Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) says the retrofitting of its Greenvale property in Mandeville is on track for completion by September, even as concerns persist over millions in lease costs incurred since the agreement was signed in 2020. In a...
WESTERN BUREAU Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has declared that the Caribbean is on the cusp of a long-overdue transportation breakthrough, urging regional leaders to demonstrate the political will needed to finally democratise movement...
WESTERN BUREAU With placards raised and voices firm, protesters staged a peaceful but resolute demonstration outside the Montego Bay Convention Centre yesterday, urging Caribbean leaders to break diplomatic ties with Israel over what they...
WESTERN BUREAU: Fifteen years ago, Winston Anderson stood at King’s House in Kingston, Jamaica, being sworn in as a judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). On Sunday, in a powerful, full-circle moment, he returned to the spotlight, this...
WESTERN BUREAU: Fifteen years after joining the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its youngest judge, Jamaica-born Justice Winston Anderson has reached a new milestone. Anderson was sworn in as the court’s fourth president on the cusp of CARICOM...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has declared that dismantling criminal gangs across the Caribbean must be treated with the urgency of the global war on terror. Holness warned that organised violence now poses a public health threat...
On the heels of the opening of its new state-of-the-art air-chill processing plant in January, CB Group has even more to celebrate after being named the RJRGLEANER Honour Awards’ Platinum Award recipient for its achievements in...
The contract killer who is going to prison for the execution-style murder of a Manchester sales representative was released from a juvenile prison just over a year after he was convicted for illegal gun possession as a minor, law enforcement...
Two members of the panel that interviewed candidates for the top post at the Financial Investigations Division (FID) have declined to speak publicly amid mounting pressure on the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service to explain how a key job...
Jamaicans seeking to travel to the United States (US) on a visitor, student or work visa will now face a steep increase in the fees charged by the American government. As set out in the newly signed-into-law ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, Jamaicans wanting...
Dozens of fishermen are lost at sea each year, and in most cases they are ushered home quickly by local marine security. In other instances, much like the case of three fishermen who have been missing at sea for more than a week, they are not so...
They are not all troublemakers – at least, that’s what they are quick to clarify. Most of them are older men from nearby communities, disheartened by life’s hardships, who feel their only choice is to manage public parking spaces and wash cars in...
Clarendon-born fashion designer Mikayla Salmon began nurturing her passion in high school, driven by a dream of one day collaborating with top international brands. That dream took an unexpected leap forward last November when global fast-fashion...
In Jamaica, where general election dates aren’t fixed by law, as the Holness administration closes in on its fifth anniversary since its 2020 re-election, it’s almost time for Jamaica’s to be summoned back to the polls. And according to political...
WESTERN BUREAU: Pundits are gearing up for an exciting showdown in Hanover Western as the constituency heads into the next general election. For the first time in its history, two women, both born and raised in the parish, will be vying for a seat...
A visibly frustrated Glenda Wright reluctantly opened the door to her two-bedroom home in Portland Cottage, Clarendon, later admitting that she thought the Sunday Gleaner team was from yet another “agency”, coming around to offer more empty...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s Ambassador to Japan, Shorna-Kay Richards, is calling for global nuclear disarmament, urging the passengers aboard the Peace Boat to “never give up the fight” for peace, justice, and a nuclear-free world. Delivering a...
Curtis Martin has retired as managing director of the JN Financial Group Limited, effective July 1. In a released yesterday evening, Earl Jarrett, chief executive officer of The Jamaica National Group Limited, parent company of JN Financial Group...
Members of the Jamaican diaspora in the United States are condemning the new excise tax of one per cent on money remitted to Jamaica, effective December 31 this year. The one per cent tax is set out in the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passed by the US...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding is urging People’s National Party (PNP) supporters not to succumb to pressure he said will come from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) for their votes in the coming general election. Golding, who was speaking at the...
Persons traversing the roadway near the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday morning were greeted with an unfamiliar sight – several billboards nailed to palm trees displaying messages of “Free Gaza” and “No to...
A special invitation has been extended to members of the Upper House to the 49th meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government between July 6 and 8 in Montego Bay, St James. Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade...
A Jamaican businesswoman, who accused immigration authorities of unlawfully seizing her passport, scored a major victory in court on Friday when the document was returned to her after nearly seven months in government custody. The passport of...
When Rotendo Mukulu decided a year and half ago that she was going to climb to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa, to celebrate her 50th birthday, she had never even hiked before. Nonetheless, the immigration adviser believed...
WESTERN BUREAU: The school family at Glendevon Primary and Junior High, in St James, is today celebrating the success of their grade-six cohort as, despite sitting their 2025 Primary Exit Profile examination during a riot in the community, 30 of...
