The vaccine shortage that has seen Jamaica trailing many of its Caribbean counterparts in per-capita immunisation against COVID-19 will be eased shortly with the Boris Johnson administration poised to announce, in a matter of days, a significant...

Winston Jarrett’s life of crime began at age 19 when he was first convicted for a minor infraction. Now, after racking up 16 other convictions – the last two for murder – the 62-year-old watchman could die in prison. Jarrett got numerous chanc...

Keisha Hall is a broken woman as she tries to come to terms with the death of her 22-year-old son, Mickael Reid. Hall had refused to speak with her son during a two-week-long dispute over a car. She admits to repeatedly walking past him inside the....

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Mandeville Mayor Donovan Mitchell’s dramatic resignation may have been spurred by opposition from councillors to his June 30 decision to lay off more than a dozen municipal police following an altercation between one cop an...

WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie got in a fit of rage during his tour of Westmoreland on Thursday after discovering that a matron’s quarters and male ward at the Savanna-la-Mar Infirmary were still incomplete despite...

Ten of the 15 Honduran fishermen who went missing at sea since last week have been rescued. They were aboard the Rainforest Seafood-owned Fallen Star fishing boat en route to Jamaica from Honduras when signals to the vessel were lost. The 10...

A study has found that an alarming number of foods in Jamaica are high in trans and saturated fats, with some products on local shelves registering traces despite being labelled as free of the substances. The findings are troubling for health...

Mother of 17-year-old Kayland Dowdie, who was last November battered within an inch of her life and has been hospitalised since, says her daughter will not be able to give the police a statement as she has lost her memory. “Kaylan has no...

Many of the neediest Jamaicans did not access state welfare to cushion the blows of the COVID-19 pandemic because they live on the fringes of the informal sector or do not have official identification, a study by the Caribbean Policy Research...

Funeral home operators contracted by the Government to carry out pauper burials say they are owed in excess of $25 million, but the Institute of Forensic Science and Legal Medicine (IFSLM), which has been fingered for blame, says that funding is...

The abduction of dozens of street people by government workers in 1999 remains a stain on the conscience of Montego Bay, a former mayor of the resort city has said. On the eve of today’s commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the human-rights.....

The Holness administration has been urged to allocate funding to trade unions and employers for a massive awareness campaign on the just-passed sexual harassment law. Veteran trade unionist Vincent Morrison forecasts “some problems in the early......

A task force is being set up to action the recommendations made in the recently tabled Study of Children Working and Living on the Streets in Jamaica. Seven recommendations were presented in the report, which includes stemming intergenerational...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information wants lawmakers reviewing the Cybercrimes Act, 2015, to impose harsher penalties with jail time of up to 20 years for persons in possession of child pornography. In a submission on Wednesday to the......

WESTERN BUREAU: As Marva Mason clutched the keys to her new home in St James, she remembered the discomfort of setting a container to catch rainwater on one side of her bed as she slept in her ramshackle wooden dwelling. Mason, who lives in Quarry.....

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Health Department has launched an investigation into reported sightings of roaming monkeys. Sherika Lewis, deputy chief public health inspector for St James, told The Gleaner on Wednesday that she had spoken to Mark...

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck is hoping that the Sexual Harassment Bill that was passed on Tuesday will send a clear signal about new norms of engagement with women, but he has serious concerns that the tribunal established to review cases will...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has warned party goers flouting the government’s COVID-19 rules that tighter containment measures could be reimposed.

WESTERN BUREAU: With several state agencies now under the microscope amid allegations of sexual abuse at a private children’s home, Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison is calling for more rigorous background checks on prospective staff....

The Government is fast-tracking plans to amend Section 24 of the Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA) that will bring an end to the practice of placing children deemed “uncontrollable” in penal institutions. Section 24 of the CCPA indicates that...