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Man killed in St Elizabeth

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 3:59 PM

The police in St Elizabeth are investigating the death of a man whose body was found along the Myersville main road on Saturday. Reports are that about 2:30 p.m., passers-by stumbled upon the body and summoned the police. Upon arrival, it was...

Homes and businesses urged to prepare premises for safe return of electricity – JPS

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 3:14 PM

The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is encouraging persons in areas impacted by Hurricane Melissa to ensure that their properties are safe to receive power. JPS says homes and businesses affected by flooding, heavy winds, and structural damage of...

US halts all asylum decisions after shooting of National Guard members

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 2:33 PM

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people travelling on Afghan passports, seizing on the National Guard shooting in the nation’s capital to intensify efforts to rein in...

Jamaica could record below 700 murders this year, lowest in nearly 40 years - Holness

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 1:47 PM

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has highlighted Jamaica’s significant progress in reducing violent crime, noting that, for the first time in almost four decades, the island could record fewer than 700 murders this year. Holness, in his address...

Gov’t moves to rebuild Trelawny Municipal Corporation building after Hurricane Melissa

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:15 PM

The Ministry of Local Government and Community Development has identified lands owned by the Trelawny Municipal Corporation for the construction of a new administrative building, following the devastation of the existing structure during Hurricane...

Shooting at barbershop in Commodore leaves owner dead and 80-y-o man injured

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 10:36 AM

Two men were shot, one fatally, at a barbershop in Commodore, St Catherine on Saturday night. Dead is the shop’s operator, 51-year-old Andrew Richards, otherwise called ‘Killer’. The other victim is an 81-year-old man of a Linstead, St Catherine...

Blessing across the west

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:11 AMJanet Silvera - Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU When Hurricane Melissa tore through western Jamaica on October 28, flattening homes, schools, and entire communities, Pastor Mary Wildish’s church, Trumpet Call Ministries, became a beacon of hope. Located in the heavily hit city of...

Intcomex adopts W’land community after Hurricane Melissa

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:10 AM

Intcomex Jamaica has adopted Cave district, Westmoreland, pledging six months of support for one of the communities hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa. The announcement was made on Thursday at the company’s corporate office at the Market Place,...

At least 1,200 trained in psychological first aid to support storm-hit parishes

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:09 AM

About 1,200 people have been trained to deliver psychological first aid in parishes hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa. The training, supported by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, is part of broader efforts by the...

Dept of Correctional Services welcomes 87 new officers

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:09 AM

Eighty-seven recruits have joined the ranks of the Department of Correctional Services following Friday’s Passing-out Parade for the 87th Intake of Correctional Officers at the United Pentecostal Church of Jamaica Camp Site. The intake began...

Portland residents told to guard against rats after floods

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:09 AMGareth Davis Sr - Gleaner Writer

Health officials are warning residents to guard against rodents after Hurricane Melissa disrupted habitats in October. Medical Officer of Health Dr Sharon Lewis and Chief Public Health Inspector Lorenzo Hume said flooding across the parish has...

Sean Major-Campbell | Churches should consolidate not rebuild post-Melissa

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:06 AM

A CATASTROPHIC disaster has presented the Church with a wonderful opportunity to choose between operating from a place of understandably anxious, emotional responses and that place of inspired leadership in the interest of Kingdom work. Many...

‘We always come with Jesus first’

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:06 AMPaul H. Williams - Sunday Gleaner Writer

IN LESS than 48 hours after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, Samaritan’s Purse airlifted the first members of a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and tons of aid. Samaritan’s Purse is a non-denominational...

Dwight Fletcher | Why is Jesus’ blood a big deal?

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:06 AM

LAST WEEK we wrapped up a series on ‘Jesus Christ as Lord’. In it, we discussed how Jesus has secured the title of Lord, and this demands a response from His people. Not only do we confess with our mouths and actions that He is Lord, but we obey...

A mantle passed

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:05 AMOlivia Brown - Sunday Gleaner Writer

IN A moment both historic and deeply personal, Lois Manradgh was ordained assistant bishop of the Jamaica Free Baptist Churches (JFBC), becoming the first woman to hold the office in the denomination’s 83-year history. Her elevation, witnessed by...

Hello Mi Neighbour | How to engage in feel-good communication

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:05 AM

Hope that we are all recovering nicely from Melissa and assisting others to recover just as nicely. Every pound of rice, “every pound of flesh” every pack of crackers, every tin of milk, every piece of board, and every prayer dedicated to the...

Gabriel Agbo | Jesus’ cross and crown

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:05 AM

OUR PERFECT example is our Lord Jesus Christ. Today, He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords because he victoriously passed through trials, temptations and persecutions. He fully paid his dues to earn his current positions. That was why he...

Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be viewed as closed, Maduro gov't slams ‘colonial threat’

Published:Saturday | November 29, 2025 | 6:01 PM

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela should be considered as “closed in its entirety,” an assertion that raised more questions about the US pressure on Venezuelan...

64-y-o St Mary farmer charged for alleged sexual assault of child

Published:Saturday | November 29, 2025 | 5:28 PM

A 64-year-old St Mary farmer has been charged for allegedly sexually assaulting a child multiple times between 2023 and 2025. Duane Gilfus, who is from Goshen district in Lucky Hill, is charged with two counts of rape and three counts of sexual...

St Catherine man released after five days in custody without charge

Published:Saturday | November 29, 2025 | 5:08 PM

A St Catherine man who had been held at the Portmore police lock-up for five days without being charged has been freed by a parish court judge. Roger Moore was released on Friday. In making an application, attorney-at-law Denise Hinson told the...

Gonsalves says Unity Labour Party very much alive despite election defeat

Published:Saturday | November 29, 2025 | 4:06 PM

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – St Vincent former Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves, whose Unity Labour Party (ULP) was defeated in Thursday’s general election after 25 years in office, says the party is very much alive and that he will return to...

Tourists safe despite leptospirosis outbreak, says Tufton

Published:Saturday | November 29, 2025 | 2:52 PM

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17-y-o accused of shooting man arrested and charged after turning up at hospital with gunshot wound

Published:Saturday | November 29, 2025 | 2:24 PM

A 17-year-old Hanover boy has been arrested and charged for the shooting of a man in Lucea. He was taken into custody recently after he turned up at a hospital with a gunshot wound. He is charged with wounding with intent, using a firearm to...

Farmers to get help with water tanks, drip irrigation systems and water pumps

Published:Saturday | November 29, 2025 | 1:07 PM

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, has announced an allocation of $30 million to provide on-farm infrastructure to assist farmers, as the agricultural sector embarks on its Hurricane Melissa recovery plan. He informed...

Sections of March Pen Road in Spanish Town under curfew

Published:Saturday | November 29, 2025 | 11:49 AM

Sections of March Pen Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine are under a curfew. The curfew began at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, November 28, and will remain in effect until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 30. The boundaries of the curfew are: North: From...

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