Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas is calling on Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness to urgently honour his promise to expand Municipal Boulevard as residents and commuters endure worsening traffic congestion. Speaking at last Thursday’s ground-breaking...
A 40-year-old Jamaican woman, Tamara Rowe, was stabbed to death inside her Bronx apartment on Saturday night, leaving the fate of her two small children in limbo. The children, ages 11 and two years old, are currently in the care of the New York...
Western Bureau: Controversial South West St Catherine Member of Parliament (MP) Everald Warmington has apologised and withdrawn a statement in which he used an expletive on a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) platform in Westmoreland on Sunday night....
WESTERN BUREAU: Eleven-year-old Myles Whittingham, a student of Montego Bay Christian Academy (MBCA) in St James, made an enviable addition to his scholastic history by attaining the school’s highest Primary Exit Profile (PEP) result for 2025 with...
Quick Step Primary and Infant School in St Elizabeth is attributing its removal from the list of schools that were underperforming in mathematics and language arts to strong parental involvement, partnerships with non-governmental organisations,...
Greg Christie, former executive director of the Integrity Commission (IC), has argued that Jamaica cannot effectively fight the ever-increasing sophistication of 21st-century corruption and bribery with weakened anti-corruption laws and...
Former People’s National Party (PNP) campaign strategist and Central Kingston caretaker Lawrence Rowe has made his switch to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) official by accusing his former party of betrayal, hypocrisy, and cowardice. Speaking on a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is using emotional manipulation and reckless political tactics in a bid to gain political benefit from the recent neonatal deaths at the...
The tragic death of a Chinese businessman on Sunday morning has prompted urgent calls from senior police officers for the permanent closure of the old Causeway Bridge to recreational fishing, as law enforcement officials warn that the location...
The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) says it’s “more than reasonable” for Jamaicans to know why the law enforcement requirement for the Financial Investigations Division’s (FID) top job was dropped, after a government body claimed the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Half Moon General Manager, Shernette Crichton, was named Hotelier of the Year, while Sandals Royal Caribbean's Nahdira Spence was crowned Hotel Employee of the Year. The two were among several awardees recognised by the Jamaica...
In an extraordinary moment for Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, Kelli-Rae Ashley, a trailblazing graduate of the University of Technology (UTech), has become the first Jamaican student from UTech’s School of Architecture to receive the American...
The idiom ‘out of sight out of mind’ and underperformance are what some constituents in St Mary Western are using as the basis to grade, as failing, sitting Member of Parliament Robert Montague, whose political fate lies in the balance. Montague, a...
School principal Zonett Smith is hoping the Guidance Building at Ferguson Primary and Infant School in deep rural Manchester will get the support it needs to refurbish the roof that was destroyed during Hurricane Beryl. The school has been...
Born in a family with strong Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) ties, Paulette Buckham grew up seeing her father working diligently for the party as an activist in St Elizabeth. Admitting that she knew nothing about the PNP in her formative years, Buckham...
The Government has denied two requests to disclose the reason a criterion for law enforcement experience was dropped from a second recruitment exercise to select the head of the Financial Investigations Division (FID) and who gave the directive....
At the age of 81 Merlene Beal is not as energetic as she used to be many years ago but this has not prevented her from playing a small role in backing Dr Alfred Dawes’ bid to become the next member of parliament for St Catherine South Eastern. A...
After previously declining offers from both major political parties, medical doctor Alfred Dawes has accepted the call from the People’s National Party (PNP) to contest the next general election. He will vie to represent St Catherine South Eastern...
Declaring that he has been “tried, tested and proven”, St Catherine South Eastern Member of Parliament Robert ‘Big Rob’ Miller says he has won the hearts of the people of the constituency through his unrelenting work and interactions with residents...
At just 16, Tyrone Simms dropped out of high school, barely able to read. The now-39-year-old says the struggle with literacy left him deeply self-conscious, often avoiding situations that could expose his challenge. “When somebody not so efficient...
Jamaica’s procurement system has come under scrutiny after it was revealed that public entities are not required to identify the true owners of companies before awarding contracts. This issue came to light during the controversy surrounding the...
Almost 50 per cent of Jamaicans say they have little to no confidence in the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) ability to effectively tackle crime, according to the latest RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll, conducted in June 2025. The data...
A moment of silence was observed yesterday in the Upper House of Jamaica’s Parliament, in tribute to the reported 24 babies who died at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) in Kingston in recent weeks. Opposition Senator Lambert Brown called for the...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Dr Kevin Brown, the president of the University of Technology (UTech), are supportive of the view that Jamaica cannot afford to be left behind in the global development and application...
In a region rich with cultural heritage and unsung heroes, many stories remain untold. A new course at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, hopes to change that by training writers to become the voices behind those stories. Though not...
