St Ann South Eastern Member of Parliament (MP) Lisa Hanna had become a lightning rod for disgruntled party supporters, forcing her to announce a premature departure from representational politics, a senior member of the Opposition People’s Nationa...

Lisa Hanna’s looming departure after 15 years as St Ann South East member of parliament (MP) has left a damaged legacy in the historical People’s National Party (PNP) stronghold. Internal strife has eroded a near impregnable support base, leavi...

Jamaican cop-turned-drug dealer Shelian Allen has been sentenced to nearly three years in an American prison for smuggling more than 1,000 grams of cocaine into the United States (US), court documents have revealed. Allen was handed a 33-month...

Less than a year after moving into National Housing Trust (NHT)-constructed units at Twickenham Glades in St Catherine, residents say that the $14-million structures are falling apart. The Housing Trust presented the keys of 110 two-bedroom,...

The inability to control crime and violence is deemed Jamaica’s biggest failure since the country gained Independence 60 years ago. In an RJRGLEANER-commissioned poll conducted by Don Anderson, 46 per cent of Jamaicans flagged that...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Tuesday that the Government would review the scope of the zone of special operations (ZOSO) currently in Parade Gardens to include the community of Spoilers on the heels of an alleged firebomb attack....

At least two academics have sided with the majority of Jamaicans who are in favour of removing the Queen as the country’s head of state. Jamaica spent centuries as a colony of Britain until it gained political Independence in August 1962. Dr...

Evergo Jamaica Limited is now eyeing suitable sites in St Thomas as it prepares to import an additional 44 electric vehicle charging stations over the next two months. “Our intention is to have 150 chargers by year end,” Wayne McKenzie, presid...

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......