A fraudulent ‘SIM-swap’ scheme, which allows cybercriminals to “hijack” cellular phones and gain access to sensitive personal information, has been used to swipe nearly $100 million from more than two dozen bank accounts over the last 18 mon...

The potency of marijuana since its decriminalisation in 2015 has reportedly increased threefold, which may give some users higher doses than they can manage, a chief researcher at the Caribbean Toxicology Unit (CARITOX) at The University of West...

It appears that the Government may have breached a tenet of the multimillion-dollar loan deal it signed with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to fund the Security Strengthening Project (SSP) in the Ministry of National Security by paying......

Three years after the implementation of the ban on certain single-use plastic products, local businesses are lamenting that they have yet to receive a dollar of the millions they say they were promised in compensation from the Holness...

Without disclosing any supporting data, the labour ministry has asserted that there were no financial losses to taxpayers from the nearly $3 billion worth of shares the National Insurance Fund (NIF) purchased more than seven years ago in breach of.....

Marianne Van Steen took up her post as the European Union (EU) ambassador to Jamaica in October 2020, just over six months after the first case of the coronavirus was detected in the island. It was the first time in her diplomatic career that she......

The mother of Shanoya Wray, the 13-year-old-old girl who was viciously killed in 2018 and her body almost completely dissolved in caustic acid, said she never believed for a minute that the teacher held for her murder would walk away and is happy......

One of the country’s most senior diplomats has pinned Kamina Johnson Smith’s loss in her bid for the post of Commonwealth secretary general (SG) on an about-turn by some African nations, allowing Baroness Patricia Scotland to continue her mandat...

The Government is maintaining that the country received value for money despite Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed quest to unseat Baroness Patricia Scotland as the Commonwealth secretary general. It is no...

Jamaica-born and new Utah Jazz signee Kofi Cockburn is living his lifelong dream after Thursday’s 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft night, when he became a member of the Salt Lake City outfit. The 22-year-old alum of Illinois...

WESTERN BUREAU: OVERCOMING CHALLENGES to reach high-level goals has become a way of life for 29-year-old Shadane Ferraro, who last month became the first Jamaican and the first international student to give the George Washington University (GWU)...

WESTERN BUREAU: AUDREY DEER-WILLIAMS, the chief technical director in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, is dismissing recent suggestions by National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang that social-intervention programmes have failed to...

Amid growing fears that the historical significance of Sligoville in St Catherine could be forgotten by future generations, a resource centre has been opened in what was Jamaica’s first free village after Emancipation, to preserve its legacy and.....

At 15 years old, Shenelle Campbell became a teenage mother. Suffering scorn and ridicule and faced with the prospect of dropping out of school, she was determined not to give up on her academic pursuits and sought assistance from the Women’s Centr...

WESTERN BUREAU: IN AN to meet the demand for a trained and certified Jamaican workforce, the Negril Rotary Club donated a new $20-million classroom block to the Theodore Skills Training Centre in Westmoreland. The skills training centre is being...

The son of Terry-Ann Mohammed, one of six persons killed in a moment of unimaginable brutality in St Thomas 16 years ago, still finds himself smothering the flickering flame of revenge burning inside. Memories of the 2006 bloodbath came flooding...

Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has indicated that he was unable to say at this time if the state of emergency (SOE) declared last Friday for St Catherine would be extended beyond the initial 14-day period. Chang said he would have...

“This is my only hope,” said a 20-year-old prospective cruise worker from Clarendon as tears streamed down her face at a recruitment exercise yesterday. She told The Gleaner that she left her Race Track home at 4 a.m. to journey to the HEART...

The joint select committee reviewing the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulations) Act 2022 has amended a proposed provision to allow Jamaicans convicted of domestic violence to appeal the revocation of their licences. Prior to its...

WESTERN BUREAU: Hailed as a man who fought for proper working conditions for tourism workers and quality standards of the product, Francis Tulloch was one of four men left standing from an era of great social change. Tulloch died at the age of 81.....