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Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 10:00 PM

Olympic 110m hurdles champion Hansle Parchment made a big statement in his season opener, winning his pet event at Velocity Fest inside the National Stadium with a new World leading time. Parchment clocked 13.20 seconds for victory to top the...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 9:31 PM

Multiple World and Olympic Champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce opened her 2022 season, clocking 22.79 seconds to finish second in the 200m at the Velocity Fest meet this afternoon at the National Stadium. The race was won by MVP's Anthonique Strachan...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 5:25 PM

The police have launched a criminal probe into the early morning explosion at the Scotiabank Automated Teller Machine (ATM) on Harbour Street in Port Antonio, Portland. In the meantime, one man has been hospitalised after he was found with cuts,...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 1:45 PM

The family of the St James woman swept away by floodwaters on Tuesday has intensified their search for her. Early this morning, her two sons Gregory Walters and Carl Poyser dug through debris along the bank of the Montego River in St James before...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 1:04 PM

The National Water Commission (NWC) is reporting that high turbidity levels are still impacting operations at the Peace River and Drummond Spring facilities in Clarendon.   This has caused a...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:20 PM

Maggie Mulligan said her dogs could sense the panic as she and her husband packed them up and fled a fast-moving wildfire barreling toward their home in northeast New Mexico as they agonized over having to leave their horses behind.

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 7:17 AM

An early morning explosion has shattered an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) at the Scotiabank branch in Port Antonio, Portland.  The cause of the explosion is not yet known. The incident took place shortly after 3 a.m amid heavy rainfall...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:10 AM

The boards of 1834 Investments Limited and Radio Jamaica Limited (RJL) have announced that they have entered into a scheme implementation agreement, which will lead to the amalgamation of both companies. The amalgamation will be done by way of a...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:10 AM

BARCELONA, Spain (AP): Camp Nou broke its own world record for a women’s football match yesterday when more than 91,600 fans revelled in Barcelona’s 5-1 rout of Wolfsburg in the first leg of their Women’s Champions League semi-final. The 91,648...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:10 AM

MANCHESTER, England (AP): Paul Pogba might have played his last game for Manchester United. The France midfielder, who is out of contract at the end of the season, came off injured in the 4-0 loss to Liverpool on Tuesday and will take at least four...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

AFTER being dethroned of their overall boys’ title by Kingston College at the recent ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), a pumped up Jamaica College (JC) team will leave the island early next week for the Penn Relays...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:10 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

Embattled president of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), Dr Derrick Deslandes, has declined to say whether he will be applying to continue on in the post after it was advertised in The Sunday Gleaner last weekend. Deslandes...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:10 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica opening batsman Leroy Lugg scored a second half-century in the Dream XI Jamaica T10 competition to guide his team, the Surrey Royals, to a nine-wicket win over the Middlesex Titans in the latest set of matches at Sabina Park yesterday. The...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:09 AMJudana Murphy/Gleaner Writer

Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, state minister in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, is hopeful that vaccination take-up across Jamaica will increase in the coming weeks, following the confirmation of another COVID-19 variant in the island this week. “I...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown’s third-round technical knockout (TKO) win over Mexican Mario Juarez in a heavyweight fight on Thursday in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, was his second win in as many professional fights and the Jamaican is pleased with his...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A 25-year-old construction worker, who had maintained from the outset that he was being framed, could not hold back his tears of relief on Thursday in the Gun Court after he was freed of charges of shooting with intent and illegal possession of...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:09 AM

With renewed plans to tighten the screws on plastic pollution across the globe, Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:09 AM

IMOLA, Italy (AP): If you can’t play football, buy a football club. That was part of Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton’s thinking when he joined a consortium that is bidding to buy Chelsea. Hamilton, along with 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:09 AM

Diddy is set to host the 2022 Billboard Awards. The 52-year-old rapper, whose real name is Sean Combs but was previously known as Puffy Daddy and P Diddy, is set to be at the helm as executive producer of the upcoming ceremony, which is set to take...

Published:Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 12:09 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Champion former leg-spinner Samuel Badree and Trinidad and Tobago Red Force head coach, David Furlong, believe the pressure of playing cricket amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could have played a role in Kieron...

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