Christmas greetings to all! Well-wishers will wish you peace, joy and happiness for the Christmas and into the New Year. Whether or not these wishes are sincere, is another story, but no need to question that. This is just what people do at this...

This will be your year of rising again! You have been pushed down. You were defeated, dethroned and dejected. You were rejected, wounded and mocked. Your hope, dreams and aspirations were dashed and trampled upon. And now you have totally given up...

Chabad of Jamaica, in partnership with the Jamaica Tourist Board, will host Jamaica’s first-ever One Love, One Light music festival at Chances Beach in Negril on Sunday, December 29. Open to the public, this special event will bring together over 1...

The Salvation Army started out by William Booth in 1865 as The Christian Mission. It became The Salvation Army in 1887. Booth appointed himself the general of The Salvation Army, and his wife, Catherine, was named ‘Mother of the Salvation Army’....

Camille Downer-Bell, born in late 1987, became the first grandchild of Alice and Noel Downer. But long before her arrival, her grandparents, who had already established a tradition of giving back, suggested that the family honour her birth by...

A computer programmer has been charged with fraudulent conversion in relation to the sale of a motor vehicle. He is 50-year-old Mark Prestwidge, of Island Drive, Kingston 19. The St Andrew police say the complainant transferred US$4,000 ...

Councillor for the Maxfield Division, Dennis Gordon, says he has withdrawn from the Building and Town Planning Committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) with immediate effect amid a probe surrounding...

The St Catherine South police are still trying to ascertain the identity of a man who was fatally shot by the police on Friday night after he allegedly stabbed another man repeatedly and later attacked a policeman. Police reports state that about 8...

A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in sections of Brown's Town, Dunkirk, Kingston 16. The curfew began at 6:00 p.m. on Friday and will remain in effect until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. The boundaries of the curfew are as follows: North: Along an...

This Christmas, Fontana Pharmacy teamed up with Jamaican personality Tami Chin-Mitchell and social media influencer Toni-Ann Bedassie to bring joy to Mary’s Child, one of the beneficiaries of its Wishing Tree Programme. The initiative focuses on...

LONDON: A group of campaigners in Harlesden has launched a bold initiative to prevent a historic community centre in Brent, northwest London, from being demolished to make way for a multi-purpose regeneration project. The Harlesden People’s...

LONDON: One of the United Kingdom’s leading solicitors is launching a charity to boost the academic potential of young people from under-privileged backgrounds. Trevor Sterling, whose parents are from Manchester in Jamaica, decided to start the ‘...

Homer Davis, Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister Western, has expressed disappointment at the level of recognition being given to National Hero Samuel Sharpe and Sam Sharpe Day.  Speaking at the annual Sam Sharpe Flames of...

A retired soldier has been charged in relation to a farm work scam through which he allegedly defrauded two women more than $1 million in June this year. Fifty-six-year-old Phillip Panton is charged with obtaining money by means of false...

The Island Traffic Authority (ITA) has partnered with TotalEnergies on the petroleum entity's 'Helmet 4 Life' initiative, which is intended to distribute certified helmets to motorcyclists and pillion riders islandwide. Manager for...

Investigators assigned to the St Andrew North Police Division seized a shotgun during an operation in Cashew Ridge, Jacks Hill on Thursday. Reports from the Grants Pen police are that about 4:00 a.m., lawmen, acting on information, conducted an...

Entertainment Minister Olivia Grange says it is regrettable to see the postponement of popular dancehall concert Sting. On the day of the event yesterday, Supreme Promotions Ltd, organiser of Sting 2024, announced that it could not go ahead with...

Effective April 1, 2025, the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) will revise the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) framework to make provisions for the elimination of annual renewals of SEZ Operating Certificates for Developers and Occupants...

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – A Jamaican national died and three others have been hospitalised with serious injuries following a single-vehicle collision in the Cayman Islands on Thursday. Romario Jacquet, 26, of Rockfort in East...

For Makenzie Gilkison, spelling is such a struggle that a word like rhinoceros might come out as “rineanswsaurs” or sarcastic as “srkastik.” The 14-year-old can sound out words, but her dyslexia makes the process so draining that she often...

The Jamaica National Group brought the warmth of the season straight to the heart of Half-Way Tree in St Andrew recently with pop-up performances by the National Chorale of Jamaica, Kingston College Choir, Immaculate Conception High School’s praise...

The man who escaped custody while at court and injured a policeman in St Mary last month has been charged following his capture on Tuesday. Thirty-one-year-old Oshane Scott, otherwise called 'Chin Chin', a labourer of Manchester Lane in...

Production company Clearsound Production Services Group Limited has hit back at the organiser of Sting 2024 stating that it failed to pay over millions and suggested that it operated in a way that breached their contract. According to...

A Manchester man who is in custody for allegedly murdering his elderly landlord in July 2022 has been charged again, this time in relation to two cases of double murders, one of which involves his aunt. Manchester detectives laid the additional...

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is advising that its Nethersole Place location in downtown Kingston will be closed tomorrow Friday, December 27, to facilitate necessary emergency repairs to the building. The BOJ says it will activate its Essential...

Kwanzaa is a celebration of the African culture, commemorated in countries with large African descendant populations, such as the United States, Jamaica, France, Canada, and Brazil. Founded in 1966, the holiday, which serves as a nationwide...

The Hayes police in Clarendon are investigating the death of a man whose body was found at his home with burn marks. Dead is 59-year-old truck driver Walter Tomlinson of Savannah district in the parish. Reports are that about 12:20 p.m. on...

A motorcyclist who reportedly tried to 'undertake' a truck in Westmoreland was one of three people who died in early-morning motor vehicle crashes on Christmas Day. Killed in the Westmoreland crash are 22-year-old Andre Clarke, otherwise...

The Independent Commission of Investigations is probing the shooting of a man by a policeman in Bannister district in Old Harbour, St Catherine. Reports are that about 9:00 p.m., the policeman was at home with family members listening to music...

An elderly woman was killed in a fire at her home in Auldayr, Bluefield, Westmoreland this morning. She has been identified as 91-year-old Katleen Scott. The woman's daughter, Marlene Scott, told The Gleaner that she woke to use the bathroom...

Background music is no longer an afterthought at many international airports, which are hiring local musicians and carefully curating playlists to help lighten travelers’ moods. London’s Heathrow Airport built a stage to showcase emerging British...

Jamaicans are being urged to critically evaluate the information they consume and adopt a more safety-conscious approach when venturing out in public. Head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Corporate Communications Unit (CCN), Senior...

The Grace and Staff Community Development Foundation recently completed its annual Christmas outreach, spreading joy and delivering much-needed care packages to approximately 1,000 senior citizens across several communities in Kingston and St...

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) is urging citizens not to turn on lights if they suspect a gas leak in their homes. “If you enter… your house and you smell gas, never ever turn on a light. Once you flick a light switch, a spark goes off in the...

A financial burden lifted! This was the sentiment shared by Narobi Wright, a Midwifery student at the College of Health Sciences, University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica, as she gave the response on behalf of this year’s Chinese Ambassador’s...