The nation’s firearm regulator is expected to add another layer of scrutiny for the granting of gun permits when it introduces a written component to the list of requirements for applicants. Come January, Jamaicans seeking a firearm permit will b...

The Michael Lee-Chin-owned Trident Estate in Port Antonio has submitted a road realignment proposal to extend the footprint of its landholding to envelop more picturesque seafront in Portland. The move, which could add buoyancy to property value...

Before entering Digicel Rising Stars, not many people knew 17-year-old Camperdown High School fifth-former Mozein Sutherland – the eventual winner of the 2022 staging of the contest – could hold a note. Sutherland told The Gleaner on Monday that...

For several years, Emma Lewis had an annual mammogram, each returning normal results. But earlier this year, her radiologist noticed an abnormality on the breast images. Lewis underwent a few scans and a biopsy in April, which confirmed that the...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Jamaican hotelier Kevin Hendrickson has won the coveted Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) 2022 Caribbean Hotelier of the Year award. Hendrickson, the managing director of the Courtleigh Hotel Group, was...

MANCHESTER Top five: 1. Taevion Morgan, deCarteret College 2. Paris Lindsay, Bishop Gibson High 3. Faith-Stacianna Langley, Marlie Hill Primary 4. Sheena Marayana-Makala, Victor Dixon High 5. D’Jenaye Branwell, Mandeville Primary Top boy:...

School administrators have joined Education Minister Fayval Williams in rubbishing calls for more policing in schools following Thursday’s stabbing death of 17-year-old Kingston Technical High student Michion Campbell. Campbell’s alleged killer...

Senior vice-president of the West Indies Petroleum Limited (WIPL), Danville Walker, has urged St Andrew South Eastern Member of Parliament Julian Robinson to ask Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke why his ministry initially...

Jamaicans are set to benefit from global reductions in shipping costs which peaked at unprecedented levels in the height of the coronavirus pandemic but should brace for more shortages and further delays in the clearance of goods for the upcoming......

The Ministry of National Security is expected to spend $50 million to $70 million to install drainage, sewerage, and fencing infrastructure that has delayed the opening of the Green Acres Police Station built on lands donated by the citizens’...

A leading trade unionist has expressed opposition to the plea for a moratorium on the payment of statutory contributions for security guards as well as the proposed amendment of the Minimum Wage Act to change the workweek from 40 to 60 hours. Those....

Tivoli Gardens, the western Kingston community whose history has been stained with bloodshed and trauma, is using art as therapy for young and old to overcome grief and to project a favourable outlook on the inner city. The mural project,...

Block manufacturer Winsome Palmer is just as shell-shocked as residents of the central Clarendon community of Woods who watched helplessly as the denuded main road and fallen trees bowed to the wrath of raging floodwaters last Friday. Days after......

Residents believe the Government’s solution of rebuilding a retaining wall for the worsening breakaway in Craig Hill, Mavis Bank, is misguided. According to numerous residents who gathered in the area on Sunday to observe the operations after a da...

Even as she welcomes housing developments that have changed the landscape of Kingston and St Andrew in recent years, former Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) Director General, Dr Barbara Carby, believes the country is....

Former Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin believes the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) should assume responsibility for all persons detained in criminal investigations or awaiting trial, and the police relieved of duties to...

Attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan, who is representing incarcerated entertainer Vybz Kartel in his appeal against his murder conviction, was yesterday found guilty by the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council (GLC) of professional...

Seeing their police station immersed in several feet of water as a result of Tropical Storm Ian last week was not what the residents of Green Acres in St Catherine had in mind when they petitioned for it. Now they are even more distressed at the...

Scoffing at the criticism and vitriol being spewed at attorney-at-law Tamika Harris for representing the mass murderer of a family of five in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, in June, members of the legal profession are arguing that she should be commended.....

Public sector workers currently on – or those seeking to embark on – maternity leave will have to wait a while longer for the full payment of the third month’s salary, as the announced policy did not come into effect last Friday, as promised....