Despite calls by the country’s main teachers’ lobby and the umbrella parent group for an immediate end to face-to-face classes, Education Minister Fayval Williams has rejected those appeals, saying schools are governed by the standard workplace....

With only five vacant beds on the COVID-19 ward at the Mandeville Regional Hospital and only 42 available across south-central Jamaica, the health authorities say they might have to turn to other parishes for help if the number of positive cases...

With the price for 90 unleaded gas ranging from $139.90 per litre to $182.90 at a number of Corporate Area service stations surveyed by The Gleaner since the weekend, motorists have slammed the wide disparity in prices as ridiculous. Deeply...

Rank-and-file police personnel are requesting the provision of non-lethal weapons to manage explosive face-offs with mentally ill persons who are armed and dangerous, and which often have fatal consequences. Chairman of the Police Federation,...

The Jamaican Government has been urged to hire out-of-work nurses to staff its COVID-19 field hospitals as the public health sector buckles under the burden of mounting infections. That is one of the decisions weighing on the mind of Prime Minister....

Residents of Waterford in Portmore, St Catherine, are calling for urgent upgrades to the community health centre, which they believe has outlived its usefulness due to population growth even as the physical structure deteriorates. Constructed in...

Western Bureau: Three family members who were arrested and charged in connection with last June’s murder of 36-year-old Tamara Geddes, who was shot dead at her home in Reserve district in Trelawny, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder in the...

Western Bureau: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has served a summons on Hopewell High Principal Byron Grant for continued construction being carried out at the school despite a stop order being issued last week for the unauthorised works.......

As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to surge, the president of the Association of Principals and Vice-principals, Linvern Wright, has recommended that benchmarks be implemented for the shutdown of face-to-face classes because of the...

When placard-bearing residents of Rocky Point mounted an angry protest against a police detention three days after a mystery plane crash-landed on January 23, it was a flash point that elevated a little-known Clarendon power broker to a national...

A Jamaican man accused of killing three people in a vehicular incident in the United States more than 20 years ago, before fleeing to Cuba and then back to Jamaica, has been extradited. Christopher Harvey is to face US courts with three counts of.....

The family of a then six-year-old boy who was chopped multiple times and whose penis was dismembered by a teen in August 2019 is appealing for emotional help and protection from the taunts of residents that are pushing the victim over the edge. The....

Jennifer Forbes Thomas of Rocky Point in Clarendon says her family is still reeling from the trauma of their home being firebombed last Thursday. Relating her experience to The Gleaner, she said she was sleeping when she heard banging at her window....

WESTERN BUREAU: Drug and gun smugglers continue to breach Jamaica’s borders, but the country’s air and marine surveillance infrastructure has reduced the number of contraband runs into the island, Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang has said.....

Had patrons of a Job Lane bar in Spanish Town gathered outside the establishment as was the custom, the carnage from Saturday night’s crash after a bizarre high-speed chase could have been greater. Shortly after 10 p.m., men travelling in a Toyot...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes said he is deeply saddened by the death of former president of the Court of Appeal, Paul Harrison. Harrison, 85, died on Sunday morning. “Justice Harrison served our courts for over 45 years. His appellate career was......

Sunday’s memorial service for 1970s reggae songstress Yvonne Sterling signalled the end of an era spanning 50 years of friendship with fellow Big Yard, Orange Street, resident and schoolmate Tony Parkins. Parkins, who attended Kingston City Schoo...

It will take another three weeks for Jamaicans to know whether the deadlier, more contagious UK variant of COVID-19 is spreading among its population, but until then, Cabinet may have to take more drastic measures to curtail the spread of the virus....

Dangerous thorns spring aplenty in the gritty inner-city community of Rose Gardens, nested inside the crime-infested community of Southside in the capital city, sitting within the larger infestations in Kingston known as Spoilers. Robert Calvert...

Residents of March Pen in Spanish Town, St Catherine, are hopping mad after a two-year-old boy was killed and woman left hospitalised in a hit-and-run accident yesterday. Reports are that, about 11 a.m., the infant, Tayshawn McDonald, was at...