More educators are being encouraged to obtain electronic vouchers to purchase laptop computers by e-Learning Jamaica Limited (eLJAM), under its Own Your Own Device programme. Chief Executive Officer, eLJAM, Andrew Lee, told JIS News that this is to...

The police are probing the shooting death of a man along Bond Street in Kingston on Sunday. He is 39-year-old vendor Leroy O'Sullivan of Tulip Lane, Kingston 14. The police report that about 6 a.m., the man was standing at his cart along the...

Former police constable Austin Cunningham, who was convicted in the St James Parish Court in October 2017 for corruptly soliciting $100,000 for the release of a motor vehicle, has lost his appeal against his conviction. Cunningham was...

Counselling sessions were this morning held with students and staff at Grange Hill High School in Westmoreland following the brutal killing of 16-year-old Carson Barrett last Thursday. Barrett, who was preparing to sit Social Studies at the...

A male vendor was shot and killed along the Sir Florizel Glasspole Highway in Kingston this morning. The shooting occurred around 7:50. The Gleaner understands that the vendor usually conducts business at the location. The East Kingston police are...

WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, says it is continuing to facilitate removal flights of single adults, family units to Jamaica and Cuba. ICE said the most recent removal flights, which took place...

The Middle Managers Leadership Conference 2024 (MMC 2024) is preparing to host an exceptional Middle Managers’ Pitch Competition. This competition is designed to nurture middle managers’ skills in adaptability, courage, public speaking, and...

Port Antonio, Portland The annual Portland Paradise Weekend of activities has received a major boost following confirmation that the honorary consul of Jamaica in Atlanta, Dr Elaine Grant Bryan, will be the keynote speaker at the “festival in the...

Chairman of the Jamaica Cancer Society St Ann St Mary Chapter, Deana Flinn, says she is proud that Jamaica was at the forefront of the move to relocate abandoned Haitian children affected by the uprising in the troubled, neighbouring nation. Flinn...

Indian High Commissioner to Jamaica Masakui Rungsung says a medical camp held earlier this month at the Mustard Seed Communities’ Jacob’s Ladder in Haddon, St Ann, was the least his office could do to help the plight of Haitian children with...

The roadway at Castleton in St Mary which was blocked by a fallen tree Sunday morning, has been cleared and reopened to vehicular traffic. Residents, the police, the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited, the National Works Agency and Member...

An eight-year-old boy perished in a fire at his home in Top Lincoln, Grange Hill, Westmoreland, on Friday. The Morgan's Bridge police say about 11:40 p.m., Ramiel Richardson was alone in the house when it caught fire. His mother, who was...

A man accused of defrauding almost US$7,000 from three women in an overseas job scheme was granted bail in the sum of $500,000 with surety in the St Catherine Parish Court on Friday. When Kirk Letford, 30, appeared before Senior Parish Court judge...

Two men were arrested in relation to the seizure of a firearm during a police operation along Henley Road, Waterhouse, Kingston 11, on Saturday. The nine millimetre pistol, with serial number erased, and a magazine containing six...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, through the National Irrigation Commission (NIC), has made a significant investment to support farmers in St Elizabeth with the commissioning of two new water trucks. The units, each with a...

The police at the Norman Manley International Airport have arrested and charged an American citizen who was allegedly held with ammunition in his luggage on Saturday night. Shane Samuels, 41-year-old welder, of Westerlage Street, Los Angeles, USA,...

A St Catherine businessman has been charged after he allegedly locked his girlfriend in his bedroom where he physically and sexually assaulted her. Twenty-seven-year-old Davian Smythe, of Myrtle Avenue, Phoenix Park Village, Portmore,...

MEMBERS OF the public have met the ‘Confession and apology by the United Reformed Church (URC) concerning Transatlantic Slavery (General Assembly, Swanwick, July 2022)’ with some amount of doubt and cynicism. However, we do well to listen and...

SEXUAL IMMORALITY is another thing that attracts strong generational curses. God made it clear that he hates it and will not fail to curse anybody that involves in it. He allows sexual relationship only between a husband and his wife. Anything...

IT IS God who created us as sexual beings, male and female. God didn’t accidentally create us, and therefore, our sexuality isn’t an accident, regardless of the circumstances of our birth. God created us the way He did on purpose. When God looks at...

The great majority of the patrons who turned up at the recent ‘Fun in the Son’ free concert at the National Stadium went to see and hear Kirk Franklin more than any of the other artistes. His reputation for giving scintillating performances...

United Methodist delegates have overwhelmingly endorsed a constitutional amendment seen by advocates as a way of defusing debates over the role of LGBTQ people in the church by giving rule-making autonomy to each region of the international church...

The police have significantly dented the incidence of motor vehicle thefts at shopping centres in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, with the aid of the JamaicaEye closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system. Sub-Officer in charge of the...

JMMB Bank has confirmed that the Visa debit cards of a «small portion» of its clients have experienced a Bank Identification Number (BIN) attack. It notes that a BIN attack is a common tool used around the world, for external fraudsters...

A policeman has been hospitalised after he was shot and injured in Portmore, St Catherine, on Saturday. It's reported that about 11:40 a.m., the corporal was doing business at West Henderson Boulevard in Greater Portmore when he saw...

A plea and case management hearing has been set for September 20 for two policemen charged with the 2008 fatal shooting of a teenager along Job Lane in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Sergeant Gurvin Leachman of the St Catherine North Division and Dane...

A man is dead following a motorcycle collision with a cow along the Waterworks main road in Westmoreland on Friday night.  The deceased man has been identified as Donathon Dillon, otherwise called Dego. Dillon was reportedly flung from his...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) has announced the appointment of Dr Dodridge Miller as its seventh Chancellor, the highest office-holder in The UWI system. Now formally Chancellor-Designate, Miller is expected to serve a seven-...

WESTERN BUREAU: The proposed merger between the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) and the Fair Trading Commission (FTC), which was announced by Minister of Industry Investment and Commerce, Aubyn Hill, last year, is still in the making and should...

WESTERN BUREAU: Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says that, as part of ongoing efforts to improve service delivery for the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), two technical working groups will be...

TORONTO: Seventy years ago, a 35-member delegation, led by community icon, Barbados-born Donald Willard Moore, which included Jamaican leaders Bromley Armstrong, Harry Gairey Sr, and Stanley Grizzle, who was of Jamaican heritage, travelled to...

Four beneficiaries have collectively received a donation of $500,000 from the Sagicor Foundation, at the recent Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence. The event which took place last Saturday, at the lawns of Jamaica House,...

The Girl Guides Association of Jamaica is about volunteerism and redirection for young women, and the organisation wants Jamaica to know that it is still in service. Girl Guides has impacted thousands of lives over the decades, and it is all thanks...

SANTA ROSA, California (AP) — Temporary farmworkers will have more legal protections against employer retaliation, unsafe working conditions, illegal recruitment practices and other abuses under a Labor Department rule announced Friday...

An unidentified man was shot and killed in St James on Friday evening.  The man, who is said to have been a resident of Salt Spring in the parish, was reportedly attacked while sitting on a motorbike in front of a gas station in Ironshore....