For Angella Jones, the hardest part of farming is not the work. It is putting everything she has into the ground, watching crops fail repeatedly, and then having to find the money to start all over again. Jones shared that reality during an interview with The Sunday Gleaner on Tuesday as she sat beneath a mango tree, struggling to keep her tears at bay while describing the toll months of drought and extreme heat have taken on her farm in Flagaman, St Elizabeth.

20 Sep, 2026 Tanesha Mundle - Staff Reporter 0

WASHINGTON (AP): Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave the keynote address at a conference of an anti-vaccine activist group he once chaired, telling the hundreds in attendance that they had a friend in President Donald Trump’s White House.

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The stage is set at the iconic Kensington Oval for a Caribbean Premier League (CPL) final that promises a clash of contrasting narratives, as the resurgent Jamaica Kingsmen prepare to face the Antigua and Barbuda Falcons tomorrow at 6 p.m. Jamaica time. For both franchises, history is within reach. Neither the Kingsmen nor the Falcons have ever lifted the CPL trophy, guaranteeing that a new champion will be crowned. However, the paths taken by the two teams to the final could hardly have been more different.

20 Sep, 2026 Lennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer 0

The world now knows her as the ‘Queen of the Pack’, but before she became the first woman to have her album reach No. 1 on the Billboard Reggae Chart, Patra was just ‘Mummy’ from Whithorn, Westmoreland. Back then, her days consisted of the typical chores that accompany a life in rural Jamaica: river trips with her cousins and her first love, cooking. But now, after more than 30 years in the music industry, Patra says she has finally regained her freedom.

20 Sep, 2026 Shanel Lemmie - Staff Reporter 0

Innovative Energy Group (IEG) wants to enter property development to augment its solar-installation business, and would seek approval to use legacy tax losses from the Ciboney Group, a listed entity it acquired. “The bulk of the losses relates to real estate-related losses, which were the primary activities of Ciboney prior to acquisition,” Executive Chairman Nigel Davy told the Financial Gleaner. “Those losses, of course, are available to be used in a similar kind of business in which those losses were, let me say, achieved.”

20 Sep, 2026 Neville Graham - Staff Reporter 0