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Skip to main content Top Menu Mobile Apps ePaper Login Subscribe Now Kingston Mon | Feb 10, 2020 Search Menu Main menu Home Lead Stories News Sports Entertainment Business Letters Commentary Health Food Secondary Menu World News In Focus Auto Social Outlook Shipping Art & Leisure Blogs Classifieds Flair Jobs Radio Viewpoints Mobile version Subscribe to this feed Join us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter In The News JAMAICA NOW: Gun trafficker sentenced... Ruddy Spencer resigns... March 2 by-election... #BobMarley75 Home Latest News Holness, Blake pay tribute to 'phenomenal' Powell at statue unveiling Heralded by Prime Minister Andrew Holness as the spark the triggered Jamaica's modern dominance of male spiriting, Asafa Powell joined the list of Jamaican athletes honoured with a statue at a ceremony at Independence Park on Sunday evening. The... Comments JLP to expose fake news on social media Prime Minister and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader, Andrew Holness, has warned his supporters to be discerning and on the look out for fake news on social media, as they prepare for the next general election. Noting that political... Comments Holness endorses Miller for SE St Catherine National Career Awareness Week launched Jamaica has a 'corrosive permissiveness for violence' says Holness Holness: 'We cannot continue to tolerate domestic violence' 11:56 pm EST Westmoreland taxi operator dies in crash More Lead Stories Fishing for guns - Old Harbour Bay boatmen rake in profits with drugs-for-arms trafficking to Haiti Smugglers continue to use Old Harbour Bay as a key trans-shipment node in the drugs-for-guns trade with Haiti, reaping huge profits for weapons of war and defying attempts by the security forces to plug one of scores of illegal ports. Three... Comments Brutality streak intolerable - PM - Government to pilot new domestic violence bill Romario Scott/Gleaner Writer The Jamaican Government will soon pilot a new domestic violence bill in Parliament in response to bone-chilling episodes of intimate-partner violence across the country, Prime Minister Andrew Holness revealed yesterday... 12:20 am EST Comments ‘Use Andrew Holness’ house for quarantine’ - Health officials battle Vineyard Town rage over coronavirus fears 12:21 am EST Deaf ears pop for ‘Mary Poppins’ 12:27 am EST ‘This is not about enriching yourself’ - Holness warns Labourite reps against corruption, arrogance 12:20 am EST After sleepless nights, Westmoreland farmer bludgeoned wife to death 12:28 am EST More Hospitality Jamaica Fort Clarence’s RENEWAL News Nurses suffering burnout - Several have almost exceeded their yearly sick leave allocation President of the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ), Carmen Johnson, has asserted that the number of nurses in Jamaica have reduced significantly in the last two years. “In 2018 and 2019, we lost over 1,100 nurses. What we do know is that the... Comments St Bess is underserved - Bread Basket parish badly in need of additional ambulance services If medical practitioner Dr Ubong Umoh was an adviser for a day to Dr Christopher Tufton, the minister of health and wellness, he would encourage the establishment of dispatch units for ambulances in each major town in the parish of St Elizabeth. “... 1:29 am EST Comments JCF High Command addresses trainee concerns 1:33 am EST Steve Lyston | The army and domestic violence 12:54 am EST Gov’t spending $1.9b to establish Goat Island wildlife sanctuary 12:58 am EST From ackee seeds to acne cleanser - NCU student’s dabble in research leads to oil-based skincare products 12:05 am EST More Sports Top brass - ‘Sub-10 King’ Asafa Powell ­immortalised in statue One of the fastest men ever in world history, born here in Jamaica, has now been immortalised. Asafa Powell, the former 100m world record holder was honoured in a ceremony last night at Independence Park, where his statue was unveiled in front of... Comments Scorpions poach Jaguars for first win The Jamaica Scorpions recorded their first win of the 2020 Regional Four-Day Championship following an enthralling seven-run victory over hosts Guyana Jaguars in their fourth-round clash at the National Stadium in Providence. The Jaguars had... 12:12 am EST Comments Milo Western Relays delivers at GC Foster 12:11 am EST Campbell earns trial at Udinese 12:42 am EST JCA pleased with growing Senior Cup 12:10 am EST More Business Fesco gas supplier to go public The owners of Future Energy Source Company, which trades as Fesco, have laid out a busy year for capital projects, which will culminate with them going to the market for equity financing. If Fesco follows through, it will become the first fuel... Comments Jacana opens cannabis dispensary in Manor Park, plans second store Medical marijuana company, Jacana, on Thursday opened the first of at least two cannabis stores it’s planning for Jamaica this year. Two years ago, Jacana began cultivating the cannabis plant from a 100-acre farm in St Ann, and today values its... Comments Seafood exports to China hit hard Glenford Smith | A good paying job Oran Hall | Investing For retirement Market Index Summary Sponsor: More Entertainment A date with ‘Babylon’ - Reggae Films in the Park opens hearts, minds and mouths Picture this: being at the centre of the busy Emancipation Park surrounded by Poinciana trees with the night sky being the only thing looking down at you, decorated with the sound of children’s laughter in the distance, and the voices and music... Comments Hip-hop’s founding father Kool Herc proud of his roots - Coming to Jamaica for music confab The ‘Founding Father of Hip Hop’ is a title that the Jamaican creator of the genre wears very well, and he laughs when asked how it feels to be so acknowledged. “Despite everything, I have never forgotten my roots,” DJ Kool Herc told The Gleaner... 12:19 am EST Comments Young artists pleased to be a part of history - New mural unveiled for Marley’s 75th birthday 12:14 am EST K Anthony finding his purpose in gospel 12:49 am EST DYCR ready to regroup and resurface - Dub poet wins decade-long lawsuit against Downsound Records 12:19 am EST More Commentary Editorial | Plan for underground power lines Whatever may be the final ruling in the legal fight between the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) and the residents of Hope Pastures in St Andrew over how their electricity should be delivered, the case highlights a serious public-policy matter... Comments Clinton Chisholm | Afrocentrism/black consciousness: critical thoughts Over the last 500 years, Christianity in Africa, and in most countries with people of African ancestry, has been charged with outright racism (when non-Blacks headed the hierarchy within denominations) and with inverse racism (when Blacks headed... 12:35 am EST Comments Michael Abrahams | Want to know why women don’t report sexual assault? Look at the Kobe Bryant case 12:19 am EST Garth Rattray | Who protects consumers? 12:06 am EST Ronald Thwaites | Fixing schools 12:06 am EST More Letters Letter of the Day | Time for a third political party THE EDITOR, Madam: Amid the present turmoil in the political scene, with one party obsessed with highlighting episodes of corruption in the other, while omitting to address instances of their own misdeeds during their time in office, I am more... Comments KingAlarm operations firm THE EDITOR, Madam: I write in reference to a recent story published in The Gleaner, ‘Runaway staff cause KingAlarm to ground visa letters’, published on January 30, 2020, which makes reference to an internal company memo, wherein KingAlarm had... 12:33 am EST Comments Democratic socialism ruined Jamaica 12:32 am EST Leave children alone 12:30 am EST Water, water everywhere; not a drop to drink 12:30 am EST More World News Virus death toll surpasses SARS, but new cases fall BEIJING (AP): China’s virus death toll rose by 89 on Sunday to 811, passing the number of fatalities in the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic, but fewer new cases were reported in a...