A plurality of Jamaicans say they do not care when a date for the next general election is announced even as the country’s two main political parties charge their election machinery for what is expected to be a hotly contested poll. Asked when they...
Spain-based Bloom Consulting is the company that the Jamaican Government has contracted to carry out international branding for the island. Both Senator Aubyn Hill, minister of industry, investment, and commerce, and Shullette Cox, president of...
Chairman of the RJRGLEANER Communications (RG) Group Joseph M. Matalon is pointing to a “digital first’ way of doing business as the media conglomerate seeks to grapple with increased competition and two years of real losses totalling nearly three-...
A mother whose 11-year-old daughter is being gradually disabled by an “aggressive” form of scoliosis says she is frustrated that the surgery to correct the issue has been postponed because of an under-resourced operating theatre at the Bustamante...
A senior citizen whose case has been on the civil list at the Supreme Court for 14 years is now making a special plea to Chief Justice Bryan Sykes to help to end what she considers her bondage by the justice system. “I have spent all my money on...
St Catherine South West Member of Parliament Everald Warmington yesterday, for the first time, called for what he described as a “full compliance, value for money audit, of the Integrity Commission (IC)”. In a personal explanation, which is allowed...
Western Bureau: While staff at Royalton Negril have returned to work, a scheduled meeting between a high-level Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) delegation led by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett and the hotel’s management and workers is still slated...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eleven residents of Hanover were honoured for their service to the parish and wider nation during Monday’s ‘Salute to our Heroes and Awards Presentation’ ceremony. The event, which took place at the Sir Alexander Bustamante Square...
The prosecution in the Keith Clarke murder trial has been granted a request for the head of the Jamaica Defence Force, Vice Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman, as well as the log books for gun and ammunition in May 2010 and its keeper, to be...
A Jamaican-Canadian who is the second highest-ranking black woman in the Toronto Police Service (TPS) is appealing a tribunal decision to demote her. In September 2023, Stacy Clarke pleaded guilty to seven charges – three counts of breach of...
The screams of mothers desperately searching for their children echoed through Pleasant Heights in Rockfort on Monday night after five men were shot dead at a football competition/peace get-together in the east Kingston community. Around noon on...
A proposal by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to create a new national honour – the Order of National Icon – to honour Jamaican legends such as Robert Nesta ‘Bob’ Marley and Louise ‘Miss Lou’ Bennett-Coverley has been dismissed as unacceptable by The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eight residents of Westmoreland were honoured for their contributions to culture, education, community development, religion, business, politics, and bravery at the parish’s National Heroes Day Salute and Awards Ceremony on Monday....
Jamaicans are being encouraged to be more caring towards each other, as a simple act of kindness may just save someone else’s life. The call comes from Jermaine Hurst, who was awarded a badge of honour for gallantry after demonstrating exceptional...
A deep love for country, with a desire to contribute to its development, is a trait shared among the distinguished Jamaicans who were yesterday recognised for their outstanding service in various fields during the annual National Honours and Awards...
WESTERN BUREAU: Danieto Ferguson, the man who rescued Adrianna ‘Pinky’ Laing from a raging house fire which claimed the lives of her three siblings in September 2022, was yesterday recognised with an award for bravery, presented by the...
Three in every five Jamaicans say they will not vote for a third political party even as there is significant apathy towards the country’s two main rivalling parties. The finding is among the latest in a Don Anderson public opinion poll conducted...
Western Bureau: When the love of her life, 44-year-old Constable Linroy Codner, washed two loads of clothes for her on the morning of Friday, October 4, Natasha Freckleton, his common-law-wife of three and half years, could not help but be thankful...
The Ministry of Education and Youth has disclosed that it will be revising Jamaica’s school-building standard to make the infrastructure more climate resilient. Addressing the University of Technology’s inaugural International Climate Change...
WESTERN BUREAU: Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has questioned why a nation that has produced such strong figures of resistance and self-determination as Jamaica, still clings to the colonial legacy of the United Kingdom-based Privy Council....
WESTERN BUREAU: As Jamaica celebrates National Heroes Day, the country will bestow one of its highest honours – the Order of Jamaica – on Dr Horace Chang, minister of national security and deputy prime minister. This recognition marks decades of...
Although admitting that the surge in crime in Manchester in recent months has made many residents fearful, president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Omar Fennell, is adamant that the scourge of violence will not take control of the once...
Jamaica’s next national hero should come from among the island’s cultural icons, says Garvey student and 1960s black power activist Professor Rupert Lewis. Lewis and Wesley Vanriel were presenters at the fifth annual Edward Seaga Distinguished...
The ease with which Sandra Clemmings carries out her duties as a Hansard writer in Parliament belies not only the dexterous nature of her job, but the critical importance of her role and that of her colleagues. They have the arduous task of...
Fresh out of high school in the early 1990s, Allan Taylor applied for a job in Parliament. His father worked as a sergeant of police at Gordon House and heard of a vacant position for a parliamentary orderly and encouraged his son to submit an...
