Prime Minister Andrew Holness and House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert have been urged to “sanction” William ‘J.C.’ Hutchinson, a member of the executive, for actions adjudged to constitute a conflict of interest and for being cited for...

There are concerns within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that a pending United States resolution to the United Nations Security Council seeking support for the deployment of forces to Haiti may be vetoed by China and Russia even as nationwide...

Stung by criticism that he was “ethically reprehensible”, senior government minister Karl Samuda has ridiculed the Integrity Commission after it condemned him for benefiting unduly from the cultivation of 14.2 acres of Mombasa grass by the Jamai...

Dr Trisha Bailey, the Jamaica-born entrepreneur who recently made the largest cash donation in the history of the University of Connecticut, has a number of development projects under way in Jamaica valued in excess of US$41 million. Among the...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has expressed concern that some gated communities could be excluded from the island’s 15th population and housing census because of access challenges. STATIN Director General Carol Coy said that the......

Even as news of a man being murdered on North Street spread through Denham Town on Wednesday, residents remained adamant that the crime situation would have been worse had a zone of special operations (ZOSO) not been declared in the troubled west......

Sixteen thousand students in 25 primary and high schools located in zones of special operations (ZOSOs) will be targeted for behavioural interventions later this month. Fayval Williams, minister of education and youth, made this announcement...

LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Liz Truss described herself as “a fighter and not a quitter” Wednesday as she faced a hostile Opposition and fury from her own Conservative Party over her botched economic plan. Within hours of the defiant......

With a spike in murders within the inner city of Montego Bay, St James, Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers has indicated that the police will be moving to make the Second City safer over the coming weeks as the Christmas season...

Claims of $4m in land sales as school principal charged Five people have already come forward with claims that they paid school principal Suelyn Ward Brown over $4 million for lands near Clifton, St Catherine, police officials have disclosed....

Steer Town Academy in St Ann is being investigated by the education ministry for alleged academic misconduct in this year’s sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations. Reports are that some students were given......

The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) paid its former president Professor Fritz Pinnock close to $15 million, before deductions, as part of a separation package when he resigned in February, Gleaner sources have indicated. Pinnock’s contract......

A man has been held in connection with the fire that killed four-year-old Sariak Kowen early Tuesday morning in Dean Pen, St Mary. Deputy Superintendent Kevin Francis, acting commandant for the St Mary Police Division, told The Gleaner that the...

Every October 15 for the past eight years, Donharley Harley would host a memorial fish fry on his late father’s birthday. But last Saturday, as the 36-year-old prepared to host the event near his family home on Willow Drive in Cockburn Gardens, h...

The tightly held “secret and confidential” information in relation to Quarterly Contract Award (QCA) reports of public bodies may once again see the light of day as officials at Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body continue to push for an...

Director of Information and Complaints at the Integrity Commission, Craig Beresford, shed light Tuesday on the certification of statutory declarations, which signals that the anti-corruption body has examined the income, assets, and liabilities of.....

The Sagicor Group Jamaica on Tuesday hosted its motivational conference with the aim of pushing its sales employees to work towards accomplishing their goals and that of the company. Sheryl Lee Ralph delivered the keynote address under the theme �...

WESTERN BUREAU: With the start of the winter tourist season weeks away, local tourism stakeholders are forecasting that the buoyancy in stopover arrivals will continue into 2023. Aiming to surpass 2019 pre-pandemic numbers – the best year in trave...

WESTERN BUREAU: MEMBER OF Parliament (MP) George Wright has thrown his support behind disgruntled vendors who have pushed back against a police campaign to clamp down on illegal vending on the streets of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, and to rid...

Eight months after Winston Thorpe made a life-saving call to the police, notifying them that their colleague had been shot and left for dead in bushes in Portmore, St Catherine, the 66-year-old hero remains homeless and struggling. Thorpe, a...