Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, who resigned as member of parliament for Trelawny Southern last September after facing eight criminal charges for making a false statement in her statutory declarations to...
Collette Gaynor travelled in great despair last evening from New York to Florida in the United States (US), where today, she will have the unenviable task of positively identifying the body of the second of her four children, 29-year-old Trishana...
Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has declared that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represent a crisis not just for his ministry, but for the entire society. “The NCD crisis is now a significant developmental issue which threatens...
Declaring that newly appointed Minister of Finance and the Public Service Fayval Williams will have “big shoes to fill”, president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, Metry Seaga, said that he is nonetheless optimistic that she will be...
A local medical expert has encouraged psychiatrists to work jointly with radiation oncologists in providing patients with the holistic care they need as they wrestle with physical and mental health issues. Speaking yesterday at the 31st National...
Works Minister Robert Morgan has indicated that there are “robust” mechanisms of accountability in place to ensure that there are no acts of duplicity under the Government’s $45-billion Shared Prosperity through Accelerated Improvement to our Road...
A former investigator in the Keith Clarke murder case, who had certified photocopied pages from the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) ammunition book, yesterday struggled to figure out some of the data the document had captured. Taneish Wisdom,...
Western Bureau: Just days after Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in Trelawny South staged a protest in Albert Town, calling for their party leader, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, to reinstall former member of parliament (MP) Marisa ‘Mama D’...
Coining a new term to describe the operations of the People’s National Party (PNP), Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the opposition party has for years projected sheer entitlement, calling it ‘PNPism’. Holness,...
“My heart is full,” said outgoing Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke after soaking up a plethora of tributes on Tuesday from lawmakers, who praised him for his sterling contribution to the legislature and the country....
The death of a student at Campion College in St Andrew on Tuesday has raised renewed concerns about the safety risks associated with unanchored goalposts on school grounds. The student, 13-year-old Rashad Richards, was reportedly on the Liguanea-...
In his final presentation in Gordon House on Tuesday, outgoing Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke warned that there was no room for policy error as the country continues on a path of economic success. “As much success that we...
A witness from the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) disclosed on Tuesday that an ex-soldier, who is being sought to appear in the Keith Clarke murder trial as a witness, left the island in May and returned in July. Deputy...
Dr Chantal Ononaiwu, the newly appointed judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), has praised Jamaica’s crucial role in her rise to the bench of the Caribbean Community’s judicial institution. She is the second Jamaican and the third woman to...
Energy Minister Daryl Vaz said that while nuclear energy is a contentious issue with its own challenges, when handled responsibly, it can offer “unprecedented opportunities” for scientific research, medical advancements, and energy production....
President of the Jamaica Medical Doctors’ Association (JMDA), Dr Renee Badroe, is sounding a note of caution that medical practitioners will not be scapegoats for problems that have nothing to do with their remit. The JMDA head told The Gleaner...
Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has labelled claims made by his opposition counterpart, Dr Alfred Dawes, regarding the state of the health sector as “outlandish and extreme” and devised to create an atmosphere of pessimism. “...
Two schoolboys – ages 15 and 17 – remain hospitalised at a Corporate Area medical facility after they were severely beaten and then handed over to the police by angry residents of Lawrence Tavern in St Andrew on Saturday, following their suspected...
Records pertaining to the distribution of guns and ammunition at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), for May 2010, cannot be located. The police are also having difficulty locating the former JDF soldier who was the recordkeeper during the same period...
A year ago, Jamaica’s coral reefs were on the verge of going extinct because of a massive coral-bleaching emergency caused by rising sea temperatures and climate change. Today, coral reef scientist Felix Charnley is declaring that his quick action...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay, St James is poised to get an additional 1,350 hotel rooms as Moon Palace Resorts, which already has a substantial footprint in Jamaica, is set to make its mark in the tourist capital with a new property. The Montego Bay...
Western Bureau: Two Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillors and some of their supporters took to the streets in Albert Town, Trelawny yesterday to make an urgent plea to their party’s leadership to approve Marisa ‘Mama D’ Dalrymple-Philibert as the...
Time has run out for the announcement of a by-election for the Morant Bay division of the St Thomas Municipal Corporation, meaning there has been a breach of the 90-day extension received through Parliament in July. The extension, which The...
Shortly after Cuba was plunged into darkness this month, as its entire electricity system failed, sections of the country were severely impacted by the rains from Hurricane Oscar. These events marked the continued worsening of conditions for a...
A popular Manchester businessman, who offered another man $60,000 to kill the top executive at the People’s Cooperative Bank (PCB) in the parish so he could have easier access to loans, has been convicted for solicitation to murder. Marvin Morris,...
