Professor Donna Hope of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Mona, was recently installed as president of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) at its annual conference held in Simpson Bay, St Martin. Professor Hope, a distinguished and...

WASHINGTON, DC: The Union of Jamaican Alumni Associations (USA) Inc (UJAA) is marking its 35th anniversary with a special edition of its Leadership Development Academy (LDA) series, bringing together past and present leaders to celebrate...

Over 300 Jamaican farm workers are departing the island this week for Canada under the Government’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme. An official send-off ceremony was held at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s Overseas...

A St Andrew tiler was sentenced to life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to firearm related offences in the Corporate Area Gun Court. Charged with possession of prohibited weapon and unauthorised possession of ammunition is Shane Boothe of a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he plans to place tariffs of over 10 per cent on smaller countries, including nations in Africa and the Caribbean. «We'll probably set one tariff for all of them,» Trump said,...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – China doubled down on its dismissal of the United States criticism of a multimillion dollar loan to The Bahamas, describing as “baseless and absurd” accusations that it was using the funding for the construction of a...

The St Andrew North police seized two illegal firearms and made arrests at separate locations during targeted operations across the division on Tuesday. In the first incident, a Springfield Armory Hellcat nine millimetre pistol, along with...

Scores of households across St Elizabeth and Manchester have been wired for connection to the national grid under the Government’s Community Electrification Project. Being implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) in partnership...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A High Court judge in the Bahamas will on September 30 begin hearing the penalty phase of a 65-year-old deacon who was found guilty on Monday of attempted incest. The deacon, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has...

The police on Monday seized a Bushmaster XM-15 rifle and 49 rounds of ammunition following an operation on August Town Road in St Andrew. Reports from the Half-Way-Tree police are that about 6:58 a.m., the police team carried out a search of a...

A St Catherine fisherman who is charged in connection with the seizure of cocaine during a stop by the police in Portmore is to go on trial on October 9. Amos Lee, 39, is charged with possession of cocaine, dealing in cocaine, using a motor...

A second delivery man who was contracted by policeman Noel Maitland, who is on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Donna-Lee Donaldson, this morning testified that he picked up a settee from a car wash and dropped it off at an upholstery shop...

Dear Miss Powell, I am interested in becoming a permanent resident in Canada. Can you tell me if I need to prove that I have money? How much is required for me and my two children? I’m not with their mothers, but would like to take them with me....

MORE THAN 70 residents of Salt Spring have successfully secured employment following their graduation from a comprehensive Job Readiness Training programme delivered under Project STAR. The initiative provided participants with the tools to become...

Practising basic ‘cyber hygiene’ could prevent the overwhelming majority of cyber breaches. That’s the message from Kevin Cushnie, director of engineering at MC Systems, who urged business leaders to take a more proactive approach to cybersecurity...

KEMISHA OATES stood tall with pride at the lectern, beaming and eloquently reading a well-written speech. All eyes were on her, and her clear voice resonated in the hall of The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston as she addressed the gathering...

The Rotary Club of Trafalgar New Heights (RCTNH), under the leadership of newly inducted president, attorney-at-law Franchesca Francis, will be accelerating its mission to “empower Maverley”, a challenged community in nortwestern St Andrew, to...

Two Jamaicans are believed to have drowned after a boat on which they were travelling was intercepted by Haitian authorities. The counternarcotics unit of the Haitian National Police (HNP) has reportedly confirmed that “under the leadership of...

The police's Firearm and Narcotics Investigation Division on Saturday seized over 1,000 pounds of compressed ganja during an operation in Rio Nuevo, St Mary. The police report that about 10:00 p.m., lawmen on an intelligence-led operation in the...

The Hanover police are probing the theft of a shotgun from a safe at a home in a housing development in Hopewell in the parish. Information reaching The Gleaner is that a black Benelli M2 shotgun, with serial number affixed, was stolen from its...

Nickeisha Burchell, the People's National Party standard bearer for South St James, has declared that land reform and justice will be central to the party’s development agenda when it forms the next government. Burchell, one of 22 women that the...

The National Water Commission (NWC) says no sewage-related issue currently exists on Port Royal Street between West Street and Matthews Lane in downtown Kingston, but rather a storm water drainage problem. The commission says its technical teams...

The police are probing a break-in and robbery at a Western Union outlet in Rock Hall, St Andrew this morning. A source close to the investigation told The Gleaner that over $4.5 million was reportedly stolen. The Gleaner understands that the...

The national murder toll, as of July 12, stands at 370, according to the latest serious crime statistics published by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). This represents a 41 per cent reduction in homicides, with the data indicating that 258...

The Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) is reporting that motor vehicle registration certificates are going digital, effective Monday, July 21. In light of this, physical copies of motor vehicle registration certificates (MVRCs) or stickers will no...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has declared that the People’s National Party’s (PNP) growing female representation is a victory for inclusion, as he unveiled 22 women among the party’s 63 candidates expected to contest the upcoming general...

The police have charged two men in relation to the seizure of cocaine valued at $4 million during a traffic stop along the North-South Highway. Forty-eight-year-old John Todd and 49-year-old farmer Errol White, both of St Andrew addresses, were...

Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness says his administration is on course to deliver on its promise of 70,000 new housing solutions, while outlining plans to address Jamaica’s estimated shortage of 150,000 homes. Speaking Sunday night to a large...

Dr Patricia Duncan Sutherland, President of the People’s National Party (PNP) Women’s Movement, says more support needs to be provided to victims of domestic abuse and abusers must take responsibility as part of the healing journey. Addressing a...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is reporting that its crackdown on persons attempting to use courier services to traffic drugs continues to bear fruit, with the arrest of a man in St Catherine. In a targeted operation against the use of...

The Black River police in St Elizabeth have launched an investigation into the death of a woman whose body was found in a spring in Parottee on Sunday. She has been identified as 37-year-old Latoya Pilarchie, a labourer of Hill Top in Parottee....

The spouse of Neisha Williams, the woman fatally stabbed by her male cousin in Rae Town, Kingston, on Sunday, says he has been left devastated by the loss of the woman with whom he had shared his life for nearly five years. Rocky, her grieving...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday suspended the country’s police minister and announced an investigation into allegations he has been colluding with criminal syndicates. Ramaphosa’s actions follow allegations...

Western Bureau: The Hanover Police Division, which is on a mission to reclaim safest parish status, is now enjoying a major reduction in murders and crime overall, based on Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) crime statistics up to July 10. “As it...

WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Danree Delancy is calling for the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development to immediately release funds from its Parochial Revenue Fund (PRF) to address concerns which have left several communities...