With an average of five to 10 licensed firearms being stolen monthly in Jamaica in 2022, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the island’s gun regulator said he is “gravely concerned” about the number of weapons falling into the hands of crim...

Ainsworth Morris/Staff Reporter Bus and taxi operators bristling at the Holness administration’s rebuff of their strike that left thousands of commuters stranded in Greater Kingston and at least six other parishes have threatened to maintain......

Albert Ferguson/Gleaner Writer WESTERN BUREAU: THE leadership of several taxi associations in western Jamaica blasted Monday’s protest by some public passenger vehicle (PPV) operators across the island as they demanded that the Government......

A professional clown who was seen in a viral video Monday ordering passengers out of a taxi in downtown Kingston was arrested and slapped with criminal charges. Ramone Silvera, 23, of Kellyman Terrace, is to appear in the Kingston and St Andrew...

Shane Dalling, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), has dismissed a complaint from some local shooters that the new Firearms Act has made it illegal for them to hunt wild animals, including hogs and deer. The...

Opposition Spokesman on Education Senator Damion Crawford has urged the Government to urgently implement a raft of new initiatives suggested by the People’s National Party (PNP) to tackle violence and indiscipline in public schools. In a press...

WESTERN BUREAU: The legal battle between the police and Amoi Leon Issa, the mother of nine-year-old Gabriel King, over access to her phone as they probe the child’s January 13 murder escalated into a heated exchange over Issa’s privacy rights in...

The National Housing Trust (NHT) has blamed Sunday’s flooding of the basement garage at its Ruthven Towers development in St Andrew on an inadequate public drainage network as it moves to shore up its defences to keep stormwater out of the complex...

In-limbo education ministry permanent secretary (PS) Dean-Roy Bernard testified on Monday that since his reassignment from his post in 2019, he has missed out on seven increments which would have bumped up his salary to almost $9 million. Bernard.....

Professor Stephen Vasciannie, former president of the Caribbean Conference on Maritime Delimitation, believes the 33 Jamaican fishermen who returned home last week are fortunate that Colombian authorities did not impose stronger sanctions against......

The spate of schoolyard brawls since the full resumption of classes this year is evidence of heightened human-resource challenges facing Jamaican administrators who might be sitting on a public-health time bomb if the crisis is not averted. That’...

UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima has urged the Holness administration to repeal the buggery law, arguing that governments that criminalise anal sex have a higher rate of HIV within their population than in countries where same-sex activity....

WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has declared that George Wright, the member of parliament for Westmoreland Central, should be pardoned by the Jamaican people once he has sought to make amends for wrongs he may have committed......

WESTERN BUREAU: One of the world’s largest cruise shipping companies, Carnival, says it is hiring some of the most qualified candidates directly from Jamaica’s Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMU). The cruise line launched a partnership with th...

Francesco ‘Billy’ Reid, one of 33 fishermen who returned to Jamaica Friday following detention in Colombia for illegal fishing, said he has no intention of going offshore in the future. The 48-year-old told The Gleaner that he mainly fishes...

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the Seivwright Gardens division, Delroy Williams, openly criticised colleagues from the party’s powerful Area Council One who he accused Sunday of being derelict in their duties. Williams, the mayor of......

Detectives probing the murder of nine-year-old Gabriel King in a reported carjacking in St James in January say they have been faced with numerous roadblocks in the investigation, including legal manoeuvrings and lack of cooperation from persons...

A clean town and Christmas fireworks are two of the immediate plans Hubert Williams, the mayor-in-waiting, has on his agenda for Morant Bay when he assumes the role next Monday. Williams, the People’s National Party (PNP) councillor for the White....

Gunmen struck again in Homestead, St Catherine, Sunday morning, killing 34-year-old barber Alanzo Bennett at his home. This follows on the heels of Thursday night’s gang-related killing of 33-year-old Damian Marlyn and the wounding of three other...

Cybercriminals used an Internet protocol (IP) address based in Jamaica last Thursday to distribute some 1,160 malware attacks per hour to devices here and overseas, the agency that monitors the country’s cybersecurity space has disclosed. This...