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Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:27 PM

A Portmore, St Catherine truck driver has been charged after allegedly biting a police officer during an arrest over a traffic offence in Kingston. Forty-two-year-old Glenroy Williams is charged with unlawful wounding, resisting arrest, and...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 11:51 AM

BOSTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says officers from its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Boston, Massachusetts have deported a Jamaican criminal fugitive and alleged child rapist who was...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 11:20 AM

A celebratory motorcade hosted on Saturday by Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Trelawny Northern Member of Parliament-elect Tova Hamilton took a tragic turn when one of the participants was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash. Reports are that the...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 10:58 AM

A St Catherine woman who allegedly submitted fraudulent documents to a school for a teaching position has been charged. She is 28-year-old Sonya Bailey of Frazers Content in Spanish Town, who has been charged with fraud. Bailey was charged on...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 10:30 AM

Following Saturday’s official recount of ballots for the St James Southern constituency, the People’s National Party’s Nekeisha Burchell remains the winner of the seat. Burchell received 6,483 votes—a 199-vote difference over the 6,284 received...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:22 AM

DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Kingston College (KC) began their ISSA/WATA Manning Cup title defence with a convincing 3-0 win over Charlie Smith at Stadium East yesterday, thanks to a strong second-half display. KC were led to victory by Shareef Ricketts’...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:21 AMAshley Anguin - Gleaner Writer

CORNWALL COLLEGE hit Green Pond High for six to make an emphatic start to their ISSA daCosta Cup campaign yesterday at the Cornwall College playing field. According to Cornwall’s head coach Hector Wright, while the win was good, there is room for...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:20 AMCorey Robinson - Senior Staff Reporter

The Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA) is facing a race against time as it scrambles to find $200 million to relocate more than 500 animals after losing its long-time home at 10 Winchester Road in St Andrew. Managing...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:20 AM

WHEN GABRIELLE Matthews steps onto the track in Tokyo for her World Championships debut in the women’s 200 metres, she will be carrying more than her own ambitions. She will be carrying the pride of her alma mater, The Queen’s School. The 22-year-...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:19 AMLivingston Scott - Gleaner Writer

CHAPELTON MAROONS will look to take sole leadership of the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) when they tackle fourth-placed Portmore United in the feature game of the third round of matches at Turners Oval at 3 p.m. today. At the Waterhouse mini-stadium...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:19 AM

MIAMI (AP): TICKET PRICES for next year’s World Cup will range initially from US$60 for group-stage matches to US$6,730 for the final, but could change as football’s top event adopts dynamic pricing for the first time. The prices are up from a...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:19 AM

AP: NOTORIOUS ONLINE football piracy network Streameast has been shut down after more than 1.6 billion visits in the past year, an antipiracy coalition announced Wednesday. The United States-based Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE)...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:18 AM

GENEVA (AP): FIFA HAS fined six national federations, including defending champions Argentina, for racist abuse by fans at World Cup qualifiers in June. The six nations charged with “discrimination and racist abuse” were Albania, Argentina, Chile,...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:18 AM

AP: CONVERSATIONS IN the hairdressing salon owned by the mother of Brazilian football player Lucas Paqueta were key to the West Ham forward being accused of spot fixing bets in the Premier League. Paqueta was ultimately cleared of the charges and...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 9:56 AMErica Virtue - Senior Gleaner Writer

A growing exclusion from activities of economic empowerment, the denial of beach access, and land grabbing by the wealthy in Portland are among key issues of concerns raised by electors in the evergreen constituency of Portland Eastern, and the new...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:18 AM

Hopefully, no other Caribbean leader will follow Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s embarrassing and highly spirited cheering-on the United States for its extrajudicial killing last week of 11 alleged drug traffickers in international waters, near Venezuela...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:17 AM

P.J. Patterson is one of the towering figures of Caribbean statesmanship. Architect of regional integration, steward of democratic continuity, and masterful political strategist, Patterson’s legacy is woven into post-independence Jamaica’s fabric....

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:17 AM

There is no question that the Jamaican voter has become increasingly apathetic to the process of voting, to political parties, to politics and to politicians. We have seen an increasingly lower turnout of voters at the polls each succeeding...

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:17 AM

For the orange flavoured tribe, it was a déjà vu of sorts. Leading up to 90 metres, victory was snatched on the line, by a mischievously tempting horseracing margin. The incumbent Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), won a historic third consecutive term....

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:17 AM

Congratulations to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) on winning the 2025 general election and securing their third [straight] term in office. Congratulations to the People’s National Party (PNP) on rallying from a political party in leadership...

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