FINTECH EXPERT Kathryn Chin See says that although Jamaica and the wider Caribbean have made strides towards financial inclusion, more needs to be done to strengthen it in order to empower citizens and provide them with greater economic...

Come May, persons will be able to walk into a JN Money branch in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Cayman and purchase a GiftMe e-gift card for their friends and family in Jamaica. This is because JN Money, a Jamaican-owned, global...

THERE ARE many ways that you can shift your mindset to set your compass towards success. Mindset is particularly important for entrepreneurs because you are often working alone and charting new paths, so how you think about things is one of the...

WESTERN BUREAU: ALTHOUGH NOT regarded as one of the crime hotspots in Hanover, the police say Hopewell has a high incidence of domestic violence. Inspector of Police Godfrey Lawrence, the officer in charge of the recently opened Hopewell Police...

WESTERN BUREAU: PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Leighton Johnson, is calling on school administrators to play their part in curbing violence in schools across the island. Johnson, who was speaking during the regular monthly...

CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders who attended the 23rd Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) in Venezuela have renewed their call for the lifting of the United...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator Matthew Samuda, says the outcome of discussions arising from the Jamaica National Stakeholder Consultation on Climate Services and the 1st National Climate...

Members of the Linstead and Bog Walk Taxi Association today launched a search for their missing colleague Roshane Wilkins, who went missing on Friday. Reports indicate that Wilkins accepted a charter to the Norman Manley International Airport...

Students and staff at Peggy Barry Primary School in Westmoreland on Monday received counselling following the gruesome death of 8-year-old Jahmiel Richardson who perished in a house fire on Friday. Richardson, who was a grade three student, and who...

The police have arrested and charged an illegal taxi operator who was seen on video attacking another motorist following an accident. Peter Bramwell, 37, of a Kingston address, has been charged with malicious destruction of property, assault...

Two men accused of robbing a woman in Portmore, St Catherine last year were today each granted $200,000 bail in the parish court. Jhamani James and Kenneth Allen are charged with robbery with aggravation. In applying for bail, attorneys Fabian...

A motorist sustained injuries and his car was damaged after crashing into a tree downed by upset residents in Retreat, Westmoreland early this morning to protest over a lack of water in the area. Acting Commander for Zone Four of the Westmoreland...

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...