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 D’Angelo
December 9, 2025

R&B icon D’Angelo dies at 51 after cancer battle

D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer recognised by his raspy yet smooth voice and for garnering mainstream attention with the shirtless Untitled (How Does It Feel) music video, has died. He was…
Team Leader Ian Manderson (left) pays careful attention to the work being done by the students – (front to back) Givaughn Jobson, Demar Lewis and Nichol Coleman – during the Leak Detection practical training session recently.
December 9, 2025

NWC staff receive leak detection training from UTech

Twenty employees at the National Water Commission (NWC) are now enrolled at the University of Technology Jamaica (UTech), where they are completing a course in Leak Detection Technologies. The…
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Clarify IC appointments

As was implied by his office, this newspaper appreciates that the governor general, Sir Patrick Allen, is not obliged to explain his actions – or inaction – to the public, unless he is specifically…
D'Angelo performs during FYF Fest at LA Memorial Sports Arena & Exposition Park in Los Angeles, August 23, 2015. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File)
December 9, 2025

D'Angelo, Grammy-winning R&B singer dies

D'Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer recognised by his raspy yet smooth voice and for garnering mainstream attention with the shirtless 'Untitled (How Does It Feel)' music video,…
Bauxite being loaded onto a truck in the mines.
December 9, 2025

Norris McDonald | Jamaica’s bauxite policy, RUSAL’s perks, and Manley’s fight for tax justice!

IN 2024, RUSAL Engineering & Tech Centre, LLC, a subsidiary of the Russian-owned RUSAL corporation, filed a patent in the United States for a method to extract scandium from bauxite red mud and…
 D'Angelo
December 9, 2025

Grammy-winning R&B singer D’Angelo dies at 51

LOS ANGELES (AP): D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer recognised by his raspy yet smooth voice and for garnering mainstream attention with the shirtless Untitled (How Does It Feel) music…
Letters
December 9, 2025

Letter of the Day | When the bully wears a title

THE EDITOR, Madam: The Gleaner’s ‘Bully buster’ story highlighted the Ministry of Education’s commendable effort to confront student bullying through its BullyProofJA campaign. This initiative,…
The St Ann’s Bay Criminal Investigation Branch is probing the incident. - File Photo
December 9, 2025

75-y-o pedestrian killed in Spanish Town crash

A 75-year-old St Catherine man died as a result of injuries he received in a vehicular crash along St John's Road in the parish on Monday night. He has been identified as Dennis Campbell, of a…