New Hope Primary School in White House, Westmoreland recently welcomed a significant addition to its facilities in the form of a major water-purification machine. This new installation, made possible through a partnership with the Sandals...

A bus conductor was this afternoon rushed to the Kingston Public Hospital after he was stabbed by a group of schoolboys in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew.  The 20-year-old conductor was observed bleeding profusely from his lower back. His marina...

The ministry of finance has released information showing that government revenues underperformed for the financial year which ended in March, a development which has implications for the budget for the current fiscal year. The...

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) is reporting that its attorneys have written to the Public Service Commission to request clarity concerning the specific basis on which an acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has been...

Forty-three-year-old Ricardo Henry, who is among six people charged in relation to the kidnapping of a businessman in Tawes Pen, Spanish Town, St Catherine, was granted $750,000 bail when he appeared in the Gun Court on Monday. The...

A 38-year-old St Catherine woman who is charged with fraudulently obtaining a Jamaican passport in another woman's name is to reappear in St Catherine Parish Court on June 7. Tanecia Reid is answering to charges of forgery, conspiracy to commit...

A  Hanover tour bus operator was arrested and charged with rape following an incident in the parish on March 10. Thirty-six-year-old Mervin Jarrett, of New Mills district, was arrested by detectives assigned to the Centre for the...

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is leading an innovative commercial development initiative aimed at revolutionising business infrastructure in Jamaica. The project, Raintree Commercial Complex, located just outside Kingston at Caymanas...

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says nearly 9,500 persons are now registered with the Tourism Workers Pension Scheme (TWPS). Of that number, he said 7,027 are contributing members. In his contribution to the Sectoral Debate in Parliament this...

The Spaldings police in Clarendon have launched an investigation into the death of a two-year-old child. The child has been identified as Gashawn Duncan of Long Bough district in the parish. It is reported that about 11 a.m. on Monday, Duncan was...

The search for a Seaview Gardens, St Andrew, resident who disappeared into the murky waters of the Rio Grande in Portland on Sunday has ended with the discovery of his body.  After two days of searching for the missing 29 year old, Javon...

Former People's National Party Member of Parliament for Westmoreland Central, Dwayne Vaz, pleaded guilty to breaching the Integrity Commission (IC) Act in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Tuesday morning. He's to return to court...

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...