The bush fires that for nearly two weeks have been sweeping across hilly sections of Mavis Bank in east rural St Andrew have already torched more than 500 acres of agricultural lands resulting in losses...
Mandeville, Manchester: During pregnancy, a woman prays and hopes for a healthy baby. She will do everything to ensure that, and when the bundle of joy comes, everything has new meaning. However, there are those mothers who...
While other male role models can positively influence the life a young boy, there is no other, however, who has a more important role model to play in his son's life than his...
In addition to being the full-time mother of an energetic two-year-old son, Teisha Williams has three other jobs that she must attend to. When asked how she does it all, she admitted that it is a...
One long-time coffee farmer has warned that the bush fires sweeping across several communities in east rural St Andrew since last Saturday could leave billions of dollars in losses and deliver a major blow to the nation's world-renowned coffee...
Published:Friday | March 13, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
MAY PEN, Clarendon: FOR NINE months Cheryl Waugh bore the discomfort of the precious load she carried. After the excruciating pain, it was a joy to finally hold her bundle of joy in her arms.She was in a mother?s haven until...
Published:Wednesday | May 6, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
EVER SINCE Edith Clarke's book was released in 1957 titled My Mother Who Fathered Me, that expression has been used by many to sum up mothers who have been going it alone raising their children....
Long-time coffee farmer, Joan Gordon-Webley, says the bush fires sweeping across several communities in east rural St Andrew since last Saturday could leave billions of dollars in losses. She says this would deliver a major blow to Jamaica's...
Jamaica Labour Party councillor (JLP) for the Southfield Division in St Elizabeth, Gregory Myers has confirmed that he will switch his support to the People's National Party (PNP). The councillor says he sees the PNP as a...
A man believed to be of unsound mind, was reportedly shot and injured by police on Hagley Park Road in the vicinity of the former Housing Ministry, this morning. Eyewitnesses say that the man, who reportedly had a knife was told to drop it on the...
Published:Tuesday | May 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Firefighters battling a major blaze at a commercial complex on the corner of Blake Street in Port Antonio, Portland early this morning had to resort to pumping water from the sea to put the fire because the hydrants were dry amid the usual water...
Published:Tuesday | May 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
A massive fire is now raging at a commercial complex on West Street in Port Antonio, Portland. Two business establishments – a restaurant and a supermarket – are on fire.
It seemed accidental, said one patron who was at a bar in White River, near Ocho Rios St Ann, where a constable was this morning shot by his colleague before he killed himself. "They were playing with something they shouldn’t be playing...
Two policemen attached to the St Ann Division were killed this morning in what investigators believe was a murder-suicide. The identities of the two male cops have not yet been ascertained. The Gleaner Online understands that about 3 o'clock...
The May Pen Hospital is being blamed for negligence in the death of 32-year-old construction worker, Richard Lee, who was taken there yesterday. However, the hospital is denying the claim and is insisting that it provided the best care it could to...
Member of Parliament for Northern Clarendon Horace Dalley has chided the authorities for not doing enough to protect 15-year-old Amoya Brown who was chopped to death in St Ann on the weekend. Brown, who was from Good Hope district in Clarendon and...
Attorney-at-law Hopeton Clarke is expected to make a bail application tomorrow for Jason McLeod, who is accused of a triple murder in Clarendon. McLeod is scheduled to appear before the Clarendon Circuit Court tomorrow. He has been in police...
Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
The 2015 Atlantic hurricane season is projected to be one of the least active since the middle of the 20th century. Jeffery Spooner, head of the Meteorological Service of Jamaica, told The Gleaner that based on information from the Department of...
The St James Police say appropriate force was used yesterday to arrest artiste Dexta Daps at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay. The dancehall artiste, whose given name is Louis Grandison, has been charged with...
A 24-year-old St Elizabeth man charged under the anti-lottery scamming Act was granted $1 million bail when he appeared in court yesterday. Edroy Thompson was ordered to return to the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate’s Court on July 13. It is...
A woman was stabbed to death on Sunday after she reportedly accused a man of performing oral sex. The deceased woman has been identified as Khadian Webb of a Wint Road, Kingston 11 address. According to a police source, Webb reportedly told a crowd...
The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) has branded Agriculture Minister, Derrick Kellier, as an exuberant Minister who is seeking to prop up the ailing sugar industry at the expense of more productive sectors. The PSOJ’s...
After Paul Walker’s death in 2013, the seventh instalment of the Fast and Furious franchise, Furious 7 which was set for release the following year took an unexpected turn. Screenwriters and directors were now forced to find a way to do away...
Published:Sunday | April 26, 2015 | 10:41 AMGleaner Writer
Scotiabank is once again demonstrating its desire to make the life of the average Jamaican that much more bearable. This time, their altruism takes the form of a welcome alternative to the traditional student loan programme utilised by many students...
