Lead Stories

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica-born businesswoman, Samantha Ksloir, is spearheading the $240 million ‘Dinner in the Sky’ investment in West End, Negril, Westmoreland, set for completion in August this year. The innovative sky-dining experience, the first...

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Circuit Court yesterday issued a warrant for a witness to be brought to court by this morning to be directly questioned by the presiding judge in the ongoing trial of Gregory Roberts, the man accused of the 2017 murder...

What began as a traffic stop along Maxfield Avenue yesterday afternoon quickly turned into a bizarre shooting incident, leaving a police constable seriously injured after a man disarmed his colleague and shot him repeatedly. The shooter, who is...

Portmore’s Dyke Road has elicited concerns from residents and a public official over safety and criminality. Consequently, they are now demanding an upgrade. Built in the late 1950s to serve dual purposes of providing a main thoroughfare to...

WESTERN BUREAU: A senior high court justice is urging prosecutors and defence attorneys alike to stop contributing to the longstanding issue of cases languishing in the court system for years without speedy resolution. Justice Bertram Morrison,...

There has been a “discernible” rise in the number of children killed, maimed or sexually assaulted over the last decade as “deliberate collateral damage” in domestic violence cases, Jamaica’s prosecutorial authority has revealed. In particular,...

The defence attorneys representing former Petrojam General Manager (GM) Floyd Grindley and former board chair Dr Perceval Singh yesterday further cross-examined Delroy Brown, chief financial officer (CFO), during a recall of witnesses. The men are...

Dressed in Africanesque attire, with an abeng in his hand, Chief Richard Currie of the Accompong Town Maroons in St Elizabeth stood barefoot at the base of the Kindah Tree as he addressed the massive crowd of local and overseas visitors, and the...

In a pioneering move, the St Catherine South police have shifted their focus towards mental health awareness, launching a collaborative workshop with the Ministry of Health...

WESTERN BUREAU: A new aspirant to represent the People’s National Party (PNP) in Hanover Eastern has been presented to members of that constituency executive by the party. The Gleaner has learnt that a hurriedly called meeting of the constituency...

Despite the expectation that their properties will increase in value once the 10-storey Kingston 2 (K2) Downtown Reimagined high-rise apartment building is completed in two years, some residents of Fairbourne Road have expressed disgust at the...

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn is expressing fear that the acute shortage of court reporters to take verbatim notes and prepare transcripts of proceedings in the circuit courts is going to cause a negative and toxic effect...