A Manchester family is in grief after a 15-year-old boy was shot dead Saturday evening as he bravely came to the rescue of his mother during an attack by robbers. Vesteroy Sinclair instinctively reacted to screams from his mother, Paulette Ingram,.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland has been tagged by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton as one of the motorcycle crash epicentres of the Western Hemisphere, with the parish’s fragile public-health system grappling with three to five new...

The Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association of Jamaica (CBFFAJ) has lashed out at the Jamaica Customs Agency for reportedly attempting to institute a clearance policy for brokers without seeking their input. The association has warned...

WESTERN BUREAU: When all the other students in Jenell Walters’ class chose careers in medicine, law, education, policing, the 12-year-old credited with having the mind of a scholar would always answer: “Portia. Teacher, I want to be Portia.” A...

The Government is moving to revitalise and strengthen the country’s export sector, which is being positioned as a key pillar of economic growth. As part of its ramped-up focus, the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce has established an.....

WESTERN BUREAU: A freak storm that damaged sections of Aberdeen High School in St Elizabeth at the weekend has rallied a spirit of resilience among faculty, past students, and residents of the northeastern St Elizabeth community amid relief that no....

For Claudia Reid’s son, standing up for what is right is nothing new. So she was unsurprised to learn of his decision to separate a Tivoli Gardens High schoolteacher and a 16-year-old boy student involved in the June 6 classroom brawl that could.....

More than 45,000 people have been murdered in Jamaica since the country gained political Independence 60 years ago, police statistics have revealed. A review of the figures shows that nearly two-thirds of those killings – or 29,642 – happened si...

Kingsley Thomas may have left the public service, but his mind has not retired. Known as someone who shoots from the hip, his contemporaries still describe him with superlatives such as visionary, passionate, bold and fearless, many quick to admit.....

The man accused of slashing the throats of a Clarendon mother and her four children has instructed his attorney to pursue disciplinary action against a medical doctor and the justices of the peace (JPs) present during a medical examination, after.....

Water potability tests conducted on samples collected at several communal standpipes in eight parishes that serve thousands of residents across the country have given a clean bill of health to the National Water Commission (NWC) sources. The only......

Corey Robinson In a tree-filled community park opposite the Tony Spaulding Sports Complex in Arnett Gardens, St Andrew Southern, stands a water pipe that serves hundreds of residents. But water samples tested from it found that it contains...

An analysis of three single-use plastic bags submitted to the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) as part of a probe into the Government’s plastic ban has confirmed that the items still on the market are indeed in contravention of the law. The thre...

It appears the Government provided incorrect information to The Sunday Gleaner on the US$20-million Security Strengthening Project (SSP) that is being funded by a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Contrary to what was stated by......

WESTERN BUREAU: The parents of the nine-year-old schoolgirl in Westmoreland who was raped and murdered four years ago have welcomed Friday’s guilty verdict against a 17-year-old boy on trial for the brutal crime. “This is the verdict that I was...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has pushed back against critics of the move to look overseas for additional healthcare workers (HCWs) to assist Jamaica in clearing a backlog of nearly 5,000 elective surgeries. In the same vein,......

“I just want to see him face to face to ask him, ‘Why? Why him do it?’ I need answers,” said a grieving Gwendolyn McKnight yesterday as Prime Minister Andrew Holness visited the mother of 31-year-old Kemesha Wright, who was killed along with...

Two men who were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2015 for the throat-slashing murder of a watchman at the JamWorld Entertainment Centre in Portmore, St Catherine, will be making a second attempt to get the court’s permission to challenge their.....

An overheated hot plate is believed to have caused a mid-morning fire which destroyed a family home in Craig Town, Kingston 12, on Thursday, leaving left four men displaced. The fire destroyed the roof of the four single-room dwellings and burnt...

NEW YORK: Jamaica-born nurse Sandra Lindsay is among 17 people to be conferred with the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the North American country’s highest civilian award – by President Joe Biden at the White House next week. The Jamaican, wh...