With voter turnout in yesterday’s general election falling below the 50 per cent mark, a suggestion is being put forward to stagger voting days in an effort to get more Jamaicans interested in the election process. Dr Basil Wilson, provost emeritus...

The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has confirmed a 39.5 per cent voter turnout in the 2025 General Election. This figure sharply contrasts with the 78.4 per cent turnout recorded in 1980, the highest on record. The lowest turnout was in 2020...

THE RURAL Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) and the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), agencies under the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, are actively working to preserve the country’s global...

LAS VEGAS (AP): The marketing campaign, which included a $500 gift card giveaway, was meant to show Buffalo’s northern neighbours that they were welcome, wanted, and missed. At first, it seemed like it might work, said Patrick Kaler, CEO of the...

ON FRIDAY, June 28, last year, a Gleaner headline says, ‘Jamaican wins prestigious European Short Film Festival Award, Jared Hall’s ‘Anansi The Spider’ is Best Animated Short Film’. Campion College graduate Jared Hall, an artist, storyteller,...

United Independent Congress (UIC) candidate for Kingston Central Garth Barnett says “a bit of fear” has prevented some of his election day workers from coming out to support him. He claimed that one person from a community he did not name...

For Porus couple Leon Brown and Dwayna Green, casting their ballots was a family affair. The pair, who say they do everything together, arrived at the Porus Infant School in Manchester Southern with their two-week-old son, Amir, and patiently...

People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for Manchester Southern, Peter Bunting, says he is unfazed by critics who claim he is seeking refuge in the constituency after being rejected in Manchester Central during the 2020 general election. Instead...

Several first-time voters were spotted casting their ballots in St Thomas Eastern, many of them motivated by the influence and encouragement of friends and family. Despite increasing awareness of national issues among younger Jamaicans, family...

WESTERN BUREAU: With Wednesday's Election Day activities in St James Southern hampered by a low to moderate voter turnout, there are calls for a review of the election process, which reportedly saw several potential voters being frustrated in...

Supporters of the two major political parties in St Catherine East Central are in a festive mood at the Gregory Park Primary School, where scores of voters have shown up to cast their ballots. The sounds of vuvuzelas echo in the vicinity of the...

There was excitement at the normally quiet St Thomas Parish Library as seven proud seniors received certificates of completion of a computer training programme, which was designed for them. Their smiles, laughter, and sense of accomplishment told...

The police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating five-year-old Jahiar Spencer of Maple Leaf Avenue, Kingston 10, who has been reported missing. Jahiar is of dark complexion, slim build, and about 3 feet 6 inches tall. Reports from the...

The body of a man who was tied up and had his mouth taped was found on Tuesday night in the Epworth district, St Ann. The body was discovered beside a water tank that serves the community. It was reported that there was no blood at the scene. The...

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Lorena formed off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and a tropical storm warning has been issued for parts for of the area, forecasters said Wednesday. The storm is expected to strengthen in the next 24 hours...

AT THE recent International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI), held in Beijing, China, from August 2-9, 16-year-old Matthew Williams, now a fifth-form student at Campion College, copped a silver medal on his 16th birthday, while 17-year-...

GLOBALLY, 76 per cent of chief executive officers believe their companies will not survive the next 10 years without serious shifts in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) integration. The urgency is not only global, it is local as Jamaica...

WESTERN BUREAU: Outgoing British High Commissioner Judith Slater says Jamaica and the United Kingdom (UK) now enjoy their closest partnership in decades, strengthened by cooperation on crime, education and governance, and anchored by relationships...

Former Jamaican Ambassador to the United Nations, Curtis Ward, was recently honoured by Maryland Governor Wes Moore for his outstanding contributions to the state of Maryland, as well as the Jamaican and Caribbean communities living there. During...

WESTERN BUREAU: RESPECTED MONTEGO Bay ophthalmologist Dr Winsome Hastings died in a Florida hospital on August 25 following a minor procedure, just two days after her husband, Donovan Clark, passed away at another facility. Friends in Jamaica...

WESTERN BUREAU: Professor Canute Thompson, head of education, policy, planning and leadership at The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona, says while AI is being hailed as the future of global innovation, it could also become the tool of...

For college students Denzel Morrison and Jordon Jackson, participating in the JPS Foundation Mentorship Programme has opened the window into the world of adulting and seen them realise personal growth. “The programme has been a wonderful experience...

Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) has successfully renewed its Customer Experience Accreditation from Airports Council International (ACI World) – a testament to the airport’s ongoing transformation and unwavering commitment to building...

Regional Director for Region Four of the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Michele Pinnock, says career education will be a central focus in schools across the region during the 2025/26 academic year. “We want to focus, as a...

When Odain Murray’s iPad lit up with the news at 6:35 a.m. on June 18 that he is the 2025 Chevening/JN Oliver F. Clarke Scholarship awardee, he froze. Then came the flood of emotions: elation, disbelief, and deep gratitude. “I spent the first five...

The Customs Brokers And Freight Forwarders Association of Jamaica (CBFFAJ) has moved quickly to address anxieties among its members and clients in the wake of the decision by DHL Jamaica to change its shipment routing and clearance location on...

The People’s National Party’s (PNP) Damion Crawford says a PNP government will make skills training a central part of its education agenda by introducing vocational labs in schools across Jamaica. Speaking at a PNP mass rally in Sam Sharpe Square...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness gifted his '1PM' sweatshirt to veteran entertainer Mr Vegas during a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) mass rally in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on Sunday. The gesture came after the entertainer, born Clifford Smith,...

Julian Robinson, the People’s National Party’s (PNP) candidate for St. Andrew South Eastern, says that Jamaica has failed to grow as a nation because there are not enough well-educated persons to fill the jobs that are available. Addressing...

People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding says he is not surprised by the latest Don Anderson poll that show his party slightly ahead of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party, arguing that the JLP is desperate to maintain power. Golding was...

The national minimum wage will be doubled to $32,000 per 40-hour work week over “the next few years” starting next year if the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) retains state power, JLP Leader Dr Andrew Holness has announced. The national minimum wage...

Ahead of the upcoming general election on Wednesday, September 3, supporters of the People's National Party (PNP), now gathered in Sam Sharpe Square in Montego Bay, St James for the party's mass rally, are expressing that they want the Jamaica...

A member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) communications taskforce has made another appeal to undecided electors to go out and vote for the governing party in Wednesday’s general elections. A little more than 28 per cent of eligible voters do...

People’s National Party (PNP) supporters from Westmoreland Central have voiced disappointment in the representation by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the constituency, citing poor road conditions and youth unemployment as key issues. The...

The Jamaica Labour Party's representative in Kingston Western, Desmond McKenzie, says the JLP is not afraid as it faces electors on Wednesday, even as he urged supporters to transfer the energy at Sunday's mass rally in St Catherine to the ballot...