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ICE deports fugitive wanted for alleged child rape in Jamaica

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 11:51 AM

BOSTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says officers from its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Boston, Massachusetts have deported a Jamaican criminal fugitive and alleged child rapist who was...

Motorcyclist injured in crash during celebratory election motorcade in Trelawny

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 11:20 AM

A celebratory motorcade hosted on Saturday by Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Trelawny Northern Member of Parliament-elect Tova Hamilton took a tragic turn when one of the participants was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash. Reports are that the...

Spanish Town woman accused of using fake certificates for teaching job application

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 10:58 AM

A St Catherine woman who allegedly submitted fraudulent documents to a school for a teaching position has been charged. She is 28-year-old Sonya Bailey of Frazers Content in Spanish Town, who has been charged with fraud. Bailey was charged on...

PNP’s Nekeisha Burchell still winner of St James Southern

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 10:30 AM

Following Saturday’s official recount of ballots for the St James Southern constituency, the People’s National Party’s Nekeisha Burchell remains the winner of the seat. Burchell received 6,483 votes—a 199-vote difference over the 6,284 received...

In tough job market for new workers, networking can make a difference

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:07 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Growing up as the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica, Stacey Watson didn’t see herself in the characters of the books she read. Now 28, she wants to be a book editor who helps promote a more diverse range of story protagonists so...

Gardening’s hidden benefits

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:06 AM

If you spend any time gardening, you probably understand what I mean when I say it feels good – despite the lifting, sweating and straining involved. Yes, exercise is good for our bodies, but there’s something about digging in the dirt while...

Learn to converse rather than argue

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Hello Mi Neighbour! Ah boy, what a life eeenh. What happens whenever you try to make a point during a discussion and someone denies you the opportunity because they think your point maybe pointless? If yuh don’t mine sharp, be it a friend, family...

How Silicon Valley is using religious language to talk about AI

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:06 AM

TORONTO (AP): As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious. From predicting the potential destruction of humanity to a...

Formerly enslaved African has a headstone

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:06 AMPaul H. Williams - Sunday Gleaner Writer

IN AN April 6, 2016 article, I said, “The burial grounds of enslaved Africans are very hard to find in Jamaica. They were buried in arbitrary places in unmarked graves”. And, in some parts of Jamaica, the narrative is that, wherever there are piles...

Dwight Fletcher | Letting go, forgiving myself – Part 1

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:06 AM

THERE’S SOMETHING about the start of the new school year that feels a little bit like January 1. After summer, everything kicks back into high gear as students, teachers and workers return to ‘everyday life’. It’s one of the reasons that September...

Gabriel Agbo | God of second chance

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Then Samson prayed to the LORD, “Sovereign LORD, remember me again. O God, please strengthen me just one more time. With one blow let me pay back the Philistines for the loss of my two eyes.” Then Samson put his hands on the two centre pillars...

Sean Major-Campbell | Be thankful and prayerful

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:05 AM

WITHOUT KNOWING who will win the general elections on Wednesday, September 3, (I am submitting my column before Election Day). I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate whomsoever has won same by the time this is printed. Most...

Legal aid group sues to preemptively block US from deporting a dozen Honduran children

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 5:30 PM

A legal aid group has sued to preemptively block any efforts by the US government to deport a dozen Honduran children, saying it had “credible” information that such plans were quietly in the works. The Arizona-based Florence Immigrant...

Man gunned down inside his home in Cockburn Gardens, St Andrew

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 11:24 AM

The St Andrew South police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man inside his home in Cockburn Gardens in the early hours of Saturday morning. The deceased has been identified as 27-year-old windscreen wiper Romario Bailey, otherwise called...

Update | Police charge four in foiled Western Union robbery in Portland

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 4:57 PM

The police have now charged four persons in relation to the attempted robbery at a Western Union outlet in Hope Bay, Portland in late August. Charged with office breaking with intent, malicious destruction of property, and misprision of felony...

Final count completed in 37 of 63 - ECJ

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 4:45 PM

The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) is reporting progress in the final counting of ballots from Wednesday’s general election, with counting completed in 37 of the 63 constituencies. This was the count as of midday on Saturday, September 6....

Postal traffic to US sank 80% after Trump administration ended exemption on low-value parcels

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 3:48 PM

Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday. The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling...

Men intercepted on highway allegedly with cocaine each granted $500,000 bail

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 2:16 PM

Two men who were intercepted by the police on the North South Highway, and in whose car cocaine was allegedly found, were each granted $500,000 bail in the St Catherine Parish Court on Friday. John Todd, 48, and 49-year-old Eric White, both of St...

17 rounds of ammunition seized in St Ann, 60-y-o blockmaker charged

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 12:44 PM

A 60-year-old St Ann blockmaker has been charged following the alleged seizure of 17 rounds of ammunition at his home. He is Clayton Whyte of Backstreet in Great Pond, Ocho Rios, who has been charged with unauthorized possession of ammunition....

Teen girl arrested over fatal stabbing of teen boy in Portmore

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 11:37 AM

The police in Portmore, St Catherine have arrested a teen girl in connection with the stabbing death of a teen boy during a dispute in the community of Beverly Flats in Newland on Friday. Dead is 15-year-old Duxane Elliott, who lived in the...

PNP raises concerns over conduct of election, alleged irregularities

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 10:58 AM

The People’s National Party (PNP) says it is committed to fair and transparent elections and wants the electoral authorities to address issues that arose during Wednesday's general election. The PNP lost to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which...

Judge blocks Trump administration’s ending of legal protections for 1.1M Venezuelans and Haitians

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 10:31 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States. The...

Boyous the Contortionist is a mesmerising act

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 12:08 AM

HE WAS born Marvin Wilson in St Elizabeth, but migrated to St Ann where he currently resides, and is known in northwestern Jamaica entertainment circles as ‘Boyous the Contortionist’. He also refers to himself as an acrobat. He has a lithe and...

Students benefit from Dr Barry Wint Memorial Scholarship Programme

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 12:07 AM

MEDICAL STUDENT Yanique Jackson was struggling financially, particularly with tuition fees, and there were many times “when I felt overwhelmed”, then came the Dr Barry Wint Memorial Scholarship Programme, which “gave me hope”. “It gave me...

From Kingston to Washington, DC, to New Delhi

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Gordon Brown’s story is one of bold ambition, quiet determination and the belief that with hard work and the right opportunities, anything is possible. Born and raised in Kingston, Gordon first left Jamaica at 17, a recent graduate of Campion...

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