Lead Stories

March 10, 2026 by Andre Williams

Witness in Clansman Gang trial recounts finding friend shot on verandah

A prosecution witness in the Clansman Gang trial told the court he returned from a shop to find a friend lying across the verandah of his home with multiple gunshot wounds and another man bloodied.…
From left: Denise Witter; Charles Sinclair Jr, councillor for the Montego Bay North East Division in the St James Municipal Corporation; Richard Vernon Jr, mayor of Montego Bay; Mytha Bahadur, regional manager for Montego Bay at Jamaica Postal Service; Col
March 10, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Residents elated as Flanker Postal Agency reopens after $3.5m renovation

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Flanker, St James, were in a buoyant mood yesterday as they welcomed the reopening of their postal agency, which was out of service for a protracted period to undergo a…
Shaville Moodie being treated after the accident.
March 10, 2026 by Mickalia Kington

Reckless rider leaves schoolgirl in recovery

Western Bureau: Twelve-year-old Shaville Moodie, a first-form student at Frome Technical High School in Westmoreland, says she feels “unhappy” and “uncomfortable” after injuries from a motorcycle…
Fiscal Commissioner Courtney Williams
March 10, 2026 by Edmond Campbell

Uproar over publication of EFAR before tabling in Parliament

Fiscal Commissioner Courtney Williams has sought to defend the publishing of an economic and fiscal assessment report (EFAR) on the Independent Fiscal Commission’s (IFC) website before the document…
Madge Sanderson, head of St Elizabeth Education and Therapeutic Centre.
March 9, 2026 by Kimone Francis

Forgotten learners

Months after Hurricane Melissa tore through western Jamaica, administrators and students at several special-needs institutions remain in a desperate battle for survival, grappling with a sluggish…
March 9, 2026 by Tanesha Mundle

Defence demands witness’s evidence struck from record in murder case against cops

Defence attorney Hugh Wildman has urged the court to exclude the testimony of a key prosecution witness in the trial of six policemen charged in connection with the January 2013 fatal shooting of…
Senator Professor Floyd Morris, director of the Centre for Disability Studies, UWI, Mona, during his keynote address at the JAMLIN JSL training programme launch at The University of the West Indies, Mona, on March 2.
March 9, 2026 by Olivia Brown

Bridging the gap: one sign at a time

The Jamaica Libraries and Information Network (JAMLIN), an arm of the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ), has launched a Jamaican Sign Language (JSL) training initiative aimed at strengthening…
Kimone Francis, the Press Association of Jamaica’s 2025 Journalist of the Year.
March 9, 2026

‘Not my North Star’, says 2026 top journalist

Senior Gleaner journalist Kimone Francis says being named the 2025 Journalist of the Year is a prestigious honour, but is not her “North Star”. “Knowing that a story helped a family find justice or…
Janet Silvera, journalist and entrepreneur.
March 9, 2026

Welfare fund established to assist journalists in need

Seeing colleague journalists struggle quietly with medical challenges and other personal crises is what moved veteran practitioner Janet Silvera to propose a welfare fund for Jamaican journalists.…