High teacher migration rates are raising a new threat to school administrations beyond the struggle of stretching manpower. Principals are now facing the dilemma of perhaps abandoning some curriculum programmes in the upcoming academic year amid......

The man arrested on suspicion of being a major gun supplier to the underworld was issued two firearm permits despite a drug-related conviction in the United States (US), top law-enforcement sources have disclosed. His name is being withheld by The.....

The Jamaican Government is facing mounting pressure from one of the country’s most powerful private-sector groups for full disclosure of the details of funding for Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed bid to oust Commonwealth.....

The site of flattened tenement yards, the ground covered in soot, and the despondent faces of shell-shocked residents of Central Kingston stirred the rage of Rae Town division Councillor Rosalie Hamilton. Days after the patriotic show of the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Stakeholders in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, estimate that the locale made an average of US$2.4 million per day from the Emancipation and Independence celebrations in the island last week with 800 rooms in the area occupied by...

Two Clarendon fishermen who were seen heading to sea south of Rocky Point last Friday have gone missing and have been feared dead. The men, 42-year-old Robert Weir, and 29-year-old Lucky Ellis, both of Portland Cottage addresses, reportedly set out....

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Leeroy Williams is recovering after he complained of feeling ill during Sunday evening’s Jamaica 60 Western Gala, briefly triggering a halt to the proceedings. Williams had earlier taken part in segments of the St...

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...