» ‘WAKE-UP CALL’
26/04/24 01:11 from Jamaica Gleaner Online
WESTERN BUREAU: While there are significant doubts about the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) current administration, many Jamaicans are still indifferent in their confidence in the People’s National Party (PNP). These are the findings of a ...

» DEADLY ATTACK
26/04/24 01:11 from Jamaica Gleaner Online
WESTERN BUREAU: GANG VIOLENCE within the community of Grange Hill, Westmoreland, has left a grade 10 schoolboy, 16-year-old Carson Bennett, dead and his female schoolmate of Grange Hill High School hospitalised. The incident, which took ...

» JTC bill poses qualification, job concerns for early childhood educators
26/04/24 01:11 from Jamaica Gleaner Online
GOVERNMENT LAWMAKER and attorney-at-law Ransford Braham, KC, is cautioning against a possible fallout in the early childhood education sector when the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill is passed and implemented. His concern is that the...

» Attorney: Llewellyn has not resigned
26/04/24 01:11 from Jamaica Gleaner Online
King’s Counsel Douglas Leys, who has been retained by incumbent Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn, says she has not stepped down from her post. “I can say affirmatively that she has not resigned, and it would not be advisab...

» The ocean’s for everyone
26/04/24 01:09 from Jamaica Gleaner Online
PASSIONATE ABOUT life at sea, Jamaica-born Captain Rayon Carruthers is determined to make sure that the country’s youth have equitable access to the pleasures of boating. “I don’t want them to feel excluded,” Carruthers said in a recent ...

» ‘I didn’t save anything’
26/04/24 01:05 from Jamaica Gleaner Online
WESTERN BUREAU: LESS THAN two weeks after a fire of reportedly malicious origin completely engulfed her two-bedroom house in Salt Spring, St James, 48-year-old Danette Smith is issuing a heartfelt appeal for help to rebuild so she and he...

» Cheating scandal damaged Jamaica’s, OEC’s ‘reputation and credibility’ – Deputy Director
25/04/24 01:11 from Jamaica Gleaner Online
JAMAICA’S CREDIBILITY and reputation have taken a blow from the massive Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) fraud orchestrated at Steer Town Academy in St Ann, in 2022, coupled with last May’s leakage of the Caribbean Secondary Educatio...

» 9-Year-Old assaulted
25/04/24 01:10 from Jamaica Gleaner Online
A KING Alarm security guard previously stationed at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Garden Boulevard entrance security post, reportedly made a failed attempt to rape a nine-year-old girl who he subsequently assaulted on th...

» ‘Mi nuh want dem ya nastiness inna my school’
25/04/24 01:10 from Jamaica Gleaner Online
WESTERN BUREAU: “SINCE THE incident, she has locked down, and I am not getting much from her. Even when I ask her about the incident, she is not saying anything to me.” That was the revelation from J. C. [real name withheld on request], ...

» Good Samaritan takes up mission to put Seaview parents, baby in better living conditions
25/04/24 01:09 from Jamaica Gleaner Online
The conditions under which a newborn baby and her parents are living are so deplorable that some residents of Seaview Gardens in St Andrew this week threatened to call a government agency to intervene in the situation. Mario Wallace, fou...