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Reggae Boyz interim coach Rudolph Speid huddles with his charges during a training session at Sabina Park.
January 18, 2026 by Gregory Bryce

TAKING A LOOK

Rudolph Speid, Reggae Boyz interim head coach, said today’s international friendly against Grenada will prove a good exercise for both the players and the coaching staff ahead of the intercontinental…
Alesha pumping gas at at Willis Gas Station in Cave Valley, St Ann, last week. She recalled that days after the passage of Hurricane Melissa last October, all she could see was water when she looked down at the town.
January 18, 2026 by Karen Madden

Mentally draining, but Cave Valley rebounds from Melissa

It is a fight that has exacted physical, mental, and emotional pain, but business operators in Cave Valley, St Ann, are clawing their way back following devastation when Hurricane Melissa dumped…
Third-generation farmer Carlington McCook, who is also a police officer with the Jamaica Constabulary Force, told The Sunday Gleaner that he lost approximately $1 million worth of lettuce, pak choi, and cabbage to Melissa’s fierce winds and flood rains.
January 18, 2026 by Karen Madden

Bog Hole’s green basket under strain

If you enjoy green, leafy vegetables, chances are some of what is on your plate came from Bog Hole, a farming community near the St Ann-Clarendon border, home to farmers spanning generations. Located…
Geoffrey Ziadie, highest overall winner, competes during the Jackson Bay Sporting Clays shoot last Sunday.
January 18, 2026

Ziadie, McMaster capture Jackson Bay Sporting Clay titles

Geoffrey Ziadie and Aliana McMaster outshot the over 100-strong field consisting of the best shooters on the island at the Jackson Bay Sporting Clay Tournament, to capture the coveted titles of…
Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association First Vice-President Ian Forbes (right) looks on as PUMA marketing manager for running, Juliet Campbell, presents a care package to a student from Rusea’s High School at the school’s grounds on Friday.
January 18, 2026

JAAA, PUMA team up for Hanover recovery

The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) and its main sponsor Puma, visited the parish of Hanover on Friday and presented various food items and toiletries to student-athletes from…
Annette Graham, weeds out sweetcorn on ESL farm in Spring Plains, Clarendon, during a recent Sunday Gleaner visit to agro parks in Clarendon.
January 18, 2026

Remembering Spring Plains’ ‘M-16 tomatoes’

Forty-three years after then Prime Minister Edward Seaga announced that Spring Plains in rural Clarendon would become a high-tech agricultural investment, the property remains a central pillar of…
Daniel Goulbourne, a RADA-registered farmer for 15 years, farms two and a half acres at Parnassus, paying $20,000 per acre annually in lease fees. Despite this, he said there is no verification of storm damage to his farm and no meaningful assistance.
January 18, 2026 by Erica Virtue

‘Food soldiers’ struggle

With climate resilience and national food security at the heart of Jamaica’s agricultural policy, farmers at the Parnassus, Spring Plains, and Ebony Park agro parks in Clarendon say they are relied on…
Sweet potato farmers in the Spring Plains agro park in Clarendon check on their crop during a visit by The Sunday Gleaner.
January 18, 2026

Sweet potato’s bitter battle

The sweet potato, long designated a “good carbohydrate”, commands premium prices on the local market and carries major value-added potential, from flour and chips for the fast-food industry to salads,…
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January 18, 2026

Orville Taylor | Jamaica: Our bed of roses

One of the stupidest expressions used regularly is “Life is not a bed of roses” When our relatives and friends migrate north, they often say it in reference to ‘Farrin’. Now, every Jamaican knows that…