“Him never come home last night and him will never come home forever.” That was Iona Caine’s cry on Sunday as her eldest son, who was enlisted in the Jamaica Defence Force, died tragically at sea, plunging his family into mourning. Otis Duncan,...
Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson railed against a plan by the Universal Service Fund (USF) to outfit only two sites in each of the 63 constituencies across the island with Internet access in the 2021-2022 fiscal year. Initially, the...
The Major General Antony Anderson-led Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has come out tops as the most corrupt entity in the criminal justice system in the eyes of Jamaicans. According to the 2019 Jamaica National Crime Victimisation Survey, which...
The last of the Wailers has now passed, but just as the stories of the lives of Peter Tosh and Bob Marley took form and made the men larger than life, so too will the stories of Bunny Wailer. Immediately, his radical bent and willingness to fight...
Michelle Charles, far from shying away from the scathing remarks from political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown, has come out firing from the hip, denying any wrongdoing and suggesting were the political sheriff not careful, she could find herself...
The finances of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, are in jeopardy, a state of affairs which chairman of the campus council Earl Jarrett admitted is threatening the viability of the largest university in the country. Minister of...
Stung by a reprimand about her judgement after a six-month vote-buying probe, legislator Dr Michelle Charles has rejected recommendations that she apologise for the perceived blunder. Charles, the St Thomas Eastern member of parliament, was scolded...
Reggae icon Bunny Wailer’s legacy extends beyond his music and was largely influenced by radicalisation having been born in the 1940s at a time when the pressures of colonial life weighed heavily on poor black people. Born Neville Livingston, the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has come out swinging at persons who have been throwing bombs themselves. Suggesting there is a difference between working hard and appearing to work hard. According to the Prime Minister, his absence from public...
Education ministers across the region have given unanimous approval for the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) to conduct its 2021 sitting despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shuttered some schools for months. It was a unanimous decision of...
The sight and sounds of a mother weeping for the loss of a child is nothing new, but The Gleaner’s depiction of Narda McKoy’s story and the fact that her loss seemed, to her, avoidable, deservedly caught the attention of the nation this...
The Government has announced that it has reached a deal with the African Medical Supply Platform for the delivery of 1.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, starting next month. The announcement comes as the Holness administration is under...
The only money Narda McKoy had in her purse was her 17-year-old daughter’s college tuition, but she would have spent every cent without hesitation Friday night for some oxygen at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), where she had...
Stung by criticisms that he has been largely absent from the front line in leading Jamaica’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said that he has been working in the background while the country awaits a...
A decision by the Court of Appeal in Jamaica that had been cited as cause for lawyers to demand millions in repayment from the police and the Financial Investigations Division (FID) has been overturned by the United Kingdom Privy Council in a...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding is demanding that Prime Minister Andrew Holness lay bare the contract it used to engage Amber Group to build out the JAMCOVID-19 application which is under increased scrutiny. Following reports that an alleged second...
Businesses have immediately felt the pushback from Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s attempt to arrest an alarming spike in COVID-19 cases, as well as the Ministry of Health’s ability to cope, with an earlier curfew that, in a word, hurts...
The Government’s imposition of tougher curfew restrictions in the wake of record one-day coronavirus infections has been cast by business interests as a crippling blow to an already tanking economy that would make recovery much harder. That...
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to surge, the president of the Association of Principals and Vice-principals, Linvern Wright, has recommended that benchmarks be implemented for the shutdown of face-to-face classes because of the...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has warned the soulless killers responsible for Jamaica’s spiking murder rate that they will be caught and punished for the heartache they have been causing in the country. Chuck lamented that too many Jamaicans...
New trial data received by regulators in the United Kingdom now show that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is effective in the elderly, news which could quell fears among that category of people and their caregivers. There had been questions raised...
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has approved a new electricity rate class which will begin to affect residential and small commercial customers as early as this month. The Jamaica Public Service Company has been given six months to roll...
Declaring that they would not surrender their sacred temple to criminals, worshippers at the Agape Christian Fellowship in Falmouth, Trelawny, were back at church on Thursday, days after witnessing a shocking murder during one of their services. On...
New betting and gaming entrant Mahoe Gaming Enterprises has been given the green light to operate, a development bound to challenge Supreme Ventures Limited’s (SVL) monopoly on the multibillion-dollar industry. Mahoe Gaming was given the go-ahead...
Former Opposition Senator Dr Andre Haughton has lashed out at both the People’s National Party (PNP) and the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), claiming that they have conspired to work against the interests of ordinary citizens. Haughton,...
