The Government-owned National Housing Trust (NHT) has been granted final leave to go to the United Kingdom Privy Council to challenge a Court of Appeal ruling that it must pay $214 million with compound interest...
Light and power monopoly, the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), could run afoul of local laws if it carries out its threat to deprive paying customers of electricity supply at the expense of electricity thieves....
One defence attorney in the billion-dollar Appliance Traders Limited (ATL) pension fund fraud trial has charged that the police investigation in the case was biased and flawed and was done in a manner to satisfy the desires of ATL boss Gordon 'Butch'...
Lady Allen, wife of Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, has called on persons in the health sector to be more resolute and professional in bringing about changes that are needed in the society.Speaking at a press briefing...
The Health ministry says it is only a matter of time before chikungunya reaches Jamaica following detection of the mosquito-borne virus in nearby Haiti....
ISLINGTON, St Mary:AS A child growing up in the rural district of Islington, St Mary, Gloria Burton read The Gleaner to learn about new people and places, and remembers how the newspaper became an essential source for news...
In keeping with its thrust to be the standard for private security in Jamaica, Guardsman Group opened the new corporate offices of its Guardsman Armoured division last Friday....
An increase in the importation of damaged vehicles has triggered a crackdown by the Jamaica Customs Agency, which has declared it is taking steps to stem breaches of its system....
Despite the grand announcement in the House of Representatives last Tuesday about a new direction being given to the 381-megawatt project, Jamaicans are not much clearer on what is happening with the project and if we will, in fact, get cheaper energy...
Rio Grande valley, Portland:For more than 19 years, Sharon Brown has been a newspaper vendor, selling The Gleaner to residents in and around Port Antonio - a job that she thoroughly enjoys.Brown, who is employed full time...
Defence attorneys in the billion-dollar Appliance Traders Limited (ATL) Pension Fund fraud case will today begin their bid to have a magistrate dismiss all charges against the three former executives who are on trial...
Natalia Ramgolam was overwhelmed with joy as she spoke of her experience as a mother. Ramgolam was among scores of persons who came out for the second staging of Brunch and Rhythms...
Jamaica can learn from the economic reforms undertaken by member states of the European Union in recent years and which are beginning to bear fruit, according to Ambassador Paola Amadei, head of the Delegation...
Despite having taken an oath to serve, protect and reassure the people of Jamaica, many members of the police force seem ready to head elsewhere at the drop of a hat.
The reportedly underperforming Sydney Pagon High, the agricultural school in Brae's River, St Elizabeth, is to be converted into a regular high school in order to alleviate the space shortage at the secondary level in the parishes of Manchester and ...
The local disabled community has applauded the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) for keeping its promise to provide some buses customised to cater to persons with disabilities.
WITH AT least four new coal-powered energy plants being considered for construction in the country, former director general of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), Winston Hay, wants the Government and the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) to lead a ...
Classroom places will be expanded in 40 schools at a cost of $1.35 billion this year as the education ministry moves to remove 20 more schools off the shift system.
The National Road Safety Council is raising alarm at the number of persons being allowed to ride while standing in public-passenger vehicles operating in the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region and this time it is not only the "indisciplined" private-bus operators who are breaking the rules.
Jamaicans, unlike many people in several other countries, enjoy the freedom to chart their own lives, go where they want to anytime they wish, as well as freedom of speech without much state interference.
The Education Ministry is currently developing a School Improvement Policy to ensure that a standardised approach is taken in the delivery of education across Jamaica.
