A 24-year-old aspiring artiste was among four people shot and killed in west Kingston on Saturday in ongoing gang violence. Emilio ‘Shakka Don’ West, of Chestnut Street in Tivoli Gardens, left his home for the studio to make last-minute changes to...
When Teana heard that she was successful in all eight of her Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, she was ecstatic. The 18-year-old, who has been a ward of the State for nine years, views her academic success as...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding has criticised Prime Minister Andrew Holness for his administration’s more-than-yearlong policy of non-engagement with the Chief Richard Currie-led Accompong Maroons in St Elizabeth. Relations between the Government...
Gender advocates are calling for changes in the Domestic Violence Act to strengthen protection for victims of intimate partner violence. The call comes in light of the circulation of a video in which a man was seen physically assaulting a woman in...
A grave bus shortage hobbling the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) could be eased by March. The bus company transports almost 350,000 passengers weekly but its operations have been impacted by the non-delivery of 50 new units. The...
Financial institutions in Jamaica have been urged to do more to protect elderly clients from falling victim to fraud. That call has been issued by Jean Lowrie-Chin, executive chair of the Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP). Lowrie-Chin...
Accompong Chief Richard Currie says he is looking to collaborate with the Ministry of Tourism to improve the annual Maroon festival in his St Elizabeth enclave. Last Friday, scores of locals and tourists, who attended the festival to commemorate...
A psychologist and a member of the clergy are hailing Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s intention to collaborate with the Church to address mental health issues in the country as a positive initiative. But both are cautioning the Government to ensure...
Glenroy Murray, executive director of Equality for All Foundation Jamaica, is urging members of the island’s LGBTQ community to be vigilant when using online dating platforms. His warning follows a safety alert sent by Grindr, a popular LGBTQ+...
For three generations, Andrew Ellis’ family has secured a spot in the Spanish Town Market in St Catherine for their meat shop. Ellis recalled that as a teenager, he would spend a lot of weekends helping out in the establishment. But although he had...
Elina Walker had just returned home from her annual family reunion on Christmas Day in Point Hill, St Catherine, when she received news that her 30-year-old son, Michael Lawrence, had been shot dead in Banbury, Linstead. Walker told The Gleaner...
It was 5:30 a.m. on Christmas Day, and most of August Town was asleep, but its slumber was about to be disturbed by the loud and joyous carolling of the August Town Community Development Council. For the last seven days, the group has been...
Residents in Manchester communities close to the under-construction May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000 are calling for China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), the project contractor, to give a timeline for repairs to parochial roads and...
Rameish Desouza, the 21-year-old social media influencer known for whipping up innovative dishes from ordinary Jamaican ingredients, will be opening his first restaurant in downtown Kingston early next year. He told The Gleaner that this is the...
Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says he will be putting a submission to Cabinet for the formation of a special task force to tackle praedial larceny. With an estimated $6 billion lost to farm theft locally each year, the task...
Once hailed by residents as a town that never sleeps, Porus morphs into a ghost town by 6 o’clock each evening as fearful natives retreat to the safety of their homes at dusk. Since the fatal shooting of a supermarket owner and market vendor last...
Steve Ashley, chairman of the Association of Friends and Families of Substance Abusers (AFAFOSA), has argued that inadequate funding for the court mandated to treat drug addicts is contributing to the country’s crime rate. Ashley told The Gleaner...
LGBTQ advocates in Jamaica have urged the island’s lawmakers to note the wind of change blowing across the Caribbean and repeal the country’s colonial-era buggery laws that effectively criminalise same-sex relations. Local politicians have been...
While attending primary school, K-Omar Sang was teased relentlessly because of a learning disability which made reading difficult. The now-16-year-old Ronald Lopez School of Hope student told attendees at a Child Protection and Family Services...
Grammy-Award winning recording artiste Orville Burrell has expressed doubt about hosting another Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation (SMADF) benevolent concert because of the controversy surrounding the $100 million raised in the last staging in...
It was like a scene out of a movie, a resident of Cross Keys, Manchester, told The Gleaner as she recalled the horrifying experience of being held up at an establishment in which works earlier this week. The stillness in the small town square was...
The Government has given its clearest indication that it is not averse to considering a public-private partnership to build a state-of-the-art prison. The disclosure was made on Wednesday by Zavia Mayne, the state minister in the Ministry of...
A senior University of the West Indies lecturer involved in the just-launched Mona Prison Project is hoping that the programme will be expanded beyond the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre to other prisons and even online. Dr Dave Gosse, who...
Visiting Qatar for the football World Cup was not on Dr Erica Gordon-Veitch’s bucket list. Though the paediatric and family dental surgeon is an ardent supporter of Brazil, she would have been more than content cheering them on from her home in...
Graduates of The Mico University College on Thursday received a lecture on the importance of people development from founder and CEO of Island Grill, Thalia Lyn, who was bestowed with an honorary doctorate. Lyn, reminiscing on the journey that...
