The Jamaica Single Window for Trade (JSWIFT) facility that became operational on Monday has been touted as a game-changer in the vehicle importation industry. Importers applying for permits from the Trade Board must now use the new system, which is...
The Kingston Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) has been struggling to ride the waves of the COVID-19 pandemic with millions of dollars in revenue wiped out due to containment measures. When The Gleaner visited the Hope Road, St Andrew,...
A 15-year-old boy reportedly perished trying to save his 17-year-old brother on Sunday, ruining what was planned to be a joyous family reunion for a matriarch celebrating her 80th birthday. The double-drowning tragedy happened in the murky waters...
WESTERN BUREAU: Heinz Simonitsch, the man credited with positioning the pairing of luxury resorts with environmental sustainability, has died. The Austria-born hotelier, who was responsible for significant growth and recognition of Montego Bay’s...
The Government has been criticised for failing to reduce burnout among the nation’s nurses, who have been doubling and tripling up on duties at public hospitals and health centres amid increased workload since the onset of COVID-19. They have also...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hotels and other industry operators that fail to comply with health and safety protocols designed to facilitate the phased reopening of the tourism sector will be shut down, says portfolio Minister Edmund Bartlett. The minister...
The October 26, 2019, morning started out like any other. But what followed was anything but ordinary. Patrice Burford Henry awoke in her Stony Hill, St Andrew, home on that fateful Thursday morning and went about her usual chore of making...
Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett has cautioned that a ban on travellers from the United States in a bid to contain COVID-19 would deliver a death blow to Jamaica’s hospitality industry. His warning comes in the wake of The Bahamas announcing on Sunday...
Pauline White and other residents of Brook Valley, Duhaney Park, have been suffering from water shortages that have forced them to go without the life-saving commodity for days or even weeks at a time for approximately two years. Those challenges...
Meet the 21-year old seeking to become a Florida state senator. He is Steven Meza, a second-generation American born to a Jamaican mother and a Peruvian father. Should Meza win the Florida State Senate District 33 seat, he would become the second...
More than half of the police stations in St Catherine recently assessed by inspectors have been cited for a raft of breaches under the Public Health Act. Among the health breaches are rodent infestation, improper garbage storage, derelict...
July 19, 2020 In the first 6 months of 2020, Crime Stop received from our people an average of 2 tips every day; and, arising from the tips, paid out $2,240,525 in rewards; seized $8,422,577 worth of illegal narcotics and recovered $2,882,570 of...
The Integrity Commission has taken an interest in the controversy involving the Ministry of Health and Wellness and marketing firm Market Me Consulting Limited, setting the stage for a major probe into the ministry’s dealing with the company....
The Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) has become the fourth registered political party in the island. The Kingston-based party, led by Gilbert Alexander Edwards, was given the nod by the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) on July 15. ECJ Chairman...
Lola Marshall-Williams, the partner of Cabinet Minister J.C. Hutchinson, who has been punished over his role in the Holland Estate sweetheart deal saga, has declared that her hands are clean in the latest scandal that has erupted in the Andrew...
This is a defining moment for our country. As we adjust to living with this pandemic, we must continue caring for each other and turn our focus to rebuilding and recovering. We all have a role to play so let’s come together and move our nation and...
The relatives of Jamaica-born businessman Rasheed Edwards, whose body was found at his Wall Township home in New Jersey with a gunshot wound to the head on April 1, are insisting that his death has not been properly investigated by the authorities...
With another Cabinet minister in the Andrew Holness administration stripped of portfolio responsibilities over a controversial land arrangement and another thrust under the microscope over contracts awarded to a public-relations firm, one political...
St Ann attorney-at-law Marsha Leonette Smith is set to follow her father, Ernest ‘Ernie’ Smith, into representational politics after all but securing the candidacy to replace Shahine Robinson as the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) candidate for North...
J.C. Hutchinson, the minister who had oversight for agriculture and has since been transferred to the Office of the Prime Minister amid a wave of controversy over the so-called Holland land deal, yesterday declared that his actions were not in line...
Carol Narcisse, civil society advocate, has rejected the notion of shuffling around ministers of government who are no longer worthy of carrying out their responsibilities in one ministry to another. Her comments come in the wake of the latest...
While acknowledging the role and responsibility of a government to protect its citizens and intervene when lives are disrupted, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is calling for a deeper conversation about the future of sugar, but is adamant that his...
The fundraising efforts of young philanthropist Imani-Leigh Hall led to the donation of 42 seven-inch tablets for less fortunate students. Ilah’s Lemon-Aid Stand for Kids Foundation recently became a registered charity but the work began three...
Inner-city residents are complaining that they, too, have to deal with electricity theft as persons living in their communities throw up wires on their legal connections leading to disruptions of electricity from the Jamaica Public Service (JPS)....
