It's been 11 long years since the venerable Ralph Brown, a former mayor of Kingston and stalwart in the People's National Party (PNP), passed away.But with a cursory glance at the most recently prepared certificate...
THE GLEANER encounters 28-year-old Lisa walking along the road in the vicinity of a shop in Sunny Hill, St Thomas. She shouts to the shopkeeper enquiring about the price and availability of a "scrub scrub"...
St Catherine and Clarendon schools suffered the most significant damage during rains associated with Tropical Storm Nicole last week, according to an assessment by the Ministry of Education.Schools in the coastal parishes of Portland, St Mary, St Thomas...
Baby's body found in gully - The Denham Town police are treating as murder the death of an unidentified male baby, believed to be about three months old, whose body was found in a gully at the Mother White Bridge on Spanish Town Road in Kingston...
Western Bureau: Mourners have paid tribute to Deputy Superintendent of Police Herfa Beckford as a "consummate professional", "a woman of integrity" and "brave and dignified".
The National Water Commission (NWC) has estimated that 30,000 to 40,000, or 10 per cent of its customers would remain without water this morning, but supply should return to 99 per cent of households by the end of the week....
The Jamaican Government will have to fork out $12 billion for repairs to infrastructure as a result of the passage of tropical depression 16, which was later upgraded to Tropical Storm Nicole....
MORE THAN 100 Norman Manley Law school graduates were officially proclaimed fully certified to practise law in the Commonwealth Caribbean at a dazzling but somewhat sombre presentation of graduates at the University of the West Indies...
It seems like a never-ending stream of love is flowing for the Jamaican people as Issa Trust Foundation (ITF) and Couples Resorts keep bringing medical personnel from the United States to offer free medical care here....
THE MATTER of the Manatt emails will come up in Gordon House tomorrow and again Prime Minister Bruce Golding is in the hot seat to answer question about this messy affair.
"IT BAD, real bad this time around, 85-year-old Alice Sharpe-Smith whispers as she hobbles to join hundreds of fearful residents gathered around the murky lake yesterday, which is threatening to swallow the community of Pedro River in south-east St Ann.
WESTERN BUREAU:Negril residents are adamant they experienced a Category-One hurricane last Tuesday night and not a tropical storm - criticising the island's Meteorological Service for what they say is its lack of...
Harold Brady, the attorney who stands mysteriously at the centre of the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips (MPP) imbroglio, has filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Prime Minister Bruce Golding.
Last week's article on developing competent leaders generated quite a number of responses from readers, some of whom have asked for additional information.
HER COLLEAGUES say she was the first female officer charged with the responsibility of heading a prime minister's security detail since the inception of the Protective Service Division within the Jamaica...
After sitting the Grade Nine Achievement Test (GNAT), scores of Jamaica's barely literate students are taken out of the public-school system by the education ministry and placed in private high schools, raising concerns over whether the institutions are equipped to deal with their learning problems.
More than 100 children and adults placed in two St Andrew schools-turned-shelters after their homes were flooded by heavy rains over the past four days were in a quandary yesterday as shelter managers tried to relocate them ahead of the start of the...
WESTERN BUREAU:Mayor of Falmouth Colin Gager says drain-cleaning exercises undertaken by the parish council averted widescale flooding in the parish.Sections of...
Vendors at the May Pen Market in Clarendon have complained bitterly about the state of the market after heavy rains associated with Tropical Storm Nicole flooded the area leaving piles of debris.
Donor agencies have been sensitised and are on standby to offer relief assistance following yesterday's meeting with the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
