A Grants Pen mother of four, whose 24-year-old son was stabbed to death and his body dumped in a cane field in Caymanas, St Catherine, believes he was murdered following a dispute over a $12,000 pair of slippers. Evelyn Callum said her son, Rojae...
United States law enforcement now has on its radar key US players in the criminal underworld who continue to fuel Jamaica’s crime problem. The Holness administration handed over a list of names to Washington earlier this month. The disclosure was...
Next February, 36-year-old Jamaica-born fashion designer Kerean Celeste Matthews will have realised her lifelong dream of making it in the Big Apple when her creations grace the runway at New York Fashion Week. A month later, she is expected to...
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has been engaged by the Ministry of Education to formulate assessments for the approximately 24,000 students enrolled in the Sixth Form Pathways Programme. The disclosure was made by Education Minister...
Senior technocrats at the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service have a day to work through errors with its algorithm to ensure smooth implementation of the new salary scales under the public sector compensation review system ahead of the...
Henry ‘Busha’ Stennett, the veteran broadcaster whose craft spanned more than three decades in radio, died at his home in Constant Spring, St Andrew, on Sunday. Stennett, whose “large and distinct” voice filled a room whether talking or laughing,...
Businessman York P. Seaton has brushed aside arguments linking Thursday’s judgment by the Privy Council in his matter against Sagicor to the meltdown of the financial sector in the 1990s, insisting that the ruling had to do with a personal...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the Seivwright Gardens division, Delroy Williams, openly criticised colleagues from the party’s powerful Area Council One who he accused Sunday of being derelict in their duties. Williams, the mayor of...
The absence of a designated body to regulate the allied health worker sector has driven hundreds of Jamaican practical nurses and patient-care personnel underground in North America, an issue stakeholders have argued could have grave consequences...
Tension is building among member groups within the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) even as Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke warns that public-sector workers are in danger of missing this year’s payment under...
Economic and other variables beyond the control of the owners of Terra Nova have been blamed for dooming the construction of 61 luxury residences, prodding the hoteliers to stick to their core business, CEO Andrew Hussey has said. The Hussey family...
The Government is seeking to curb an influx of Cubans who appear to be using Jamaica as a transit point to Central America in an attempt to illegally gain entry into the United States. Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang confirmed in a...
With four terms as the parliamentary representative for St Catherine South Western under his belt, Everald Warmington is keen on bringing down the curtain on his political career despite pleas from his supporters to stay. In a tearful address to...
Donovan Reid, a director in The Woof Group, the company developing a US$200-million luxury resort in St Thomas, is hitting back at critics of the project who, he said, have bandied about “a significant amount of false information”. Reid, in a...
The Government has suggested that the police or the Integrity Commission could investigate reports of impropriety in the running of the Operation Pride project under which approximately $8 billion has reportedly not been accounted for. The...
Chief executive officer of the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation Errol Lebert says the local government authority was not informed about a conflict of interest when it awarded three contracts to a company owned by Jason Hutchinson, the son of...
History-making army chief Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman is facing her first leadership acid test since rising to the helm in January as allegations of sexual assault mount against a high-ranking member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF)....
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament Juliet Holness delivered a stinging rebuke of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) on Sunday, declaring that it has continuously supported the siting of Comrades on unsafe, marginal lands....
Vanessa Clarke should have been celebrating her birthday on Friday, but in a cruel twist of fate, the mother spent hours in the pews of Pentecostal Tabernacle mourning the death of her 16-year-old daughter, Michion Campbell, who was stabbed to...
Portfolio minister Fayval Williams has issued a fact-finding directive to a team within the education ministry to determine the scope and extent to which persons are appointed to multiple school boards and for “inordinate” periods. Williams’...
There are concerns within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that a pending United States resolution to the United Nations Security Council seeking support for the deployment of forces to Haiti may be vetoed by China and Russia even as nationwide...
The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) paid its former president Professor Fritz Pinnock close to $15 million, before deductions, as part of a separation package when he resigned in February, Gleaner sources have indicated. Pinnock’s contract...
Eight months after Winston Thorpe made a life-saving call to the police, notifying them that their colleague had been shot and left for dead in bushes in Portmore, St Catherine, the 66-year-old hero remains homeless and struggling. Thorpe, a...
As sprint icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce crossed the stage on Monday to be officially inducted into the Order of Jamaica (OJ), her son Zyon consumed her thoughts. In that moment, the 35-year-old multi-Olympic and World Championships gold medallist...
