A day after being spared the rainy wrath of Hurricane Ian when it was a less-powerful tropical storm, the weather system drenched southern Jamaica with near-relentless rain for much of Monday, ravaging roads and triggering landslides as it...

VertiCast Group says it is finalising its new management team to fully take control of the recently acquired CVM Group by mid-October. Although refusing to divulge the size of the deal or the portion of CVM Group it now owned, VertiCast Group CEO......

Sticking points persist over duty concession and mid-range salary bands as public-sector workers aim to complete, by this weekend, their perusal of a draft heads of government agreement under the compensation review and inform union leaders whether....

The National Housing Trust (NHT) is defending its use of sandbags at the upscale Ruthven Towers apartment complex as a precautionary measure against flooding amid continual rainfall from Hurricane Ian. Maintaining that the NHT is confident in the......

Member countries of the Dr Nigel Clarke-chaired Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) are now vying to put forward preferred candidates for the post of president of the bank after the position became vacant on Monday following the termination of...

School administrators have been cautioned by the Ministry of Education to liaise with their board of governors on whether to reopen doors for face-to-face classes today after rains from Hurricane Ian scoured Jamaica’s southern, eastern and western...

Many Jamaicans were caught off guard on Monday when they woke up to thunderstorms from a tropical weather system that had moved well southwest of the island. Although the Meteorological Service had issued a flash flood warning for some eastern and....

The Financial Investigations Division (FID) is to hear on Friday whether it will be granted leave to appeal the high court’s refusal to set aside an order that has stayed the multimillion-dollar fraud trial of former Education Minister Ruel Reid.....

WESTERN BUREAU: THE NATIONAL Works Agency (NWA) is monitoring the impact of heavy rainfall on drainage systems and roadways in western Jamaica, where some landslides have been reported as the island continues to be impacted by the outer bands of...

Jamaica was spared widespread flash floods or landslides Sunday as Tropical Storm Ian continued its trajectory west of the island, with roads, electricity, and water supplies mostly holding up despite steady but light to moderate showers along the.....

The Clarendon police are investigating whether the murder of popular Clarendon blogger Leon ‘Leegates’ McNeil, who was killed in Hayes in the parish, is linked to a double murder in the neighbouring Portland Cottage community hours earlier on......

BOUNDBROOK, Portland: A pregnant woman and her Portland family narrowly escaped death after a large tree crashed into their three-bedroom board house at Janga Gully road in Boundbrook on Sunday, smashing furniture and electrical appliances. It was....

There’s no missing the huge breakaway on both sides as vehicles approach the Rio Minho bridge in Sanguinetti, Clarendon. It initially stoked fears and anxiety among residents before Tropical Storm Ian later barrelled through the Caribbean Sea...

Incumbent chairperson for the People’s National Party (PNP), Angela Brown Burke, fended off a challenge Sunday by former St Elizabeth North East Member of Parliament Raymond Pryce. The election, which took place at the party’s National Executive...

A man was allegedly beaten to death by community members in Ball Ground, Eleven Miles, on Saturday night. Dead is 22-year-old Haniffe Edwards. Deputy Superintendent Oneil Thompson of the St Thomas Police Division told The Gleaner that lawmen were....

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica has signalled its intention to re-engage Japan’s 20 million outbound travellers, capitalising on nearly 60 years of diplomatic relations as well as the Asian nation’s appetite for Blue Mountain coffee, reggae, and divers...

A security audit has been triggered at the Ian Fleming International Airport, following an operation on Friday in which local and international law enforcement officers seized a $4-billion stash of cocaine believed to have been destined for Canada.....

They may have replaced the broken fences and repainted the muddy walls, but the memories of the treacherous Weise Road flooding in St Andrew two years ago remain etched in residents’ minds and rekindled fears as the threat of Tropical Storm Ian......

Five months after an elderly woman and her grandchild were washed into Montego River by floodwaters in Montego Bay, St James, residents of Westgreen in the town are anxious about the expected increased rainfall over the next few days. The middle-.....

The Jamaica Society for Industrial Security (JSIS) says Jamaica should brace for at least a 50 per cent jump in the cost of private security services following Friday’s landmark ruling by the high court that security guards are employees and not....