The Hanover Health Department was fully aware of the planning of Mocha Fest, but medical officials and the police claimed that they were unable to locate the sites for the week of illegal parties that sparked public outrage. The breach and apparent....

WESTERN BUREAU: Minutes after Stephina Ralston exited a court-ordered counselling session on Wednesday, she reiterated that she wanted the man accused of nearly killing her to be granted bail and for legal proceedings to be discontinued. The 23-...

When fisherfolk saw men dressed in bulletproof vests making their way across the Rae Town fishing village on Wednesday morning, they initially thought it was the police, until loud explosions and screams for help beckoned. One resident told The.....

A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) helicopter made a precautionary landing on farmlands in Dunbeholden, St Catherine, about 2 p.m. yesterday. According to the army, the helicopter was being flown by a student pilot, who was stable and had no apparent...

Gadget guru James Watson can read success backwards and forwards. And the 49-year-old, who was born with dyslexia, is writing a new chapter on life with the launch of his electronics and photography business. Watson has sought to push the...

A man who has been accused of sexually assaulting five young children is now in police custody. The alleged victims include four boys and a girl whose ages range from six to 12 years old, commanding officer for the St Mary police, Superintendent...

The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) came under fire from a parliamentary committee on Tuesday for issuing a report that lacked data and analysis of the scale of devastation to Jamaica’s farm sector from the coronavirus pandemic and...

WASHINGTON (AP): The United States will buy 500 million more doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to share through the global COVAX alliance for donation to 92 lower-income countries and the African Union over the next year, a person familiar with.....

A policeman implicated in the reported sexual assault of a male ward has been taken into custody, The Gleaner understands. The offence allegedly happened two weeks ago while the juvenile was in custody. The constable is attached to the St Ann...

WESTERN BUREAU: After a lull in violence in recent times, guns barked in Logwood, Hanover, yesterday, leaving two men dead and two others injured in a brazen mid-morning attack. According to police reports, about 11:00 a.m., heavy gunfire was heard....

WESTERN BUREAU: Yesterday’s first court appearance by a Hanover man who allegedly sexually molested his 15-year-old grandniece was a non-starter as the matter was postponed until Friday to facilitate an ongoing case in the Lucea-based Hanover...

George Wright returned to the House of Representatives on Tuesday in a snub to critics as the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) bristled at the prospect of having the man accused of battering a woman with a stool sit on its side of the...

Days after a probe was launched into allegations of mistreatment and neglect by medical staff at the Spanish Town Hospital, Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton has ordered regional health authorities to spearhead training in compassionate care....

Persons 60 years and older who have been fully vaccinated can apply for a $10,000 grant from the Government, Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke announced in Parliament on Tuesday. The initiative takes effect on July 15. But...

Jamaica’s anti-corruption oversight body has recommended that the Hanover Municipal Corporation, the Negril Green Island Area Local Planning Authority, and the National Environment...

The Court of Appeal has thrown out an appeal brought by a general surgeon who was seeking to have his legal bill of approximately $780,000 paid by a patient who had sued him and the State, after a medical instrument was mistakenly left inside his......

One woman died and nine others were hospitalised as a result of a two-vehicle collision along the Bog Walk Gorge about 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Reports are that 59-year-old Valerie Ennis, of Linstead, was travelling westerly in a white Toyota Hiace...

Heroy Clarke, the member of parliament for St James Central, asked Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis on Tuesday to disclose her views on nepotism during a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to review the appropriations accounts of the....

WESTERN BUREAU: With no indications of penalties for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA), Negril’s Rick’s Café has received permission from the Government of Jamaica to reopen. Seven days after it was ordered closed for staging a....

WESTERN BUREAU: Blame for inordinately long wait times for medical treatment has been placed at the feet of hospital managers who have been urged to organise human and other resources to offer efficient service to patients. But St Andrade Sinclair.....