the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has embarked on a $5-million upgrade for the main market district in Montego Bay, vendors are hoping problem areas will be addressed at the completion of the two-week exercise to...

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...