St Catherine Southern Member of Parliament Fitz Jackson has locked horns with Scotiabank Jamaica, filing a lawsuit in the Supreme Court challenging the legality of cheque-cashing fees imposed by the financial institution on its customers. The court....

A decade has passed since Brigitte Foster-Hylton, OD, hung up her spikes, calling time on a long and successful international career. And in a Sunday Gleaner interview last week, the former women’s 100-metre hurdles World champion shared that the...

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has not attended any of the six meetings held this year by the Crime Monitoring Oversight Committee (CMOC), which has been mandated to set goals aimed at mitigating crime and report to the public on the...

Several Jamaicans who have used chemicals to lighten their skin are now caught in a quandary as some medical practitioners are flatly refusing to treat them – regardless of their health concern – because of the heightened risk of developing life...

Former Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) CEO, Judith Ramlogan, is alleging victimisation in the non-renewal of her contract after two decades at the helm of the executive agency. Ramlogan, who was also the registrar of companies, told The Sunday...

Fifty-year-old Anthony Daniels and 60-year-old Hugh Fraser, who were among four men held in a major police operation this week, have been accused of being players in a drug-trafficking network operating out of Jamaica and the United States. Daniels....

One of the three Jamaicans implicated in an alleged “sophisticated” international scheme that laundered more than US$6 million in drug-trafficking yesterday abandoned his plans to contest his extradition to the United States. Seivwright Affleck,...

Elaine Foster-Allen, former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, has added her voice to warnings that the estimated 120,000 students who were missing from online classes in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic will cause grief for...

WESTERN BUREAU: A 22-year-old farmer who reportedly injured a police officer’s hand during a fight in downtown Montego Bay, St James, was offered bail on Friday. Brian Clarke, who is of a Sunderland address, is charged with assault occasioning...

Alicia Adamson was on Friday crowned the 2022-2023 Nurse of the Year during the annual Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) and LASCO Chin Foundation awards ceremony. Adamson, who has served as a midwife for nine years and also as a registered nurse....

Grateful political representatives and residents of Harbour View heaped praises on Carib Cement on Thursday after the company injected $3 million into the renovation of the basketball court at Rocky Park Sports Complex in their St Andrew community.....

The Reverend Joan Williamson recalls sitting on a wall near the Victoria Jubilee Hospital while growing up in downtown Kingston, daydreaming that someone passing by would notice her impoverished reality and need for help. “There were days which I....

WESTERN BUREAU: Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, says that efforts are being made to incorporate renewable energy systems into the supply systems to reduce electricity costs at the...

WESTERN BUREAU: The operators of the Chances Rehabilitation Centre in Hanover will know if they have to close the facility come September 23, when a judgment is to be handed down in the case brought against them by the health authority. The...

A St Andrew construction worker accused of shooting at his ex-girl and her boyfriend has been freed of gun charges. The charges of illegal possession of firearm and illegal possession of ammunition against Sheldon Robinson were dropped in the Gun.....

The Joint Select Committee reviewing the Jamaica Teaching Council Bill has been forced to seek advice from the Attorney General’s Chambers after concerns were raised about how the term ‘child’ was defined. The bill defines a child as a perso...

WESTERN BUREAU: A rifle capable of firing multiple types of ammunition and 100 live rounds believed to belong to men who executed Andre Young along the Rose Hall main road in St James on Wednesday afternoon have been seized by the police. Young, 35....

Government lawyers have filed an application to strike out the lawsuit being pursued by Maroon Chief Richard Currie, who is seeking an order from the Supreme Court declaring that ownership of the lands in the Cockpit Country be given to the Maroons....

Bignall Law has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay a wasted cost award of $356,500 by July 29 to a woman who was sued twice in relation to a motor vehicle incident in which the firm’s client was injured. The law firm, which was acting on......

Yvonne Lee, whose son Matthew Lee was slain by the police almost a decade ago, is urging the Government to give urgent attention to reforming the country’s justice system. Lee said that since the tragic loss of her son in January 2013, she has bee...