Valerie Neita-Robertson, King’s Counsel (KC), believes the two-year suspension handed to her client, attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan, for offensive comments about the country’s chief prosecutor, Paula Llewellyn, is excessive. She is contemplating...
Bloodstains lined adjoining streets of Dunkirk in Kingston following Tuesday’s mass shooting inside the Michael Manley Market located on Pine Street in the war-torn community. A man, who was identified as ‘Tyson’, was killed and six others,...
A preliminary hearing date to determine the validity of the “good-faith certificates” in the Keith Clarke murder case has been set for February 22, next year, amid a stern warning from Justice Vinette Graham-Allen that nothing barring an act of God...
Some senior advisers and executive assistants to government officials are fuming over the criteria imposed for salary increases under the public sector compensation review exercise, arguing that they are barred from benefiting until a renewal of...
Franklin Burrell had no plans to become a teacher. After graduating from the University of Technology, Jamaica with a degree in chemistry, he went straight into the chemical technology industry. But while in the field, he was asked by his manager...
Cristophe Phillips has high hopes of securing a job in Jamaica after recently becoming the first deaf graduate to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance and Choreography at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts....
WESTERN BUREAU: Nine-year-old Joel Dawkins woke up another morning in the children’s ward at the Falmouth Hospital, his heart still capable of skipping a beat. The youngster, who needs a heart transplant, knows time is against him. Joel, who...
CITING GAINS made while reviewing the judiciary this year, including matters of high public interest, the country’s chief prosecutor Paula Llewellyn says she has moved her office into the 21st century. Llewellyn, the director of public prosecutions...
After moving to Trinidad and Tobago in 2016 to take up a job offer, Kasceme White began charting a course to success. But a near-death motorbike accident knocked him off his path four years ago, and the 27-year-old told The Gleaner that he is still...
SEA TURTLES that play a vital role in the ocean ecosystem are under threat across several shores in Jamaica. The animals help to maintain the health of coral reefs and sea grass beds, and also contribute to the transportation of essential...
WESTERN BUREAU: CHIEF JUSTICE Bryan Sykes has expressed that the new firearm legislation is threatening to cause a backlog of cases in the Gun Court in Kingston due to the timeline in which forensic certificates are being produced as part of the...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding says that a People’s National Party (PNP) government led by him would focus on developing the human capacity of Jamaicans and ensuring that resources are available to uplift citizens. He was addressing party...
WESTERN BUREAU: THREE PERSONS who are strongly believed to be linked to a syndicate of criminals responsible for a recent spate of robberies and murders in Westmoreland are now in custody. Last Friday, as business owners, staff and customers...
A Jamaican family of four, including two children ages 11 and 12, were stabbed to death in their Far Rockaway, Queens, home early Sunday morning by a relative who was shot and killed by responding police officers. Courtney Gordon, the 38-year-old...
The nursery ward at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC), seemingly, is filled to capacity, and if the claims shared by some parents are true, they are feeling the strain as they and their ailing offspring are forced to cope with a shortage...
WESTERN BUREAU: The nations of Qatar, The Maldives and The Philippines, the (UAE) United Arab Emirates’ DP World and airport handling company, Dnata, made history last weekend when they became the first recipients of the Global Tourism Resilience...
When Meghan Swaby saw a piece of land she inherited, from the will of a deceased neighbour, being cleared for the construction of a new house for her just in time for Christmas, she openly wept. For two decades, the woman from Warrick district in...
The empowerment of communities adequately staffed and resourced is critical to the success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, according to Executive Director of the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition Ivan Cruickshank, who is also chair of the...
A security guard who spent four years in prison because of the failure of the presiding judge to give adequate warnings to the jury after the complainant, who was a child, had admitted to telling lies, may not be able to recover from the setback...
A teacher who was pregnant and gave birth this past Saturday, has accused administrators at Grateful Hill Primary School of bungling the hiring process, which has resulted in her not being paid for two months. In an interview with The Gleaner on...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Mark Moyou, senior data scientist at American software company NVIDIA Corporation, is recommending to Caribbean nationals that they should carve out their place in the technology sector on the global level, thereby acting as...
As Jamaica battles an ever-growing medical waste disposal crisis, at least three private incinerator operations in St Catherine have been stalled due to long delays from environment overseers in granting permits. And the operators are furious....
With busy shopping seasons such as back-to-school and Christmas seeing fraudsters ramp up their activities to target the credit and debit cards of unsuspecting bargain hunters, Jamaicans are being warned to be extra cautious as they prepare for and...
Cops leaving the police force routinely flout a policy that requires them to return issued uniforms and equipment, and very often without any consequences, multiple ex-lawmen have disclosed. A recent incident involving criminals dressed as police...
An application has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to have businessman Rohan Marley sent to prison for failing to pay nearly $15 million in damages stemming from a 2016 motor vehicle crash. Rohan is the son of Jamaican music legend Bob...
