The group that represents used-car dealers in Jamaica has said that it has no evidence of members misusing demonstration licence plates and has challenged the Government to provide proof of abuse. Demonstration plates are issued to new and used-car...
Dr Carl Bruce, medical chief of staff at The University Hospital of the West Indies, is to go on trial in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on September 2, in relation to an alleged fight with a former consultant that happened more than 18...
At just 15 years old, Jada Wright is breaking barriers by not only being the youngest student ever enrolled at The University of Technology,Jamaica, (UTech), but also becoming a voice for the new generation that understands the link between...
WESTERN BUREAU: Just hours after the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) secretariat announced Dr Garfield James as the winner of Sunday’s tightly contested internal selection in Westmoreland Western, angry party workers launched a fierce backlash. They...
A lawyer found guilty of professional misconduct has partially succeeded in his appeal after the Court of Appeal ruled that the regulatory body made legal and factual errors, and that his constitutional right to a fair hearing was breached. Donald...
A suggestion by two senior government lawmakers that Roneiph Lawrence, the acting director of corruption prosecution (DCP) at the Integrity Commission (IC), may be conflicted in matters relating to the “political fraternity” has been met with a...
As smartphones, laptops, and other gadgets become more and more essential in our daily lives, there’s a growing problem that simply cannot be ignored: what happens to all our old electronics once they stop working? According to a United Nations...
WESTERN BUREAU: A former inmate at the Barnett Street Police Station lock-up told the Westmoreland Circuit Court on Monday that he saw the three cops being tried for Mario Deane’s death, on duty at the facility, on the day Deane was beaten. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: After months of appealing for the removal of abandoned vehicles scattered across the Chester Castle Division, Councillor Wynter McIntosh has condemned WPM Waste Management Limited as inefficient and dismissive of the concerns of...
WESTERN BUREAU: People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell is threatening legal action against Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon and the St James Municipal Corporation if they continue to remove election paraphernalia...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Horace Chang, the general secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has declared yesterday’s internal selection process in Westmoreland Western as a close contest. He said a winner has emerged, but the party will not...
WESTERN BUREAU: Statesman-in-Residence of the PJ Patterson Institute for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy, former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, on his 90th birthday, honoured The University of the West Indies with a Pan-Africanist mural celebrating 17...
Faced with the high prices for leafy vegetables purchased from higglers at the Musgrave Market in Port Antonio, Portland, businesswoman Melissa Hall has now turned to hydroponic farming in order to guarantee that she will always have access to a...
A child molester who raped his six-year-old niece months after he committed a sex act on the child has had his 36-year prison sentence slashed in half by the Court of Appeal. The Gleaner has taken the decision not to publish his name, so as to...
The absence of public statements or visible enforcement of the Political Code of Conduct by the commissioners of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) is deeply troubling, Danielle Archer, principal director of National Integrity Action (NIA),...
A family law practitioner is noting an increase in shorter-term marriages that last two to five years, with the root issue being that many couples are taking their vows without understanding what marriage truly entails. “They (couples) may just get...
A bitter custody battle and an ambiguous case involving the Administrator General’s Department (AGD) are at the centre of a wound the family of Jodian Fearon is desperately trying to close, five years after her tragic death. Fearon, 23, died in the...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn is facing legal action from one of her own senior prosecutors following her decision to remove the government attorney from active legal duties for six months. The development comes on the heels...
A funeral home in Trelawny is under fire from the grieving relatives of 32-year-old Kamar Brown, whose family says they are now forced to hold a closed-casket funeral due to the state of decomposition of his body – an outcome that has left his...
A Supreme Court judge has rejected claims that Juliet Holness’ real estate company bullied a St Andrew landowner in a land title dispute, ruling instead that the defendant failed to appreciate that the company was entitled to an eight-metre wide...
One recipient stood out with admirable strength and a big heart of gratitude at this year’s American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ) Grants Ceremony. Held on Tuesday at The United States Embassy in St Andrew, 54 grants were awarded to a wide range of...
The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) is refuting claims by some of its dialysis patients that deteriorating conditions and a lack of resources at the facility’s renal unit are jeopardising their health and well-being. While describing...
Retired Jamaican police official Fitz Bailey says his appointment as police chief for the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) should be seen as part of a broader mission to enhance public safety and security throughout the Caribbean region. On Thursday...
Findings of the recent ‘Chewing Gum Can Shed Microplastics Into Saliva’ pilot study has revealed that chewing gum releases microplastics into saliva, with hundreds to thousands of particles expelled during the first few minutes of chewing. This...
A recent groundbreaking study from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has revealled that chewing gum – an everyday habit for millions – might be releasing up to 3,000 microplastic particles into the mouth with each chew. This...
