Cybercriminals used an Internet protocol (IP) address based in Jamaica last Thursday to distribute some 1,160 malware attacks per hour to devices here and overseas, the agency that monitors the country’s cybersecurity space has disclosed. This...

For Patricia* to ever accept that Kevin Smith, the late leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, is dead, she would have had to witness the reported cremation of the body of the man herself. Likening Smith to Jesus Christ,......

Jamaica’s second-highest court has turned away a last-gasp attempt by a convicted drug boss to hold on to his portfolio of assets worth over $500 million. The Court of Appeal, on Friday, refused an application by lawyers for Andrew Hamilton for......

Retired Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Novelette Grant had anticipated that at least one female would have been on the panel which interviewed her for the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) top job in 2017. Instead, as she sought to become th...

Real estate company Coldwell Banker Jamaica is pushing ahead with an internal policy to offer a minimum commission of 1.5 per cent in co-broking transactions after government regulators ruled that the implementation of a similar policy across the......

Forty-one years on, it is no longer considered a death sentence but instead a chronic disease, in some cases inactive with on-time and consistent treatment. Still, inequality threatens efforts by the Joint United Nations programme for HIV/AIDS (...

Dr Nicholeen DeGrasse-Johnson, who was suspended as principal of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in 2019 at the height of a sexual harassment scandal, has lost her bid to be reinstated and for disciplinary proceedings...

As Jamaicans attended Remembrance Day events on Friday to honour soldiers who served in World Wars I and II, Beulah Coombs took The Gleaner on a journey into the past, through the service of her uncle, Robert Smith. She shared that it was her...

When Celine Lobban commenced her studies at the University of Technology, Jamaica, in 2017, she was the only deaf person in her year group in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing. Lobban knew from the outset that it would have been an uphill...

Tamekia Meeks did not own a laptop upon being accepted into university and, mere days before she was expected to move on campus from her home in Barham, Westmoreland, she did not have the first dollar for the deposit to secure boarding. The 23-year....

Six months of disaster and pain is how Jameal Mendez Sr describes the uncertainties surrounding the whereabouts of his two-year-old son, Jameal Jr, who has been missing since May 12. 

A travelling peddler, who is among eight persons left homeless after fire destroyed their homes at Fleet Street in Kingston on Friday, is pondering her next move after her goods and $16,000 – the last of her savings – were also lost in the blaz...

Government Senator Don Wehby is pushing for an amendment to the Proceeds of Crime Act to allow for unexplained wealth orders as a means of bolstering the country’s response to crime. Unexplained wealth orders have been introduced in other...

Opposition Spokesperson on Tourism Janice Allen has disagreed strongly with a suggestion by Robin Russell, the new head of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), who recently cautioned against granting wage increases to the hospitality......

Dozens of residents living in George’s Plain, Westmoreland, have been left in shock after a deadly shooting at a party in their community on Thursday night, which claimed the lives of 50-year-old music producer Craig Chambers and 48-year-old...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) Chairman Sheridan Samuels says the cadre of municipal police officers attached to the local authority is not serving its intended purpose in the parish. While he was delivering the chairman’s...

WESTERN BUREAU: A Jamaican woman who became homeless twice in the United States now owns a 60-key hotel and is offering expert advice as part of a masterclass she has designed. Dr Ellen Bryant Brown knew nothing about daycare, nursing, real estate....

The lack of standardisation in the allied health sector is resulting in graduates leaving institutions being unable to carry out vital checks or recall information critical to ensuring patient safety. President of the Practical Nurses Association......

David Salmon dreamt of becoming a Rhodes Scholar since he was 15 years old. He remembers being in the audience when 2015 Rhodes Scholar Tariq Parker visited his alma mater, Wolmer’s Boys’ School, and gave an inspirational address. “I looked u...

Former head of the UWI School of Nursing (UWISON), Dr Steve Weaver, says there is a shortage of specialist nursing educators in Jamaica. He noted that the areas of critical care and operating theatre are affected as nurses must first be competent.....