Jamaica Gleaner

The 2025 World Athletics Championships will take place in Tokyo, Japan from September 13 to 21. The Gleaner’s Gregory Bryce breaks down the qualification standards and examines how team Jamaica is shaping up as the deadline approaches. #GLNRSports #TheseAreTheFacts

Dear Miss Powell, I am a Canadian citizen, and I would like to help my siblings who are stuck in a refugee camp overseas. What are the programmes that I can use to bring them safely to Canada? Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/2… #GLNRFeatures

The police are reporting that three men have been arrested and charged following the seizure of 3,000 pounds of ganja, valued at $9.3 million, in Toms River, located at the border of St Mary and St Andrew. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/2… #GLNRToday

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says millions of dollars are now being spent to bring water to several well-established communities in St James Southern, which has been suffering from a chronic shortage of water over several years. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/2… #GLNRToday

Professor Lloyd Waller, a scholar in digital transformation and governance, has been appointed the new chairman of the HEART/NSTA Trust, Jamaica's national skills training agency. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/2… #GLNRToday

People’s National Party caretaker for St Thomas West, Hubert Williams, is to appear in the St Thomas Parish Court on August 13, along with three other PNP activists, in relation to charges of assault and obstruction. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/2… #GLNRToday

A 22-year-old man who was employed at a Western Union outlet in Spanish Town, St Catherine, today pleaded guilty to stealing over $3.3 million from the entity. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/2… #GLNRToday

The National Water Commission is reporting that it has moved to regulate water supply in sections of St Ann, St Mary, Portland, St Thomas, and rural St Andrew arising from the impact of the ongoing drought. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/2… #GLNRToday

Two years after getting a dream trial with Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls, former England Roses player Danielle Jordan-Taft still has aspirations of playing for the homeland of her grandfather. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/sports… #GLNRSports

A St Catherine man who pleaded guilty to the rape of a woman while she was on her way to work one morning in October 2023 was on Monday sentenced to a total of over 37 years in prison. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/2… #GLNRToday

Orange Bay Preparatory and Kindergarten school in Hanover is basking in the accomplishment of having all 19 of its students who sat the Primary Exit Profile examinations being placed at their first-choice school. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-s… #GLNRToday

In today's foreign exchange currency trading, the US dollar gained 12 cents to close at $161.29 and the Canadian dollar gained 89 cents to close at $118.73. Meanwhile, British Pound gained $2.07 to close at $217.12. #GLNRFinance

The National Environment and Planning Agency says two of three monkeys that were on the loose in the Stony Hill area of St Andrew have been captured. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/2… #GLNRToday

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has confirmed that rehabilitation work on the Linstead Police Station, which was badly damaged by Hurricane Beryl, is expected to resume shortly. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-s… #GLNRToday

Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/entert…

The Gleaner team joined the backstage buzz at Reggae Sumfest 2025 with a fun-filled game of truth or dare.   FULL VIDEO: youtube.com/watch?v=clyglb… #GLNREnt #ReggaeSumfest2025 #GLNRSumfest

While the organisers of Reggae Sumfest 2025 are yet to do their official post-mortem on the festival, Junior Tourism Minister Senator Delano Seiveright has declared it a resounding success. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-s… #GLNRToday

New York will soon make phone calls free in its state prisons, officials said Tuesday. People who are incarcerated in the state's prisons currently receive three free, 15-minute phone calls a week. After that, the calls cost 2.4 cents a minute. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/world-…