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Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:07 AMDamian Levy/Gleaner Writer

When a young girl is kidnapped by a group of, well, kidnappers, she’s forced into an evening of imprisonment. Seemingly no older than eight, young Abigail is frightened, petrified under the threat of violence from her abductors. The premise has the...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:07 AM

WHILE THE focus for this year’s Earth Day celebrations was on the elimination of plastics pollution, Jamaica’s Forestry Department and its partners made it their mission to plant trees. The agency has been engaged in ongoing efforts to improve the...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:07 AM

The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church has suspended a priest who participated in services for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Dmitry Safronov took part in Navalny’s funeral as well as presiding at the commemoration on March 26,...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:07 AM

COLOMBO (AP): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his country has proven the West doesn’t have a monopoly on technology while inaugurating a hydropower and irrigation project in Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Raisi is the first Iranian leader to visit...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:07 AM

SHANGHAI (AP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken begun a critical trip to China armed with a strengthened diplomatic hand following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, Israel...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:07 AM

During my contribution the 2024 Budget Debate in Parliament, I took the opportunity to address a deep-rooted crisis affecting our nation – one that extends beyond macroeconomic numbers and crime statistics – the alarming deterioration of societal...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:07 AM

Next July, my childhood idol Iron ‘Mike’ Tyson comes out of retirement for a second time, this time to beat some guy named Jake Paul. This is Mike’s second fight since he and Roy Jones embarrassed themselves in 2020. But given how desperate we were...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:07 AM

After five months of stonewalling, Juliet Holness, the Speaker, finally relented on Tuesday and tabled the opinions by the Attorney General’s Chambers on the tabling of reports sent to Parliament by the Integrity Commission (IC) and the auditor...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:06 AM

THE EDITOR, Madam: Approximately one year ago, my two siblings and I decided to venture into food crop farming on two acres of land in the Wigton area of south Manchester. One of my siblings was registered with Rural Agricultural Development...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:06 AM

THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing to express my sincere appreciation for the implementation of the biometric immigration system at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA). I arrived from Ft Lauderdale, Florida, and had the opportunity to...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:06 AM

THE EDITOR Madam: Jamaica finds itself at a critical juncture, grappling with the repercussions of decades of systemic shortcomings in its education system. Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna recently spoke about the urgent need for reform and...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 12:06 AM
Published:Wednesday | April 24, 2024 | 8:55 PM

The Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR) is calling for the Public Service Commission (PSC) to clarify the basis on which an acting director of public prosections (DPP) has been appointed. Prosecutor Claudette Thompson was appointed to act in the...

Published:Wednesday | April 24, 2024 | 8:43 PM

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, says preliminary figures indicate that the agricultural sector grew by over 10 per cent during the first quarter of 2024. He made the disclosure during Wednesday's post-Cabinet press...

Published:Wednesday | April 24, 2024 | 7:25 PM

The Portland police are appealing for information that could assist them in finding the driver of a motor car which hit a man and failed to stop on Tuesday.  The victim, a man known only as Mikey, succumbed to his injuries at hospital. ...

Published:Wednesday | April 24, 2024 | 6:53 PM

The price of gas is going down by $1.06 on Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 will sell for $176.20 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will sell for $182.49. Automotive diesel oil will move down by $1.81 per litre to...

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