Lead Stories

The offices of Stocks and Securities Ltd on Hope Road in St Andrew in 2023.
December 28, 2025 by Livern Barrett

MAJOR SSL TWIST

An attorney representing Jamaican sprint icon Usain Bolt has warned that it would be a “facade” to proceed with a trial solely against Jean-Ann Panton, the former wealth adviser at Stocks &…
Excerpt from an August 13, 2024 internal memo by Clerk Colleen Lowe, obtained by The Sunday Gleaner, outlining her position on procurement apparent concerns related to the Members’ Lounge renovation.
December 28, 2025

Red flags

Clerk to the Houses of Parliament (HoP) Colleen Lowe instructed staff to proceed with two multimillion-dollar projects despite internal concerns about procurement compliance, according to…
December 28, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Literacy leap

Seventy per cent of the cohort of seventh graders at Holy Trinity High School last academic year who were part of the Grade 7 Academy – a radical literacy and numeracy programme for students…
December 27, 2025 by Corey Robinson

WHEN KIDS GET CAUGHT

A 62-year-old grandmother is wishing for a better 2026, and hopefully an end to the troubles she has been enduring since her 16-year-old grandson, an honour roll student and prefect at a St…
A section of the Moy Hall road which has both pedestrians and motorists concerned.
December 27, 2025 by Adrian Frater

We want a proper road not a skating rink, say fuming Moy Hall residents

Western Bureau: Residents of Moy Hall in St James are now hopping mad, saying infrastructure work to install a water pipeline system and additional work to replace the old asphalt road with concrete…
Dr Lucien Jones, vice-chairman of the National Road Safety Council.
December 27, 2025 by Sashana Small

NRSC wary of road fatality U-turn

With road fatalities poised to break a three-year downward trend, Dr Lucien Jones, vice chairman of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), is urging the introduction of protocols to test the blood…
The rodent control programme will start from the clock tower on Barnett Street.
December 27, 2025

St James Health Department to launch $60m rodent, mosquito control programme

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid the ongoing restoration work in St James in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, the St James Health Department says it will be conducting an unprecedented $60-million rodent and…
Moses West, former US Army ranger and founder of AWG Contracting, who designed the atmospheric water system currently supplying drinking water to the Accompong Maroon community.
December 27, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

Standing firm amid fury

Western Bureau: As Hurricane Melissa tore across Jamaica on October 28, crippling power grids and shutting down water supply systems mainly in the western region, one machine high in the Cockpit…
Hugh Grant, president and CEO of JPS.
December 27, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

JPS lights up Treasure Beach

WESTERN BUREAU: A large Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Emergency Mobile Power Generation Unit now supplying electricity to Treasure Beach and surrounding communities was officially launched on…