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WESTERN BUREAU: A 14-year-old B.B. Coke High School student, who was beaten severely by one of his schoolmates, remains hospitalised while his alleged attacker has been taken into custody by the Junction police in St Elizabeth. The boy’s mother,...
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Amoi Leon-Issa’s fight for privacy did not end on Friday with her compliance with a Supreme Court order to give the police access to her phone as they probe the 2022 murder of her son, nine-year-old Gabriel King. King, who was developmentally...
THE YOUNGEST lawmaker in Jamaica’s legislature has charged that the country is being run like a Netflix mystery thriller in relation to the cloud of secrecy surrounding six parliamentarians who are being investigated for illicit enrichment by the...
A new trial has been ordered in the case of ex-cop Rushon Hamilton, who was found guilty for the 2008 murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl, but his defence team is confident that he will be vindicated in the end. The ex-constable was ordered...
Residents of Grants Pen in St Andrew are bemoaning the negative effects of the latest upsurge in deadly violence on their community, and many insist the crisis has no easy fix. Businesses in the area have seen sales dwindle in the last week after...
ACCORDING TO experts, urban regions are more vulnerable to the detrimental effects of climate change than rural ones. The experts also believe that more action is required to address the global crisis, which puts small-island states like Jamaica at...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER Municipal Corporation (HMC) has again issued the Doer of Faith Church of God in Hopewell, Hanover, with a stop order over a retaining wall that was being done without its approval. Chief engineering officer of the HMC,...
A CURIOUS mind and a desire to live a life of impact have fuelled 28-year-old Brian Walker’s scholastic journey and placed him on a pathway to the pinnacle of academic achievement. The former journalist is the recipient of the inaugural Cambridge...
A majority of Jamaicans 18 years and over have voiced strong support for the country to replace the United Kingdom (UK)-based Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). An RJRGLEANER Communications Group-commissioned Don Anderson poll...
ANGELINE JACKSON’S ministry is centred around affirming members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) community, by providing an environment where they feel free to express their spirituality, regardless of their sexual...
The process of ‘delayering’ and ‘reset’ at Jamaica’s largest bank, the National Commercial (NCB), is well under way as two more top executives under the NCB Group have departed. Steven Gooden, chief executive officer of NCB Capital Markets, and...
A teacher left devastated after phishers emptied her savings of $1.8 million and took out a $1.6-million loan on her account is not only blaming the National Commercial Bank (NCB) for her loss but is demanding a reimbursement of her life savings. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Ronald Thwaites believes that while Jamaica’s education sector has come a far way since 1962, more effort must be made to ensure that the issues affecting the quality of education students receive are fully resolved. While...
DR BRIAN James, president of the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ), has raised concern about how the global health care industry’s operations contribute significantly to the climate change crisis. James, who was speaking at the recent ‘Science...
Cardiologist Dr Bryan A. Smith has been appointed a Presidential Fellow for 2023- 2024 in the United States. Dr Smith, who is of Jamaican descent, follows in the footsteps of Dr Garth Walker, who was named a White House Fellow in 2021-2022, and...
An overwhelming majority of Jamaicans believe that term limits must be introduced for prime ministers and members of parliament (MPs), while a significant number believe that elected officials should serve no more than two terms in office. The...
