Locals in crime-weary St Catherine are not only banking on the Government to save them from the bloody tide wreaking havoc especially in the capital, but are also sending up prayers to the heavens for a reprieve from the violence. While Prime...

Government lawyers are planning to review the Emergency Powers Regulations governing the newly declared state of emergency (SOE) in St Catherine to ensure that they are within the confines of the Constitution. This comes in the wake of the Full...

Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson Smith has rejected suggestions that she is a proxy candidate for the United Kingdom in her bid to replace Baroness Patricia Scotland as the secretary general of the Commonwealth. In an...

A new mural dedicated to dads across Jamaica will be unveiled on the walls of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) shelter in downtown Kingston on Sunday in recognition of Father’s Day. Twenty-five-year-old artist Anthony ‘.....

Oral and Allison Turner have learnt resilience, having to rebound from setbacks and pushing past the nos to getting to the all-important yes to keep Turner Innovations Limited going. In a sit-down with The Gleaner, Allison shared that they had to.....

WESTERN BUREAU: NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Dr Horace Chang is lamenting that Jamaica’s crime rate could have been far lower if half of the $387 billion spent on social-intervention programmes between 2007 and 2018 had been channelled into upgradin...

Eva Myers, who made Ocho Rios her home and Evita’s Italian Restaurant the leader in its class since 1984, has passed. Myers died Friday morning in Montego Bay, St James, after ailing for some time. She was 79. Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett......

Radio Jamaica Limited (RJL) and 1834 Investments Limited have agreed to amendments to the proposed consideration payable to each shareholder in 1834 Investments under the scheme implementation agreement first announced in April. In a joint press...

Jamaica now has the capacity to conduct testing for the monkeypox virus following training in laboratory detection and diagnosis of the viral condition arranged by the National Public Health Lab in collaboration with the Pan-American Health...

Donald Williams did not hesitate to dash from inside his house to see what had transpired when gunshots rang out at his gate on Wednesday evening. The sight of his 43-year-old fiancée, Nekeisha Pottinger, lying stomach-down at the gate was not wha...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes is to rule Monday on the no-case submissions made for 24 of the 28 remaining alleged gangsters in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial, including reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan. While the majority of defence lawyers....

Investors from across the globe are being wooed to plough millions of dollars into the 650-acre Caymanas special economic zone (SEZ) that has been described by Gary Lawrence, senior vice-president of engineering at the Port Authority of Jamaica (.....

At least two members of the joint select committee reviewing the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulations) Act, 2022 are opposed to the provision allowing for a period of 24 hours for a firearm holder to produce a permit when stopped by.....

Eleven years after the Boscobel Aerodrome was upgraded and renamed the Ian Fleming International Airport, the facility welcomed its first international commercial flight on Thursday when an interCaribbean Airways 30-seat airplane arrived from...

The Mark Golding-led Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is seeking to bury years of internal strife with the expected installation of two key backers of the One PNP camp as vice-presidents. One-time deputy Mikael Phillips, who recently...

The Supreme Court has ordered that more than $100 million in properties owned by a Manchester businesswoman, her sister, and son be forfeited to the State. The properties include five parcels of land spread across four parishes and measuring over......

A bank employee has been arrested by the police after cocaine valued at more than $85 million was allegedly found in her possession. A quantity of 9mm rounds and a high-end motor vehicle were also seized during a search of her St James home on...

Three months after relieved students of the Homestead Primary and Infant School were allowed to resume face-to-face classes after COVID-19 restrictions forced them online, they were yet again relegated to the virtual set-up as a recent flare-up of.....

Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck believes greater wiretap surveillance and reliance on CCTV footage to gather evidence against criminals would yield better judicial outcomes for the prosecution instead of dependence on witness testimony. “A lot.....

A Jamaican migrant is heaping praise on a countryman who freed her from security razor wire as she crashed to an 18-foot fall after being pushed off a United States-Mexico border wall by violent gangsters she was fleeing. The southern St Andrew...