The fire department in Trelawny is concerned about the escalating number of bush fires across the parish. "We started with eight in January and to date we are at 90,” Superintendent Roland Walters told The Gleaner. “To respond to...

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, says there are no plans to use the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC) complex for another purpose. He made the disclosure during Wednesday's post-Cabinet press briefing at...

Opposition Junior Spokesperson on Citizen Security Jouvaughnie Byfield is condemning Thursday's shooting in Grange Hill, Westmoreland in which two high school students were shot, one fatally. Killed was 16-year-old Carson Barrett, a student of...

The Island Traffic Authority is reporting that its depots are currently unable to issue certificates of fitness to drivers due to challenges with its system. The authority says motorists who go to renew their fitness certificates will have their...

The Ministry of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport has taken another step in the implementation of the new Road Traffic Act, with the swearing in of the Road Traffic Appeal Tribunal. The swearing in took place at the ministry's...

The board of management of St James High School has referred the matter of the expulsion of two schoolgirls who were seen kissing in a video to its personnel committee for deliberation on the next steps to be taken. The school's principal...

The Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation (JDIC) will be pursuing the establishment of newer protection schemes to minimise the potential occurrence and impact of financial crises during fiscal year 2024/25. Implementation of these and other...

After being on the run for almost three years, 45-year-old Waterford, Portmore, St Catherine photographer Darian Clarke has been charged in connection with a 2021 gun attack in the municipality that left two men injured. Clarke turn himself in to...

Some 1,065 uniformed firefighters and civilian staff of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) are expected to benefit from training and certification through an agreement with the HEART/NSTA Trust. Stewart Beckford, commissioner of the JFB, said the...

WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY Mayor Richard Vernon is urging garage and workshop operators in St James to get their businesses regulated within the next two months. Vernon warned that enforcement will take place after that period against any such...

WESTERN BUREAU: WITH APPROXIMATELY 50 new garbage trucks expected on the island by late June, executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Audley Gordon, is predicting that residents will benefit from improved...

IF YOU cut Evad Campbell you might perhaps see musical notes and not blood flowing from his veins. He is music personified, and when he received his Prime Minister’s National Youth Award for Excellence in the field of music on Saturday, April 20 it...

DR AMA Eyo, senior lecturer in Law at Bangor University in the United Kingdom, has urged large local companies to collaborate with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to grow and benefit from government procurement agreement contracts....

NEW YORK (AP) — The decision by New York's highest court to overturn the rape conviction of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has reopened a painful chapter in America's reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures — an era...

The 14-year-old Irwin High schoolboy charged with the murder of his schoolmate was today granted bail in the St James Family Court. The accused his being represented by attorney Maurice McCurdy. McCurdy told The Gleaner that his client is...

Twelve motor cars have been added to the fleet of the Transport Authority, which will be used to improve the authority's capacity to monitor and regulate the public transportation sector. Managing Director of the Transport Authority, Ralston...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti opened a new political chapter today with the installation of a transitional council tasked to pick a new prime minister and prepare for eventual presidential elections, in hopes of quelling spiraling gang...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council tasked with bringing political stability to Haiti was installed today in the capital of this Caribbean country, which is marred by gang violence and soaring hunger and poverty. The freshly...

Omar Collymore, who is on trial for allegedly orchestrating the murder of his wife, and co-accused Michael 'Crayboss' Adams, the man whom he allegedly contracted to carry out the hit, both have a case to answer in the murder of...

A man who attempted to rob a taxi driver and passengers in Clarendon last night was disarmed by the cabbie and fatally shot during a struggle. The deceased has been identified as 24-year-old labourer Bobby Bruce of Frazer Content in Spanish Town,...

The police have charged the 14-year-old Irwin High School student for the fatal stabbing of his 15-year-old schoolmate Raniel Plummer during an altercation. His court date is being finalised. The police report that Plummer and a schoolmate had...

Residents in Myrtle Way, Portmore, St Catherine, are benefiting from a zinc fence removal project, under the Government's community renewal intervention programme. Member of Parliament for St Catherine South Eastern, Robert Miller, told...

Human rights lobby group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is renewing its call for the appointment of a permanent Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). JFJ says it's of the view that there is no ambiguity that the office was rendered vacant as of...

The Government is looking to establish a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) innovation teaching centre at National Heroes Circle in Kingston. Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, in making the disclosure, said the facility will be...

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, says the reopening of the JISCO Alpart in Nain, St Elizabeth, remains a priority of the Government. Speaking at a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House on Wednesday, Green noted...

President of the St Catherine Chamber of Commerce Dennis Robotham says the business community in Spanish Town is reeling from the effects of the killing of Clansman enforcer Sheldon 'Termite' Walters in Top Bank last Friday night. Despite...

THE WESTMORELAND Public Health Services (WPHS) has revealed that an investigation into an unmarked water truck seen in a viral video extracting water from the Roaring River in the parish belongs to Honeyghan Funeral Home and was pulling water for...

FOLLOWING THE theft of a water tank from the Negril Primary School earlier this month, Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, is calling on residents to report individuals who are involved so...

Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is condemning the response of the Ministry of Education and the administrators of St James High School following the expulsion of two female students who were allegedly captured on video kissing each other. In...

The Portland police are appealing for information that could assist them in finding the driver of a motor car which hit a man and failed to stop on Tuesday.  The victim, a man known only as Mikey, succumbed to his injuries at hospital. ...

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, says preliminary figures indicate that the agricultural sector grew by over 10 per cent during the first quarter of 2024. He made the disclosure during Wednesday's post-Cabinet press...

The Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR) is calling for the Public Service Commission (PSC) to clarify the basis on which an acting director of public prosections (DPP) has been appointed. Prosecutor Claudette Thompson was appointed to act in the...