Retired Sergeant Peter Xavier Williams, who assisted in hoisting the Jamaican flag on August 5, 1962, an hour before midnight, signalling Jamaica’s political Independence, says it was a privilege to play a role in the joyous and historic occasion....
Twelve-year-old Joey-Ann Phillips, who amassed 389.8 points including 99 in the ability test, has emerged as the top performer for Norwich Primary School in Portland in this year’s Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exam. Phillips, who spoke to The Gleaner...
AS THE Jamaica Kidney Kids Foundation (JKKF) celebrates its 10th anniversary, chairperson Dr Maolynne Miller is appealing for more financial support to provide assistance to children impacted by kidney disease. An estimated 40 to 50 children are...
Like all nations, Jamaica has seen its fair share of changes and successes in its 60 years as an independent country. One of the most intriguing changes is that of the currency. If one should take a sample of the notes or coins used over the...
Like all nations, Jamaica has seen its fair share of changes and successes in its 60 years as an independent country. One of the most intriguing changes is that of the currency. If one should take a sample of the notes or coins used over the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Floyd Green, member of parliament for St Elizabeth South Western, says talks are well advanced to seal an agreement with a home-based outsourcing company to expand its brand into the southern coastal town of Black River. The move...
It was jubilation and pandemonium inside the National Indoor Sports Centre on Thursday night when Sacaj was announced winner of the Jamaica 60 Festival Song Competition.
With the return of the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show after a two-year hiatus, Newport Mills Limited (NPM), producer of Nutramix livestock feed, is ready to share the formula to success in livestock farming with farmers and patrons...
Natalie Garvey, member of parliament for St Catherine North Central, says the 2022 staging of Emancifest will have added significance. This year the organisers have partnered with the Ethiopian consul general and an Ethiopan Orthodox priest will...
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica is calling on its approximately 300,000 members to join in days of prayer for the nation on Saturday, July 30, and on Independence Day, August 6. The Church joins with fellow Christians as part of the...
A dispute over a cell phone SIM card is the theory being posited by relatives of 15-year-old Chad Lester as the trigger behind the suspected suicide of the usually quiet teen in Brandon Hill, St Andrew. According to relatives who The Gleaner spoke...
SPIRITS ARE high in Maidstone, Manchester, as community members gear up for the annual Emancipation festival dubbed ‘Fus A August’. The event is spearheaded by Member of Parliament for Manchester North Western Mikael Phillips, and the Maidstone...
THE MAIDSTONE Museum represents the storied journey to emancipation for the ancestors of the proud residents of the northwestern Manchester community. Officially opened in 2015 by then Minister of Tourism Dr Wykeham McNeill and Mikael Phillips,...
After a two-year absence, the organisers and exhibitors at this year’s Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show are promising lots of innovation and excitement from the start of the event on Saturday, July 30 to Monday, August 1 at the...
Two men who allegedly fired at a police team that was on an operation along the Seaforth main road in St Thomas on Saturday, July 16, have been arrested and charged. The men have been identified as 38-year-old Delano Rankine, otherwise called '...
The quintuple Cocoa Piece killer, Rushane Barnett, claimed he unleashed his wrath on his cousin, Kemesha Wright, and her four children, stabbing them to death and slitting their throats, because she disrespected him in front of her customers. It...
Senior attorney-at-law Patrick Bailey was today struck off the roll of attorneys eligible to practise in Jamaica for failure to hand over US$17,640 to a client. The Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council (GLC) made the...
The Jamaican government could face a challenge to any amendments to prohibit bail for accused persons, based on a Privy Council ruling today in a case from Trinidad and Tobago. The UK-based Privy Council is the final appellate court for...
China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) is warning the public to be on the lookout for fraudsters. The company says unauthorised persons have drawn fraudulent cheques in an effort to make third-party payments in its name. CHEC says members...
The St Elizabeth Parish Court was today told that the case file in the matter against the three fishermen charged in connection with the seizure of over 2,000 pounds of cocaine is incomplete. As a result, the court extended bail for Jason...
Gwendolyn McKnight, the woman whose daughter and four grandchildren were brutally murdered in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon last month, wants a “strong” sentence handed down to Rushane Barnett. Barnett, who was charged with five...
Seven persons, including three Americans, were freed today after the Crown withdrew charges against them in relation to the seizure of cocaine at an apartment in St Andrew in March. No evidence was offered against the men in relation...
Jason Rose, the St James-based pastor who is charged with the rape of a teen girl, will have to find new legal representation as his lawyer has pulled out of the case. Tamika Spencer-Anderson asked the St James Circuit Court on Tuesday to remove...
The absence of a psychiatric evaluation report has delayed the sentencing of the 17-year-old boy convicted of the rape, buggery and murder of a schoolgirl in Westmoreland. Justice Courtney Daye was also told by Director of Public Prosecutions Paula...
