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Published:Tuesday | March 5, 2024 | 11:48 AM

In a bid to safeguard a piece of Jamaica’s rich history, Hilary Nicholson, a member of the Golden Triangle Neighbourhood Association (GTNA), said last week that she was greatly disappointed by the lack of response from the Office of the Prime...

Published:Monday | March 4, 2024 | 12:11 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: A St James man whose 2007 cocaine case was previously adjourned (with no future resumption date) had his case brought back before the St James Parish Court, where he was offered bail in the sum of $400,000. Mickey Miller, who is of...

Published:Monday | March 4, 2024 | 12:10 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

The 30,000-strong Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) has given its leadership a mandate to resolve outstanding issues under the compensation review exercise with the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service speedily or its members will not...

Published:Monday | March 4, 2024 | 12:09 AMSashana Small/Staff Reporter

Minister of Education Fayval Williams has committed to a month-end deadline for the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between her ministry and the Caribbean School of Medical Science, Jamaica (CSMSJ). Williams made the pledge during...

Published:Monday | March 4, 2024 | 12:09 AMRuddy Mathison/Gleaner Writer

Plans for a swearing-in ceremony today at the St Catherine Municipal Corporation have been abruptly brought to a halt. The Peoples National Party (PNP) caucus of councillors convened on Saturday and voted for the return of Spanish Town Mayor Norman...

Published:Monday | March 4, 2024 | 12:08 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

In its quest to open 20 stores in Jamaica during its five-year contract with the Alabama, USA-based BirdShack Fried Chicken, local franchise holders, the Wayne Cummings-led Arya Holdings Limited, on Friday opened its fourth restaurant in Jamaica,...

Published:Monday | March 4, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

If you ask Professor Alison M. Nicholson, the outgoing head of the Department of Microbiology at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, she would say, “COVID was the worst time of my career!” When the first COVID case surfaced in...

Published:Monday | March 4, 2024 | 12:08 AMSashana Small/Staff Reporter -

Two years ago, Joel Tulloch was grappling with anxiety as he pondered whether he would be able to return home alive and complete medical school as he, along with 23 other Jamaican medical students, had to flee Ukraine amid the Russian invasion....

Published:Sunday | March 3, 2024 | 5:54 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) has awarded a former restaurant manager $5 million for her “unjustifiable” dismissal after its first decision in 2020 affirming her termination was overturned by the Supreme Court. The IDT is a quasi-judicial...

Published:Sunday | March 3, 2024 | 5:53 AMErica Virtue - Senior Gleaner Writer

Eight years after the Representation of the People Act (ROPA) was amended to allow for the establishment of a National Election Campaign Fund to allow individuals, entities, and the diaspora to make donations towards the country’s electoral process...

Published:Sunday | March 3, 2024 | 12:16 AM

Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCP) Dr Kevin Blake and Fitz Bailey are among the leading contenders to succeed Major General Antony Anderson, whose contract as head of the Jamaican police force expires this month. Anderson, a former army head,...

Published:Sunday | March 3, 2024 | 12:14 AM

Robert ‘Bobby’ Stewart, a member of the Jamaican family of late hotelier Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, is making it clear that he supports his father’s United States family on how assets such as the Sandals Group should be distributed. The recent...

Published:Sunday | March 3, 2024 | 12:13 AMAdrian Frater - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Although condemning his utterances that were seemingly endorsing the lottery scam, People’s National Party (PNP) supporters in Trelawny Northern are willing to leave Dennis Meadows’ “moment of indiscretion” in the past and move...

Published:Sunday | March 3, 2024 | 12:12 AMJovan Johnson - Senior Staff Reporter

Jamaican authorities have “validated” a claim that a company owned by sports legend Usain Bolt was allegedly defrauded of US$6.2 million, or almost J$950 million, at investment firm Stocks...

Published:Sunday | March 3, 2024 | 3:38 PMErica Virtue - Senior Gleaner Writer

A week after the long-delayed local government elections were held, just like supporters of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and People’s National Party (PNP), political commentators appear split down the middle on which party won, even as the...

Published:Saturday | March 2, 2024 | 12:11 AM

ANGLICAN ARCHBISHOP of the West Indies and Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, Dr Howard Gregory, has argued that controversial lawmaker Everald Warmington is unfit to remain as a member of the Integrity Commission Oversight Committee (ICOC)...

Published:Saturday | March 2, 2024 | 10:27 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) completed its official count of ballots in the 2024 local government elections on Friday with both of the island’s major political parties still claiming victory and several divisions seem headed to court for...

Published:Saturday | March 2, 2024 | 12:10 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Emergency responders were summoned to two crash sites along the Temple Hall main road in St Andrew on Friday as at least three persons were left nursing serious injuries. The busy thoroughfare, which connects St Andrew and St Mary, has recorded at...

Published:Saturday | March 2, 2024 | 12:09 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

Murder convict-turned-prosecution witness Wade Balckwood on Friday insisted that he knew of Dwayne Pink being involved in the murder of Simone Campbell-Collymore, even though he never gave that name in his caution statement. Blackwood gave his...

Published:Saturday | March 2, 2024 | 12:09 AMSashana Small/Staff Reporter

DESPITE ANTICIPATION that the cruise ship terminal in Port Royal, which welcomed its first ship in January 2020, would set afloat economic progress in the historic community, residents say they have been locked out of the benefits, arguing that...

Published:Saturday | March 2, 2024 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: TRAVIS TUMMINGS, the man charged with the November 2023 murders of two Chetwood Memorial Primary School students and a man in Salt Spring, St James, is to have a committal hearing in the St James Parish Court on March 7. Tummings, a...

Published:Saturday | March 2, 2024 | 12:06 AMSashana Small/Staff Reporter

THE GOVERNMENT’S thrust to improve efficiency in the public sector has been bolstered with the upgrade of the eGov Data Centre. Its modernisation included the renovation of the physical plant, expansion of information technology capacity and...

Published:Saturday | March 2, 2024 | 10:25 AMAlbert Ferguson/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: While the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) won all three constituencies in Westmoreland in the 2020 general election, the People’s National Party (PNP) turned the tables in Monday’s local government elections, grabbing 11 of 14...

Published:Saturday | March 2, 2024 | 12:06 AMAlbert Ferguson/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Danree Delancy, the man who was ousted as deputy mayor of Savanna-la-Mar in the last Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) administration, is now tipped to become the new mayor. Delancy, the current councillor-elect for the...

Published:Saturday | March 2, 2024 | 12:06 AMRuddy Mathison/Gleaner Writer

IN A passionate critique of the current voting system, Waterford councillor-elect Fenley Douglas has raised concerns about the challenges faced by voters during the local government elections. Speaking with The Gleaner, he highlighted several...

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