Shanique Armstrong, the 26-year-old woman who gave birth on the floor of the Accident and Emergency Department of the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine while nurses allegedly ignored her pleas for help, is pushing for video evidence captured by....

WESTERN BUREAU: The 15-year-old who was reportedly raped by her pastor told police that the incident happened on the church compound. The teenager, who was assaulted in March, did not report the matter until May 28. On Monday, the 39-year-old...

The announcement by Prime Minister (PM) Andrew Holness that the Government has abandoned plans to allow mining in the Puerto Bueno Mountain, also called Dry Harbour Mountain, in St Ann has been met with both rejoicing and quiet disappointment....

Investigators are still searching for clues behind the death of Ava Thelwell, the 49-year-old internal auditor who the police believe deliberately drove off Flat Bridge last Friday. Thelwell, a mother of two adult sons, is believed to have gone...

The comfort and safety of a train ride beat the chaos and disorder of other modes of public transport, according to Lattala Lee Smith, which is why the Linstead, St Catherine, businesswoman is in favour of reviving the passenger rail service once......

“You lucky you come see us.” Those were the words of a Constant Spring Road business proprietor as she stood in her establishment yesterday, looking at the only other person inside the room – a staff member. The establishment is located close...

Three persons have been detained and a Glock pistol with 11 rounds seized as the police stepped up investigations into a double murder that rocked the quiet community of Spring Piece in Pimento Walk, St Ann, on Saturday night. Jamaica Defence...

Three persons have been detained and a Glock pistol with 11 rounds seized as the police step up investigations into the double murder that rocked the quiet community of Spring Piece in Pimento Walk, St Ann on Saturday night. 

Dwight Sibblies, the member of parliament for Clarendon Northern, has stepped aside from his role as chief internal auditor at the University of Technology (UTech) amid deepening enquiry into whether his political role and other public-sector job......

WESTERN BUREAU: More than 80 per cent of the island’s tourism workers who were laid off as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have returned to work, Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has disclosed. An average 170,000 people are employed directly....

Local law enforcers have sought the support of international partners in apprehending the notorious leader of the Bird Nation Gang, Aaron ‘Birdie’ Thompson, who resides in the United States and is believed to be one of the main financiers of gan...

WESTERN BUREAU: A pastor of an Apostolic church in Granville, St James, who has been accused of raping one of his 15-year-old congregants, is believed to be on the run after not turning up for worship on Sunday morning. The teenager made a report......

Despite Jamaica being a long way from acquiring herd immunity, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is forecasting some level of normality here by year end. While observing the administering of second doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca......

WESTERN BUREAU: Two men are dead, a one-year-old baby has been hospitalised, and seven adults are nursing gunshot wounds in attacks in Hanover and St James on the weekend. Aaron Melbourne, 29, and 18-year-old Bagho Anthony Salmon, of Gulf, Norwood.....

Edmund Bartlett, the leader of government business in the House of Representatives, on November 3, referred three motions to the Ethics Committee, one of which related specifically to Clarendon Northern Member of Parliament Dwight Sibblies. The...

The Jamaica Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (JAEMTs) is lobbying for its members to be among first responders on crash scenes to limit the likelihood of worsened injury or fatality. That pressure is mounting amid the collapse of...

A staggering 249 girls have been impregnated from rapes, carnal abuse and other sex crimes between January 2020 and March this year. This is just under eight per cent of the total 3,265 children sexually abused over the period, statistics from...

Jamaica is yet to start genome sequencing to identify variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which may be in the island. Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton told The Sunday Gleaner yesterday that the machine, which Prime Minister Andrew...

Winnifred Jackson’s house now sits precariously near the edge of a gully behind her property in the east Kingston community of Harbour View. The unpaved gully runs behind at least 25 other homes along Harbour Drive and was dug out over five years....

Yesterday’s announcement that embattled Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright had resigned from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was not enough for former parliamentarians who have served the constituency, while Kevin O...