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Published:Monday | September 29, 2025 | 12:06 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Carlos Russell is the new head of the St Ann Police Division, as murders in The Garden Parish rise above 2024 levels. Jamaica Constabulary Force statistics for January 1 to September 20, 2025 show St Ann...

Published:Monday | August 18, 2025 | 12:01 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

The disappearance and murder of 20-year-old University of Technology (UTech) student, Anisa Dilworth in May sparked outrage across several sectors in Jamaica, with many condemning yet another case of gender-based violence. On Saturday, a ceremony...

Published:Wednesday | December 25, 2024 | 6:50 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

Bahia Principe Hotel in Runaway Bay, St Ann last Friday celebrated the United Nation’s (UN) International Human Solidarity Day, which seeks to celebrate the world’s unity in diversity and raise awareness about the importance of solidarity. The...

Published:Wednesday | October 16, 2024 | 1:00 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

Outgoing Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke, in what Opposition counterpart Julian Robinson labelled his valedictory speech in the House of Representatives, yesterday closed his final debate on a supplementary estimates of...

Published:Tuesday | October 1, 2024 | 12:11 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

Just over 10 per cent of electors turned out in North East St Ann on Monday as the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Matthew Samuda secured his place as the nation’s newest member of parliament (MP). With a voter turnout of 11.6 per cent, Samuda...

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2024 | 12:08 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

“It couldn’t get any better,” Tricia Daley declared in a Gleaner interview as she spoke about her daughter Tia Smith’s success in the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations. While attending Campion College in St Andrew, Tia (as a private...

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2024 | 12:52 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

King’s Counsel (KC) Michael Hylton has revealed some of the constitutional changes that he wishes to see the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) recommend to Cabinet to facilitate Jamaica’s smooth transition to Republican status, and which would...

Published:Monday | February 19, 2024 | 12:09 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

One doesn’t have to be a coffee connoisseur to appreciate just how good Moy Hall Estate Coffee is, cultivated as it is at an altitude of over 3,000 metres in the St Thomas region of the Blue Mountains. One taste and you realise the ‘King of the...

Published:Monday | December 25, 2023 | 12:49 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

For a decade now, the Marymount High School’s Holiday Helpers have been spreading the joy of Christmas among community members in Cromwelland district in Highgate, and other areas of St Mary. Indeed, even during the pandemic, the Guidance...

Published:Thursday | December 14, 2023 | 12:02 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

Ahead of talks between Guyana and Venezuela over the disputed oil-rich Essequibo territory, Guyana’s Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Mohabir Anil Nandlall, says that nation is prepared to again try diplomacy to quell the dispute....

Published:Sunday | July 30, 2023 | 4:16 PMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

The blind cricket match between Jamaica and Barbados at Discovery Bauxite in St Ann tomorrow has been cancelled. Information from Discovery Bauxite is that Barbados have been unable to get a flight to Jamaica in time for the match. The new arrival...

Published:Saturday | April 29, 2023 | 5:19 PMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

Two persons died following a traffic accident along the Boscobel main road in St Mary early Saturday morning. They have been identified as 31-year-old taxi operator Kirtis Small and a passenger, Shevon Grant, both of Hampstead housing scheme in...

Published:Wednesday | December 14, 2022 | 2:09 PMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer -

Several persons who were wanted for serious crimes have been included in the 25 taken into custody in St Ann, during the first week of the State of Emergency (SOE) in the parish, which Commandant SSP Dwight Powell, called “tremendous results”....

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