The Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) first Central Executive meeting in the aftermath of the bruising February 26 local government elections has ushered in a raft of changes by way of resignations from some key stakeholders. Among the notables to step...
The level-3 travel advisory placed against Jamaica by the United States Department of State has affected participation in an educational conference opening today in Jamaica and running until April 26. Some 30 students from New York-area schools,...
Fifty young people were nominated for the 2023 Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence (PMNYAE) \, and on Saturday evening, on the lawns of Jamaica House, 21 nominees became awardees. They are Kuti Kamau Ra, Nile Anderson, Aayush Jain...
Jamaican educators and community leaders in the diaspora have condemned the recent public brawls among students of at least four Corporate Area high schools and are calling for the principals of the institutions to take firm action to prevent a...
Reverend Dr Clara Marshall, pastor for the Cornerstone Mission Open Bible Church, who was formally recognised on Sunday for 40 years of service to ministry, is happy that she continues to successfully spearhead a church that has no building of its...
Clarendon native Chenee Morris-Thomas says she drew inspiration to launch her skincare line from her quest to find natural and effective products for her baby’s sensitive skin. She said that personal need sparked a passion to create a range of...
An uneasy calm hung over sections of the Old Capital on Friday night after Clansman enforcer Sheldon Lennox Walters, more popularly known as Termite, was cut down in an alleged shootout with cops. At daybreak on Saturday, several streets in Spanish...
It is “dangerous” and “a great risk” for the country’s chief prosecutor to continue to exercise the powers of her office following a ruling by the Constitutional Court on Friday, a top legal expert has warned. The Jamaican Constitution gives the...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness is being urged to go to today’s meeting of the party’s Central Executive with political guns blazing, ready to crack the whip at the executive and officers, remove members whose time...
The Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) says it will be seeking “guidance” from the country’s data protection regulator, which has contradicted its claim that the law blocks the release of the names of owners of two properties it is leasing. The TAJ...
A fight involving private investors, who are accusing the Government of breaching a nearly 30-year-old agreement for the development of Port Royal, including through a cruise port, is now at the Court of Appeal. In a major decision last month, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A St James mother is fuming, months after her 16-year-old daughter’s expulsion from St James High School as she faces difficulties in getting her enrolled at another institution in the parish, after the teen was reportedly captured...
CONFUSION SHROUDS Paula Llewellyn’s status as director of public prosecutions (DPP) with the Government insisting that there is no order in place for her to demit office, while the Opposition contends that the post is vacant arising from yesterday’...
THE CONSTITUTIONAL Court handed down a decision yesterday that the extension given to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) last year was unconstitutional. However, the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government has argued that the court’s...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the parliamentary Opposition may ask the court to compel House Speaker Juliet Holness to release the legal opinion of the attorney general (AG) on how reports sent to Parliament are to be tabled. Golding has...
AS THE world gears up to celebrate another Earth Day on Monday, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Jamaica has entered into a partnership with the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) to develop and...
COUNCILLOR FOR the Alligator Pond division in Manchester, Omar Robinson, is appealing to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) to act quickly in ridding the community of the unsightly garbage pile-up. According to Robinson, it has...
KARL SIMMS, founder of Arah Rides, is looking to revolutionise the car rental marketplace. In an interview with The Gleaner yesterday, Simms stated his desire to establish a new way for people to find vehicles to rent. By leveraging technology,...
WESTERN BUREAU: ON FRIDAY, Stacy-Ann Dunkley stared blankly as she spoke about her son Raniel Plummer’s request to be transferred from Irwin High School in St James. That request will never come to fruition as the 15-year-old boy was stabbed and...
THE CALABAR Old Boys’ Association (COBA) has suspended its long-standing mentorship programme at the Red Hills Road-based institution, citing “long-standing unresolved matters” with the board and administration. The executive of COBA said as a...
OPERATIONS HAVE returned to normal at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre in Kingston after correctional officers took a break from their regular duties yesterday to register their dissatisfaction surrounding their compensation review. The correctional...
WESTERN BUREAU: ORAL HEAVEN, chief advocate at the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), has called for greater presence and security in the western capital, Montego Bay, by way of quick-response personnel. Heaven also wants the new...
KASHARA REID, a resident of New Longsville, Clarendon, is still having trouble piecing together her life, which was disrupted by a fire that ravaged her home. Despite the tragedy having occurred in August of last year, Reid, who currently lives...
WHEN THE Norwegian Pearl docked in Ocho Rios, St Ann, on Monday, 32 people among the hundreds of tourists who were part of the Love and Harmony Cruise opted to do charity work at the nearby Boscobel Primary...
A love triangle is the alleged cause of the latest flare-up of violence among some Corporate Area schools, resulting in at least three students sustaining injuries and one institution closing its doors out of fear for those under its care....
