WITH THE pending July 1 increase in toll charges about to be unfolded, member of parliament (MP) for St Catherine South Eastern, Robert Miller, has offered suggestions on how Portmore residents could get some relief from the expected hike. In a...
THE MINISTRY of Health and Wellness, partnering with the Ministry of Education and Youth, has responded to the increased stress levels among students with a stress management initiative aimed at targeting those who are vulnerable. Health and...
THE GOVERNMENT’S billion-dollar schools’ improvement programme that hit a pause during the COVID-19 pandemic has restarted with a $235-million allocation to improve Bridgeport High School in Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday. The money will finance...
The St Catherine South police will launch an investigation into the fire that destroyed a section of the People’s National Party’s (PNP) constituency office in St Catherine South East on Tuesday morning. Senior Superintendent of Police Christopher...
The People’s National Party (PNP) is being accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) as part of a political agenda to take down Prime Minister Andrew Holness With that accusation comes a wider call for the nation to be prepared for an onslaught...
Spanish Town Mayor Norman Scott has labelled the lack of direct involvement of local government practitioners in the constitutional reform process as a miscalculation that should be corrected. Scott, who is also a vice president of the Opposition...
A crime spree that started in Gregory Park, Portmore, Tuesday night, during which a man and a woman were abducted and forced to withdraw money from Corporate Area ATMs, ended yesterday along the Hellshire main road with the death of one of the...
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has been accused of covering up the results of a suspected pollution of the Rio Cobre River. Members of the Friends of the Rio Cobre, a non-profit organisation formed to give voice to persons who...
A FRESH concern has emerged about pollution of a section of the Rio Cobre in St Catherine. Fishermen have expressed concerns about a visible discolouration of the river, and an odour reminiscent of caustic soda, at a point where an underground...
A BATTLE royal is looming in St Elizabeth North Eastern as former Member of Parliament (MP) Raymond Pryce has emerged as one of the People’s National Party’s (PNP) preferred candidates to represent the constituency in the next general election,...
Medical doctor Alfred Dawes has been selected by the People’s National Party (PNP) to be its standard-bearer in South East St Catherine in the next general election. The decision came on Wednesday when PNP President Mark Golding used his authority...
Retired crime-fighter Reneto Adams has maintained that the training of some security guards to deal with surprise attacks seems to be lacking following the emergence of footage showing Beryllium guards fleeing – one tossing his weapon – as they...
Twenty-seven justices of the peace from across the parish of St Catherine were recognised for 25 to 46 years in service to their communities. David Taffe and Luna Derica Bailey, two of the longest-serving justices of the peace in the parish, were...
THE UPTICK in multimillion-dollar robberies on financial institutions and businesses that handle large sums of money has triggered a call among stakeholders for legislation to make it mandatory for these businesses to install a standard security...
Beset by problems of unemployment and the lack of basic skills to create economic independence youths in the small farming community of Troja in the northeastern section of St Catherine are crying out for attention. President of the Troja Citizens...
Delegates of the People’s National party (PNP) in the St Catherine South Eastern constituency are fuming at the proposed new selection process the party will adopt to select a candidate for the constituency. The party’s National Executive Council...
As armed gangsters step up their attacks on businesses that handle large sums of money in St Catherine, the police are appealing to operators to build out their security systems to prevent or repel such attacks. Noting that there is a visible lack...
A police officer who has expressed intolerance for law breakers believes community policing and youth empowerment must be employed to help the security forces and the nation to solve the expanding crime problem. Subofficer in charge at the...
Marlene Smith left work early last Wednesday after promising her daughters, who attend a high school in St Catherine, that she would be at their netball game to cheer them on. The girls were conscious that Smith was not among the parents and...
A cab driver and his female passenger were killed in the Railway Lane area of Spanish Town, St Catherine on Wednesday, after gunmen chased the vehicle in which they were travelling and opened fire at them. The deceased have been identified as 31-...
Angry Windalco bauxite workers disrupted the smooth flow of traffic along the busy Ewarton main road in St Catherine by mounting a massive roadblock on Tuesday as they continued their industrial action. Motorists who were being impeded watched in...
Trade and production workers at UC Rusal's Windalco, Port Esquivel and Kirkvine bauxite plants have vowed not to return to work until the company addresses claims that were awarded by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT). The workers took strike...
Ear-piercing wails shattered the atmosphere as a thin thread of hope turned to inconsolable grief in the bushes near Naseberry Grove in Kitson Town, St Catherine, on Monday when a search party looking for a missing woman and her boyfriend stumbled...
Two homeless St Elizabeth brothers have been sleeping rough in Braes River, taking up residence in a dilapidated building. The brothers, 53-year-old Alvin Hyde and 52-year-old Perry Hyde, told The Gleaner they were evicted from a three-bedroom...
AN AGREEMENT was reached between the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) and the University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU) late Thursday evening for bus drivers to return to work. The drivers had taken strike action to press their demands for...
