A senior executive at the National Commercial Bank (NCB), Dane Nicholson, is facing serious criminal charges in connection with alleged sex-related offences involving a female employee, court records and law-enforcement sources have revealed....
NEW YORK: The United States has delayed the start to the implementation of a US$250 visa surcharge despite the One Big Beautiful Bill signed by President Donald Trump in July indicating an October 1 start date. A spokesperson for the State...
Bridgetown, Barbados: Caribbean tourism recorded 18.5 million arrivals in the first half of 2025, up nearly two per cent on last year and six per cent above pre-pandemic levels, according to new data presented at the CTO’s State of the Tourism...
The Independent Fiscal Commission (IFC) has signalled that additional revenue efforts might be required to meet budgetary amounts this year as the $14.2-billion tax shortfall at the end of the 2024-2025 financial year overstated the base for the...
Buff Bay Valley, West Portland: For coffee farmer Dian Ellis of Hart Hill, Portland, whose five acres of fully grown berries are now ready for harvesting, insurmountable challenges continue to impact her farm, along with others, on a daily basis,...
Western Bureau: With sections of Westmoreland swamped by floodwaters over the weekend, the health authorities in the parish are once again warning residents to take precautions against leptospirosis, a potentially deadly bacterial disease often...
Bridgetown, Barbados: Barbados’ Minister of Tourism Ian Gooding-Edghill yesterday told attendees at the opening of the 2025 State of the Tourism Industry Conference (SOTIC), in Bridgetown, that the Caribbean’s record-breaking tourism rebound could...
Western Bureau: As members of the legal fraternity grieved the shocking death of Trelawny Parish Judge Ruth Lawrence, police yesterday outlined her spouse’s detailing of the 14 hours leading up to the loss of the almost 30-year veteran of the...
A Kingston delivery man hired by Constable Noel Maitland to remove a sofa from his apartment expressed frustration yesterday after being recalled to the witness stand. “A hope mi naa fi come back yah, mi tiad a unuh. Unuh a stress out mi and mi...
The Jamaican Government is being urged to hire Cuban workers directly and utilise hiring practices that are in line with domestic and international law to prevent forced labour among Cuban workers in Jamaica. It was among the US State Department’s...
Former INSPORTS financial controller and party promoter Andrew Wright, along with two co-defendants, was found guilty of multiple fraud-related charges yesterday in the Home Circuit Court, stemming from a $222-million scheme uncovered at the state-...
Stirred by the call to persevere by South Florida-based entrepreneur and philanthropist Philip Wong during the second Pioneers of Tomorrow lecture series hosted by his alma mater, St George’s College, students were, last week, steered positively...
The country’s prosecutorial authority is contemplating whether to lodge an appeal against what environmental watchers call a “tap on the back” sentence imposed on three men – two of them Honduran nationals – for smuggling over a dozen endangered...
The Police Civilian Oversight Authority (PCOA) has highlighted overcrowding problems and a deplorable state of affairs at five of the largest lock-ups in the Area Four policing region. A recent special inspection by the PCOA of the five lock-ups...
NEW YORK: Effective immediately, Jamaicans applying for visitor, student, or work visas to the United States must now pay an additional US$250 visa surcharge, bringing the total cost of a standard tourist visa to US$435 per person. The surcharge,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Dr Davewin Thomas, who has been serving the Burchell Circuit of Baptist Churches in St James for more than 20 years, was on Sunday honoured for his service with multiple tributes delivered in poetry and song at the Burchell...
WESTERN BUREAU: Floyd Hitchman, a guidance councillor at the Maldon High School in St James, was elected unopposed as the new president of the St James Lay Magistrates’ Association over last weekend at the organisation’s annual general meeting (AGM...
The trial is set to begin on Friday of a man accused of fatally chopping his uncle at their home in Stony Hill, St Andrew, before chartering a taxi to transport the dead man’s body parts to Cavaliers, where he set the remains ablaze. The incident...
Urban planning consultant and university professor Carol Archer is urging Jamaica to adopt the globally recognised ‘sponge city’ model to better cope with the increasing impact of climate change, especially the rise in urban flooding. Her...
With more than a decade and a half at the Jamaican Bar, Zuleika Jess, newly appointed opposition spokesperson on justice, says she is ready for the task. The new parliamentarian told The Gleaner that she had no idea that Opposition leader Mark...
Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has issued a strong call for greater regional cooperation to address a growing healthcare workforce shortage that threatens to undermine health systems across Latin America and the Caribbean. Speaking at...
The brutal rape of a seven-year-old girl last Thursday has sparked outrage and mobilised a strong response from parents, residents, and national stakeholders, who have rallied to comfort a student population at Bermaddy Primary School left...
Western Bureau: Following another round of flooding which left a section of Lucea, Hanover, under water two weeks ago, the National Works Agency (NWA) says the bamboo-clogged Riley River, one of two waterways being blamed for the inundation, is to...
Western Bureau: The Western Regional Health Authorities (WRHA) took it to the beach in the western region last Friday with a belated staging of Caribbean Wellness Day at the Wavz Beach in Negril by hosting a 5K beach trot and beach volleyball...
The distraught guardians of missing Manchester High student Jayden Thompson were up to late yesterday pleading for his safe return, clinging to hope as the days pass with no sign of the 12-year-old. “Wi no waa find no body. Any way dem can lef’ him...
