THE JAMAICA Bauxite Mining Limited (JBM) and Agro-Investment Corporation (Agro-Invest) have entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to drive agricultural development and investment in Jamaica by converting former bauxite mining lands into...

AT FOLLY Point, near Portland’s capital town of Port Antonio, there are ruins of a 60-room mansion, commonly referred to as ‘Folly Mansion’, and located on a small peninsular. There are several stories about how the place came to be called Folly....

The endowed Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora at York University in Toronto, recently held an appreciation gathering to thank those who have supported its mission and to showcase its work from 2021 to 2023. Dr Carl James,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Kerry Thomas, councillor for the Mount Salem Division in St James, is urging the National Works Agency (NWA) to improve the drainage infrastructure along the Tucker main road in light of recent flooding associated with heavy...

President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to replace Damian Williams, the Jamaican-American US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Williams will be succeeded by former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman, Jay Clayton....

WESTERN BUREAU: The three police officers who are charged in relation to the 2014 death of Mario Deane will learn on Friday morning, November 15, which parish their case will be transferred to for trial. Corporal Elaine Stewart and Constables...

After more than two decades leading the Jamaica Stock Exchange, Dr Marlene Street Forrest will be retiring on December 4, the Financial Gleaner has learned. However, she is expected to remain in charge of the exchange beyond her retirement date until...

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting him in charge of a massive agency that oversees everything from drug,...

Thirty-one-year-old Jermaine Knight, taxi operator of Long Lane, Kingston, has been charged with larceny of motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, obtaining money by means of false pretence and possession of Revenue Paper before such ...

Aundrene Cameron was today chosen to be the Jamaica Rhodes Scholar for 2025. King's House made the announcement after a full day of interviewing ten finalists vying for the scholarship. Aundrene Cameron is a first-class honours graduate of the...

The Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) says it has received instructions from Prime Minister, Dr  Andrew Holness, to acquire 10 additional acres of land to build a micro business park at the Morant Bay Urban Centre in St Thomas. Speaking...

A man who purported to be a medical doctor and allegedly fraudulently collected money to provide a US visa has been arrested and charged. The accused has been identified as Andrew Clarke, a 57-year-old labourer of Spring Farm, St James....

The three Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers charged in connection with the May 2010 shooting death of businessman Keith Clarke were today found not guilty after the prosecution was unable to pinpoint them as the shooters. Lance Corporals Greg...

An operation by the police in Old Harbour, St Catherine, led to the discovery of a rifle under a pile of stones on Wednesday. The weapon seized is a Chinese SKS rifle. Police reports state that about 8:45 a.m., police went on a...

Justice Dale Palmer has ruled that the three Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers charged in connection with the May 2010 shooting death of businessman Keith Clarke do not have a case to answer. Lance corporals Greg Tingling and Odel Buckley, along...

The Police High Command has ordered the detention of two policemen involved in Sunday's fatal shooting of two men on Windward Road in Kingston. The Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force says the order was given...

Councillor for the Olympic Gardens division in West Central St Andrew, Christopher Townsend, has died.  Jamaica Labour Party Deputy Leader, Desmond McKenzie, said Townsend died Wednesday night due to what is believed to be...

A 54 year old man from St Mary has been charged with the rape of a 12-year-old girl in his community between September 2023 and January 2024. Conrad Gray was charged by detectives attached to the Port Maria Criminal Investigation Branch....

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has urged members of parliament to make the best use of funds allocated to them to undertake the annual mitigation and clean-up programmes in their constituencies. On Tuesday, the prime minister announced that...

Government Senator Kavan Gayle is calling for a skills gap assessment of the domestic workforce to identify the specific competencies that are in demand across industries. He made the suggestion while outlining several policy recommendations that...

JP Farms is reporting that its banana farm recovery programme is progressing faster than anticipated following the devastating impact of Hurricane Beryl. The category-four hurricane caused extensive damage to Jamaica’s largest banana farm,...

On Wednesday, November 6, Trae Rodney was selected as a Rafael Diaz Merit Scholar by the GraceKennedy Foundation and awarded a $300,000 scholarship that is renewable each year until his course of study is completed. He is required to maintains the...

OPPOSITION LEADER Mark Golding believes Jamaicans living abroad should play a more active role in shaping the future of their home country, including participating in governance. During a media luncheon in Toronto on November 1, he outlined several...

The police have now charged the man who was arrested in relation to the missing two bags of money from a Beryllium security vehicle. Fifty-two-year-old driver Aldin Nelson, of Harbour View, Kingston 17, is charged with simple larceny. A date...

Member of Parliament for St Catherine East Central, Alando Terrelonge, has informed that a new mobile police station is now located in the community of Gregory Park. He made the disclosure during his contribution to the 2024/25 State of the...

A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in sections of Reids Pen in Portmore, St Catherine. The curfew began at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 13 and will remain in effect until 6:00 p.m. Friday, November 15. The areas of the curfew are: North: At the...

The St Elizabeth police are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of a man who was killed in a suspected hit-and-run along the Goshen main road early Wednesday morning. The body is of a dark brown complexion, slim build and about 5 feet 4...

The Kingston Central police are reporting the seizure of 38 assorted rounds of ammunition and a nine millimetre Mac 11 submachine gun in an abandoned building during an operation on King Street on Wednesday. Reports are that at about 6:30 a.m.,...

Forty-year-old Garfield Biggs, otherwise called 'blacks', a businessman of Mandeville, Manchester, has been charged with fraudulent conversion for allegedly failing to pay over sums from the sale of vehicles.  According to the...

The Kingston East police are probing the fatal shooting of a man along Greenvale Road on Monday. Killed was 57-year-old Richard Brooks, otherwise called ET, a sound system operator of Bull Bay, St Andrew. Reports are that about 12:25...

Archbishop of the West Indies and Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, the Most Reverend Dr Howard Gregory, is to retire effective December 31, having served as an ordained minister for 51 years. The Archbishop announced his impending...

Chairman of the Integrity Commission, Retired Justice Seymour Panton, has expressed disappointment that Speaker of the House of Representatives, Juliet Holness, has failed to acknowledge receipt of a letter from the anti-corruption body raising...

Upper school male students from eight secondary institutions in St Thomas are the focus of the Angelic Ladies Society's latest social project, 'Echoes of Change – The Problem with the P'. Through the engagement, the boys will...

The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) is calling for the establishment of a Joint Industrial Council for the Tourism Industry to ensure that hotel workers' rights are adequately protected. In a letter to labour minister Pearnel...

People's National Party (PNP) caretaker for Westmoreland Western, Ian Hayles, is urging the Government to immediately undertake drain cleaning in several areas of the constituency which have been experiencing flooding. "Western...