Several Jamaicans in The Cayman Islands are appealing to the Government to allow them to fly home as the measures being implemented to control the spread of the coronavirus there have been making life unbearable. The Jamaicans, who went to The...
Dennis Brown Sr lay unresponsive in the lap of his youngest son while he was being transported to The University Hospital of the West Indies on Tuesday evening. Moments later, the 48-year-old tiler of Grants Pen was dead. Brown Sr was allegedly...
The principal of an eastern St Andrew school is now on bail after he was charged recently for the alleged sexual abuse of his teenage daughter. The police confirmed that the principal was arrested and charged by detectives from the Centre for...
Though not wearing clothes made from camel’s hair, Jessie Justin bellowed yesterday like John the Baptist – a lone voice in the wilderness denouncing the Government’s selection of Saturday as the second of two days designated for shopping for...
Rohan ‘Nackas’ Simmons has been perplexed since the closure of his food basket, a community jerk weekend pop up kitchen, over the last four weeks, due to the deadly coronavirus. The past weekend was a sombre moment for Simmons, who is accustomed to...
COVID-19’s shuttering of schools has offered respite to an emotionally scarred teen who was pulled from classes on February 18 when she was reportedly held down by three boys who took turns sexually assaulting her. The teen’s mother is appealing...
WHEN TWO young women left Jamaica and migrated to the United States (US), never in their wildest dreams did they envision that one day, they would be working on the front lines, trying to save lives during a global pandemic like the new coronavirus...
Apprehensive that the full brunt of the law might come down hard, residents of Penso Street in Jones Town are pleading for the police to exercise leniency towards Dayne Mitchell, a garrulous man whose April Fools' Day "joke" got him curfewed in...
Vendors and shoppers in the island’s 77 markets are being urged to strictly adhere to social distancing and sanitisation guidelines as the island tries to defy projections which show that Jamaica could record up to 58,000 COVID-19 cases by the end...
The postponement of in-person classes until after Easter is taking a toll on a single mother whose daughter is finding it challenging preparing for upcoming Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) exams. From lack of Internet connectivity to being...
One girl was eight years old. Her sister was nine. Both are victims of gun violence who survived a cold-blooded attack in a country otherwise distracted by the displacement wrought by COVID-19. Border McIntosh, their uncle, is thankful to be...
Easter is mere weeks away, but the traditional fetish for fish is not taking the bait. Fisherfolk at the Old Harbour Bay fishing village in St Catherine have resorted to supplying fish on credit, banking on the trustworthiness of consumers as sales...
Lockdown. But this time, it wasn’t only the state ban on mass gatherings and business closures ordered to counter transmission of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). A section of Olympic Gardens was transformed into a virtual ghost town yesterday,...
President of the Jamaica Association of Certified Embalmers and Funeral Directors Calvin Lyn says that they are reasonably satisfied with talks held recently with the Ministry of Health and Wellness in treating with novel coronavirus cases. The...
Two men were murdered this morning in the vicinity of Simmonds Park in Kingston 20. They have been identified as Meschac 'Niney' Smith, of a Lime Tree, Kingston 20 address, and 31-year-old Chrishmar Hydol,...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday criticised as “weak fences” Jamaican travellers who give incomplete or wrong information to immigration officials. His broadside during his Budget Debate presentation in Parliament came 24 hours after a voice...
Three weeks after the disappearance of visually impaired University of the West Indies (UWI) student Jasmine Deen, investigators are banking on the photo of a man taken about 30 minutes before her final trace as crucial to cracking the case. The...
Bar operators in the Corporate Area and some rural towns across Jamaica are agitating against a total shutdown of their services as the Government rolls out stringent measures, starting today, to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. Prime...
Monday is the new Sunday. That’s the reality cabbies, Coaster bus drivers and the Jamaica Urban Transit Company woke up to yesterday as ridership was a major casualty of the fallout from COVID-19. A week after the health ministry confirmed the...
International Women’s Day may have passed on Sunday, but the Jamaica Fire Brigade pressed the reset button and deployed an all-female crew on Monday to cool tempers and out blazes across the capital. Jamaica’s first appointed female superintendent...
Several Jamaican suppliers of cleaning agents and protective gear are reporting shortages or depleted stock of N95 dust mask as the heightened threat of the global novel coronavirus has caused buyers to be stocking up. The Gleaner understands that...
President of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) Students’ Union Khalil Hutchinson is cautioning fellow students against taking life for granted. Hutchinson was speaking with The Gleaner on the heels of a triple fatal crash early Thursday...
On any given day, thousands of commuters flirt with danger as they board cabs, with engines running on the pumps of gas stations – which have been converted into unofficial taxi stands – across the Corporate Area. Tuesday night was no different at...
Irked by rising anger over the stench emanating from a St Thomas dump that has grown into a mountainous mess, Morant Bay Mayor Michael Hue is lobbying for garbage from the parish to be transported to the Riverton City landfill in Kingson. Hue, who...
Principal Regina Rossetta-Hanson, who has taught hundreds of students over 30 years at the Collins Close Basic School in the Whitehall Avenue area, says the community is in its worst state ever. Attendance at her school, which is located at 1B Plum...
