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Published:Sunday | September 28, 2025 | 12:07 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

What should have been a routine two-minute drive from Dominica Drive to Chelsea Manor turned into a harrowing 15-minute ordeal for an elderly couple, after their car was swept away by raging floodwaters during a thunderstorm in New Kingston two...

Published:Sunday | September 21, 2025 | 2:19 PMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

A decades-long dispute between retired politician Pearnel Charles Sr and residents in Old Pera, St Thomas, has flared up once again, sparking verbal confrontations and threats of displacement. The land in question, an 1,100-acre stretch along the...

Published:Sunday | September 14, 2025 | 12:12 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

A software engineer has filed a lawsuit against JMMB Bank (Jamaica) Limited, claiming the financial institution’s decision to freeze his account and withhold sums totalling US$35,000 or $5.6 million caused his ecommerce business to collapse....

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:16 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

Raw emotions surged through Portland Eastern, days after the general election, with People’s National Party (PNP) supporters and some independents declaring emphatically that the rejection of Ann-Marie Vaz was in their best interest. Attorney-at-...

Published:Sunday | August 31, 2025 | 12:07 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has opened a gap over the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), according to the findings of the latest RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll. With just three days left before Jamaicans head to the...

Published:Sunday | August 17, 2025 | 12:14 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness holds a slim lead over Opposition Leader Mark Golding in public favourability, according to the latest national survey commissioned by the RJRGLEANER Communications Group. However, Holness also carries a...

Published:Sunday | August 3, 2025 | 12:16 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

Homeowners in Twickenham Glades, St Catherine, are outraged as severe termite infestation persists in their newly built National Housing Trust (NHT) houses, prompting the state entity to spend millions of dollars on retreatment for the four-year-...

Published:Sunday | June 22, 2025 | 12:11 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

More than one-third of Jamaican four-year-olds assessed for school readiness in 2024 were flagged for further developmental evaluation, as concerns grow over long delays in accessing critical support services. Of the 29,729 children assessed...

Published:Sunday | June 1, 2025 | 12:10 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

Families across Jamaica are raising the alarm over the country’s inability to meet the educational needs of children with special needs. A growing number of children go unassessed each year, exacerbating what experts are calling a silent national...

Published:Sunday | May 25, 2025 | 12:12 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

Raw sewage flowing through several properties and on to Shenstone Drive in Beverly Hills – an affluent St Andrew community – has sparked fear that the hazardous contamination may trigger health issues for families there. The issue, ongoing for...

Published:Sunday | May 25, 2025 | 12:11 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

Jamaica’s two main political parties believe that persons with criminal convictions should not be barred from contesting local and national elections if those records can be expunged. Representatives from both the governing Jamaica Labour Party (...

Published:Sunday | May 11, 2025 | 12:17 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

Her coworkers consider her a supermom, often bestowing her with the ‘Mother of the Year’ title, but Antonette Richards, a career civil servant, believes there is always more she can do for her three children. At 46 years old, the programme director...

Published:Sunday | May 11, 2025 | 4:04 PMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

When a young mother showed up at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) in Kingston haemorrhaging after a homebirth, Sister Marian Ramikie, the most senior midwife on duty, immediately sprang into action. Having spent over five decades helping women...

Published:Sunday | April 27, 2025 | 12:11 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

St Elizabeth South Western Member of Parliament (MP) Floyd Green says he is confident of securing a third term in office, pointing to significant strides made in tackling longstanding issues within the constituency. With the next general election...

Published:Sunday | April 27, 2025 | 12:11 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

Miranda Wellington, a teacher at Black River High School and the People’s National Party (PNP) prospective candidate for St Elizabeth South Western, says her top priority – if elected as member of parliament – is to breathe new life into the parish...

Published:Sunday | April 27, 2025 | 12:10 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

A high-stakes political showdown is brewing in St Elizabeth South Western, where incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) Floyd Green is facing a strong challenge from Black River High School teacher Miranda Wellington in the upcoming general election,...

Published:Sunday | April 20, 2025 | 12:12 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

The revocation of hundreds of student visas in the United States has left many Jamaican students currently studying or planning to study there feeling anxious and uncertain, as universities scramble to support those ordered to leave the country...

Published:Sunday | April 13, 2025 | 12:12 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

A bitter custody battle and an ambiguous case involving the Administrator General’s Department (AGD) are at the centre of a wound the family of Jodian Fearon is desperately trying to close, five years after her tragic death. Fearon, 23, died in the...

Published:Sunday | March 30, 2025 | 12:14 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

The Chinese Government has fired back at the Trump administration over its “predatory practices” claim, calling it the United States’ (US) attempt to spread disinformation and sow discord in its relationships with other countries. “The so-called...

Published:Sunday | March 30, 2025 | 3:24 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

Mahoe Gaming Enterprises Limited (MGEL), which burst onto the lottery scene almost five years ago, is moving to suspend four of its games because of financial challenges that are impacting its operations. Mahoe Gaming, in a February 5, 2025 letter...

Published:Sunday | March 2, 2025 | 12:07 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

Jamaicans have marked Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding as average or above in the stewardship of their respective portfolios. Sixty per cent of respondents in the RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson public...

Published:Sunday | February 23, 2025 | 12:06 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

A 78-year-old woman from St Andrew, who invested $60 million in the fraud-hit investment firm Stocks...

Published:Sunday | February 23, 2025 | 12:06 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

The latest RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson public opinion poll has revealed that more Jamaicans support combining the country’s transition to a republic with the adoption of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the final appellate court,...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:40 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

A United States congresswoman has listed Jamaica among countries she says are benefiting wrongfully from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding, asserting that agendas which run counter to an America first policy are...

Published:Sunday | January 19, 2025 | 12:12 AMKimone Francis - Senior Staff Reporter

A hyperactive year for the Integrity Commission (IC), which shaped dozens of headlines, ended with Jamaica’s foremost anti-corruption body at the centre of court proceedings brought against it by Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, following the...

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