WESTERN BUREAU: Hospital bed occupancy is at pressure-point, positivity rate in transmission has increased significantly, and vaccination is too low for Jamaica to effectively fight a third wave of COVID-19. The raw truth has forced Minister of...

Citing unjust treatment, defence attorney representing controversial People’s National Party (PNP) activist Karen Cross and United States blogger Natalee Stack says he will be appealing a $750,000 fine that was imposed on his clients for contempt....

The spotlight is now on Transport Minister Robert Montague to indicate whether he is confident in the leadership of the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ), which disregarded the law in a $443 million investment of taxpayers’ money in start-up...

Dr Peter Phillips, a former opposition leader, and his family had assets valued at approximately $150 million for 2020, an increase of just seven per cent over the previous year, according to a summary of his statutory declaration. But there is a.....

The world record in the women’s sprint relay could fall to Jamaica in the upcoming Olympic Games. That expert opinion comes from 2004 Olympic 4x100 gold medallist Sherone Simpson. She believes Jamaica’s top four women – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jennifer Bolt, mother of sprint legend Usain Bolt, says not being able to attend this year’s Olympic Games is a little disappointing, but she intends to be with the Jamaican team in spirit, cheering them on. Jennifer had become a....

Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed a building that housed the administrative offices at the Hydel Group of Schools along Mandela Highway in St Catherine yesterday morning, just before the start of external examinations. There were no...

Students, parents, and educators are being put on alert to prepare for any eventuality as concerns increase over the rise in COVID-19 cases. Yesterday, Minister of Education, Youth and Information Fayval Williams informed The Gleaner that “I donâ€...

Outgoing British High Commissioner to Jamaica, Asif Ahmad, has admitted that the compensation scheme process for members of the Windrush Generation has been painfully slow. In a recent Gleaner interview, Ahmad said that the British Government had......

With an uptick in the transmission of COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Andrew Holness says it is likely that a tightening of measures will be announced next Tuesday to reverse the steady increase in persons contracting the virus. And as the...

Two public bodies, the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and a subsidiary violated government regulations in their $443-million investment in start-up private equity firm First Rock Capital Holdings, the finance minister, Dr Nigel Clarke, has...

Former president of the Jamaican Bar Association, Emile Leiba has responded to comments from the Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, who said that the Government may have go the route of France as it seeks to inoculate the popul...

A high schoolboy and a businessman, who the police say are allegedly part of a car-stealing ring and who were both found with a stolen motor car, were denied bail yesterday when they appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The 16-...

Jamaica’s medal-winning streak in the women’s 400m hurdles could continue in Tokyo when the Olympic track and field programme begins. So says Swept Track Club head coach Okeile Stewart, who coached Rushell Clayton to third place at the 2019 Worl...

WESTERN BUREAU: Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison says that while she stands firmly on the side of disciplining children in order to teach them proper behaviour, she is totally against using physical abuse as a disciplinary measure. “....

For eighty-year-old Perris Samuels, July 21 each year was usually a day of happiness as she celebrated the anniversary of the birth of the fourth of her five children. This year, however, the celebratory spirit was dampened as the birthday...

Operators in the public-transport sector are seeking to form a credit union and also to establish an insurance company that will directly address the needs of members. These were among several suggestions that came out of a report submitted to the....

Several Jamaican parents are seemingly in support of plans proposed by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to outlaw corporal punishment at home and in schools following the death of an infant at the hands of his stepfather. The boy, four-year-old...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given the clearest signal that his administration was not afraid to go against the grain of culture and pass legislation to outlaw corporal punishment, which has been a decades-old mode of punishing children in...

A chartered accountant who was recently sanctioned by the Public Accountancy Board (PAB) for professional misconduct has written to Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke alleging widespread corruption on the board. Dion Staple, managing director of DGS....