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Karl Samuda, member of parliament for St Andrew North Central.

Samuda’s U-turn

Karl Samuda, the long-serving member of parliament (MP) for St Andrew North Central, is likely to remain the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) representative in the upcoming general election despite previous indications that he would retire, the party...
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Calm returns to Spanish Town as PM warns residents that ‘gangs are not your friends’

Spanish Town experienced a day of relative calm on Friday as businesses reopened and regular activities resumed following the tense atmosphere that gripped the town on Thursday. The flare-up of violence on Thursday occurred after reputed One Order...
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Garvey charged and convicted

WHILE MARCUS GARVEY’S popularity and influence were growing in the USA, so was the suspicion with which he was held by US government officials. They had never seen the likes of him, and the fact that he was not an American made the suspicion even...
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St Ann welcomes Garvey pardon

The St Ann Homecoming and Heritage Foundation has welcomed the presidential pardon granted to the Rt Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The foundation’s Chairman Lance Neita has said that the foundation has long advocated for the pardon and now looks...
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Jamaica’s Shimona Jok (right) battles with  Ane Retief of South Africa during the second ‘Test’ between the two teams at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Wednesday.

Sunshine Girls set for series sweep

Having already clinched the Margaret Beckford Trophy in their Sunshine Series against South Africa, the Sunshine Girls will enter today’s final match needing just a win to complete a sweep of their opponents at the National Indoor Sports Centre....
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Big gap between netball games at NISC explained

Anxious to get a bucket deal watching back-to-back matches, a commonly asked question among spectators watching the senior Sunshine Girls and South Africa’s SPAR Proteas is why is there such a big gap in time for the playing of the accompanying...
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Jamaican gov’t to sell stake in highway operator TransJamaican

The Government of Jamaica will be offloading its $10-billion stake in TransJamaican Highway Limited, operator of the Highway 2000 East-West toll roads, and divesting outsourcing assets held by the Port Authority of Jamaica later this year. The...
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AI taking the jobs of ‘agents’, not professionals, says expert

A globally recognised expert on artificial intelligence says the new technology will not take the jobs of professionals – not right away – but is taking on the tasks normally done by agents, for example, those who provide answers in call centres...
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Myrna Hague and her manager Lennon Crooks at Wednesday’s launch.

Coveside Concert series ‘representing excellent music’

Last Wednesday, Coveside Concerts lifted the veil on its four-month-long 2025 season, which, by all indications, has the right ingredients for a successful staging. Between February and May, the Plantation Cove venue in Priory, St Ann, will play...
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A$AP Rocky’s lawyers to cast accuser as money seeker

AP: A$AP Rocky is the celebrity in the room, but A$AP Relli will star at his trial. The hip-hop star, fashion maven and actor, whose legal name is Rakim Athelaston Mayers, is accused of firing a gun at his former friend Relli, born Terell Ephron,...
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Professor Dale Webber

Editorial | Welcoming climate envoys

The Gleaner welcomes the appointment of Dale Webber as Jamaica’s climate envoy, assuming that the assignment isn’t window dressing and that Professor Webber is appropriately mandated to do the job. The announcement of Professor Webber’s assignment...
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Tony Deyal | Two for the price of one

We hear about Gone With The Wind, but ‘Don’ with the wind is no Clark Gable. This is why a few of my readers demanded that I must go after Donald ‘Don’ Trump today. At the same time, I had promised men who follow my column to learn more about...
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Letter of the Day | Social institutions matter

THE EDITOR, Madam: I was recently speaking with a group of upper-school social sciences students, and they raised a pretty interesting question: are our social institutions even that important? They felt like they didn’t see how these...
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Jury trials critical for fair justice

THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing with reference to the article ‘ DPP not in favour of judge-alone-trials’, published in The Gleaner on January 23. Like the DPP, we do not support ending jury trials. Jury challenges are not unique to Jamaica’s...
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Migrants walk through Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, in an attempt to reach the US border on January 20.

Asylum-seekers pushed to new extremes after Trump’s border crackdown begins

ATOTONILCO DE TULA(AP): When Dayana Castro heard that the US asylum appointment she waited over a year for was cancelled in an instant, she had no doubt. She was heading north anyway she could. The 25-year-old migrant, her husband and their four-...
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Governor dies fighting with rebels

GOMA (AP): The governor of eastern Congo’s North Kivu province has died from injuries sustained during fighting on the front line, authorities said Friday, as M23 rebels closed in on the provincial capital. M23 made significant territorial gains...
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Yvonne Clarke, director general, Jamaica Red Cross, holding flags she collected from attending conferences overseas and an award she received from the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development.

GoodHeart |Yvonne Clarke is a true humanitarian at heart

After dedicating more than 50 years to the Jamaica Red Cross, Director General Yvonne Clarke says she would do it all over again. Speaking with GoodHeart on Thursday evening, the selfless and devoted humanitarian reflected on a journey that took...

Glenmore Cummings trades insurance for life as a plant parent

Finding peace in nature is something that speaks to the heart of Glenmore Cummings. After working several years in the field of insurance, he said goodbye to the office and hello to a whole new green world. Making the discovery that true therapy is...
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