Whenever a resident in Mocho, Clarendon, visits their police station to make a report, they have to wait outside the containers that house the precinct for an available officer. This arrangement is less than ideal, Mocho resident Sheldon Allison...
WESTERN BUREAU: Six first-year students of the Mt Alvernia High School in Montego Bay, St James have received much-needed financial assistance from members of the school’s graduating class of 1989, with each student receiving $75,000 in aid to...
The Education Transformation and Oversight Committee (ETOC) has achieved “very strong implementation” of the recommendations from the Orlando Patterson report to date, its chair, Dr Adrian Stokes, asserted. Speaking at a press conference yesterday...
It remains unclear how many ventilators are assigned to neonatal intensive care and paediatric units at public hospitals across the island following the death of a premature newborn two weeks ago and a subsequent health ministry internal audit of...
In an apparent reversal of her November 2023 ruling, House Speaker Juliet Holness has signalled that the Integrity Commission’s (IC) 2023-2024 annual report will be tabled next Tuesday “in accordance with established procedures and protocols”. A...
Two opposition legislators, who sued the Government over a constitutional amendment to increase the retirement age of the director of public prosecutions (DPP) and the auditor general, are questioning the State’s move to appeal the Full Court’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: When the new academic year begins, Munro College and Hampton School in St Elizabeth will welcome Johntae Peterkin and Nylah Martin, respectively, among their new students. Peterkin and Martin wrapped up their finals days at Negril...
In a landmark decision yesterday, Justice Dale Palmer, who is presiding over the Keith Clarke murder trial, ordered the commanding officer present during the raid in which the businessman was killed to testify in court, responding to a prosecution...
In the quaint Clarendon village of Main Ridge lives a remarkable woman whose century-long life is a testament to faith, family, and fortitude. Edna Barnett, a vibrant 101-year-old, credits a life rich with great experiences and blessings for...
Lawyers for the People National Party (PNP) yesterday rubbished the argument of the government and the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Paula Llewellyn that a provision in the amendment to the Constitution last July was to enable her to opt...
Principal Director of the National Integrity Action (NIA) Danielle Archer is suggesting that Prime Minister Andrew Holness make public his 2021 and 2022 statutory declarations to combat misinformation, disinformation, fake news or alternative facts...
WESTERN BUREAU: The University of the West Indies, Mona, is set to double its enrolment of nurses and increase its admission of medical doctors by 40 per cent. This significant expansion aims to address the critical shortage of healthcare workers...
While questioning the basis on which a call for the resignations of the Ministry of Health’s permanent secretary Dunstan Bryan and chief medical officer, Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie is being made, Jamaicans for Justice Executive Director Mickel...
After 11-year-old Antowne Anthony Hylton, Primary Exit Profile (PEP) scholar, heard that he was placed at Jamaica College (JC) days ago, his first reaction was to go to the grave of his deceased mother, Nadine Williamson. Williamson was found dead...
Senior citizen Cynthia Brivit was rejoicing yesterday and praising the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) for releasing her from the threat of being left homeless as a result of an unpaid loan for which she stood as guarantor in 2007. “They have released...
Ruddy Bailey, 85, and Odessa Gilzine, 75, have faced the relentless grip of poverty since birth. Despite their tireless efforts, the couple have never been able to escape the harsh realities of inter-generational poverty. Bailey left his home...
Residents of Maverley in St Andrew are expressing disappointment over what they say is the snail’s pace construction of a multimillion-dollar park in their community. Two years ago, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and other members of the central...
Local and United States (US) law enforcement officials are looking into allegations of physical and sexual abuse of children at the Youth of Vision Academy (YOVA) in St Mary, though the management at the Christian boarding school has denied the...
As the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, appears before a United States (US) court today with the likelihood of being freed in a reported plea deal following a 14-year legal battle, The Gleaner reflects on developments in Jamaica some 13 years...
The country’s top police investigator says the finding of an autopsy that late Gleaner sports journalist Job Nelson was killed by a metal object expelled from the airbag of his car, and not by a bullet, was not surprising. It was initially reported...
Counsel for the incumbent Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn says it is puzzling that the Constitutional Court struck down a provision that was the only mechanism in place giving the DPP and the Auditor General the right to early...
The Government will be ramping up its effort to rid sidewalks of abandoned motor vehicles and other forms of bulky waste with the addition of 50 new garbage trucks to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA). The trucks, which were...
Prosecutors in the Keith Clarke case plan to present approximately nine additional witnesses to the Home Circuit Court as the trial concerning the accountant’s murder 14 years ago progresses. The Crown, led by prosecutor Latoya Bernard, indicated...
Counsel for the attorney general (AG) yesterday argued that the Constitutional Court erred when it found that the amendment to the Constitution increasing the age of retirement for the director of public prosecutions and the auditor general did not...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MoHW) has been told to expedite investigations into the deaths of a newborn at May Pen Hospital in Clarendon and a woman at Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny after they were unable...
