There could be more flight cancellations tonight because Jamaica's airspace is to be closed at 9 o'clock as air traffic controllers continue to call in sick in an apparent protest over wage issues and the failure of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA) to address a number of problems they...
There is tension in Montego Bay, St James following reports of heavy and sustained gunfire across several communities last night. Two people were killed in the shootings. Their identities have not been ascertained, but The Gleaner-Power106...
Among the five special awards presented to graduating cops at Friday's Passing Out ceremony in St Catherine was one for the recruit with the 'best Christian principles’. Friday's presentation was not the first time, however. The...
The government has announced that it is looking to build a new maximum-security facility in the next three to five years that could cost as much as $10 billion. National Security Minister Peter Bunting says the proposed facility would accommodate...
Former Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCo) board member, Dr Paul Wright says Jamaica’s athletes should brace themselves for more drug testing at the IAAF at the World Championships. He is also reminding Jamaica’s athletes that they...
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn says an organisational review of her office is expected to be completed by December. She told The Gleaner/Power 106 News Centre that the review, requested by her, has been ongoing since...
Nervous residents of Buff Bay Valley in Portland are again on edge. This after scores of huge boulders came raining down on the community of Charles Town yesterday. Residents told The Gleaner/Power106 News Centre that the frightening experience...
Nationwide News Network is rejecting claims by the daughter of People's National Party MP DK Duncan, that the station hacked into her messages to get a letter she allegedly wrote criticising Ian Hayles for wanting to challenge her father for a...
NACAC Senior Championship 400-metre bronze medallist Ricardo Chambers could represent Jamaica in the mile relay team at the IAAF World Athletic Championships which gets underway in Beijing, China next week Friday. The 30-year-old quarter-...
The People’s National Party (PNP) says there could be run-offs in 12 constituencies to determine the party’s representatives for national elections. Speaking on Cliff Hughes Online this afternoon, PNP general secretary, Paul Burke, said...
The Commonwealth Students' Association is worried that many high schoolers could be denied the opportunity to qualify for tertiary-level education because of Jamaica's decision to allow tuition increases for sixth-formers. The Education...
Clayton Hall has resigned as principal of the Spanish Town High School in St Catherine, to work full time with the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA). His resignation comes ahead of the release of a follow-up education inspectorate report....
Two men were shot and killed while a third is now in hospital with gunshot wounds following an incident in Clarendon last night. The dead men have been identified as Lloydel Pennant and Nigel Simpson, both 20-years-olds from Denbigh Crescent, in...
There is word this afternoon that another accused person is now in hospital in critical condition after a brutal beating at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre in St Andrew. Attorney-at-law Hugh Thompson says his client Carey Rose has informed him that...
The police have now confirmed that a criminal gang based in west Kingston has ordered the deaths of four police personnel as revenge for the killing of its leader. Head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Criminal Investigation Branch,...
Assistant Commissioner Ealan Powell has revealed that Constable Lynden Barrett was killed after members of the Strikers’ Gang were tipped off that he was in the Denham Town community. The new information comes as the Police High Command continues to...
Junior government minister Damion Crawford, is continuing his campaign against the Independent Commission of Investigation, INDECOM. This time he is accusing the entity of only being interested in public relations while failing to fulfill its...
The University of Technology (UTech) has rejected a request by students to delay the implementation of a contentious registration system, but has reduced the mandatory enrollment fee. Returning students will now be required to pay $20,000...
Prime Portia Simpson Miller has told the United Nations that the time has come for a comprehensive write off of the crippling debt owed to international financial institutions by Caribbean small island developing states. She made the appeal during...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce confirmed her class with another show of powerful sprinting at the BAHAUS Athletics Diamond League meeting. The Jamaican sprint queen clocked 10.93 for the 100m in front of an appreciative Stockholm crowd...
There was no success for either Rusheen McDonald or Edino Steele in the Men's 400m at the BAHAUS Athletics meeting in Sweden today. McDonald made a flying start and was leading off the final bend, however, he failed to see the race out and...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Peter Matthews put up a decent showing to claim second place in the 400m B race at the BAUHAUS Athletics meeting in Stockholm. The one lap runner clocked a time of 45.79 seconds to place behind Donald Sanford the American-born...
Triple jumper Kimberly Williams finished third at the BAHAUS Athletics meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. Williams, the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion, had a best jump of 14.22m. In cold and wet conditions, Williams started her series of jumps with a...
The United States is insisting that it will be difficult for Jamaica to improve on its human trafficking ranking without more convictions. The US was reacting to Jamaica’s concerns over its 2015 human trafficking report which maintained...
The Clarendon police have charged two businessmen for illegal sand mining in the parish. Charged are 34-year-old Khalil Latchman and 65-year-old Paul Chin. The police say the men were charged after they were found breaching a stop order. According...
