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Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 2:53 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son’s “paranoid delusions”...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 2:03 PM

Detectives in the St Catherine North Police Division are investigating what they believe is a major stolen-vehicle operation with possible links to an islandwide criminal network. According to police reports, sometime after 8:30 a.m. on Friday,...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 11:59 AM

Jamaica's Minister of Water, Environment, and Climate Change, Matthew Samuda, has been elected president of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). The 193-member UNEA is the world’s highest-level decision-making body for matters related...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 1:32 PM

UNESCO is to support Jamaica’s hurricane-battered education sector by helping with the provision of learning kits for students in grades 7-9, and targeted grants to 100 student-teachers at Sam Sharpe Teachers College in St James. The assistance...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 10:45 AM

The St Catherine North police have pledged to take a firm stance against illegal vending, robberies, extortion, and other anti-social activities during the Christmas season. Deputy Superintendent of Police Constantine Bennett said that officers,...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 10:26 AM

Murders in Clarendon continue to decline, with police reporting 37 killings so far this year, a 42 per cent drop from the 64 recorded over the similar period last year, the Clarendon Municipal Corporation has been told. That rate is on par with...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 10:13 AM

A trip to Jamaica with friends was among the expenses a Black Lives Matter (BLM) executive paid for with money she allegedly embezzled from the American social justice movement, authorities in the United States have announced. Tashella Sheri...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 9:33 AM

Twenty-three Haitians were taken into custody following a police raid in Harbour View, in eastern Kingston, on Thursday. Around 8 a.m. officers swooped down on a premises in the area where the group was found. They are now being processed ahead...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 9:32 AM

Twenty-three Haitians were taken into custody following a police raid in Harbour View, in eastern Kingston, on Thursday. Around 8 a.m. officers swooped down on a premises in the area where the group was found. They are now being processed ahead...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 9:52 AM

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining has received a major boost for the sector’s recovery, with Newport-Fersan (Jamaica) Limited donating $25 million worth of fertiliser for farmers severely affected by Hurricane Melissa. During the...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 8:41 AM

(AP) — Liverpool coach Arne Slot said he was having talks with Mohamed Salah on Friday after the forward's explosive outburst threw his Anfield future into doubt. Salah said last week that his relationship with Slot had broken down after being...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:09 AMBryan Miller/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has estimated more than $800 million in damage to roads and public infrastructure across the parish arising from the passage of Hurricane Melissa over a month ago. During Thursday’s monthly...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Although the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) reports that leptospirosis cases have begun to decline since mid-November, health minister Dr Christopher Tufton is warning Jamaicans not to become complacent in preventing the...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:06 AM

The Jamaica National Group will direct 40 per cent of its ISupportJamaica Fund for Hurricane Melissa relief to early childhood institutions, a move JN Foundation chairman Parris Lyew-Ayee says underscores the organisation’s commitment to rebuilding...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Twenty-one newly sworn-in Peace Corps volunteers will work in rural parishes, supporting literacy in primary schools and helping farmers strengthen sustainable agriculture and community resilience. They will also assist with post–Hurricane Melissa...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:05 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Western Bureau: When Hurricane Melissa ripped across western Jamaica, it left BPO employees like Aleshia Malcolm sheltering in her car and erased Dellon Hall’s home entirely. Now, Strobe Etech Communication is investing $8.5 million to help its...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 8:54 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreigners who are allowed to come to the United States without a visa could soon be required to submit information about their social media, email accounts and extensive family history to the Department of Homeland Security...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 8:34 PM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Government of Antigua and Barbuda says it will waive CXC examination fees and refund parents who have already paid. The announcement was made on Wednesday by Education Minister Daryll Matthew, who added that the...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 7:54 PM

Deputy Public Health Inspector for St. Catherine, Denese Douglas, says public health personnel have heightened surveillance against leptospirosis and are urging residents to exercise caution. Douglas told today’s monthly meeting of the St....

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 6:05 PM

Mayor of May Pen, Joel Williams, today praised the Councillor for the Hayes division, Scean Barnswell, for what he described as a tremendous act of goodwill in rescuing a six-year-old girl who was reportedly abducted from the St Thomas More...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 5:52 PM

Jamaica’s Independent Fiscal Commission has validated the Government’s decision to suspend the fiscal rules in the aftermath of the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa. Legislated fiscal targets, or fiscal rules, require the Government to...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 5:42 PM

A man who is a dancehall music selector was arrested today in relation to the seizure of a gun during an operation in the St Andrew North Police Division. The police say the black .380 pistol was recovered inside a bedroom occupied by the man at...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 4:42 PM

At least 20 persons, including eight children, have been left displaced after a fire destroyed three houses on Mountain View Avenue in Kingston this morning. No injuries were reported. The blaze, which occurred near the intersection of Mountain...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 4:02 PM

A St Catherine taxi operator has been charged after police allegedly caught him stealing cable wires from a manhole belonging to a telecoms firm in Moneague, St Ann, last Friday. The accused, Omar Johnson, of Old Harbour Road, Spanish Town, has...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 1:46 PM

The Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) has raised concerns about the monitoring of a Government credit card issued to the Houses of Parliament (HoP) after a $29 million transaction appeared to have gone unnoticed for five months. The concerns...

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