The 55-year-old fisherman dad of Kemesha Wright, who was slain along with her four children in the rural district of Cocoa Piece on Tuesday, is still grappling with the gruesome Clarendon bloodbath days after his daughter wished him Happy Father’s...

That was the painful recollection of an emotional Fayval Williams, the minister of education and youth, as she shared with her parliamentary colleagues the inconsolable grief that gripped Gwendolyn McKnight, mother of the slain woman and...

The two former Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers who were dismissed in disgrace over the disappearance of two high-powered weapons are accusing the army of torturing and intimidating them with death and rape threats. Lascelles Gardener and...

Chairman Joseph Shoucair and senior managers of the Transport Authority are scheduled to meet with outgoing Managing Director Willard Hylton today after the public transport regulator was rocked by worker protests in Kingston and St James over the.....

Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte has taken issue with at least one aspect of the Supreme Court judgment in the lawsuit brought by Roshaine Clarke against Jamaica’s attorney general. Last Friday, the court upheld.....

Lawmakers and the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) wrestled to agree on a deadline for gun application decisions amid concerns about systemic inefficiencies that cause decisions to lag for more than a year. Minister of National Security Dr Horace....

Liberal Democrat peer Lord Jeremy Purvis has warned that any attempt by the United Kingdom to unduly influence the outcome of the Commonwealth secretary general election may erode trust in the secretariat moving forward. Referring to Boris Johnson....

(New Times Rwanda for The Gleaner): The Commonwealth should help deliver prosperity to all of its members, with no one left behind, President Paul Kagame said in Kigali on Tuesday. He was speaking during a panel discussion on Day I of the...

The search for an elderly man who went missing from his Glenmuir Housing Scheme home in Clarendon ended tragically on Monday after his remains were found in bushes near his house, the family said. Eighty-two-year-old James Carter, also known as ‘....

The Court of Appeal will on Friday hand down its decision in the matter of 66-year-old Kenneth Morris, who was convicted in 2017 for molesting a 10-year-old girl. Morris had appealed primarily on grounds that he has been waiting for five years to......

St Thomas teen Jaheim Brown, who won the hearts of the nation following the highlighting of his makeshift summer school in Yallahs, has revealed that this year will be its final staging. His humble initiative gained national attention last year,.....

Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang will today table in Parliament the Emergency Powers (Parish of Saint Catherine) Regulations, 2022, under the Emergency Powers Act. Chang told The Gleaner on Monday that the regulations will have to be.....

Reputed One Don Gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan on Monday distanced himself from being the head of the feared St Catherine criminal outfit while accusing two of his alleged ex-cronies of fabricating lies against him. The 38-year-old is accus...

(New Times Rwanda for The Gleaner): Several delegates attending the 12th edition of the Commonwealth Youth Forum have called on heads of government of the 54-member bloc to back calls for debt cancellation for poor countries in the wake of the...

Still on edge a week after the ear-splitting sounds of gunfire in a deadly daylight attack shattered the peace in Spanish Town last Tuesday, even the sound of a motorbike driving by is enough to strike fear into traumatised people in the Old...

(New Times Rwanda for The Gleaner): Women and girls have been urged to recast stereotypes of themselves as victims of violence and become front-line defenders of lasting peace between nations, Rwanda First Lady Jeannette Kagame said on Monday. The....

August Town native Miguel Collins, more popularly known as reggae artiste Sizzla Kalonji, has reportedly met with investigators following a deadly shooting at his Judgement Yard compound in the St Andrew community on Sunday. Reports are that about....

WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Damion Crawford is calling for a special minimum wage to be introduced in the hotel sector, similar to what is in place for security guards. Crawford, who was addressing a combined People’s National Party (PNP) divisional.....

After some delay, the Transport Authority (TA) has announced that public passenger vehicle (PPV) operators can now apply for the fuel relief grant promised by the Government in the wake of surging petrol prices. The TA said that the owners of PPVs.....

Concerns are mounting that porous vetting processes and lax disciplinary mechanisms in Jamaica’s public schools may be shielding dangerous educators who have remained in the classroom despite being guilty of physical and sexual abuse. But a...