The United States (US) has doubled funding allocated to the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau in Jamaica as it re-emphasises its commitment to stem the flow of illegal guns and drugs entering the island. The disclosure was made by....

PRIOR TO kick-off, the stage was set with a fly-over by then national airline, Air Jamaica. The message was clear. There’d be no stopping Jamaica. Later, in unison, thousands of fans decked in gold, with a spatter of black and green, unleashed......

Public passenger vehicle (PPV) operators have agreed to return to work today and are seeking to broker a payment proposal following a meeting with government officials at the Ministry of Transport and Works on Tuesday. Hundreds of taxi operators...

After policing the conduct of politicians linked to the country’s two main political parties, Jamaica’s Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown’s appointment came to an end on Tuesday. The Gleaner understands that the Office of the Politic...

Despite announcing that the freshly declared states of emergency (SOEs) have received support from members of the parliamentary Opposition, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the Government he leads could face a familiar hurdle when the security...

Residents of Olympic Gardens in the St Andrew South Police Division have welcomed Tuesday’s reimposition of a state of emergency (SOE), contending that the Holness administration’s crime-fighting measure will make them safer. The measure, which....

WESTERN BUREAU: GETTING TO spend time with his daughter is the perfect heart-warming birthday gift for Adrian Laing, father of 13-year-old fire victim Adrianna Laing who is recovering well after 17 surgeries. The teenager was the lone survivor of a....

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......