FORMER NATIONAL Security Minister Peter Bunting has blasted the Holness administration over what he says is a failure to curb murder amid multibillion-dollar spending and coronavirus restrictions. Bunting’s scolding of the Government and the...
BEMOANING THE exorbitant sum spent by the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) to acquire laptops and other equipment, Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Mark Golding questioned whether two Samsung tablets purchased at a price of $436,024 “...
I am confident that under God, a united Jamaica can and will overcome any obstacles or hardships that may arise as a result of this COVID-19 pandemic. Let us seek as a people, to care for and support each other. We will overcome. Pastor Everett...
GEORGE WILLIAMS used a gut-wrenching application to the High Court to pour out his soul about the nearly five decades he has spent in an infested maximum-security prison awaiting trial and to make a desperate plea to win his freedom. “I don’t want...
DESPITE NATIONAL outrage over complaints of skyrocketing electricity charges, the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has denied that its billing system is defective. The power provider has welcomed Energy Minister Fayval Williams’ call, on...
WESTERN BUREAU: A ST MARY woman who arrived on a Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta Tuesday afternoon collapsed and died in the immigration hall at the Sangster International Airport, one day after the island reopened its borders to the tourism sector....
JAMAICA-BORN BISHOP of Dover, the Rt Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, riveted crowds at a Black Lives Matter protest march in Canterbury, England, last Saturday after she delivered a stirring address to Afro-descended people to stand up for justice. With...
ANOTHER MENTALLY ill Jamaican will not be allowed to suffer the same fate as Noel Chambers, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang vowed, as members of parliament hung their heads barely above their shoulders during Tuesday’s sitting. Chambers...
THE JAMAICA Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT) has said that Portland Western Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz was ill advised in seeking to obtain a 25-year lease that would have allowed him to construct a private cabin on protected lands in...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE GOVERNMENT has been charged to offer a special subvention to private schools for the payment of teachers’ salaries amid the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the Opposition spokesman on education has said. Based...
There were no new coronavirus cases in Jamaica today. The number of confirmed cases remain at 621. At the same time, 19 more patients recovered today bringing the tally to 449. There are now 162 active cases. Follow The Gleaner on Twitter and...
ALTHOUGH IT has been 14 years since his five-year-old daughter was mowed down by a gunshot victim as she stood waiting on her dad, the pain is still fresh for Sheckton Hudson. He still wears a piece of her on his heart every day. Hudson even...
WESTERN BUREAU: TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett said that Monday’s “soft reopening” of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay was a silver lining for workers at that gateway after a near-three-month layoff. Bartlett was addressing...
WESTERN BUREAU: MORE THAN 40 American Airlines pilots were born in Jamaica, and of that lot, two of them were responsible for steering the first flight of 126 passengers to the island on Monday as the island reopened its tourism sector. Captain...
As we recalibrate and adjust to the ‘new norm’, we must not let down our guard, or relent from this fight. This is a fight that we must win. Let us do it for our families, our communities, our organisations and, for Jamaica. Let us together, rise...
Residents of Fourth Street in Trench Town are accusing the Jamaica Defence Force of abusing two of its residents last Friday. One of them reportedly had two of his teeth knocked out. Rita Graham said on Monday that she was jolted into action by...
BUS AND taxi operators have threatened to shut down Jamaica’s transport sector next Monday if their demand for a 100 per cent fare increase is not met. They have also singled out Transport Minister Robert Montague for criticism for the sector’s “...
Adrian Frater/News Editor WESTERN BUREAU: A 30-YEAR-OLD man who allegedly sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl twice last year and threatened to kill her family if she reported the offence will appear in the Lucea Parish Court this week to answer to...
Rosalie Hamilton, councillor for the Rae Town division in Kingston Central, has pushed back at concerns that the local police were not invited to a recent meeting she hosted to broker a truce between warring factions in the area. Speaking with The...
Workers at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James on Monday expressed relief and gratitude at being able to return to work. The airport re-opened Monday welcoming six six flights, the first for week since restrictions on flights because of COVID-19.
Damion Hamilton, the suspected attacker who slew two policemen and injured three others in fierce gunfights last Friday, has been called a cold-hearted killer by residents of two St Catherine communities where he grew up or lived in the past....
President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Phillips, has asserted that the leadership of the St James Municipal Corporation was seeking to undermine the minority caucus because of their efforts to expose corruption in local government...
One of the bullets suspected to have come from the M16 rifle used by 39-year-old Damion Hamilton to murder two cops at an upstairs house in Horizon Park on Friday could have killed Kamika Blake* had she been watching television that morning. Two...
Two members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) are to face disciplinary charges over the disappearance of two M16 rifles. Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Rocky Meade, said the weapons have still not been found. He was speaking at a...
A soured gun deal that left two men dead is at the centre of a war that has been played out, mostly in broad daylight, on the streets of the capital city, law-enforcement sources have revealed. The Holness administration moved on Sunday to stem the...
