With about 5,759 or 3.4 per cent of the 170,000 persons directly employed to Jamaica’s tourism sector receiving vaccination against COVID-19 to date, concerns have been raised that the country could become less attractive to visitors if its...

House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert has suggested that it is her discretion whether to entertain a divide call on vote-taking in Parliament, arguing that the mechanism only becomes necessary when there is a clear contention. Dalrymple...

WESTERN BUREAU: A 28-year-old businessman, who allegedly shot and killed 27-year-old pool attendant Kimmorlay Anthony Forbes on Sunday night while they were having drinks on the compound of the Spicy Hill Farm in All-Side, Trelawny, has been...

Most persons know Tanyalee Williams as councillor for the May Pen North Division in Clarendon, but not many know that she is an ordained minister, a proud grandma, and was a high school dropout. In a one-on-one with The Gleaner, Williams shared how...

Rudolph Genius’ last memory of his mother was her jovial mood as she handed him $100 to buy food from a nearby shop on Tuesday. But that cheerfulness was stilled in the wee hours of Wednesday when residents of Barracks, Manchioneal, were jolted b...

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has turned scrutiny on the death of one of two men suspected to have killed businessman Robert Miller before being cut down in a shoot-out with cops at the Trafalgar-Waterloo-Hope roads...

The Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of a man who had been ordered to pay $515,000 or serve two months in prison after he was found guilty of transporting 1,613 pounds of ganja. The appellant, Allan Gardner, was taken into custody and...

With decibel levels increasing sharply, Heroy Clarke on Tuesday insisted that as a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), he had a right to know why Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis did not attend an exit interview of an audit done by...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade to scrap the 9th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference scheduled for June 16-18. The event, which was due to be held virtually, has been postponed till 2022. A two-......

A Kingston taxi driver who killed two pedestrians in 2018 when his car ploughed into a group of persons at Heroes Circle in Kingston was on Wednesday remanded for sentencing on June 18 after pleading guilty in the Home Circuit Court. Six persons......

WESTERN BUREAU: When the company sent off its first shipment of cannabidiol (CBD) to Delaware in the United States in December 2020, owners of the Trelawny-based Organic Growth Holdings (OGH) were bubbling with optimism. However, that momentum has....

Insisting that the Government was on a bad legal footing and accusing the Holness administration of “selling out” the country as it sought to have China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) build the Montego Bay Perimeter Road Project, Opposition ...

Jamaica has recorded its lowest COVID-19 infections, positivity rate, and hospitalisation numbers since the late March weekend lockdowns. The health ministry reported that on Monday, 39 samples tested positive, reflecting a 3.3 per cent positivity....

The 14-year-old girl who was slain in a jealous rage by a 20-year-old who obsessed over her had engaged in acts of self-mutilation and even went missing in an apparent cry for help. That is the account of Cooper’s stepfather Andre Stewart, who tol...

The internal audit unit of the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service has admitted to errors in a report of the Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) which was tabled in Parliament in April. In a letter to members of Parliament’s Public Accoun...

WESTERN BUREAU: Stenneth Wilson, the 62-year-old Trelawny farmer who allegedly chopped his 29-year-old partner, Nickeisha Keeling, to death on the weekend, has now been formally charged with murder. Commanding officer of the Trelawny Police...

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WESTERN BUREAU: The security guard who allegedly used a piece of wood to beat a vendor at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, last Thursday has turned himself in at the Freeport Police Station in the western city. Winston...

Jonielle Daley/Staff Reporter Daniella Anglin was sitting at the edge of her seat last March when Jamaica’s most popular track and field competition, the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Champs, was cancelled because of the pandemic. The Herb...

The public has been responding positively to an appeal by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) to desist from the ad hoc distribution of meals to the homeless in the Corporate Area. Mayor of Kingston Delroy Williams said that......