The Government forked out $18.2 million for Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed bid to unseat Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland. It said that the $18.2 million covered expenses related to air and ground....

Salvaging interests at the Riverton City dump have urged the Government to ramp up training programmes for low-skilled labourers who comb the garbage for recyclables amid fears of an economic fallout when the facility is shut down. Residents are......

It was a chilling experience for businesswoman Anika Tate, who was awakened by explosions outside her home Sunday morning. She watched in shock, on a CCTV camera monitor, as unidentified assailants firebombed her establishments. The incident...

Jamaican expatriates in Canada who showed up with high hopes of witnessing the fanfare of Niagara Falls being lit in the colours of the island’s national flag on Independence Day said they were left disappointed. Citing an advertisement that the.....

WESTERN BUREAU: A popular hairdresser is among two persons who died in a traffic crash when a car sped off the North Coast Highway and slammed into a parked truck in Greenwood along the St James-Trelawny border on Sunday morning. The hairdresser......

Four Jamaicans have copped the prestigious Fulbright scholarship to pursue master’s and doctoral degrees in the United States. Fulbright is the flagship international academic exchange programme sponsored by the US government and has fostered......

As Jamaica celebrates 60 years of Independence, an RJRGLEANER-commissioned poll has revealed that more than 60 per cent of Jamaicans believe sports and music are the country’s greatest achievements since the Union Jack was lowered and the now worl...

The local transmission of Jamaica’s third case of the monkeypox virus has increased the fear among members of the LGBTQ+ community, in particular men who have sex with men, that there could be a severe backlash on the local gay community if action...

Whether to stave off police pressure or as a tactical hideout, gunmen are taking to the hills and bushes in several criminal hotspots, doubling the threat to the public and security personnel who pursue them. The practice is nothing new, but with......

Born in 1948, Shalman Scott, one of the most prominent mayors to lead the St James Municipal Corporation and the city of Montego Bay, had the privilege of experiencing Jamaica’s Independence in 1962. Not known to hold back his opinions on matters....

Sprinting sensation Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is among 10 people who will be inducted into the Order of Jamaica (OJ) as the island prepares to honour 143 persons with national awards this year. The OJ is the country’s fifth-highest honour and is......

Ten years ago, when Jamaica marked its 50th anniversary of Independence, we stressed the urgency of attending to the country’s many problems if the assessors in another half a century’s time were to avoid the lament of the present crop of “to...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared that the most outstanding achievement of the nation in the last decade was the political consensus around sustainable fiscal management and debt. At the same time, Opposition Leader Mark Golding wants...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday said he envisions a future in which the Court of Appeal is viewed as a “world-class” court. Noting strides made in recent years to have the court staffed with a full complement of judicial clerks, the...

CHARLES TOWN, Portland: Charles Town Maroons Colonel Marcia Douglas says the residents of her enclave are joining in the island’s celebration of Independence just as they celebrated on Emancipation Day. Douglas told The Gleaner that the Maroons.....

One of the attorneys representing a policeman implicated in the July murder of a tiler in Red Hills, St Andrew, is insisting that the case against her client is weak. Twenty-nine-year-old Phillip Wallace, of an East Kirkland Heights address, was...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has signalled its intent to take action against UC Rusal, the Russian company which operates Windalco, over the latest contamination of the Rio Cobre by caustic effluent from the bauxite and...

WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that Jamaica has now recorded its third confirmed case of the monkeypox virus, with the latest patient being the result of local transmission. The two previous cases...

Three men, two of whom were alleged to be motorcycle thieves, were mobbed, chopped and shot to death by angry residents in Negril, Westmoreland, on Thursday night. The victims have been identified as 43-year-old Devon Hendricks and 42-year-old...

Lascelles Anderson was not home on Thursday morning when his house was set alight. Its burnt-out shell now stands among more than a dozen razed by gunmen since Tuesday in the tense Mexico area of Gregory Park in Portmore, St Catherine. “Everything...