Monroe College, a national leader in educating first-generation and international students with campuses in New York and Saint Lucia, has achieved university status and is now Monroe University. “Today’s announcement is more than 90 years in the...

WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA EGG Farmers Association President Mark Campbell says Jamaica could face a shortage of eggs this Christmas season as production has fallen since Hurricane Beryl impacted several farmers across the island. “Most farmers who...

ON JULY 17, The Gleaner published a story headlined, ‘Jamaica-born artist Garfield Morgan making lasting impressions in Canada’. In it we look at how Morgan has been making a name for himself through his art in that North American country,...

CLAYTON MITCHELL never saw himself as a teacher, but he always had the utmost respect for the profession. Hailing from Pitfour in St James, he said he was always a very driven and determined individual who decided from the early stages in his life...

Focused, composed, and brimming with passion — that’s 7-year-old Arena Candidate Master (ACM) Jayden Hylton in a nutshell. Decked out in his miniature grey three-piece suit for an interview with The Gleaner, the adorable young chess whiz started...

Detectives assigned to the Westmoreland police division have charged a 36-year-old mechanic with simple larceny and fraudulent conversion after he allegedly failed to replace a motor car engine for which he collected payment. He is Leon...

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) says the seven-year-old boy who was found with a submachine gun at a St Elizabeth school on Thursday has been taken into its care, along with his siblings. A media release from the CPFSA on...

The family of Kerry-Ann Folkes, one of the victims of Wednesday's explosion at the Burger King outlet in New Kingston, is pleading for urgent financial assistance as they seek to have her transferred overseas for treatment of severe burn...

Restaurant Associates Limited (RAL), franchisee of Burger King Jamaica, says it's «surprised» the family of Kerry-Ann Folkes, one of the victims of Wednesday's explosion at its New Kingston outlet, has made a public plea for funds...

The Ministry of Finance is reporting that it and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) on Thursday signed a Heads of Agreement that addressed items carried over from the implementation of the new compensation structure for the public...

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) is demanding that the Government moves to immediate appointment of a new Access to Information (ATI) Tribunal. The five-year term of the last tribunal ended more than six months ago. This has...

A 6-year-old boy was injured and a woman fatally shot during an attack in Commodore, Linstead, St Catherine on Friday morning. The child is hospitalised in serious but stable condition.  The police have withheld the name of the decease whom...

The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) is imploring persons to continue to take precautions against COVID-19. Speaking with JIS News, Regional Medical Epidemiologist, Dr Maung Aung, noted that while the pandemic phase of COVID-19 has ended,...

A search is to resume this morning for a woman and a man who were on Thursday washed away by floodwaters in a river in Castleton, St Mary. Yesterday, the police and residents conducted a search for the two people but it was called off because the...

The Government has imposed another State of Public Emergency in Clarendon as the security forces seek to quell ongoing violence. A statement from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) this morning indicated that Prime Minister Andrew Holness moved...

The LASCO Chin Foundation and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are set to honour the outstanding service of police officers across several divisions. The event, now in its 24th year, will take place on Friday, October 25 at The Jamaica Pegasus...

RECENTLY, I visited my home town for familial reasons. To get there as usual, I had to pass through surrounding communities. I had gone back many times before over the decades, but this time around it struck me heavily how much the place had...

WESTERN BUREAU: A vendor filmed urinating in a container and then transferring it into a bottle at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, has been slapped with six charges. Sherika Lewis, the acting chief public health inspector for St...

WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent Othneil Dobson, the police commander for Westmoreland, says his division has assigned school resource officers (SROs) to four of the eight secondary schools in the parish. In giving his monthly report at Thursday’s...

Businessman Winston Finzi and his company, Mahoe Bay Company Limited, scored a major victory last month when the Supreme Court ruled that they did not benefit from a US$2.5-million loan in 2003. Instead, half of the amount was used to purchase...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City lawmakers approved legislation today to study the city's significant role in slavery and consider reparations to descendants of enslaved people. The package of bills passed by the City Council still needs to...

The police are advising the public that the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine is temporarily closed to vehicular traffic due to the heavy rainfall. This is to ensure the safety of motorists as the road may be prone to landslides and flooding. Motorists are urged to...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two dozen soldiers and police officers from Jamaica arrived in Haiti today to join a UN-backed mission led by Kenya to fight powerful gangs. Jamaica is the second country to join the mission, which was approved by...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Prime Minister of Grenada, Dickon Mitchell, has urged all citizens across the region to remain alert by staying informed through updates from Caribbean Public Health...

The St Catherine Municipal Corporation says plans are afoot to fast-track remedial work on the building which houses the Linstead Police Station. This was disclosed by the chief executive officer of the corporation, Marilyn Pitter, at today...

As schools resumed on September 9, the Montego Bay Metro Company Limited (Mo-Bay Metro) launched a dedicated bus service catering to students from Anchovy High, Cambridge High, Irwin High, Knockalva High, Hopewell High, Muschett High, Ruseas High,...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is reporting that the traffic signals located at Flat Bridge in the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine are currently out of service due to damage caused by vandals. The NWA says this is the latest in a series of several...

The Trelawny police are probing a gun attack in Lowe River last night which left one man dead and another injured. It is reported that about 10:40 p.m. the men stopped at a corner shop to make a purchase. While walking back to their car, gunmen...

The St Elizabeth police seized a submachine gun that was allegedly in the possession of a seven-year-old student at a school in the parish on Thursday. Head of the St Elizabeth Police, Superintendent Coleridge Minto, confirmed the incident. The...

Another earthquake has rattled sections of Jamaica. The Earthquake Unit says the quake measured 3.1 and was located approximately 10km south of Buff Bay, Portland. It struck at 11:07 a.m. and had a focal depth of 8 km. The quake was felt in...

In the wake of the heavy backlash that MBJ Airports Limited, the operator of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, has been getting since last week's controversial death of a passenger, an ambulance is now stationed at...

Two men lost their lives in a tragic two-vehicle collision along Old Harbour Road in St Catherine on Wednesday night. The accident, which occurred around 9:20 p.m., involved a grey 2007 Toyota Land Cruiser and a blue 1994 Nissan Sunny. It is...

The Trelawny Municipal Corporation says it is prepared to demolish illegal buildings along Rodney Street in Falmouth. The declaration was made by Mayor of Falmouth Collen Gager at today's monthly meeting of the municipal corporation. "We...

A call was made on Wednesday by stakeholders in Manchester for more to be done to address violent crimes in the parish. The plea came at a meeting held at the Christiana Primary School, which saw a gathering of residents, community leaders, and...

WESTERN BUREAU: Patrick Crawford, the Dutch national who plead guilty to trying to smuggle $28.3 million worth of cocaine through the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St. James, is to be sentenced on September 18. Crawford, a 44-...