WESTERN BUREAU: Despite a promise that repairs to the Montpelier main road, in St James, will begin before the end of the year, residents continue to express anger and frustration over the existing conditions. Among the vexing issues is a pothole-....

Defence lawyer Hugh Wildman has put Senior Parish Judge Sanchia Burrell on notice that he will be seeking an order to pause the fraud trial involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid. Wildman made his intention known after the judge on Friday...

Western Bureau: Constable Monique Ann Bartley, of the Hanover Police Division, will be the Area One representative in the 2025 LASCO/Jamaica Constable Force’s (JCF) Saluting Our Heroes Awards, formerly the LASCO Top Cop competition, which will......

Western Bureau: When Dorothy Satchwell spoke with The Gleaner Thursday evening, at the Faith Gifford Breast Cancer Symposium, she couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed by the turnout. “The support for the event made me happy. I think it was good,â€...

WESTERN BUREAU: The daily inconvenience faced by motorists and pedestrians who traverse the Montpelier main road in St James is set to end soon, as the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has confirmed that road reinstatement work is scheduled to....

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Male students at Little London High School no longer have to be jealous that the girls' restroom is nicer than theirs. Last Friday, a group of alumni called Global Humanity Network Incorporated (GHNI) dona...

Today is the 102nd day of 2022. There are 263 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space, orbit the Earth and make a safe landing. OTHER EVENTS1606: Great Britain ad...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's Parliament on Monday elected Opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the new prime minister, following a week of political turmoil that led to the weekend ouster of Premier Imran Khan.Sharif took the ...

While the journey of entrepreneurship has been anything but smooth sailing for small grocery store owner Arlene Swaby, she is proof that with the right focus, and a little support, small business owners can thrive."I started out after m...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Programme director, Community Renewal Programme, Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Charles Clayton says the answer to the nation's crime problem is definitely not the resumption of hanging.In fact, Clayton poi...

A St Catherine man's temper landed him behind bars after he used a pair of scissors to stab his own brother in a shocking, unprovoked attack that left the victim hospitalised for weeks. The attacker, 51-year-old Brian Allen, a labourer of...

Six people, including members of the Jamaica Defence Force, were injured in a crash at the intersection of Harbour Street and Hanover Street in downtown Kingston on Friday morning. Reports are that the collision happened about 6:30 a.m., near...

The security guard who allegedly stole more than $15 million from a Beryllium money courier van has been apprehended following a seven-day manhunt, according to authorities. The 42-year-old guard was arrested at premises in St Andrew late...

When 34-year-old Mark Bolton steps into his mathematics classroom at Newell High School in St Elizabeth, he does so with the same determination he once used to scrub floors as a janitor at Church Teachers' College, which he did for eight and a...

A domestic abuse survivor who was knocked unconscious and left to die in a burning cane field, while she was pregnant with her partner's child, is imploring other women to leave abusive relationships before it's too late. Now 43, Munchie* said...