Gary ‘Butch’ Hendrickson, president of the Council of Volunteer Social Services (CVSS), has called for civil society organisations (CSOs) to continue their critical work in advancing global development and social justice. Hendrickson, addressing...

Rein Paulsen, director of the FAO’s Office of Emergencies and Resilience, along with Adoniram Sanches, FAO’s Subregional Coordinator for Mesoamerica, visited Haiti last week to support the incoming FAO representative, Pierre Vauthier, in bolstering...

TOKYO (AP): A long robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, September 10 beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom....

Western Bureau: The perennial mould problem, which has been plaguing the more than 100-year-old Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) headquarters in the parish capital, Lucea, is seemingly acting up again. Yesterday, staffers, as well as Lucea Mayor...

With People’s National Party (PNP) supporters banking on dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel’s influence to attract the younger demographic to the party, chairman Dr Angela Brown Burke is defending his appearance on stage. Kartel, whose given name...

Former People's National Party President Dr Peter Phillips has urged the party not to seek power for its own sake, but to use the authority of government to address education inequalities, low wage jobs and landlessness.  "We don'...

As if preaching from a pulpit, PNP member Damion Crawford on Sunday whipped the party's conference crowd into a frenzy as he ripped into education minister Fayval Williams' stewardship as education minister. Using biblical references...

People's National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding is urging Prime Minister Andrew Holness to announce parliamentary elections, claiming Jamaicans have lost confidence in the administration. He buttressed his demand on claims that Jamaicans...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has hit out at public entities that use the Data Protection Act to block media access to how they are using taxpayers' money. "I am very concerned about the insidious abuse of the Data Protection Act by State...

The Andrew Holness-led Administration has been branded a Government of gag orders, a move which the Opposition People's National (PNP) says is a threat to democracy. PNP general secretary Dr Dayton Campbell, in an emotionally-charged address at...

Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) says the burn victims from Wednesday's explosion at the Burger King outlet in New Kingston are in stable condition and expected to make a full recovery. The KPH provided the update in a media statement...

Three people have died as a result of injuries they sustained in a motor vehicle crash on Eastwood Park Road, St Andrew, early Saturday morning. The deceased are 43-year-old Shinell Daley, 22-year-old Ryan Campbell and an unidentified man. Daley...

The police have issued an advisory for persons attending the People's National Party (PNP) Annual Conference at the National Arena on Sunday, warning against the carrying of weapons and urging adherence to traffic laws. The police say no...

The Grateful Hill community in Glengoffe, St Catherine, has been plunged into mourning following the murder of a 31-year-old man on Friday night. He has been identified as Lewar Davis, an electrician from Glengoffe. Reports are that about 11:...

A search team has recovered the body of 19-year-old Chrisan Steele, who was washed away in the Wag Water River in Castleton, St Mary, during heavy rains on Thursday. Steele's body was found shortly after 11a.m. Saturday in the Flint...

An illegal firearm was seized by the St Andrew North Police during an operation in the community of Cassava Piece early Saturday, sources disclosed. Three men were arrested in connection with the seizure. Their names have not been released....

The National Water Commission (NWC) says it is increasing surveillance and patrol of its systems in St Ann amid a «disturbing trend of deliberate vandalism», which has left several communities without water. In a media release...

The St Catherine-based teacher who is accused of the sexual molestation of a 12-year-old student was granted bail in the sum of $100,000 in the St Catherine Parish Court on Friday. He is answering to charges of sexual grooming, sexual touching...

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...