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A physical altercation between 58-year-old businessman Wayne Walker and Dean Jones, a prospective candidate for the Trinityville Division, is threatening to stir political tension in western St Thomas, with the elder man’s family expressing fear...

WESTERN BUREAU: More than 400 persons across the parish of Hanover, including some homeless persons, who receive a hot meal in Lucea each Tuesday, courtesy of the Hanover Ministers Fraternal, are now sure of the continuation of the ‘Kitchen of Love...

Excited residents of Ten Miles in Bull Bay, St Andrew, turned out in droves on Tuesday for the official opening of part BII of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project (SCHIP). Speaking with The Gleaner as the 17-kilometre Harbour View to...

Firebrand councillor Venesha Phillips has hit back at Mark Golding over his “traitor” comment, calling the People’s National Party (PNP) president “desperate for attention”. Golding, while introducing prospective PNP candidates contesting local...

Political commentator Dr Paul Ashley is contending that any infrastructural project undertaken by the Government at this time is being done to shore up votes for the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as the local government elections loom. In fact...

Jamaican prisons and lock-ups are particularly brutal for people accused of killing children, and for some accused persons like Leoda Bradshaw - the 34-year-old charged with the murder of politician Phillip Paulwell’s 10-month-old daughter and the...

Ruing the loss of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) by a single vote in the 2016 local government elections, the People’s National Party (PNP) is treating the upcoming ballot as “the big one” with the Corporate Area at the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s renowned tourist gem, Mystic Mountain, is set to welcome visitors once again early next month, just in time for the peak of the winter tourist season. Incoming CEO and managing director Michael Drakulich announced the...

As Jamaicans prepare to go to the polls on February 26, for the long-delayed local government elections, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck is pleading with voters and candidates to “play it clean”. While speaking during a church service at New Beulah...

WESTERN BUREAU: Nigel ‘Mad Ras’ Bailey, the St James man charged in connection with the December 10, 2023, shooting death of 42-year-old Kemar Henry, has been remanded until March 26 following the St James Parish Court’s rejection of his lawyer’s...

Drivers in the public transportation sector who were compelled for 15 years to pay illegally imposed traffic fines are now lining up to file a wave of lawsuits against the Government that could cost taxpayers nearly $2 billion. And the looming...

A claim that banking giant Scotiabank Jamaica has failed to account for more than $3.5 million that was left in an account belonging to late restaurateur Gloria Harris Prawl has triggered a legal fight with one of her children. Prawl, who died in...