Lawyers maintain threat to withdraw criminal court services for one week starting Monday

Defence lawyers are maintaining their threat to withdraw services from Jamaica’s criminal courts for one week, beginning Monday, September 28, as their concerns over mandatory minimum sentences under the firearms laws remain unresolved. The planned withdrawal is expected to continue through Friday, October 2, following a nearly two-hour meeting on Thursday between representatives of the Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR), the Advocates’ Association of Jamaica (AAJ) and Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Delroy Chuck.

Senators hail Balford Henry as journalism stalwart

COJO awardees receive career guidance

Nineteen young Jamaicans received career guidance, professional insights and practical advice as the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI), in partnership with Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO), staged the second cohort of its Speed Mentorship Programme in Kingston. Held at the KingAlarm Training Room on Caledonia Avenue, the initiative connected COJO awardees wth experienced professionals for a series of focused discussions on career planning, workplace readiness, skills development, professional conduct, and the demands of an evolving labour market.

Dolly Parton’s nephew ordered to stay away from estate staff, properties

Nigeria busts second Mexican cartel-linked meth lab

Daughters remember veteran musician Jackie Jackson as devoted dad

WESTERN BUREAU: To the world, Clifton ‘Jackie’ Jackson was the legendary bass guitarist whose fingers helped shape some of Jamaican music’s most enduring recordings. To his four daughters, he was simply ‘Dad’, the quiet protector who wanted them to have the things he never had, helped negotiate the purchase of their cars, loved giving them gifts and, above all, raised them to become fiercely independent women.

Earth Today | From waste to worth

IN THE Caribbean, the sea is never far away. It feeds families, supports tourism, connects our islands, and is woven into our way of life. But, too often, the things we throw away also find their way there. More than 300,000 tons of plastic go uncollected in the Caribbean each year, while some coastlines record as many as 2,000 waste items per kilometre, around 80 per cent of them plastic. But, what if we stopped thinking of these materials simply as waste?

Earth Today | ‘Keep 1.5 alive’

SMALL ISLAND developing states (SIDS) are insisting that countries set clear, concrete commitments to strengthen the global response to climate change and put the world back on a path towards the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal. This temperature goal is considered a critical threshold for limiting devastating climate change impacts – from extreme weather events to impaired food and water security, compromised public health, and disrupted national economies.

First One Music turns up the heat with Future Fambo’s ‘Red Light, Pepper Light’

Vaz announces earlier departure for new Port Antonio to Kingston JUTC route

Royal Caribbean Group and Sandals Resorts announce landmark partnership

Royal Caribbean Group and Sandals Resorts announce landmark partnership

Kevin Downswell leads Sterling Gospel Music Awards noms

Kevin Downswell leads Sterling Gospel Music Awards noms

Seiveright calls for impartial probe into fatal police shooting in North Central St Andrew

Member of Parliament for North Central St Andrew, Delano Seiveright, has called for a thorough, impartial and timely investigation into the September 16 fatal police shooting of 35-year-old Shane Castleton on Karl Samuda Avenue, popularly known as Black Ants Lane, off Red Hills Road. Seiveright made the call during a meeting on Monday with the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Commissioner, Hugh Faulkner, and other senior officials at the commission’s New Kingston head office.

Bartlett: Pension enrolment could become condition for tourism licensing

WESTERN BUREAU: The hospitality sector could eventually be required to enrol workers in the Tourism Workers Pension Scheme (TWPS) as a condition of licensing under an expansion being proposed by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett. Bartlett has also set a target of increasing membership in the $6-billion fund from approximately 11,000 workers to 50,000 by 2028 as the Government moves to bring more informal workers into the retirement safety net.

Mt Pleasant suffer back-to-back JPL defeats to start season

Iley Dread celebrates 31 years of Kings Of Kings Productions with new album

NSWMA partners with stakeholders for coastal cleanup at Johnson Town Beach, Hanover

Excellence In Music honoured

Excellence In Music honoured

Harvest heartbreak

For Angella Jones, the hardest part of farming is not the work. It is putting everything she has into the ground, watching crops fail repeatedly, and then having to find the money to start all over again. Jones shared that reality during an interview with The Sunday Gleaner on Tuesday as she sat beneath a mango tree, struggling to keep her tears at bay while describing the toll months of drought and extreme heat have taken on her farm in Flagaman, St Elizabeth.

Norman Manley book spot in Manning Cup second round

Fashion Block returns, as Saint International set to ignite downtown renaissance with WIFAX-Style Art & Architecture week

Rebuilt smart labs inspire hope

In communities where the scars of Hurricane Melissa are still visible, two Jamaican primary schools are finding reasons to look ahead. At Unity Primary School in Westmoreland and Anchovy Primary School in St James, the hurricane tore through infrastructure, damaging roofs and destroying classrooms and learning resources. But while repairs to the wider school plants continue, the drive to keep children learning has not stopped.

Jason Arday’s story - A tale of two dons - Part 1

The story of Professor Jason Arday and his relatively brief engagement with Cambridge University as what it trumpeted as its “youngest Black professor ever” is now well known internationally. It is, of course, a tragic tale, and one that did not end with Arday’s unexpected death on August 14, 2026.

Mbappe ends Nike partnership to join Swiss brand On

New roofs, fresh start for Kendal schools

For teachers and students at two schools in Kendal, Manchester, the new school term began with more than the excitement of returning to the classroom; they also returned to learning spaces made safer after Hurricane Melissa damaged their roofs.

Bedward The Musical to showcase at Lauderhill Performing Arts Center on Sept 19 and 2

SPARK main roads component to start in St James this month — Morgan

Main roads component of SPARK Programme set to start this month

Work is set to commence this month under the main roads component of the Shared Prosperity through Accelerated Improvement to Our Road Network (SPARK) Programme. The Government has earmarked $25 billion to rehabilitate 37 priority roads under the Main Roads component of the Programme. SPARK is a $45-billion infrastructure programme to modernise more than 600 roads across the island and represents a major government intervention to address decades of underinvestment in the public road network.

King Charles disputes claims in book by Princess Diana’s brother

$100K mobile phones but no textbooks

WESTERN BUREAU: A senior school administrator is challenging parents to rethink their priorities as the new school year gets under way, noting that some are spending heavily on their children’s fashion and gadgets while failing to provide basic learning materials. In a post on social media site Facebook, Linvern Wright, principal of the Trelawny-based William Knibb Memorial High School, highlighted what he sees as a troubling contradiction.

Bartley’s, Ettenio join forces to package J’can luxury

WESTERN BUREAU: Two female-led Jamaican companies are betting that collaboration, local ingredients and a strong sense of place can give home-grown manufacturers a bigger slice of the lucrative tourism and corporate markets. Manchester-based Bartley’s All in Wood and natural self-care brand Ettenio have joined forces to create curated Jamaican experience boxes, marrying locally made wooden packaging with Jamaican-made skin, body and wellness products.

No start date as yet to TCN agreement — Johnson Smith

Facebook, TikTok shut off in Equatorial Guinea after viral corruption video

Ewarton main road blocked — police

Statin urges households selected for 2026 Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions to take part

Sugar Cain promises powerful music, deep message

Sugar Cain

KINGSTON BOOKSHOP’S $1-B EXPANSION

Kingston Bookshop opens

Visual Vibe takes screens off-grid with solar partnership

Visual Vibe takes screens

Visual Vibe to take screens off-grid with solar partnership

Visual Vibe takes screens

Artists exit Ed Sheeran tour in solidarity with Macklemore pro-Palestinian comments

Several acts booked for Ed Sheeran's tour have pulled out to stand with Macklemore after his pro-Palestinian comments. The American rapper has been vocal about Gaza, and his stance appears to have set off the walkouts. Neither the departing artists nor Sheeran's camp has spelled out the arrangements around the exits. The shake-up comes while the tour is still mid-run, leaving slots to fill on upcoming dates.

Newell donates second vehicle to Horace Clarke High auto department

Newell has donated a second vehicle to the automotive department at Horace Clarke High. The car gives students another machine to work on during hands-on lessons. It is the second vehicle the program has received from the donor.

‘Run-A-Boat’ Culture & Food Festival returns to Florida

Music in her bones

Music in her bones

Emmy Awards begin as ‘Widow’s Bay’ and ‘The Pitt’ vie for top prizes

Balford Henry, award-winning veteran journalist, dies at 74

Ministry targets book list abuse

Ministry targets book list abuse

VaChikepe The Poet to release new album

Body camera video offers a rare look inside an immigration raid at a NY factory

The sprawling snack-food factory in upstate New York appeared to be closed when a small army of immigration officers arrived after 9 a.m. Following a brief discussion of whether to force their way inside, a manager opened the front door. Over the next several hours, body cameras were running as federal authorities from several agencies made 57 arrests, debated which files to seize and when to release employees who were United States citizens. They also searched for anyone in hiding.

Person of interest in artiste’s shooting held by police

Sher Luxury Doll takes a ‘Victory Lap’ into music production

Sher Luxury Doll takes a ‘Victory Lap’ into music production