Workers in the Ministry of Health and Wellness are being advised that it is against the public service's Staff Orders for employees to engage in representational politics and must quit their jobs if they plan to do so. Permanent Secretary...

Serial rapist Dwayne Redfin, who posed as a taxi operator, today pleaded guilty to several counts of rape and forcible abduction, among other offences, in the St Catherine Circuit Court. The 36-year-old pleaded guilty to five counts of rape, five...

The Portland police have charged the 12-year-old boy who was seen on video physically assaulting another male student on the compound of their school. He was charged today with assault occasioning bodily harm. The matter will be brought before the...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) says increased police presence was today deployed in the surrounding community and in the vicinity of the Beverly Hills, St Andrew residence of Prime Minister Andrew Holness amid a legitimate security threat to...

The Trelawny police are probing the robbery of a National Commercial Bank (NCB) automated teller machine (ATM) in Duncans on Tuesday. Commander Superintendent Winston Milton told The Gleaner that investigators are yet to ascertain how much money...

Motorists will pay more for gas when they go to the pumps on Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move up by $0.25 to sell for $166.71 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will go up by $0.25 to sell for $175.73....

Jamaica's anti-corruption body has flagged «significant» conflict of interest concerns over Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Norman Brown's private real estate dealings and Brown's chairmanship of two state agencies involved...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has blasted as malicious the action of unscrupulous persons who created a doctored image involving Prime Minister Andrew Holness. The JCF has distanced itself from the fake image. It called the incident a...

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) is calling for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to step down immediately, following publication of the Integrity Commission's report on its investigation into the income and assets declarations...

Over the next six to eight months, an additional 23 post offices will undergo significant upgrades as part of the Government's broader plan to modernise Jamaica's postal network. Addressing the reopening of the newly renovated Liguanea Post...

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) spokesperson, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, is rejecting as «desperate and unwarranted» a call from the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to leave office immediately in...

Information Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon says the Government is in the process of appointing a new Access to Information (ATI) tribunal. Last week The Gleaner reported that the tribunal created under the ATI Act to handle...

Information Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon says she has received the report from the artificial intelligence (AI) task force established in July of last year to conduct research into the technology. It was tasked with exploring effective...

President of the Senate, Tom Tavares-Finson, is asserting that the Integrity Commission (IC) does not have the authority to refer any individual for investigation by the Financial Investigations Division (FID). His assertion follows the...

Jamaica Labour Party candidate for St Ann North East and former Cabinet minister, Matthew Samuda, has filed a defamation suit against People's National Party caretaker for the constituency, Ryan Simpson. The suit was filed in the Supreme Court...

WESTERN BUREAU: Ricardo Bennett, the principal of the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC), St James, wants the Government to provide financial assistance to tertiary-level students who want to become teachers. Speaking to journalists following...

When Shirlet Mcghan considered returning to Jamaica from the United States following her retirement, the first thing she pondered was the kind of work she might still be able to do. After all, she had been a social worker for most of her working...

THE GREAT majority of the Jamaican people are descendants of Africans who were forcibly removed from their homeland and transported across the Atlantic in overcrowded vessels to work on plantations owned by Europeans in a brutal system of chattel...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness this afternoon delivered a statement in Parliament responding to the findings of a report by the Integrity Commission into his income and assets. Holness said he will be challenging several of the findings, citing...

An investigative report into the statutory declarations filed by Prime Minister Andrew Holness has revealed that three companies linked to him which had transactions totalling hundreds of millions of dollars filed nil tax returns for 2021 and 2022...

The ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has taken issue with the Integrity Commission for referring a report on Prime Minister Andrew Holness' income and assets to the Financial Investigations Division (FID).  The JLP has objected to...

A St Catherine-based policeman accused of sexually assaulting a woman and attempting to flee Jamaica was remanded when he appeared in the parish court today. The cop, who is assigned to the Bog Walk Police Station, is facing charges of...

The Integrity Commission's Director of Corruption Prosecutions, Keisha Prince-Kameka, has ruled out criminal charges against Prime Minister Andrew Holness for allegedly making false income declarations. She cited insufficient evidence regarding...

A St Catherine businesswoman and a man who were charged in January after three illegal firearms were allegedly found in a motor vehicle in which they were travelling were on Monday offered bail. Thirty-three-year-old Sheena Price was offered...

A 15-year-old boy of Bottom Town, Clarks Town, in Trelawny has been charged with burglary following an incident within his community on Sunday. The police say about 11:45 p.m., a woman was sleeping when she heard her daughter screaming. The woman...

The police are reporting that investigators in Portland are probing an assault incident at a primary school which was captured on video and has since gone viral. In the video, which has been making the rounds on social media platforms, a boy is...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he is to seek legal advice as he today rejected some of the findings of the investigation by the Integrity Commission into his statutory declarations. Speaking in parliament this afternoon, Holness defended his...

The Integrity Commission is “urging” Parliament to support its referral of a report on Prime Minister Andrew Holness' income and assets to the Financial Investigations Division (FID).  The commission said “there can be no...

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) says it has identified the school in which a video-recorded bullying incident occurred and is sending a team there today to provide counselling to the students. In the video which has...

Pollster Don Anderson and Merritone Music owner Monte Blake are among four people to receive honorary doctorates at The University of the West Indies, Mona, graduation ceremonies from October 31 to November 2. President and CEO of VM...

WASHINGTON, CMC – US President Joe Biden has named Jamaica among four CARICOM states on a list of countries designated as major drug transit or major illicit drug producing countries for the fiscal year 2025. Biden named The Bahamas,...

ROMELL MESSAM knew since he was five years old that he wanted to become a teacher. He developed a love for technology, and during his high school years, decided that he wanted to get intricately involved in this area of study. “I knew I would...

DATA SCIENTIST Gillian Jackson sees the employment of smart technology as critical to advancing financial inclusion, particularly in the Caribbean, where micro and small businesses continue to lag in their adaptation of digital technology and the...

CLERICAL OFFICER Janet Miller’s* stress level has escalated over the last few weeks because she was not prepared to cover the tuition expenses for her son, who will be attending university this academic year. The private-sector worker was banking...

THE JAMAICA Business Development Corporation (JBDC) is optimistic that the Digital Jamaica Summit...