NEW YORK: Members of the diaspora have reacted strongly to Montego Bay Deputy Mayor Richard Vernon’s characterisation of expatriates as cowards for seeking out greener pastures at the expense of developing their homeland. “Only cowards run away...

Retired legal luminary Seymour Panton has argued that any suggestion that the Court of Appeal could serve as Jamaica’s court of last resort was an attempt to extend the country’s ties with the London-based Privy Council which serves as Jamaica�...

Christopher Townsend, the attorney representing Constable Noel Maitland, is questioning the veracity of evidence in the form of bloodstains believed to be Donna-Lee Donaldson’s which were reportedly found in his client’s apartment. Maitland has....

Rastafarian faithful have hailed the posthumous national honour to be bestowed on the religion’s founder, Leonard Percival Howell, as an atonement of sorts and a tectonic shift from the bitter days that characterised the movement’s infancy and i...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) was on Friday shaken when news emerged that former Inspector Ralph Medley was found dead at his Montego Hills home in St James, in a suspected case of suicide. The 62-year-old, who retired from the JCF in August....

WESTERN BUREAU: “I am feeling happy because I know that I am going to walk again.” Those heart-melting words were uttered with conviction on Thursday by nine-year-old Tamara Noble, moments after being informed that she would be getting assistanc...

WESTERN BUREAU: Political and medical stalwarts have expressed sadness at the passing of renowned family physician and former junior tourism minister Dr Henry ‘Marco’ Brown, who passed away on Wednesday. Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ)...

Two Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officers are among three persons who were seriously injured in a three-vehicle accident in Montego Bay, St James, on Friday. Reports by the Freeport police are that about noon, the soldiers were travelling in a...

An equal number of Jamaicans have recommended that reggae icon Bob Marley and folklorist and poet Louise ‘Miss Lou’ Bennett-Coverley be named national heroes. In an RJRGLEANER Group-commissioned Don Anderson poll, 29 per cent of respondents...

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Deputy Mayor Richard Vernon has taken a swipe at Jamaican expatriates who seek greener pastures at the expense of developing their homeland. Vernon insisted that patriotic youths should stay in Jamaica and build their......

Retired Justice Seymour Panton has flagged citizens’ refusal to testify as fundamental to the failure of justice, declaring that a critical mass of Jamaicans support the perpetrators of crime. Discussing a longstanding bane of prosecutors and the....

The construction of a $450-million apartment complex in Chancery Hall, St Andrew, has been halted on the orders of a Supreme Court judge who has given a first-round victory to residents who want regulatory approval permits overturned. Justice Kirk....

All commercial activities are to be temporarily halted at Portland’s Blue Lagoon, which has been plagued by incidents of drug peddling, extortion, and illegal rafting, to allow for a more structured management system to be implemented. The decisio...

The alleged Clansman-One Don gangster who was gunned down in a drive-by attack Wednesday evening had been making positive strides to turn his life around, attorney-at-law Alexander Shaw has said. Andre Smith, 29, of a Watley Avenue, Kingston 11,...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness is calling for greater enforcement of legislation to limit violence from state actors. Speaking at the launch of the National Commission on Violence Prevention at Jamaica House Thursday, Holness said such a reduction.....

The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) is making loans available to micro, small, and medium enterprises in the transport and entertainment sectors as they seek to rebound from the COVID-19 hit. The DBJ will make $500 million available for those in.....

Jamaicans are being urged to rush to hospital immediately after the onset of a stroke amid worryingly slow response rates and revelations that a third of local victims die from the brain attack and its complications. There are also fresh concerns.....

Kemar ‘Doggy’ Campbell, the man who earlier this year executed a daring rescue mission as a contractor was being electrocuted atop a light pole in Trench Town, Kingston, is being sought by sleuths probing a June 29 murder. Campbell was widely......

United States-based attorney-at-law Stephen Drummond believes that Finn Partners’ listing of Jamaica’s Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith as principal on a controversial filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) holds no...

Ian Bell, People’s National Party (PNP) councillor for the Beecher Town Division in St Ann South Eastern, says the pending departure of Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna from representational politics will not negatively affect his chances of...