Outgoing Calabar High School principal Albert Corcho will take the reins at Malvern, St Elizabeth-based Bethlehem Moravian College (BMC) next academic year, The Gleaner can confirm. Corcho’s resignation has been accepted by the board of the Red...
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST Raymond Pryce said more than three-quarters of the nation’s population will experience urban-like conditions in their living environment by 2030. Delivering opening remarks at the Nature Preservation Foundation (NPF) Public...
WESTERN BUREAU: MOUNT ALVERNIA High School in Montego Bay, St James, has increased its capacity to train its student cohort in mastering the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum, following the official inauguration of...
Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte has accused the Integrity Commission (IC) of seeking to embarrass the Cabinet for failing to sign the Leadership Code of Conduct. It is the first time that a member of the Holness...
Clarendon South Western Member of Parliament Lothan Cousins says the only noticeable results of states of public emergency (SOEs) are their crippling economic effects, and the disruption of the livelihoods of constituents who make an income from...
Tamoy Sinclair, parish coordinator of disaster preparedness at the St James Municipal Corporation (St JMC), has expressed concerns that too few businesses are engaging employees in responses to hurricane circumstances. Sinclair highlighted this...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER police and administrators at Bethel Primary School in Hopewell, Hanover have been left puzzled as to how thieves have managed to remove a safe weighing over 600 pounds from the bursar’s office, without anyone hearing or...
The Government of Jamaica will release $10 million from the Equalization Fund to the Portland Municipal Corporation to commence a clean-up at the Musgrave Market in Portland, which was ravaged by fire on Sunday. This announcement was made by...
AS CLIMATE change continues to affect the frequency and intensity of weather events and as demographic patterns shift around the world, the impact of natural disasters will only increase. Therefore, building resilience and properly planned disaster...
THE GOVERNMENT is being urged to boost youth involvement in sustainable living and the maintenance of green spaces. Capitalising on current social trends -- which involves wide participation by young people -- has been cited as a means to increase...
A PARLIAMENTARY committee reviewing the Integrity Commission Act, 2017, yesterday delayed its decision on whether to accept a recommendation to remove the auditor general from the list of commissioners of the single anti-corruption body....
WESTERN BUREAU: FORTY-THREE YEARS after being molested by her stepfather, and 30 years after being impregnated by her father, a 48-year-old Jamaican woman who has toyed with the idea of suicide is crying out for help. *Andrea’s virginity was taken...
For those who had prayed earnestly for a favourable outcome, the two-day search for missing acting deputy commissioner of rehabilitation and probation aftercare services at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), Reverend Orville Moore,...
An apparent impasse between the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) and the developers of the St Jago Hills housing scheme in St Catherine has resulted in a five-month water lock-off in the community, forcing residents to fork out as high as $21,...
Government and opposition members of parliament (MPs), up to late yesterday evening, had not received the salary increases announced by Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke last month. As of 7:30 p.m. on June 1, a full week after all categories of...
A former policeman-turned-music producer, who was freed of a 2007 murder in Jamaica, is headed to a pre-trial in the United States next week, again for murder, and prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty. Omar Miller, 45, is one of three...
PERSONAL INJURY attorney-at-law Vaughn Bignall has been brought before the disciplinary committee of the General Legal Council (GLC) over allegations of professional misconduct involving a decade-old matter. The complaint was brought by 43-year-...
FARMERS IN Kingston and St Andrew (KSA) continue to be reluctant in registering their livestock with the National Animal Identification and Traceability System (NAITS) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Mining. This concern was raised...
Nigel Jones, the attorney-at-law for government minister Zavia Mayne, has said that millions of dollars paid to his client by the Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) as part of a land acquisition deal in 2011 “would have been justifiable in the...
Reacting to rumours and growing suspicion among segments of the society, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said it was “stupidness” that some Jamaicans and others have recently been criticising the Government over its establishment of new...
USAIN BOLT has obtained a court order for two banks to disclose the transaction history of accounts owned by Jean-Ann Panton, the only person charged in the $3 billion fraud at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL). Supreme Court Justice Cresencia...
The ATTORNEY for the alleged mastermind behind the $160-million fraud at Seprod Group of Companies yesterday complained that his client’s constitutional rights were being breached after the bail hearing was postponed and attempts by him to get an...
WESTERN BUREAU: EVENTS HAVE become the number one priority for driving Jamaica’s tourism sector, says one of the most respected voices in the industry, Nicola Madden-Greig. Essentially, providing different kinds of tourism is critical to Jamaica’s...
VIOLET PINNOCK-Reynolds has been a mother figure and guiding light not only to her own children, but to many individuals within her community of Arthurs Seat, Clarendon. The elder, who celebrates her 100th birthday today, was born in 1923 and has...
