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...

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...

The PNP Patriots, the young professional affiliate of the People’s National Party (PNP), says it is backing the continued leadership of PNP President Mark Golding and the party's General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell following the outcome of the...

The body of a man was found face down in a pile of garbage in an open lot in the community of Clayton Heights, located along St John's Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on Wednesday night. He has been identified as 24-year-old customer service...

The police in Trelawny are probing the death of a man whose body was found inside his home in Hague Settlement on Wednesday night. He is 25-year-old labourer Jammie Brown. The police report that about 10:30, Brown was found hanging from the...

People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has stated that the party does not intend to seek a magisterial recount in any constituency following last week’s general election. Further, Golding said that all but one Member of Parliament-...

Farmers in Hayfield, St Thomas are now better equipped to manage the impacts of disasters, particularly hurricanes, following an interagency training session. The Agriculture Disaster Risk Management training, held at Hayfield Primary and Infant...

The police are seeking to locate a caller who caused a security scare at the Seaview Gardens Police Station in St Andrew on Wednesday. According to police reports, around 3:20 p.m., a male caller claimed that an explosive device had been planted...

The Supreme Court has granted an interim injunction blocking Commissioner of Police Dr Kevin Blake from removing Senior Superintendent Wayne Cameron as chairman of the Police Officers’ Association (POA). It marks an escalation of a spat between...

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario (AP) — A young child was killed when an SUV smashed through the window of a daycare north of Toronto shortly before pick-up time on Wednesday. York Regional Police said the boy was just 1 1/2 years old. Six other children...