For Timara Jackson, the two-year relationship she’s shared with the girls who reside at the Annie Dawson Children’s Home, awakened her inner advocate. “I am quite an introverted person, but working with the home, I realised they need people to be a...
More than 1,000 students have been assisted in entering the new school year with renewed confidence, thanks to Excelerate Energy, Inc’s flagship back-to-school initiative. The programme, designed to support high-potential students from families...
The Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) Awards Nomination Cocktail, held last week at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in new Kingston, saw a record 188 nominations across 28 award categories, marking the largest in the event’s history...
Commonwealth high commissioners, including representatives from Jamaica, have approved a five-year strategic plan for the Commonwealth Secretariat to deliver focused support for the 2.7 billion people it serves. To set the stage for a new era of...
The SheSecures Jamaica cybersecurity competition has been lauded for its role in helping to bolster the country’s cyberresilience and empowering women in the growing cybersecurity sector. The Ministry of National Security, in partnership with the...
British boxer Ricky Hatton, the former world champion who rose to become one of the most popular fighters in the sport, has died. He was 46. Hatton was found dead at his home in Greater Manchester, Britain's Press Association reported Sunday....
A Manchester funeral director has been charged after allegedly breaking into a house and stealing items valued at $127,000 - including a queen-sized sheet set - in College Meadows, May Day district, earlier this month. The accused, 34-year-old...
Jamaican authorities are probing the suspected drowning of a 58-year-old American tourist who died while snorkeling in Ocho Rios, St Ann, on Saturday. The deceased, a male, was reportedly from Port Charlotte in Florida. He was a guest at Sandals...
(AP) - Qatar's prime minister denounced Israel on Sunday as foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim nations met to discuss a possible unified response to Israel's attack on Doha targeting the leadership of the militant group Hamas. “The reckless...
The police have arrested a businessman and a woman in St Mary after seizing 13 imitation rifles and an imitation pistol during an operation linked to a multi-million dollar fraud investigation. The arrests, carried out on Saturday, in White River...
Manchester City is back to winning ways. Manchester United is back to square one. City utterly dominated the 197th Manchester derby on Sunday, winning 3-0 on another humbling day for United coach Ruben Amorim. It could have been so much worse for...
Investigators in St Catherine have launched a probe after the decomposed body of a 52-year-old security guard, who was reported missing last week, was discovered in a bushy section of an abandoned quarry and reservoir in Tredegar Park. The...
A St Catherine accused accused of fatally stabbing another man during a vigil in Williamsfied earlier this year was remanded when he appeared in the parish court on Friday. The accused is 25-year-old Shavaughn ‘Mongoose’ McBean of Williamsfied...
FOR ALMOST a century, at 99 years old, Pastor Howard Holmes has lived a life defined by unwavering faith, exemplary service and a resolute commitment to ministry, igniting a spiritual legacy which has touched lives across generations and borders. “...
YOU MAY have heard of Saint Augustine. Let’s drop the title saint and call him Augustine. Before his conversion to Christianity, Augustine’s full name was Aurelius Augustinus. He was born in Tagaste, Numidia (present-day Algeria) in 354 AD. His...
AS WE approach Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year which begins on September 22 at sundown and concludes after nightfall on the 24th, it is a season of awe, repentance and trembling. On these days, the shofar is sounded as a cry to stir our souls...
It’s that time of year when many parents see their kids head off to college or leave home to start their working lives. For parents and guardians, experts say, the separation from their children can cause mixed feelings of loss, grief, loneliness,...
NEW YORK (AP): When Kate Smith worked a 9-to-5 office job, she was burned-out, suffering from daily migraines and thinking, “I can’t do this for the rest of my life.” She didn’t have to. For her next role, Smith landed a remote, full-time marketing...
TORONTO: A Jamaican-led men’s health interest and prostate cancer support group has chosen September, Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, to offer a scholarship to black medical students at the new Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) School of...
The Caribbean School of Architecture (CSA), University of Technology, has launched Jamaica’s first indoor mobile skatepark which is a fully transportable facility, equipped with a professional mini ramp and street course, designed to bring...
The latest general election witnessed a historic third term for Andrew Holiness and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), overcoming Mark Golding and the People’s National Party (PNP) – the points of contestation surrounding the proliferating living...
‘Lights, Camera, Legacy’, was a powerful reminder to the 2025 Carlton Alexander Memorial Bursary recipients, as they were encouraged to step out into the spotlight, during the 35th staging of the awards ceremony, held at the GraceKennedy offices...
SINCE FEBRUARY, the Jamaica Music Museum (JaMM) has been giving access to the public to its exhibition, ‘African to Jamaican: Music and Creolized Black Culture’, in its main gallery situated inside the Institute of Jamaica at Tower Street, downtown...
“Train crash! Train crash! Help is needed, all cadets are needed to rescue the injured!” shouted Neville Gallimore in the corridors of Cedar Hall, the men’s dormitory at West Indian Training College (WITC). It was the wee hours of the morning in...
FOR MANY years, the desire for a separate building to house the Jamaica Music Museum (JaMM) has been languishing in some people’s head, and now it seems like it has jumped out of their head and has hit the ground hard. For, on Sunday, August 31,...
The Gleaner’s André Williams has been selected from a competitive pool of international media professionals to participate in the upcoming US Foreign Press Tour, organised by the Meridian International Center in partnership with the US Department...
WESTERN BUREAU: Aubyn Green, acting water production engineer at the National Water Commission (NWC), says that ongoing water supply challenges in Montego Bay will be significantly improved once the Western Resilience Pipeline Project begins....
WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent Eron Samuels, head of the St James Police Division, has promised to provide an official update to the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) on the long-delayed construction of a new police station in Granville. The...
A Resolution has been moved by the St Thomas Municipal Corporation to rename St Georges Street in Morant Bay to Toni-Ann Singh Street, in honour of the former Miss World, who hails from the parish. During the monthly meeting of the Corporation...
Minister with responsibility for works, Robert Nesta Morgan, says he has written to Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake requesting an urgent investigation into alleged threats made against workers and China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) staff...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The majority of a panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices on Thursday voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro of attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat, in a ruling that will...
An announcement by the People’s National Party (PNP) that it is contemplating filing a case with the Constituted Authority about the conduct of last week’s election in the constituency of St Andrew West Central has been dismissed by the Jamaica...
The statue of sprint legend Usain Bolt promised for Water Square Falmouth since 2019 was finally erected recently, but work continues to get it ready for the official unveiling. "We are waiting on plans from the Ministry of Sports Entertainment...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s top court ruled on Thursday that an apartheid-era law banning husbands from taking their wife’s family name or hyphenating both spouses’ surnames was unconstitutional. The ruling by the Constitutional Court,...
People’s National Party (PNP) president Mark Golding says he will continue to lead as long as the party maintains confidence in him. Golding, addressing a PNP post-general election event today, said he is someone who believes in service and will...
