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Published:Friday | August 29, 2025 | 12:06 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

The Discovery Bauxite Partners company in St Ann has granted millions of dollars annually, to assist students from primary to tertiary level, over the past seven decades. Acting Vice President and General Manager of Chris Cargill, labelled the...

Published:Friday | August 29, 2025 | 12:06 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

The race for the St Ann North Western constituency could be a tightly contested one between the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Krystal Lee and the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Gabriela Morris. Both candidates bring strong credentials to the table...

Published:Thursday | August 28, 2025 | 12:10 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

A 22-year-old man is expected to be charged for the gruesome murder of two young children, one his son, the other his common-law stepson, whose bodies were recovered on Wednesday in Swamp district in Moneague, St Ann, after they went missing the...

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2025 | 12:13 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

The Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Krystal Lee and the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Gabriela Morris pulled huge crowds Monday’s nomination activities for the general election in Brown’s Town in St Ann North Western. The two will square off on...

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2025 | 12:08 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

Carson Campbell’s parents, Iran and Lotoya Campbell, emitted echoes of the slang term “bright from him born” as they spoke glowingly about their son’s academic achievement in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination that earned him a government...

Published:Monday | August 4, 2025 | 12:08 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

The Indian High Commission (IHC) in Jamaica has continued its journey of offering free healthcare to communities across Jamaica by teaming up with the Beecher Town Give Back Association (BTGBA), to the benefit of residents in that St Ann community...

Published:Monday | August 4, 2025 | 12:07 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

The St Ann’s Bay Methodist Church is seeking to raise $9 million to purchase a pipe organ to replace the one destroyed in a February 2018 fire. The fire, in the early hours of Monday, February 19, destroyed the instrument, which was more than 100...

Published:Saturday | July 26, 2025 | 12:08 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

The Education Transformation Oversight Committee (ETOC) has indicated that the implementation of recommendations contained in the report of the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission, also known as the Patterson Report, are 30 per cent...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:10 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

Professor John MacIntyre, chancellor of the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC), says real leadership is needed throughout society at this time. MacIntyre, whose appointment was announced by the UCC in February this year, was installed...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:06 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

Seventeen-year-old Hampton School student, Caleader Lewison is the 2025 ‘Junior Minister of Tourism/, beating her two rivals in an exciting final at Sandals Ochi Beach Resort on Tuesday. The annual public speaking competition showcased the talents...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:05 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Matthew Samuda, says the Government has allocated $350 million to lessen the impact of the dry spell affecting several regions across the island. Addressing a special...

Published:Wednesday | July 9, 2025 | 12:06 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

Professor Clive Landis, pro vice-chancellor and principal of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill, has warned that the freedom to disagree peacefully is under threat. Speaking at the UWI Vice-Chancellor’s Forum on ‘Academic Freedom,...

Published:Saturday | June 28, 2025 | 12:08 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

The Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement (JaBBEM) says it is pleased with the issues emerging from the court case it has brought against the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) that seeks to allow public access to Little Dunn’s River in...

Published:Saturday | June 28, 2025 | 12:08 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness announced a raft of projects during a tour of Western St Mary with Member of Parliament Robert Montague. In describing the occasion as “a good day for the people of Western St Mary”, Montague said many of the...

Published:Wednesday | June 25, 2025 | 12:09 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says the investment that the Government is making in the country’s healthcare system and road infrastructure is sustainable and will continue. Over the past decade or so, the Government has spent billions of dollars...

Published:Wednesday | June 18, 2025 | 12:10 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

There’s a new kind of PEP trending and it’s not the Primary Exit Profile that is used to place primary school students in high school. It’s the kind that gets parents involved in their children’s well-being as it relates to their education,...

Published:Tuesday | June 17, 2025 | 12:07 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

It is the transitional period, a natural biological process before menopause, where a woman might believe she’s actually dying based on what’s happening to her, physically and emotionally. For women not familiar with the effect before it actually...

Published:Saturday | June 14, 2025 | 12:11 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

Juici Patties has opened a new franchise in the booming Drax Hall area of St Ann, thanks to franchisees Shermaine Desnoes and Glen O’Connor, directors of Golden Grain Baking Company. The new location, at Boot service station, offers comfortable...

Published:Monday | June 9, 2025 | 12:07 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

Professor Alvin Wint piqued the minds of the audience attending the 14th Marcus Garvey Lecture at the St Ann Parish Library on Friday, questioning whether Jamaica’s first national hero would have been pleased with the nation’s development thus far...

Published:Tuesday | May 27, 2025 | 12:12 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

More than 30 young ladies from the Granville Place of Safety in Trelawny were fêted during an afternoon trip to the Bahia Principe Grand Jamaica hotel in Runaway Bay, St Ann, last Friday. The afternoon went well for the girls as they enjoyed lunch...

Published:Monday | May 19, 2025 | 12:08 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

Ocho Rios-based dancehall veteran Mikeylous has joined a growing list of artistes to record songs in support of Burkina Faso’ president, Captain Ibrahim Traoré. Since Traoré became president after a coup in 2022, he has done countless positive...

Published:Tuesday | May 6, 2025 | 10:14 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

A Calabash to Save the World, a production of Ntukuma, the Storytelling Foundation of Jamaica, takes place at the Little Theatre on Tom Redcam Drive in Kingston, from May 16 - 31. Founder and Artistic Director, Ntukuma’s Dr Amina Blackwood Meeks...

Published:Tuesday | May 6, 2025 | 10:12 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

The Most Reverend Charles Dufour, Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston, and founder of the Good Shepherd Foundation of Montego Bay, has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Florida-based Friends of Good Shepherd...

Published:Tuesday | May 6, 2025 | 10:11 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

A year after the successful inauguration of the St Mary Literary Festival, organiser Paul Ward has published a first book of a collection of the poetry and prose that were presented at the April 2024 launch in Port Maria, St Mary. The book, St...

Published:Saturday | May 3, 2025 | 12:09 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor Sir Hilary Beckles is pleading with regional governments that own lands on which the UWI operates to give it to the university to enable the institution to access funding for...

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