Lead Stories

Sixty-eight-year-old Willie Rowe points to a section of land that he bought from the National Housing Trust and is now fenced off by another state entity.
February 1, 2026 by Sashana Small

‘I can’t even walk on my own land’

A 68-year-old man’s lifelong dream of owning a home is in jeopardy amid claims that the Ministry of Housing has encroached on his property in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Fighting back tears, Willie…
Floyd Green, minister of agriculture and prosecution witness.
January 31, 2026 by Tanesha Mundle

‘I did not see’

Agriculture Minister Floyd Green yesterday admitted in the Home Circuit Court that, while he witnessed parts of a 2013 police operation along Acadia Drive, St Andrew, he did not see the actual killing…
Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade.
January 31, 2026 by Kimone Francis

Johnson Smith touts Jamaica as ‘place to be’ for int’l investors

PANAMA CITY, Panama: Jamaica’s foreign minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, has issued a clarion call to international investors to partner in the strategic redevelopment of the island’s western…
Patrick Hylton, the new president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), addressing a press briefing and official introduction at the PSOJ’s head office in St Andrew on Thursday.
January 31, 2026

Former banker Patrick Hylton to bat for small business as PSOJ head

Having spent years at the helm of Jamaica’s largest financial institution, new president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Patrick Hylton says he will use his experience to pave the…
Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Delroy Chuck (left) and St James Custos Bishop Conrad Pitkin (right) present the commissioning documents and seal of justice of the peace (JP) to The Gleaner’s Albert Ferguson during a commissioning ceremony fo
January 31, 2026 by Christopher Thomas

‘Don’t witness signatures you don’t know’

WESTERN BUREAU: Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Delroy Chuck is warning justices of the peace (JPs) not to witness signatures being made by people they do not know, or they might land…
Customs Officer Earl Rayson (right) presents an undisclosed financial donation to Reverend Michael Hammond for the ministries of the First Church of the Open Bible.
January 31, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Wint urges church to pray for Customs officers’ integrity under pressure

WESTERN BUREAU: Howard Wint, the senior director of operations in the western section of the Jamaica Customs Agency, has called for the church to pray for customs officers, particularly for integrity,…
January 31, 2026 by Mickalia Kington

Darliston Post Office closure leaves residents distressed

Residents of Darliston, Westmoreland are expressing deep concern over the closure of the local post office, saying that the move has placed a dreaded financial and physical strain on pensioners, PATH…
Agape Hope Foundation President Stephen Simpson, and Vice President Paulton McCarthy-Walker.
January 31, 2026 by Olivia Brown

Young men build foundation to support education, communities

At 21, Stephen Simpson and Zakari Messam have turned a shared impulse into something more durable. What began during the COVID-19 pandemic as informal conversations about giving back – initially…
Jamaica Teachers’ Association President Mark Malabver.
January 30, 2026 by Bryan Miller

CRY FOR DEANS

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Mark Malabver has reiterated his call for every school in the island to have a dean of discipline, expressing disappointment that both the…