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Published:Friday | November 14, 2025 | 12:08 AMKaren Madden/Gleaner Writer

The announcement came on a warm Thursday evening at King’s House in St Andrew. Beneath the high ceilings and the quiet anticipation of the gathered crowd, Governor General Sir Patrick Allen read the name that would carry both pride and hope to...

Published:Friday | November 14, 2025 | 12:07 AMAdrian Frater/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid cries for food, water, and the removal of mud-soaked debris, one resident of Catherine Hall in Montego Bay, St James, says his only wish is to clear the sludge from his home and move on from the horrors of Hurricane Melissa. “...

Published:Thursday | November 13, 2025 | 12:15 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has strengthened its investigative capacity through specialised training designed to enhance the skills of forensic crime scene investigators (FCSIs) in modern crime-solving techniques, including the use of...

Published:Thursday | November 13, 2025 | 12:12 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

At least 75 per cent of Digicel customers in four of the parishes with significant impacts from Hurricane Melissa will have service restored to them within the next two weeks, according to the local telecoms giant. Senior officials from the company...

Published:Thursday | November 13, 2025 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The defence in the murder trial of Constable Noel Maitland yesterday raised the possibility that the DNA of missing social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson could have been transferred through casual contact. During cross-examination in the...

Published:Thursday | November 13, 2025 | 12:11 AMAudley Boyd/News Editor

Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz are shooting to uplift their nation when they tackle Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors today in a football match deemed among their most important World Cup Qualifying contests ever. As the country grapples with the after-...

Published:Thursday | November 13, 2025 | 12:10 AMSashana Small/Staff Reporter

After Hurricane Melissa gutted his 10-acre farm in Ebony Park, Clarendon, destroying several acres of crops, Wayne Shaw is now finding some relief as one of more than 130 farmers to receive a payout from the GraceKennedy (GK) Weather Protect...

Published:Thursday | November 13, 2025 | 12:06 AMAdrian Frater/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: While most hospitality workers in hurricane-battered western Jamaica come from communities still without electricity, water, and other essentials, Delano Seiveright remains hopeful that the upcoming winter tourist season can be...

Published:Wednesday | November 12, 2025 | 12:39 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

Damage to Jamaica’s agriculture and fisheries sector from Hurricane Melissa is estimated at nearly $30 billion. The Category Five storm, whose local death toll officials placed at 45 on Tuesday, tore through parishes that produce the island’s...

Published:Wednesday | November 12, 2025 | 12:38 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Integrity Commission Director of Corruption Prosecution Roneiph Lawrence has recommended charges against two sitting and two former councillors for repeatedly failing to file their statutory declarations with the Integrity Commission, in some cases...

Published:Wednesday | November 12, 2025 | 12:35 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Blood traces found on several items seized from the New Kingston apartment of police constable Noel Maitland have been confirmed to match the DNA profile of his missing girlfriend, Donna-Lee Donaldson. A government forensic analyst testified on...

Published:Wednesday | November 12, 2025 | 12:35 AMJanet Silvera/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The Caribbean relief community is hailing the Cayman Islands-based missionary Alexander Wurm as a true hero, a man whose final flight embodied selfless love and service to Jamaica. The pastor and his 22-year-old daughter, Serena,...

Published:Wednesday | November 12, 2025 | 12:34 AMSashana Small/Staff Gleaner

Declaring that Hurricane Melissa has “exposed the need to strengthen national and municipal resilience”, Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby says a good place to start is updating Jamaica’s Small Building Code to promote more sustainable construction....

Published:Wednesday | November 12, 2025 | 12:25 AM

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid the widespread destruction left behind in Hanover, one remarkable symbol of resilience remains: the monument to Jamaica’s first prime minister and National Hero, Sir Alexander Bustamante. Against all odds, the historic site in...

Published:Wednesday | November 12, 2025 | 12:13 AMAdrian Frater/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas became an instant hero to scores of residents in Haughton Court and surrounding communities in western Hanover on Monday when he arrived with a truckload of desperately needed relief supplies – the first...

Published:Tuesday | November 11, 2025 | 1:09 AM

FLORIDA (AP): A small turboprop plane on a hurricane relief mission to Jamaica crashed Monday morning into a pond in a gated residential neighbourhood of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, killing two people shortly after takeoff and...

Published:Tuesday | November 11, 2025 | 12:44 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

The Auditor General’s Department is conducting a real-time audit to assess the transparency and accountability of resources received and utilised under the Hurricane Melissa relief initiative. The Pamela Monroe-Ellis-led department is seeking to...

Published:Tuesday | November 11, 2025 | 12:08 AMJanet Silvera/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: There aren’t enough vendors to serve the crowds of foodies who still converge nightly on the Fort Street jerk chicken strip, as Montego Bay slowly claws its way back to normality after Hurricane Melissa’s destruction. Fort Street...

Published:Tuesday | November 11, 2025 | 12:06 AMJanet Silvera/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Falmouth’s popular Bend-Down Market is on course to reopen on Wednesday, just under two weeks after Hurricane Melissa tore through the historic town, leaving widespread destruction. Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager indicated on the...

Published:Monday | November 10, 2025 | 12:40 AMKaren Madden/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica is set to receive €2 million in aid from the European Union (EU) as the country continues its recovery from Hurricane Melissa, which slammed into the western section of the island nearly two weeks ago. Hadja Lahbib, EU commissioner for...

Published:Monday | November 10, 2025 | 12:40 AMErica Virtue/Senior Gleaner Writer

The full weight of the damage to schools in the parishes ravaged by Hurricane Melissa could be known this week as officials from the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information get a better assessment of the impact on plants in the storm’s...

Published:Monday | November 10, 2025 | 12:38 AMJanet Silvera/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The devastation in Falmouth, Trelawny, rivals that of Black River, St Elizabeth, according to Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie, who described the post-hurricane destruction there as “...

Published:Monday | November 10, 2025 | 12:37 AMAdrian Frater/Gleaner Writer

Western Bureau: As the after effects of Hurricane Melissa continues to take a heavy toll on the lives of residents in western Jamaica, nurses at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, are complaining of hellish conditions on...

Published:Monday | November 10, 2025 | 12:34 AMAdrian Frater/Gleaner Writer

Western Bureau: The faith and resolve of members of the Porto Bello Pentecostal Worship Centre at Cornwall Court in Montego Bay, St James was on full display yesterday as they gathered at the site where Hurricane Melissa obliterated their church to...

Published:Monday | November 10, 2025 | 12:33 AM

Western Bureau: The fear that there would be a shortage of farm produce at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, over last weekend amid the destruction Hurricane Melissa wreaked in the premier farming belt – St Elizabeth, Trelawny and...

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