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Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips is calling on Jamaicans to keep playing their part in the fight against COVID-19 as the country celebrates 58 years of Independence. In a message, he tipped his hat to health, security, and transport workers and...

Governor General Sir Patrick Allen has challenged Jamaicans to show strength and recharge the nation’s collective psyche and rally around the symbolic meaning of the national flag as the country presses through challenging times. In a message, Sir...

The decision by long-time People’s National Party (PNP) affiliate Peter Shand to break ranks and run as an independent candidate in St Ann North West in the upcoming general election seems hardly a bother to the party. “We consider his bid to be...

For what date should Prime Minister Andrew Holness announce the next general election, and why? Tivoli Gardens residents give their take. Gloria Allen “For now, down in next year, maybe about April, May, June. I don’t want it for this year....

The Chinese Embassy in Kingston has unloaded on United States Ambassador Donald Tapia for suggesting that Chinese companies are a national security threat to Jamaica and has warned America not to open a Pandora’s box or suffer the consequences....

WESTERN BUREAU: A reputed high-ranking member of the feared King Valley Gang who was atop the Westmoreland’s most wanted list was apprehended in a police dragnet at a house in Grange Hill in the parish on Tuesday morning. He has been identified as...

WESTERN BUREAU: The blast that killed more than 70 people and injured 4,000 in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday was felt as far as the Republic of Cyprus and is being described as an “atomic bomb”. Speaking with The Gleaner from Toronto, Canada, Tuesday...

Danae Hyman/Staff Reporter The Jamaican public has been urged to desist from threatening the Supreme Court who delivered the judgment in a controversial constitutional matter sparked by the 2018 decision to bar a girl from school because of her...

The plea that was at the centre of a constitutional ruling in Jamaica last week would give students carte blanche privilege to justify a departure from school rules under the shield of self-expression, a key parent-teacher stakeholder has warned....

The lawsuit challenging a decision by a Jamaican public school not to enrol a then five-year-old girl because of her dreadlocks is about self-expression and not religious rights and freedoms. That’s according to the full transcript of the...