Claverty Cottage, West Portland: A section of the roadway at Claverty Cottage in West Portland, which was rendered impassable due to multiple landslides, has been cleared through a joint initiative between the Portland Municipal Corporation (PMC)...

OF ALL the 50 nominees for the 2023 Prime Minister National Youth Awards for Excellence, held recently on the lawns of Jamaica House, Odane Brooks was the one selected to make the response on behalf of the nominees, at the end of the programme....

THE NATIONAL Fisheries Authority (NFA) is leaning heavily on the Jamaican parlance this year to drive home its messages to fisherfolk who catch lobsters during the annual close season, which runs from April 1 to June 30. The NFA is particulary...

The Sisters of Mercy of Jamaica will today, May 1, host an official ceremony to bless the new entrance to the Alpha Complex. The Alpha Complex, which is located at 26 Camp Road, is the site of six schools which are owned and sponsored by the...

St Johns Church, Waterloo, London: Making his last pitch to London voters ahead of the closely contested London Mayoral election on Thursday, two-time incumbent Mayor Sadiq Khan had a specific message for Jamaicans and West Indians last Friday....

Jamaica has achieved a record Net International Reserves of US$5.137 billion. At the same time, the country's Gross Reserves, as at March 31, 2024, stood at a historic high of US$5.231 billion. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke told The Gleaner...

Preliminary gross earnings from tourism are estimated at a record US$4.38 billion for fiscal year 2023/24 as the sector continues its exponential growth. Stopover arrivals are projected at 2.96 million, reflecting a 9.4 per cent increase over the...

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...