Finding a decent free or low-cost public bathing beach anywhere in Jamaica is not for the faint-hearted. There are 76 public beaches scattered across all parishes, except Kingston, that are either free or cost up to $500 for entry, according to the...
Amid preparations for the resumption of jury trials in Jamaica after a two-year break, court officials dispatched 4,500 summonses for prospective jurors. Circuit courts for Kingston...
The foundation operated by Jamaican international music star Shaggy has not filed mandatory audited financial statements for the last two years, placing itself in danger of being stripped of its charity status, the agency that regulates charitable...
The lifetime ban imposed on an attorney who failed for several years to hand over almost $3 million in payment won by his client in a lawsuit has been affirmed by Jamaica’s second-highest court. Debayo Adedipe was found guilty of professional...
Jamaicans have largely turned their backs on a $100-million fund that was created nearly five years ago to reward persons assisting law enforcement in efforts to recover illegal guns. Although a few have taken advantage of the initiative, some are...
Nearly $280 million in fines was extracted from Jamaicans under the legislation used by the Government to manage the local outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, new figures have revealed. The $276 million windfall came from 19,423 cases against 17,288...
A plot to kill a “potential witness” in a criminal case is among over a dozen crimes investigators have traced to a Clarendon gang that allegedly counted eight cops among its members, a top police official has revealed. The crimes mainly include...
When three armed thugs entered Jo Jo’s Supermarket two days before Christmas last year and executed the husband-and-wife operators, it marked the fourth robbery at the Chinese-owned business located in St Elizabeth. That was three years after the...
A jilted ex-boyfriend has given a detailed confession of killing his former girlfriend’s eight-year-old son because she ended their less-than-a-year-old relationship. Ochest Rose, 42, wanted his former flame to “feel the same pain he was going...
There were at least a dozen telephone calls between Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry and one of the accused masterminds behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, a report seen by The Sunday Gleaner has charged. Henry was not head of...
Two guns that were seized by the police last year have been linked to more than 30 murders and shootings across several parishes over the last four years, senior law enforcement sources have revealed. The guns – a Smith...
Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, who is set to be deported from Jamaica tomorrow, was reportedly inside the private quarters of Jovenel Moise, along with a band of mostly heavily armed ex-Colombian soldiers, when the Haitian president was...
Haiti has escalated the diplomatic pressure to get custody of suspected Colombian assassin Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, turning to an 19th century legislation to compel Jamaica to hand him over, new court documents have revealed. An imperial...
Members of the previous Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) board of directors were not able to verify the price its business partner, the Noble Group, obtained for Jamaica’s share of alumina produced by Jamalco, a Sunday Gleaner investigation has...
The financial hardships are beginning to set in for Antoinette Calderon*, the Qualcare Jamaica Limited employee who has been on unpaid vacation leave for refusing to comply with the COVID-19 policy implemented by her employers two months ago. It...
Nearly US$100 million or more than J$13 billion in payments made by Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) over a four-year period to its joint venture partner in the Jamalco refinery cannot be accounted for, a leaked preliminary treasury and financial...
Jamaica’s chief prosecutor has ruled that criminal charges be filed against a former police constable whose arrest of an elderly man for gun and ammunition offences was undermined by video footage. Leroy Laud, 61, the taxi operator who was jailed...
Tax authorities will not be able to collect four years of property tax arrears owed by Constant Spring Golf Club (CSGC) amounting to millions of dollars, following a ruling by Jamaica’s second-highest court this week. It marks the latest...
The Jamaican Government is weighing “legal consideration” regarding the fate of an ex-Colombian army officer described as a key suspect in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, the Foreign Ministry has confirmed. This disclosure...
Jamaica is again moving to enforce the court-ordered deportation of ex-Colombian army officer Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, a key suspect in the July assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, to his homeland. This development comes...
Donavan McGann was convinced, two years ago, that he was close to the $5-million payout he was awarded in his lawsuit that had crawled through Jamaica’s notoriously slow court system for five years. Supreme Court judge Justice Vinnette Graham-Allen...
The Financial Investigations Division (FID) in the finance ministry has refused to answer Sunday Gleaner questions on whether it has commenced civil forfeiture proceedings against former Education Minister Ruel Reid and his co-accused in the...
Uncertainty about how the COVID-19 vaccines affect fertility is among the main reasons nearly a third of the island’s registered nurses were not inoculated against the deadly respiratory disease up to August despite health officials noting that the...
Penelope Singleton* turned up for work at Qualcare Jamaica Limited in St Andrew last week knowing she had not complied with the new COVID-19 vaccination policy put in place by her employers. The policy, which was outlined in a memo Qualcare...
With the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) failing since 1992 to file audited financial statements annually as mandated by law, there are calls for the relevant authorities to launch investigations into the state agency to see whether billions of...
