Chairman and CEO of the Miss World organisation, Julia Morley, has announced that the global competition will not be held this year. In a Facebook post, Morely said the 70th Miss World final will be held in the latter part of 2021 and the host country and venue will be confirmed very soon.
The Kingston and St Andrew family court has placed a gag order on both parties in the ongoing child maintenance case involving sprinter Asafa Powell and Amita Persaud-Webb. The Gleaner understands that the pair appeared in court for the first time...
High Court Justice Glen Brown has ordered the release of Marvin Orr and Adrian Morgan, the inmates who have pleaded guilty to manslaughter in relation to the 2014 death of Mario Deane. In ordering...
A Kingston man who was held allegedly with an illegal firearm in Portland was today offered bail despite objection by the clerk of court. Tomoy Thomas, 29, who resides in the Kingston 10 area, is facing charges of illegal possession of a...
Hundreds of students at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, are livid after learning that they will have to pay as much as $128,000 extra for tuition this upcoming academic year despite an earlier pledge that fees would be frozen amid...
The Ministry of Health and Wellness says it could not find a copy of a critical evaluation document it sent to the National Contracts Commission (NCC) for its approval of the Market Me Consulting Limited Jamaica Moves contract. The document could...
Opposition spokesman in charge of the transport portfolio Mikael Phillips is demanding that the Ministry of Finance and Public Service take charge of the operations of the troubled Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) amid damning findings in an...
A look of despair flushed Everton Douglas’ face following the declaration by Justice Bertram Morrison of a delay to the judgment on whether Douglas and four others who have been detained under states of emergency (SOE) for extensive periods would...
Yesterday, as The Gleaner visited several gas stations across the Corporate Area, there seemed to be a general dampening of fears sparked by a deadly fire that claimed one life five months ago at the Heaven’s FESCO service station in Mandeville,...
INDECOM gets new head Hugh Faulkner was yesterday sworn in by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen as the new commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) for a term of five years. Faulkner, who previously served as the...
Three thousand Jamaicans who are beneficiaries of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) have again found themselves in uncertain waters after the Trump administration issued a new memo, seeking to end the programme within a year. The...
St Andrew East Rural Member of Parliament (MP) Juliet Holness is banking on her record of performance, especially in the many farming communities of her constituency, to convince the electorate to give her a second term in the House of...
MEMPHIS, Tennesee (AP): A Tennessee state senator has been charged with stealing more than US$600,000 (J$87,065,400) in federal funds received by a healthcare company she directed and using the money to pay for her wedding and other personal...
COVID-19 has forced media players to become more creative. Let’s continue to foster that sense of creativity. Also, let’s not wait until there is another pandemic to deepen relationships with our loved ones. – Nadine McLeod Lecturer in Media and...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn is considering whether to refer to the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council, two defence attorneys in the Manchester fraud trial following what she calls their unfortunate...
The board of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) has summoned all senior managers to a meeting on Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. The meeting is to discuss the worrying findings of the Auditor General’s performance audit into the...
The Supreme Court has further delayed the judgment on whether the five men detained under states of emergency (SOE) for extended periods will be released. An application for their release is being heard by presiding judge Justice Bertram...
The way is now clear for controversial Jamaican-born Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal to be extradited to the United States to face terrorism-related charges. This follows an order by the Court of Appeal...
A marine student from the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) was among those assigned to provide close-protection services for then education minister Ruel Reid, even though the student had no special training in security. The CMU student,...
The anguished look on the face of Bryan Yates was a tale of despair and defeat. Yates had left his home around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday to run a few errands before heading to work. But he ended up rushing back, a few minutes later, to a home burnt...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness told Parliament on Tuesday that he has been informed that 50 cases of COVID-19 quarantine breaches are now under investigation and the first set of charges are expected within days. Under the Disaster Risk Management...
Efforts by the Pamela Monroe Ellis-led Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) to get critical information from the Joint Committee on Tertiary Education’s (JCTE) sponsorship of a party or dinner for former permanent secretary Dean-Roy Bernard continue...
WESTERN BUREAU: A brazen daylight robbery of the Jamaica National Bank Money Shop in Whitehouse, Westmoreland, on Tuesday has raised concern among the police that they can’t distinguish hoodlums from law-abiding citizens observing coronavirus...
The Jamaican public is “hungry” to see top-ranking government officials pay the consequences for alleged acts of corruption in the public sector, says Ambassador Malgorzata Wasilewska, outgoing head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Jamaica...
