A three-week ban on funerals and burials has drawn the ire of stakeholders in the industry, with warnings of mayhem as bereaved families rush to bring forward the final rites to beat the deadline. The order was imposed by Prime Minister Andrew...

Education ministers across the region have given unanimous approval for the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) to conduct its 2021 sitting despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shuttered some schools for months. It was a unanimous decision of....

WESTERN BUREAU: Members of the clergy in western Jamaica say the disparity in the most recent COVID-19 containment measures announced on Sunday by Prime Minister Andrew Holness covering weddings, funerals and church services leaves room for...

Government debt owing to The University of the West Indies (UWI) has been significantly reduced from US$117 million in July 2014 to US$51 million in November 2020. And of The UWI’s five campuses across the region, only Mona has relied on debt...

Sundays – the days usually reserved for worship, rest, reflection and recreation – have been transformed into a time of chilly uneasiness for residents of Howard Avenue off Waltham Park Road in the Corporate Area, as they are almost certain to b...

From around 6, Kresten Stewart nurtured dreams of one day serving her country as a policewoman. Having applied to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and gone through an interview, she was closer to fulfilment. The 27-year-old woman, who is on...

Former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and four other People’s National Party (PNP) members are now awaiting the decision of the Privy Council, which will make the final determination on whether they will testify in open court in the Trafigur...

The medical doctor who treated 17-year-old Kaylan Dowdie, who was brutally beaten to the brink of death last November, is to appear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on March 10 to update the court on the teenager’s condition. The judge,....

The Government has announced that it has reached a deal with the African Medical Supply Platform for the delivery of 1.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, starting next month. The announcement comes as the Holness administration is under...

The only money Narda McKoy had in her purse was her 17-year-old daughter’s college tuition, but she would have spent every cent without hesitation Friday night for some oxygen at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), where she had......

The occupants of a deregistered plane that crash-landed on a Rocky Point beach in January have reportedly fled the country, and the Government has given the clearest indication that the aircraft was on a smuggling mission. The plane had intended to....

Major real-estate investment in higher-density, multistorey residences in Portmore could rehabilitate the blighted housing stock of neighbourhoods like Gregory Park, a community elder has said. Elkanah Mullings has been a pillar of Gregory Park for....

WESTERN BUREAU: As coronavirus numbers skyrocket, all persons entering the island, including Jamaicans, will now be required to present a negative COVID-19 test result conducted no less than 72 hours before the date of travel. The new measures,...

Sargassum has been a significant threat for fishing and tourism interests in the region, but a group of researchers at The University of West Indies, Mona, have found that the notorious seaweed has economic potential despite some negative...

Over the last two decades, only three academics at The University of the West Indies (UWI) appealed decisions not to promote them to professorship, an administrator has disclosed to back up claims of an “objective” selection process. Growing.....

Deputy Mayor Alric Campbell has characterised the Holness adminstration’s proposal to designate Portmore as Jamaica’s 15th parish as a gerrymandering ploy to seize political control of the St Catherine Municipal Council. Campbell, an affiliate o...

More than two centuries after the Moravians landed in Jamaica, a little girl named Lucinda Beverley (now known as Lucinda Grace Peart) was born. By age 12, she had conquered the highest levels of educational assessment in Jamaica for pupils,...

The Jamaican Government, after months of silence, has disclosed that it has signed a five-year J$4-billion contract with the Israeli firm ELTA Systems Limited, but has sought to assure Jamaicans that they have nothing to fear. The disclosure and......

A Sunday Gleaner request for the employment contracts of the police and tax commissioners has been denied, shocking some civil society advocates who are insisting that the holders of the two key public positions cannot benefit from oft-used privacy....

As Jamaica gears up to receive a gift of 50,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from India next week, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has said that unlike Barbados, the island will not be sharing any doses with Caribbean neighbours as the......