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Geoffrey Ziadie, highest overall winner, competes during the Jackson Bay Sporting Clays shoot last Sunday.
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Ziadie, McMaster capture Jackson Bay Sporting Clay titles

Geoffrey Ziadie and Aliana McMaster outshot the over 100-strong field consisting of the best shooters on the island at the Jackson Bay Sporting Clay Tournament, to capture the coveted titles of…
Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association First Vice-President Ian Forbes (right) looks on as PUMA marketing manager for running, Juliet Campbell, presents a care package to a student from Rusea’s High School at the school’s grounds on Friday.
18 Jan, 2026 0

JAAA, PUMA team up for Hanover recovery

The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) and its main sponsor Puma, visited the parish of Hanover on Friday and presented various food items and toiletries to student-athletes from…
Annette Graham, weeds out sweetcorn on ESL farm in Spring Plains, Clarendon, during a recent Sunday Gleaner visit to agro parks in Clarendon.
18 Jan, 2026 0

Remembering Spring Plains’ ‘M-16 tomatoes’

Forty-three years after then Prime Minister Edward Seaga announced that Spring Plains in rural Clarendon would become a high-tech agricultural investment, the property remains a central pillar of…
Daniel Goulbourne, a RADA-registered farmer for 15 years, farms two and a half acres at Parnassus, paying $20,000 per acre annually in lease fees. Despite this, he said there is no verification of storm damage to his farm and no meaningful assistance.
18 Jan, 2026 0

‘Food soldiers’ struggle

With climate resilience and national food security at the heart of Jamaica’s agricultural policy, farmers at the Parnassus, Spring Plains, and Ebony Park agro parks in Clarendon say they are relied on…
Sweet potato farmers in the Spring Plains agro park in Clarendon check on their crop during a visit by The Sunday Gleaner.
18 Jan, 2026 0

Sweet potato’s bitter battle

The sweet potato, long designated a “good carbohydrate”, commands premium prices on the local market and carries major value-added potential, from flour and chips for the fast-food industry to salads,…
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Orville Taylor | Jamaica: Our bed of roses

One of the stupidest expressions used regularly is “Life is not a bed of roses” When our relatives and friends migrate north, they often say it in reference to ‘Farrin’. Now, every Jamaican knows that…
Gleaner editorial writes: In a fragmented world, resilience comes from diversification. CARICOM must expand partnerships while maintaining balanced diplomacy ...
18 Jan, 2026 0

Editorial | New strategies for new era

A comforting story of multilateralism and liberal democracy that has guided Caribbean thinking for the last 70-80 years is fast disappearing. The region has to face a new era without an open world…
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Garth Rattray | The Sargassum seaweed can be useful

Recently, I saw a short documentary on the Sargassum seaweed ‘invasion’ of the Caribbean Sea. Then I recalled that my wife and several of her relatives encountered mounds of the seaweed on the beach…
A protester holds up a poster showing Iran’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi, (left) and US President Donald Trump, as she demonstrates outside the House of Parliament, in London.
18 Jan, 2026 0

Curtis Ward | Words of war could be deadly in 2026

The recent exchange of harsh words and threats of violence between President Donald Trump and Iran government officials represents a mere smidgen of the hate that exists between the Trump…