A senior motor-vehicle examiner was among three persons taken into police custody yesterday as the Major Organised Crime Anti-Corruption Taskforce (MOCA) probed allegations of irregularities in the granting and upgrading of driver's licences at the...
The boys' Class One 200m final is shaping up to be the most exciting event at this year's ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships with the strongest line-up in recent memory, and all eyes will be looking to see what could be the most fascinating race at this year's Championship.
WITH THE land-revaluation exercise now complete, there are indications that property owners will not have to bear the burden of another hike in property taxes...
Prosecutors in the billion-dollar Appliance Traders Limited (ATL) Group Pension Fund fraud trial are expected to close their case next Tuesday. This was revealed yesterday when the trial of three former executives with the ATL Group ...
Morant Bay, St Thomas: The St Thomas police have revealed that statistical data has made it clear many parents in the parish have been pimping their daughters as a source of income.Addressing a St Thomas Parish Council community...
Justice Lennox Campbell yesterday put off sentencing for dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel and the three men convicted along with him for the murder of Clive...
THE Parliamentary joint select committee considering the new bankruptcy and insolvency bill is being urged to give favourable consideration to the establishment of a regime for the licensing of insolvency practitioners.Appearing before the committee...
Western Bureau: An ex-policeman, who was formerly assigned to the St James Police Division, was found dead at his Cornwall Courts home in Montego Bay yesterday morning.
Following on the heels of the recently tabled bill on flexible work arrangements (FWA), the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is scheduled to host a panel discussion on its implications "for work and worship" this...
A major disparity in students' performance has been borne out in a Gleaner-commissioned analysis of the results of Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) English examinations between 2010 and 2013....
The Cybercrimes Unit has launched an investigation to identify the IP address for an online video that shows two young boys gyrating against two women during a street dance, much to the admiration and encouragement of other cheering adults....
A major proposed joint-venture agreement between the Factories Corporation of Jamaica and the Sovereign Beijing Consortium, to develop the much-talked-about Caymanas Special Economic Zone, has fizzled.The revelation has fuelled growing concerns that...
Sentencing for incarcerated deejay Vybz Kartel is set to take place today and gospel artiste Stitchie has some advice for the entertainer.Stitchie told The Gleaner yesterday that the situation Vybz Kartel has found himself in is very unfortunate,...
NORTH EAST St Elizabeth Member of Parliament Raymond Pryce has indicated that the favourable court ruling for his predecessor, Kern Spencer, will not cause him to overstride in the constituency.Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday, Pryce said that in...
The Government is being warned that it will be futile to pursue a growth agenda until the main impediments to achieving sustainable economic growth are addressed.Addressing a Gleaner Editors' Forum at the newspaper's downtown Kingston offices on...
Two of the country's universities yesterday urged lawmakers to put in place defined schemes for the funding of tertiary education in the country.In submissions before the Human Resource and Social Development Committee of Parliament...
Educators have put forward several recommendations for efforts that should be employed with alacrity to maintain and build on the marginal improvements in students' performance in the recent Caribbean Secondary Education...
Executive Director of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) Yvonne Hall says her agency is unable to carry out tests on a vehicle from Japan with higher-than-normal levels of radiation as it awaits the promulgation of specific legislation....
The Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS), in continuing a tradition of facilitating nation building through investing in youth and education, will be inviting its student savers to benefit from its 2014 Head-Start Scholarships and Bursaries 2014...
As the Government prepares to present the 2014-15 Budget in Parliament, a noted economist is urging the finance minister to not only commit to undertaking the economic reforms as prescribed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but to also stake his political future...
A LEADING economist has urged the political directorate to demonstrate fidelity to fiscal prudence, arguing that despite the passage of fiscal rules legislation, Jamaica's record of fiscal mismanagement does not...
North East St Elizabeth Member of Parliament (MP) Raymond Pryce was yesterday put on notice by a mischievous opposition member that he might have to vacate the seat he won in December 2011 to make way for the return of Kern Spencer....
With modern information and communication technology (ICT) business solutions being a key strategic focus for Digicel Business, the company has announced that it will be building out Jamaica's most sophisticated underground fibre network in Montego...
