The Supreme Court has issued an injunction against a real estate developer and has ordered the National Land Agency (NLA) to explain how a parcel of land slated for a multimillion-dollar apartment complex has two conflicting titles reflected on its...
The acceptance of a wheelchair-bound student by Merl Grove High School last week has calmed tempers among administrators and staff at the Hydel Group of Schools in St Andrew, who last Thursday described the child’s loving, hard-working persona, and...
Twenty-three-month-old Kishawn Henry and Rushane Barnett were inseparable. There was no greater joy for the boy than ‘jockey rides’ on the man later convicted for the death of the infant, his mother, and three siblings in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon...
Politicians have surpassed the police as the most corrupt group in Jamaica, according to a Sunday Gleaner-commissioned study gauging public perception on corruption. Which is not surprising, noted pundits, pointing to a string of strong-arm tactics...
The prime minister is the member of parliament for his beloved Olympic Gardens community, yet Pastor Rennard White holds little regard for Andrew Holness and those who sit with him in Gordon House. They and their predecessors are at the root of...
Kingston College may have to cut back on some of its extracurricular activities come September, as the school administration reveals that the 98-year-old institution has been struggling to meet the multimillion-dollar budget to fund them annually....
Locked away inside a beach hovel, fisherman Mark Needham* flips television channels and puffs a marijuana spliff. These keep his mind off the fact that his very livelihood has caused him to be crippled from the waist down. Alas, his life at sea is...
They were crime-fighters of an era when guns were less prevalent but the vileness and coldheartedness of Jamaica’s gangsters were regarded as much the same as today... or worse. Even in death, the legacies and crime-fighting methods of retired...
The irony was glaring as inmates at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre peered over a perimeter wall from their jail cells upstairs – so close it seemed they were almost a part of the funeral – to bid farewell to former Chief...
They cry. They pray. They turn to substance abuse. They even self-harm. Just to cope. Those who are able to get help are more hopeful. Several find more wholesome ways to manage. A high percentage of Jamaican mothers, especially single mothers with...
The Government’s decision to push back indefinitely the construction of a cardiac ward at the island’s sole children’s hospital has placed scores of kids in need of heart surgery in further jeopardy. That’s the belief...
The shuttered Happy Corner Bar at the entrance to August Town in St Andrew stands as an eerie reminder of what once was. Believed by some to be haunted by the ghosts of its victims, even the caretaker of the premises on which it sits stays far...
Scammers are reportedly targeting persons hoping to rent houses in the gated Phoenix Park Village housing development in St Catherine, swindling over one million dollars in the latest case of rent fraud via illicit players in the Airbnb industry....
It is unclear how widespread the practice is but, despite best efforts from the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA) and other stakeholders in the industry, operators of some gas stations continue to slap extra charges on customers who do...
More Jamaican women are reportedly requesting paternity tests than Jamaican men. And these are not necessarily doubtful mothers, but vexed aunts, sisters, and girlfriends hell-bent on proving that their loved ones – or lovers – are victims of...
Sherica Listock* is a broken woman, a desperate mother, and a citizen who has lost all faith in the justice system. For more than a year, she has not seen her six-year-old daughter, allegedly barred by the child’s father, who is bent on severing...
With the roll-out of the new Road Traffic Act (RTA) hitting several bumps, attorney-at-law Gavin Goffe has urged the Government not to unfairly punish motorists with fines, especially since the Island Traffic Authority (ITA), the main body...
The Government could have a slew of proposed revisions to the newly implemented Road Traffic Act to consider when stakeholders meet this Thursday. The Road Traffic Act, which was passed in 2018, took effect last Wednesday after the accompanying...
Police men and women are reportedly leaving the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) “in droves” with almost all divisions impacted by the exodus, especially since late last year. “Persons are submitting resignations left, right and centre. It is right...
An audit into the state of public bathroom facilities at hospitals and health centres islandwide has been completed, and according to the Ministry of Health and Wellness, it is satisfied with efforts to drastically improve the conditions. Health...
For 400 metres, the sight was pure horror. Chunks of human flesh, mangled, torn and pasted on the asphalt with blood that had gone muddy, littered the St Catherine leg of the North/South Highway. Initial reports were that the victim, believed to...
For years, his small seed of faith bore no fruit until the day of November 17, 2022, when his nine-year-old daughter was being wheeled into an operating theatre at the Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew for open-heart surgery. Then the...
Clothes vendor Gem Watson is feeling the effects of a costly toxic mixture of business and relationship. However, customers who patronise her shop in downtown Kingston would never guess it, judging by her “roughneck yet inviting” persona. Only...
Delroy Lennon is a broken man, a desperate father, and a resident shaken by one of Clarendon’s toughest communities. His hardest days come with tears, but never thoughts of giving up on life. This is unlike 34 per cent of Jamaican men who say they...
Chronic lifestyle diseases, particularly diabetes and hypertension, continue their menace on the health sector, racking up medical expenditure and leaving many families in mourning. Yet many Jamaicans are still clinging to unhealthy food choices,...
