Jamaica



A grandmother’s charge

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...

Croskery, Meany, Harding hit with multiple charges in SSL fraud case

More than a dozen criminal charges have been filed against the three people who were taken into custody on Saturday in connection with the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud at the collapsed investment firm Stocks...
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Croskery, Meany, Harding hit with multiple charges in SSL fraud case

More than a dozen criminal charges have been filed against the three people who were taken into custody on Saturday in connection with the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud at the collapsed investment firm Stocks...

St Elizabeth police seize illegal firearm during operation

The St Elizabeth police seized an illegal firearm during an operation in the parish on Saturday as part of their ongoing crackdown on prohibited weapons. No one was arrested in connection with the find. According to the police, the seizure was...
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St Elizabeth police seize illegal firearm during operation

The St Elizabeth police seized an illegal firearm during an operation in the parish on Saturday as part of their ongoing crackdown on prohibited weapons. No one was arrested in connection with the find. According to the police, the seizure was...

Names released of victims in Edward Seaga Highway crash

The St Catherine police have released the identities of two people who died as a result of a motor vehicle crash along the Edward Seaga Highway on Saturday. The victims have been identified as 33-year-old Ricardo Collins of Binns Road, Kingston...
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Names released of victims in Edward Seaga Highway crash

The St Catherine police have released the identities of two people who died as a result of a motor vehicle crash along the Edward Seaga Highway on Saturday. The victims have been identified as 33-year-old Ricardo Collins of Binns Road, Kingston...

Yaakov Raskin | When life takes an unexpected turn: finding strength through divine providence

After Hurricane Melissa, many people’s realities got flipped 180 degrees. Familiar locations and routines were disrupted overnight. Not only were homes damaged, but work was halted, and families, students and governments all had to adapt to a new...
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Yaakov Raskin | When life takes an unexpected turn: finding strength through divine providence

After Hurricane Melissa, many people’s realities got flipped 180 degrees. Familiar locations and routines were disrupted overnight. Not only were homes damaged, but work was halted, and families, students and governments all had to adapt to a new...

Decriminalising sexual activity among minors

The public debate on decriminalising consensual sexual activity among minors raises serious moral, pastoral, and legal concerns. The Church welcomes sincere efforts to protect children from unnecessary criminalisation, stigma, and trauma. At the...
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Decriminalising sexual activity among minors

The public debate on decriminalising consensual sexual activity among minors raises serious moral, pastoral, and legal concerns. The Church welcomes sincere efforts to protect children from unnecessary criminalisation, stigma, and trauma. At the...

Of St John’s Anglican Church and Allison Morris Part IV – Picking up the pieces

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa left Jamaica before nightfall, leaving people in the path on which she swirled violently in utter disbelief over the great extent of the destruction she had created. In five hours or so, their entire lives were upended...
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Of St John’s Anglican Church and Allison Morris Part IV – Picking up the pieces

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa left Jamaica before nightfall, leaving people in the path on which she swirled violently in utter disbelief over the great extent of the destruction she had created. In five hours or so, their entire lives were upended...

Venezuelan migrants sent to El Salvador demand justice

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Men who were part of the group of Venezuelan migrants that the United States government transferred earlier this year to a prison in El Salvador demanded justice on Friday, days after a federal judge in Washington ruled...
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Venezuelan migrants sent to El Salvador demand justice

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Men who were part of the group of Venezuelan migrants that the United States government transferred earlier this year to a prison in El Salvador demanded justice on Friday, days after a federal judge in Washington ruled...

Russia strikes Kyiv a day before Zelenskyy-Trump meeting

KYIV, Ukraine (AP): Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with ballistic missiles and drones on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding 27, a day before talks between the leaders of Ukraine and the United States, authorities said. Explosions...
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Russia strikes Kyiv a day before Zelenskyy-Trump meeting

KYIV, Ukraine (AP): Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with ballistic missiles and drones on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding 27, a day before talks between the leaders of Ukraine and the United States, authorities said. Explosions...

Portmore woman charged over alleged false property rental

A 33-year-old woman from Portmore, St Catherine has been charged after allegedly advertising a property for rent, collecting a down payment, and providing a key to a unit that could not later be located. She is Janice Linton from Waterford, a...
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Portmore woman charged over alleged false property rental

A 33-year-old woman from Portmore, St Catherine has been charged after allegedly advertising a property for rent, collecting a down payment, and providing a key to a unit that could not later be located. She is Janice Linton from Waterford, a...

Police probe Boxing Day murder in St Andrew

The police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 42-year-old man in Bull Bay, St Andrew, last night. The deceased has been identified as Damion Headley of Beach Road, Bull Bay. Reports are that about 8 p.m., Headley was on a bridge in the...
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Police probe Boxing Day murder in St Andrew

The police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 42-year-old man in Bull Bay, St Andrew, last night. The deceased has been identified as Damion Headley of Beach Road, Bull Bay. Reports are that about 8 p.m., Headley was on a bridge in the...

Man dies after car overturns in Montego Bay

A 46-year-old man from Green Pond in Montego Bay, St James has died following a motor vehicle crash in the Rose Mount community in the parish on Saturday morning. Reports are that the driver, Christopher Clarke, was behind the wheel of a Nissan...
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Man dies after car overturns in Montego Bay

A 46-year-old man from Green Pond in Montego Bay, St James has died following a motor vehicle crash in the Rose Mount community in the parish on Saturday morning. Reports are that the driver, Christopher Clarke, was behind the wheel of a Nissan...

Man killed in St Elizabeth traffic crash

A man said to be of unsound mind was killed in a traffic crash after he reportedly walked into the path of a vehicle in St Elizabeth on Friday night. He has been identified as Phillip Walters, otherwise called 'Junior,' from Haughton in the...
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Man killed in St Elizabeth traffic crash

A man said to be of unsound mind was killed in a traffic crash after he reportedly walked into the path of a vehicle in St Elizabeth on Friday night. He has been identified as Phillip Walters, otherwise called 'Junior,' from Haughton in the...

Decomposing body of farmer found in St Ann

The St Ann police have launched an investigation into the death of a 56-year-old farmer whose decomposing body was discovered in the parish on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Steadman Downer, from Hermitage district in St Ann. Passers...
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Decomposing body of farmer found in St Ann

The St Ann police have launched an investigation into the death of a 56-year-old farmer whose decomposing body was discovered in the parish on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Steadman Downer, from Hermitage district in St Ann. Passers...

Iran’s president says his country is in a 'full-scale' war with the West

(AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday his country is in a full-scale war with the United States, Israel and Europe ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s meeting Monday with US President Donald Trump. Pezeshkian...
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Iran’s president says his country is in a 'full-scale' war with the West

(AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday his country is in a full-scale war with the United States, Israel and Europe ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s meeting Monday with US President Donald Trump. Pezeshkian...

Man dies after car overturns on Montego Bay

A 46-year-old man from Green Pond in Montego Bay, St James has died following a motor vehicle crash in the Rose Mount community in the parish on Saturday morning. Reports are that the driver, Christopher Clarke, was behind the wheel of a Nissan...
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Man dies after car overturns on Montego Bay

A 46-year-old man from Green Pond in Montego Bay, St James has died following a motor vehicle crash in the Rose Mount community in the parish on Saturday morning. Reports are that the driver, Christopher Clarke, was behind the wheel of a Nissan...

Update |Hugh Croskery, daughter Sarah Meany, and Zachary Harding being questioned in SSL probe

Former Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) director Hugh Croskery, his daughter Sarah Meany, and ex-CEO Zachary Harding are being questioned by authorities on «reasonable suspicion» of breaching multiple financial and corporate laws, the...
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Update |Hugh Croskery, daughter Sarah Meany, and Zachary Harding being questioned in SSL probe

Former Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) director Hugh Croskery, his daughter Sarah Meany, and ex-CEO Zachary Harding are being questioned by authorities on «reasonable suspicion» of breaching multiple financial and corporate laws, the...

Security forces raid locations linked to former SSL officials

Members of the security forces are conducting search-and-seizure operations at the homes of senior figures linked to the collapsed investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL). Police are acting under warrants as part of a renewed push in...
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Security forces raid locations linked to former SSL officials

Members of the security forces are conducting search-and-seizure operations at the homes of senior figures linked to the collapsed investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL). Police are acting under warrants as part of a renewed push in...

Update | SSL founder Hugh Croskery seen leaving St Andrew premises with police

Hugh Croskery, founder and former principal of collapsed investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), was seen leaving a St Andrew residence with the police following an operation on Saturday. The Gleaner's news team saw Croskery being...
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Update | SSL founder Hugh Croskery seen leaving St Andrew premises with police

Hugh Croskery, founder and former principal of collapsed investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), was seen leaving a St Andrew residence with the police following an operation on Saturday. The Gleaner's news team saw Croskery being...

Hotelier praises JPS as Treasure Beach regains electricity

WESTERN BUREAU Treasure Beach hotelier Jason Henzell has welcomed the deployment of the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) Emergency Mobile Power Generation Unit, describing the response as timely, coordinated and deeply reassuring for...
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Hotelier praises JPS as Treasure Beach regains electricity

WESTERN BUREAU Treasure Beach hotelier Jason Henzell has welcomed the deployment of the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) Emergency Mobile Power Generation Unit, describing the response as timely, coordinated and deeply reassuring for...

VM, Food For The Poor deliver new home to St Bess family

A family in Myersville, St Elizabeth, has received a new two-bedroom home for the holidays, after Hurricane Melissa, through a partnership between VM Group and Food For The Poor. The home was officially handed over on Tuesday, marking a moment of...
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VM, Food For The Poor deliver new home to St Bess family

A family in Myersville, St Elizabeth, has received a new two-bedroom home for the holidays, after Hurricane Melissa, through a partnership between VM Group and Food For The Poor. The home was officially handed over on Tuesday, marking a moment of...

CB Foods brings holiday cheer to Hanover Infirmary

The Hanover Infirmary, home to some of society’s most vulnerable, received a dose of compassion and celebration this holiday season. The initiative was led by Copperwood Pork’s production team and CB Group’s ‘Do Good’ volunteers, who gave their...
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CB Foods brings holiday cheer to Hanover Infirmary

The Hanover Infirmary, home to some of society’s most vulnerable, received a dose of compassion and celebration this holiday season. The initiative was led by Copperwood Pork’s production team and CB Group’s ‘Do Good’ volunteers, who gave their...

Leicester beauty Kira McKenzie is Miss Jamaica UK 2025

LONDON: Thirty-one-year-old singer Kira McKenzie, representing the parish of St Elizabeth, was crowned Miss Jamaica UK 2025 before an appreciative audience inside the Cavendish Banqueting Suite, Edgware Road, London NW9 on Saturday, November 29....
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Leicester beauty Kira McKenzie is Miss Jamaica UK 2025

LONDON: Thirty-one-year-old singer Kira McKenzie, representing the parish of St Elizabeth, was crowned Miss Jamaica UK 2025 before an appreciative audience inside the Cavendish Banqueting Suite, Edgware Road, London NW9 on Saturday, November 29....

Students reflect on tourism in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa

A trio of high-school students attended the thanksgiving service for the start of the winter tourist season in Jamaica which was held at Burchell Memorial Baptist Church, and later the media brunch and luncheon with Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett...
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Students reflect on tourism in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa

A trio of high-school students attended the thanksgiving service for the start of the winter tourist season in Jamaica which was held at Burchell Memorial Baptist Church, and later the media brunch and luncheon with Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett...

St Catherine bus conductor charged with rape

Police have charged a 50-year-old bus conductor after a woman alleged she was lured to a house with a job offer and sexually assaulted in Old Harbour, St Catherine, in November 2019. Charged is Shalton Bailey, otherwise called ‘Owie’, of...
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St Catherine bus conductor charged with rape

Police have charged a 50-year-old bus conductor after a woman alleged she was lured to a house with a job offer and sexually assaulted in Old Harbour, St Catherine, in November 2019. Charged is Shalton Bailey, otherwise called ‘Owie’, of...

Police probe Christmas Day double murder in Spanish Town

An investigation has been launched by the St Catherine Police Division following a double murder along March Pen Road in Spanish Town on Christmas Day. The victims have been identified as 30-year-old bar operator Shaniel Myers and 28-year-old...
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Police probe Christmas Day double murder in Spanish Town

An investigation has been launched by the St Catherine Police Division following a double murder along March Pen Road in Spanish Town on Christmas Day. The victims have been identified as 30-year-old bar operator Shaniel Myers and 28-year-old...

Update | Alleged suspect in Spanish Town double murder shot dead in alleged police confrontation

An alleged suspect in the Christmas Day double murder along March Pen Road, Spanish Town, was shot dead early this morning during an alleged confrontation with police in St Catherine. The deceased has been identified as Damion McDonald, 43,...
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Update | Alleged suspect in Spanish Town double murder shot dead in alleged police confrontation

An alleged suspect in the Christmas Day double murder along March Pen Road, Spanish Town, was shot dead early this morning during an alleged confrontation with police in St Catherine. The deceased has been identified as Damion McDonald, 43,...

Man shot dead on Christmas Day in Denham Town

The Denham Town police are investigating the murder of a man who was shot and killed in the area on Christmas Day. The deceased has been identified as Ricardo Ellis, 41, otherwise called 'Boyah' and 'Bozza,' of North Street, Kingston 14....
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Man shot dead on Christmas Day in Denham Town

The Denham Town police are investigating the murder of a man who was shot and killed in the area on Christmas Day. The deceased has been identified as Ricardo Ellis, 41, otherwise called 'Boyah' and 'Bozza,' of North Street, Kingston 14....

Former Malaysia PM Najib sentenced to 15 years for corruption

(AP) —Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, has been sentenced to 15 years and a hefty US$2.8 billion in fines after being convicted in a corruption trial. The case is tied to the multibillion-dollar looting of the nation's wealth fund...
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Former Malaysia PM Najib sentenced to 15 years for corruption

(AP) —Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, has been sentenced to 15 years and a hefty US$2.8 billion in fines after being convicted in a corruption trial. The case is tied to the multibillion-dollar looting of the nation's wealth fund...

No ‘box dung’ on Boxing Day

A few days ago, I overheard a conversation between a young mother and her daughter, who looked about six years old. The child wanted to know why Boxing Day is so called, and when it is. The mother answered, “I don’t know,” to both questions,...
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No ‘box dung’ on Boxing Day

A few days ago, I overheard a conversation between a young mother and her daughter, who looked about six years old. The child wanted to know why Boxing Day is so called, and when it is. The mother answered, “I don’t know,” to both questions,...

UWI scientists play key role in UN flagship environmental report

Scientists from the University of the West Indies (UWI) have once again placed the Caribbean at the centre of global environmental discourse, playing a key role in the research, analysis, and development of ‘The Global Environment Outlook, Seventh...
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UWI scientists play key role in UN flagship environmental report

Scientists from the University of the West Indies (UWI) have once again placed the Caribbean at the centre of global environmental discourse, playing a key role in the research, analysis, and development of ‘The Global Environment Outlook, Seventh...

Faith steps in where Melissa left scars

More than 100 residents of the Shrewsbury and Logwood districts in Petersfield, Westmoreland received much-needed health and social services on December 13, as Faith Apostolic Ministries continued its hurricane relief efforts in the area. The...
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Faith steps in where Melissa left scars

More than 100 residents of the Shrewsbury and Logwood districts in Petersfield, Westmoreland received much-needed health and social services on December 13, as Faith Apostolic Ministries continued its hurricane relief efforts in the area. The...

NCB CEO grants wishes of two fathers with children battling cancer

“Without my community, I don’t know how I would survive,” shared Cordell Brown, a business banker at NCB’s Baywest branch in St James. “This donation is coming from home. NCB has been my backbone through this journey, and this contribution reminds..
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NCB CEO grants wishes of two fathers with children battling cancer

“Without my community, I don’t know how I would survive,” shared Cordell Brown, a business banker at NCB’s Baywest branch in St James. “This donation is coming from home. NCB has been my backbone through this journey, and this contribution reminds...

UWJ, CIBC deliver holiday cheer to children with movie night

The United Way of Jamaica (UWJ) , in partnership with title sponsor CIBC Caribbean, recently hosted a movie night for 210 children and 35 caregivers from 10 children’s homes across Jamaica. The event which was held at Carib 5 in Cross Roads,...
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UWJ, CIBC deliver holiday cheer to children with movie night

The United Way of Jamaica (UWJ) , in partnership with title sponsor CIBC Caribbean, recently hosted a movie night for 210 children and 35 caregivers from 10 children’s homes across Jamaica. The event which was held at Carib 5 in Cross Roads,...

Christmas Eve winner in Arkansas lands US$1.817 billion Powerball lottery jackpot

A Powerball ticket purchased at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, won a $1.817 billion jackpot in Wednesday’s Christmas Eve drawing, ending the lottery game’s three-month stretch without a top-prize winner. The winning numbers were 04...
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Christmas Eve winner in Arkansas lands US$1.817 billion Powerball lottery jackpot

A Powerball ticket purchased at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, won a $1.817 billion jackpot in Wednesday’s Christmas Eve drawing, ending the lottery game’s three-month stretch without a top-prize winner. The winning numbers were 04...

Custos of St James urges Jamaicans to embrace compassion, justice and service for Christmas

Custos of St James, Bishop Conrad Pitkin, has called on Jamaicans to embrace compassion, justice, and service this Christmas, reminding them that the birth of Christ remains a source of “great joy for all the people” and a guiding light for...
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Custos of St James urges Jamaicans to embrace compassion, justice and service for Christmas

Custos of St James, Bishop Conrad Pitkin, has called on Jamaicans to embrace compassion, justice, and service this Christmas, reminding them that the birth of Christ remains a source of “great joy for all the people” and a guiding light for...

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