The Government’s imposition of tougher curfew restrictions in the wake of record one-day coronavirus infections has been cast by business interests as a crippling blow to an already tanking economy that would make recovery much harder. That...

Government member of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Juliet Holness was peeved on Tuesday that nearly $550 million in benefits targeting the poorest of Jamaicans under the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH).....

The Westmoreland police have launched a manhunt for a man who reportedly stabbed a minor outside the Westmoreland Parish Court in Savanna-la-Mar on Tuesday morning. Investigators say they have not yet ascertained the suspect’s identity. Reports.....

The Government has announced another bailout for farmers who have seen tomato prices fall from a high of $400 a pound at Christmastime to $30 this month because of a glut. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green said, during a...

WESTERN BUREAU: For the second time in less than seven months, armed robbers posing as customers carried out a daring daylight multimillion-dollar robbery at a financial institution in the community of Whitehouse, in Westmoreland. The latest...

The Court of Appeal is to decide on March 23 whether it will reduce the 2019 sentence of a Jamaican man who had been slapped with a 12-month prison term and $1-million fine after posting nude pictures and videos of his ex-girlfriend, American...

There is bipartisan support among local government authorities in Kingston and St Andrew for the Holness administration to shore up funding for road construction and repair in municipal divisions. Mayor of Kingston Delroy Williams said the...

WESTERN BUREAU: A church and two businesses in Hanover that are in the cross hairs of a contact-tracing exercise have heeded the advice of health officials to cease operations temporarily amid a national spike in coronavirus cases. The church in......

Two police constables who were charged in relation to the alleged beating of a man in west Kingston in 2019 are to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on March 2. Constables Tevin Lake and Kenroy Chambers are facing a charge of...

Vendors in the Papine Market are appealing for the reinstallation of sanitisation stations amid a sharp rise in coronavirus cases. With the advent of the pandemic in Jamaica last March, wash stations were rented and installed but were reportedly...

COVID slashes KSAMC revenues The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has lost between 10 to 20 per cent in revenue each month since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020. “Any percentage decline in revenue is significant, but I.....

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...