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Police officers patrol at a cordon near Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow, a suburb of London.
April 20, 2026

Police probing if arson attacks on Jewish sites in London are work of Iranian proxies

LONDON (AP): British police said Sunday they are investigating whether a string of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London are the work of Iranian proxies. The Metropolitan Police force says…
National Housing Trust offices at Park Boulevard, Kingston.
April 20, 2026

Dwayne Berbick | EFMP: Partnership for increased housing delivery

For the last 50 years, the National Housing Trust (NHT) has had one purpose: helping Jamaicans to acquire homes. Our partnerships, programmes and financial decisions service that purpose. It is from…
Letters
April 20, 2026

Respect, preserve heritage sites

THE EDITOR, Madam: World Heritage Day was observed on April 18. The day is officially known as the International Day for Museums and Sites and bears witness to the cultural legacy passed down through…
Pope Leo XIV arrives in procession to celebrate Mass at Yaounde Ville Airport, Cameroon.
April 20, 2026

Ronald Thwaites | Donald Trump or Pope Leo?

Students of history might have thought that the tension between the followers of Jesus and the adherents of worldly empire had been overtaken by the tolerance of liberal doctrine, the increased…
Letters
April 20, 2026

Integrity and Ja’s moral imperative

THE EDITOR, Madam: Dr Dennis Minott’s reflection in In Focus, The Sunday Gleaner column on “software of integrity” is both timely and necessary. His framing of Jamaica’s development challenge as a…
Letters
April 20, 2026

Letter of the Day | Access to clean water is a necessity

THE EDITOR, Madam: There are deeper issues that lie in the lack of access to clean, potable water in sufficient quantities to meet household needs. Many communities have no reliable indoor plumbing…
Gleaner editorial writes: Jamaica has to urgently design, and proffer, policies to cushion the worst of the effects of this fall-out. These should begin to emerge in Parliament’s sector debate that begin this week.
April 20, 2026

Editorial | Sectoral debate on solutions

Despite the lull after the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, the war in the Middle East continues to send economic shockwaves across an interconnected global system. Energy supplies are…
Broughton (left) in conversation with David Betty, president of the Jamaican Canadian Association in Ontario at a Hurricane Melissa donation relief drop-off centre last November. JN Bank in Canada served as the official drop-off for items collected in Toro
April 20, 2026

Monique Broughton: JN Bank’s People Magnet in Canada

Monique Broughton remembers well her adolescent years tuning into the nightly TV news. Local and international affairs, sports and weather, all easy enough to follow. The finance segment, however,…
Kenyah Adamson (right), manager of the Lucea branch of the Infiniti Cooperative Credit Union Jamaica Limited, presents documents related to the entrepreneurship programme to Tova Trench-Anderson, the parish manager for the Hanover branch of the Social Deve
April 20, 2026 by Bryan Miller

Hanover’s SDC branch, Infiniti Credit Union launch entrepreneurship programme for students

Western Bureau: The Hanover branch of the Social Development Commission (SDC) has forged a partnership with Infiniti Cooperative Credit Union to launch a Youth Entrepreneurship Programme (YEP) in high…