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Published:Tuesday | August 26, 2025 | 12:08 AMJanet Silvera/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: After losing to Marlene Malahoo Forte in 2020, Dr Andre Haughton did not fade from the political spotlight. Instead, the economist-turned-politician has spent the past five years building bridges, fixing roads, mentoring youth, and...

Published:Tuesday | August 26, 2025 | 12:08 AMKaren Madden/Gleaner Writer

Businessman and parliamentary hopeful Paul Patmore says one of his main motivations for contesting the upcoming general election is to restore Trelawny Southern from what he describes as 20 years of neglect – and to make it a model for farming...

Published:Tuesday | August 26, 2025 | 12:08 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

People’s National Party (PNP) supporters in Mandeville, Manchester, on Sunday threw their support behind the Government’s Rural School Bus Programme but blasted its poor execution, citing subpar buses and safety concerns. The bus programme,...

Published:Monday | August 25, 2025 | 8:23 PMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Jamaica’s two main political parties are promising to deliver thousands of houses over the next five years amid a dogfight for Jamaica House. The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), in its manifesto, released late Sunday during a mass rally in Sam Sharpe...

Published:Monday | August 25, 2025 | 12:11 AMOlivia Brown/Gleaner Writer

Deaf advocates are livid and are taking the Jamaica Debates Commission (JDC) to task after last Saturday’s national election debate on social issues – the first of three events – went ahead without Jamaica Sign Language (JSL) interpretation. Sign...

Published:Monday | August 25, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Representatives of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) failed to give sufficient assurance, during the first of three national debates, that they will move away from a zero per cent wage offer made to agitated...

Published:Monday | August 25, 2025 | 12:10 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

A pall of gloom fell over the afternoon in the rustic community of Mount James in St Andrew yesterday as the bodies of two men, one on the ground and the other in a stream, lay lifeless. They were killed hours apart in an apparent murder and...

Published:Monday | August 25, 2025 | 12:10 AM

While debates, rallies and other forms of political activities that take place ahead of election day are important, Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) Executive Director Shannique Bowden says the island’s youth are primarily dissatisfied with...

Published:Monday | August 25, 2025 | 12:06 AMErica Virtue/Senior Gleaner Writer

Edmund Bartlett has given nearly half a century of contribution to public life with service in education, community development, tourism and economic development, and, after five decades, he says there is no greater calling. However, despite his...

Published:Monday | August 25, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Phillip Paulwell represents the constituency of Kingston Eastern and Port Royal, continuing in the shoes of two giants of the People’s National Party (PNP) – Sir Florizel Glasspole and Michael Manley – with one being a former governor general and...

Published:Sunday | August 24, 2025 | 12:12 AM

The Ministry of Finance has denied a request for the release of the multimillion-dollar Kroll forensic audit report into collapsed brokerage Stocks...

Published:Sunday | August 24, 2025 | 12:12 AMJovan Johnson - Senior Staff Reporter

Usain Bolt’s company is one of roughly 40 defrauded clients of the massive Stocks...

Published:Sunday | August 24, 2025 | 12:11 AMCorey Robinson - Senior Staff Reporter

Several students have been left in limbo after Quality Academics, a long-standing private educational institution with more than 200 pupils on roll, announced its sudden closure at its 77 Half-Way Tree Road location in St Andrew. The school’s lease...

Published:Sunday | August 24, 2025 | 12:06 AMTanesha Mundle - Staff Reporter

With the general election clock ticking, cries for jobs and sustainable opportunities, especially for young people, are echoing across St Thomas Western. While long-time Member of Parliament James Robertson still enjoys strong support in many...

Published:Sunday | August 24, 2025 | 12:06 AMErica Virtue - Senior Gleaner Writer

Delroy Chuck was a well-established lawyer and legal educator before his entry into representational politics in 1997. A senior lecturer at the Norman Manley Law School at the time, he was more known for work through his law firm, Delroy Chuck...

Published:Sunday | August 24, 2025 | 12:05 AM

In another time and place – perhaps without the tribal politics – Fitz Jackson might have been the one to lead the next set of parliamentarians into Gordon House if he were successful in the September 3 general election, winning all eight elections...

Published:Saturday | August 23, 2025 | 12:14 AMLester Hinds/Gleaner Writer

In July Jamaican Orville Etoria was one of five men the United States (US) government sent to the tiny African Kingdom of Eswatini, claiming they were barbaric individuals who needed to be deported from America. However, Jamaica’s Minister of...

Published:Saturday | August 23, 2025 | 12:13 AMRuddy Mathison/Gleaner Writer

The People’s National Party (PNP) says it will on Monday unveil a ‘Manifesto Lite’, a condensed version of its 70-page policy document released earlier this month, mixed with new proposals. Addressing a press conference on Friday at the party’s Old...

Published:Saturday | August 23, 2025 | 12:13 AMLester Hinds/Gleaner Writer

Dr Julius Garvey, the son of Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Garvey, has welcomed the recently tabled resolutions in the United States Congress seeking exoneration of his father and to make August 17 his day. Brooklyn Congresswoman Yvette...

Published:Saturday | August 23, 2025 | 12:12 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Mark Malabver says there is still no guarantee that the nation’s teachers will not resort to industrial action following Thursday’s wage negotiation meeting involving Jamaica’s unions,...

Published:Saturday | August 23, 2025 | 12:10 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon says she will be making sure that the measures her ministry is now instituting to ensure students are able to read at their grade levels are strictly enforced in the nation’s schools. Speaking...

Published:Saturday | August 23, 2025 | 12:08 AMAlbert Ferguson/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Professor Canute Thompson, a senior academic at The University of the West Indies, is calling for the abolition of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination, saying it is undermining student confidence and failing to reflect the...

Published:Saturday | August 23, 2025 | 12:07 AMAlbert Ferguson/Staff Reporter

WESTERN BUREAU: For Falmouth, Trelawny resident Jada-Leigh Haughton, getting into university has been her longstanding dream. But, while her father, Donavan, was prepared to do all he could to support her passion, carrying the financial burden was...

Published:Saturday | August 23, 2025 | 12:06 AMOlivia Brown/Gleaner Writer

Founded just three years ago, Sign Clubs of Jamaica has been steadily carving out a space for deaf culture and advocacy in schools and communities across the island. What began as a student-led effort to connect sign language clubs, has now grown...

Published:Friday | August 22, 2025 | 12:13 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Campaign Committee Dr Christopher Tufton says the party has acknowledged “some similarities” between internal polls and public opinion polls but holds “alternative” views in other areas. Tufton, who was...

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