The back-to-school Kicker’s Club Shoe Drive, which has been undertaken for the past few years as a joint venture between the Friends of Porus (FOP) and Give Back Jamaica Inc (GBJ), continues to benefit students across the island. Students from...

Western Bureau: The South Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA) has forged a J$34-million partnership with the Belgium-based TUI Care Foundation, which will foster a major reforestation eco-tourism and development initiative in that section of the...

TORONTO: Fifty-six years after immigrating to Canada from Jamaica, veteran labour movement leader and community advocate, Herman Stewart, 75, has launched his memoir, A Labour of Love: In Pursuit of Just Causes. Chronicling his journey from...

WESTERN BUREAU: SUPERINTENDENT OF Police Mercedes Currie, the acting commanding officer for the St James Police Division, is urging parents to take their role as disciplinarians seriously and not expect schools to take charge of their children’s...

A pall of gloom now hangs over a Westmoreland community where a three-year-old boy was electrocuted at his home. The police have identified him as Tamani Flemmings of Nile district, Westmoreland. Reports are that about 9 a.m. the child got...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamina Johnson Smith says the Jamaican man who was deported by the US to Eswatini is now back home in Jamaica. Orville Etoria, was deported to Eswatini in July and held in a maximum-security prison in the African...

Investigators assigned to the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division (FNID) of the police force seized more than 1900 pounds of ganja during an operation in Dumfries, St Thomas on Sunday. The Jamaica Constabulary Force's Corporate...

Detectives assigned to the St Andrew South Police Division have listed 37-year-old Samuel Brown, otherwise known as Shooter or Mark, of Four Forty Drive, Kingston 11, as wanted for the murder of 49-year-old Oneil Mullings of Thompson View Avenue,...

NEW YORK (AP) — ABC will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show in the wake of criticism over his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, officials with the network said Monday. “We have spent the last days...

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After deflecting the United States Justice Department’s attack on its illegal monopoly in online search, Google is facing another attempt to dismantle its internet empire in a trial focused on its abusive tactics in digital advertising. The trial...

Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited, the operator of Caymanas Park, says it is shocked and saddened by the tragic death of veteran jockey Oneil Mullings. Mullings was gunned down on Sunday in his St Andrew community. The police...

Fifty-two-year-old farmer Cleveland Hird, also known as ‘Prick’ of Gibraltar Heights, Annotto Bay, St Mary, has been charged for chopping a man in a machete attack in his community. Hird was charged on Saturday with wounding with intent. Reports...

Twenty-nine-year-old Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth businessman Jermaine Stewart has been charged by the police in St James with fraud in connection to a car-buying deal. Reports from the Barnett Street police are that a woman reportedly had an...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Sunday they have confiscated some of the cocaine transported by a speedboat that was destroyed recently by the US Navy, as the Trump administration carries out a controversial anti...

MIAMI (AP) — Gabrielle strengthened into a major hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday but was forecast to remain away from land. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Gabrielle’s maximum sustained winds were 120 mph (191 kph),...

The decomposing body of an elderly man was found at his home on Burke Road in Old Harbour, St Catherine on Sunday. He has been identified as 77-year-old Leslie Topping. Reports are that around 6:20 p.m., passers-by noticed a foul smell in the...

My article on the history of Hannah Town, which was published in The Gleaner on August 25, had feedback from people who grew up in and around Hannah Town in the 1950s. These readers pointed to omissions about Hannah Town in my original article. I...

The UNESCO Information For All Programme (IFAP) Working Group on Information Accessibility (WGIA) will host its sixth annual online one-day AI4IA Conference on September 28 to commemorate the International Day for Universal Access to Information (...

On August 31, Joan Phillips-Bennett, also known as Ade Nima, launched the first episode of her newly rebranded the Empower Exceptionalities Jamaica (EEJ) Podcast. The journey to this point has been layered with vision, courage, and an unshakable...

If you could, would you pay to live forever? Some Silicon Valley billionaires aren’t just making tech products, they’ve set their sights on immortality. Social media is flooded with influencers promoting peptides, “functional” mushroom powders and...

The Fi We Children Foundation (FWCF) hosted the sixth annual International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day activity at the Coral Gardens Citizen Association Beach, joining millions of volunteers across the globe in the 40th staging of the world’s largest...

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Gabrielle formed Sunday in the open Atlantic southeast of Bermuda, while Tropical Storm Narda emerged well off southern Mexico's Pacific coast. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Gabrielle became a Category 1...

A gunman who allegedly challenged police personnel in St Catherine Sunday morning has been fatally shot and a loaded gun seized from him. The deceased has been identified as Kenroy Richards, otherwise called 'Pops', unemployed, of Wakefield...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is mourning the sudden death of one of its members, who collapsed at his St Catherine home on Saturday morning after complaining of feeling unwell. Dead is 57-year-old Constable Mark Melhado of the JCF’s...

The police seized an illegal firearm and ammunition inside a bar along Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew on Saturday morning. A 19-year-old man of a Cassia Park Road address was arrested and charged. Reports are that the firearm was seized after...

WASHINGTON, CMC – As United States President Donald Trump steps up military build-up in the Caribbean Sea, Amnesty International is warning that any airstrikes authorised by Congress would violate international human rights law and could amount to...

LAST WEEK, we discussed Judas Iscariot whose self-unforgiveness led to his decision to take his own life. Judas betrayed Jesus, and instead of letting go of his guilt and shame, he allowed the lies of the enemy to lead him down a path of ultimate...

YOU ARE at the eve of your miracle. That is why things are getting extremely rough. Don’t give up now, please! Push on! You are about to break forth. Yes, most divinely-appointed projects, dreams, visions, lives go through stages, periods of...

THE SERVICE of Investiture and Enthronement of the Rt Rev Leon Golding, the 15th Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands is set for Sunday, September 28 at 3:30 p.m., in the St James’ Cathedral of St Jago de la Vega. The...

School is back in session, bringing new routines – and new milestones for students. For some, this is the year they are allowed to go home to an empty house instead of an after-school programme or day care. It’s a decision faced by many parents...

NEW YORK (AP): When we make mistakes at work, it can lead to a cycle of negative thinking. The damaging thoughts swirl: “I’m an impostor.” “I’m not smart enough.” “I’m failing at my job.” Feeling like an impostor – doubting one’s own abilities...

NEW YORK: Education Minister Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon has called for greater cooperation between the ministry and the US-based Union of Jamaican Alumni Associations (UJAA) to help move the sector forward in the country. To this end, the...

TORONTO: Jamaica Tourist Board representatives last week hailed the special relationship which it shares with its Canada market, which has seen steady growth in the last year with significant developments planned for the sector. Addressing a press...

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Twenty-six students of Jamaican heritage attending Howard University were awarded scholarships totalling US$107,000 at the Jamaica Howard University Affinity Network’s (JHUAN) seventh annual HUes of Blue fundraising reception,...