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Published:Sunday | March 8, 2026 | 12:06 AMAshley Anguin - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: On Christmas morning 2025, while most families were at home, possibly gathered around their trees or opening presents, certified nurse practitioner and devoted caregiver Rose Marie Glaze was on the streets of Montego Bay searching...

Published:Sunday | March 8, 2026 | 12:05 AM

This past week Jewish communities around the world celebrated the holiday of Purim. Purim commemorates a dramatic moment in Jewish history nearly 2,500 years ago, when the Jewish people living in the Persian Empire faced annihilation. A wicked...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 4:49 PM

Three men were fatally shot during a reported confrontation with the police in Comfort district, Osborne Store, Clarendon on Friday night. A fourth man is in hospital. Two firearms along with ammunition were reportedly seized. Assistant...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 4:35 PM

Two St Catherine men charged over the alleged theft and scrapping of a motor vehicle were on Friday granted bail in the parish court. Fabian Williams was offered bail in the sum of $500,000 with surety, while Tian Edwards was granted $300,000...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 4:45 PM

The country should begin seeing an increase in the availability of broiler chickens later this month, after sections of Jamaica experienced a shortage in the product during February. The announcement was made by Minister of Agriculture,...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 1:54 PM

A 42-year-old taxi operator has been charged following the reported theft of motor vehicle parts from a property in St Andrew. Charged with simple larceny is Troy Scarlett, who is of a Kingston 11 address. Reports from the police are that about...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 11:50 AM

The Opposition says the decision by the Government to end more than 50 years of medical cooperation between Jamaica and Cuba marks a deeply unfortunate moment in the nation’s public health history. It argued that for more than half a century,...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 12:07 AM

In Jamaica’s agricultural sector, often imagined purely through the image of farmers in the field, there exists a cadre of women whose work, though less visible, is just as essential. They are the planners, analysts, coordinators and strategists...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 12:07 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

Ten students from southeast St Mary received tablet computers from the Universal Service Fund (USF) on Thursday during a function at the Westmoreland Oval in Annotto Bay. The students, drawn from deep-rural primary schools across the constituency,...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 12:06 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

Lifespan Spring Water, the Portland-based bottled-water company now marking its 21st anniversary, has grown from a modest start-up in rural Jamaica into a regional brand with international reach. According to chief executive officer, Nayana...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 12:06 AM

THIKA, Kenya (AP) : When Mary Mwangi got her cancer diagnosis, she imagined death would follow shortly. She did not expect that her hobby of knitting, which she took up while recovering, would affect the lives of thousands of breast cancer...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 12:05 AM

Internationally acclaimed composer, conductor, scholar, cultural activist and filmmaker Shirley J. Thompson OBE, of Jamaican and English heritage, will unveil the world première of her latest Heroines of Opera work, Seventh Sense: Incidents in the...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 12:05 AMDerrick Scott/Contributor

NEW YORK: Diaspora group Right Now for Jamaica (RNFJ), formed recently in Maryland, will hold its inaugural Fundraiser Gala Dinner...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 12:05 AM

In January and February 2026, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Jamaica delivered four hands-on workshops across St. Ann, Manchester, Kingston, and St. Andrew, training 33 representatives from government ministries, child...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 10:07 PM

Significant damage to Port Kaiser in St Elizabeth caused by Hurricane Melissa has been cited among the reasons for a delay in the planned reopening of the Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) Alpart facility in Nain. It was previously...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 8:35 PM

The People’s National Party Women’s Movement has welcomed the sentencing of former PNP Member of Parliament Jolyan Silvera for the killing of his wife, saying justice has been served. “The successful prosecution of several intimate partner...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 7:54 PM

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has defended the work of the police in fighting crime and reducing murders, saying criticisms against the constabulary force are irresponsible, without merit, and lack empirical data. Further, Chang...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 7:18 PM

Cuba says it will withdraw its 277 medical professionals currently serving in Jamaica, a blow to the island which sought to cushion the fallout from ending a 50-year cooperation programme that helped fill key gaps in the health system. Cuba also...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 6:46 PM

A relative of Melissa Silvera, who was murdered by her husband, Jolyan Silvera, today said the family had hoped for a longer sentence. The former People’s National Party Member of Parliament was this afternoon sentenced to 20 years and 10 months...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 6:29 PM

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Senator Aubyn Hill has announced changes to the Cannabis Licensing Regulations that will allow community groups, comprising small ganja farmers, to cultivate up to 10 acres of marijuana for medicinal...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 6:20 PM

Residents of the Grants Pen community in St Andrew are being encouraged to strengthen ties with the police and take greater ownership of their neighbourhood. The call has come from the St Andrew North Upliftment Society (SUS Jamaica), which...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 6:59 PM

Journalists from The Gleaner Company (Media) Limited have secured a significant share of the nominations for the 2025 National Journalism Awards, organised by the Press Association of Jamaica, with reporters, columnists, and photographers from the...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 5:47 PM

The Government is collaborating with the World Bank and its team of water experts to secure a non-revenue water (NRW) partner, aimed at supporting major investments in Jamaica’s water distribution network and enhancing the reliability of supply...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 5:23 PM

Kilfer Gilchrist, the woman charged with attacking murder-accused Leoda Bradshaw while the two were at the same police lock-up, today pleaded guilty in the St Catherine Parish Court and was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Gilchrist pleaded...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 5:05 PM

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith says the Government is not presently considering the reopening of its Embassy in Venezuela. She was responding to questions during the Standing Finance Committee of the House of...

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