Cassia Park is in the grips of fresh tensions amid an escalating gang war that has sparked the killing of two women in a matter of days. Investigators theorise that the men who launched a deadly attack on Sara-Gaye Mason on Saturday targeted the...

Leah Vanhorne is still half-hoping to see her best friend, Kimanda Smith, at their graduation ceremony today. But the 15-year-old, who was one of five victims of a massacre in the rural district of Cocoa Piece on Tuesday, will not turn up for the......

The majority of the alleged Clansman-One Don gangsters who remain on trial Wednesday sought to paint themselves as productive law-abiding citizens who had been steadfastly focused on their families, businesses or jobs before their arrest. While...

There is growing tension between sand miners and the operators of Rio Grande Rafting, with the latter complaining that mining activities are threatening to disrupt business at Portland’s premier tourist attraction. Accompanied by representatives.....

The image of the blood-drenched body of 15-year-old murder victim Kimanda Smith still haunts 87-year-old Clevan Edwards. Kimanda, her three siblings, and their mother, Kemesha ‘Reds’ Wright, were found with their throats slashed at their New Ro...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) owes approximately $2 million to some emergency medical technicians (EMTs)/paramedics for work already done. One person is now arguing a case with an outstanding payment as far as four years. EMTs provide....

Kamina Johnson Smith on Wednesday rejected assertions of running a divisive campaign that threatens the consensus-based foundations of the Commonwealth of Nations, insisting that her quest for the role of secretary general is to reshape the...

Attorney-at-law John Clarke has raised questions about the guidance that senior police officers in St Catherine have received in the absence of the promulgation of the new regulations under the state of emergency (SOE) that was declared for the...

A day before heads of government decide on the leadership of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Holness administration has sought to fend off suggestions that Kamina Johnson Smith’s selection would short-change African member states. Concerns had....

WESTERN BUREAU: SOCIAL AND infrastructural improvements slated to take place in Chambers Pen, Hanover, under a $300-million investment to transform it into a model community are set to begin in a matter of days. Rural Development Minister Desmond......

Five months after floating the idea of suspending the common external tariff and other stamp duties on imported chicken leg quarters, Agriculture Minister Pearnel Charles Jr said the Government had not taken the controversial step. Small chicken...

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 ‘....