National Health Fund (NHF) Chairman Howard Mitchell has sought to calm fears about Jamaica’s immediate vaccine inventory, disclosing on Sunday that there is sufficient stock of Oxford-AstraZeneca doses to cover the masses who turned out for a COVI...

The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) was forced to seek the intervention of the HEART/NSTA Trust board chairman in March to get the agency to explain an unauthorised tax on travelling officers, documents show. HEART falls under the direct...

Manufacturers have revealed that a recent shortage of refined sugar in Jamaica has eased after some local competitors were forced into short-term borrowing of the commodity within industries to keep their production lines humming during the acute......

It has been three years since her two sons were killed by rival gangsters in April 2018, but Janice Solomon, a resident of the battle-torn community of Salt Spring in St James, still weeps for her boys as if it were yesterday. While admitting that.....

The failure of the Jamaican State to roll out broadband width that is reliable, affordable, and accessible to poor inner-city students will come back to haunt the country, with fears of a lost generation of schoolchildren. That is the dire warning....

As Davian Hopwood watched People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding laying a block for under-construction home in Petersfield, Westmoreland, on Saturday, she beamed with happiness at the fulfilment of a months-long political pledge....

Confirmation has come from Justice of the Peace (JP) Robert Buchanan that he has met with one of three young women at the centre of a sex scandal involving People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell. Campbell has denied all...

Allowing Dr Dayton Campbell to remain in his position as general secretary of the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP) “weakens the leadership” of the political organisation, one of his predecessors has warned. Almost six months into...

After living through years of bloodshed and lawlessness, residents of Salt Spring in St James have welcomed efforts by the authorities to bring order to their troubled community, but there are concerns that this new-found peace could be temporary......

Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the recent events in Negril, Westmoreland, which led to the Government issuing a closure order on the popular tourist attraction and entertainment spot Rick’s Café, shows the unequal application of the rules an...

The mission to re-establish peace and further develop Trench Town and the surrounding communities in the Corporate Area is expected to receive a boost with the construction of the Joy Town Family Resource and Wellness Centre. The Joy Town Community....

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the resort town of Negril were not surprised at Wednesday’s police crackdown at Rick’s Café Negril, many telling The Gleaner that it was long overdue. The residents contend that flouting the Disaster Risk Management...

The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) on Wednesday handed down a $12.5-million award to Dr Sandra Williams-Phillips, a consultant cardiologist who was unjustifiably dismissed some 11 years ago from the Bustamante Hospital for Children. In arriving....

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Herbert Gayle, social anthropology lecturer at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, says that boys should not be expected to act like girls in emotional expression or communication style and must be trained in how to...

Political representatives and guests gathered yesterday to honour the life and legacy of Jamaica’s fifth prime minister and longest-serving member of parliament, Edward Seaga. Seaga, who was head of Government from November 1980 to February 1989...

Glowing tributes were paid to retiring Court of Appeal Justice Hilary Phillips yesterday during a special sitting of the court as the curtain came down on her 47-year legal career. President of the Court of Appeal Patrick Brooks, who led the...

Egeton Newman is hoping that, given the experience racked up by members of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), which he leads, they should have a seat at the negotiation table when the Office of Utilities Regulation (.....

A St Thomas mom is fearing the worst after her son, a cab driver, has been missing for nearly two weeks without any substantive leads. “As a mother, I just feel like somebody kill him because I am nervous in my stomach … . I just feel like they....

The report of the Joint Select Committee reviewing the Sexual Harassment Bill is to be tabled in the House of Representatives, along with a raft of amendments, on June 8, the same day Gender Affairs Minister Olivia Grange is scheduled to make her......

Dr Dayton Campbell may have survived as general secretary amid a developing scandal but the decision to retain him in the People’s National Party’s (PNP) senior ranks has sparked a smouldering conflict that could further torch a deeply divided....