A month of darkness following the passage of Category 4 Hurricane Beryl has been unbearable for the residents of Quickstep in St Elizabeth. But they are now expressing gratitude for the intervention of New York-based Pencils4Kids for lighting up...
A pall of gloom overshadowed a Gregory Park, Portmore community following yesterday’s brazen daylight murder of a mother of eight who was well known among the citizenry. Dead is 47-year-old Natoya Rhoden. Rhoden was gunned down in a section of the...
A CHILD is among seven persons shot in a drive-by gun attack on Third Street in Trench Town, Kingston, Thursday night. The shooting left two men dead. The deceased have been identified as 26-year-old Desmore ‘Niko’ McKenzie and 34-year-old Romaine...
THE JAMAICA Constabulary Force (JCF) Transformations 2023: People, Quality and Technology Expo is already having a positive impact on young, impressionable minds, with some students contemplating a career in national security. Yesterday, Calabar...
THE INDEPENDENT Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is to commence a probe into the alleged beating of two brothers by the security forces on Sunday morning. The injured men, one of whom is said to be mentally challenged, were reportedly inside...
Use of devices that have the capacity to enhance cable and Internet services are denting the bottomline of the telecom companies. Smaller players are feeling the heat. According to the cable companies executives, customers are opting to install...
Educators from the length and breath of the nation descended on the Jamaica Conference Centre on Saturday to share ideas for a stronger, more resilient sector in redesigning the future of education in Jamaica. The Global Education Teachers (GET)...
A dispute over a cell phone SIM card is the theory being posited by relatives of 15-year-old Chad Lester as the trigger behind the suspected suicide of the usually quiet teen in Brandon Hill, St Andrew. According to relatives who The Gleaner spoke...
Head of the Cooperation, Delegation of the European Union to Jamaica, Aniceto Rodriguez Ruiz, on Wednesday placed emphasis on the role of citizen security in nation building and the ability to achieve economic development. Ruiz, speaking at the...
The Corporate Area was abuzz with New Year’s Eve activities in some sections as partygoers were out for the midnight hour festivities, while the halls of some churches were filled with worshippers. Haining and Belmont roads had cars parked along...
On Tuesday, September 7, a coronavirus no-movement day, heavily armed gangsters from Stevens Lane traded bullets in the Chinese Cemetery on Waltham Park Road with rival gunmen from Pretoria Road affiliated with the Spade Corner Gang. The fury was a...
First time voter in the constituency of St Andrew East Rural O’Neil Fletcher, says injustice and corruption are the reasons behind his decision to cast his vote for the People’s National Party (PNP) today. Fletcher, a resident of the Industrial...
