Lead Stories

Sasha-Marie Ashley, the late senior parish court judge for Hanover.
March 3, 2026 by Christopher Thomas

Cornwall Bar joins chief justice in paying tribute to late Judge Sasha-Marie Ashley

WESTERN BUREAU: The Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) is in mourning after it lost one of its stalwarts yesterday with the death of Judge Sasha-Marie Ashley, the senior parish judge for Hanover. Ashley…
Mayor of Savanna-la-Mar Danree Delancy.
March 3, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Melissa halts Petersfield by-election plans

WESTERN BUREAU: The Petersfield Division in Westmoreland Central will remain without elected representation for now, as Hurricane Melissa’s Category 5 winds have forced a delay in naming a date for…
Hotelier Christopher Issa, owner and operator of S Hotels Jamaica, poses with a plaque he was honoured with by media members of the Western Jamaica Media Association (WJMA) on Sunday at Hotel 39 in Montego Bay. He is flanked by WJMA members. 
March 3, 2026 by Janet Silvera

Issa defends traditional media, recalls why journalism mattered after hurricane

WESTERN BUREAU: In an age when news breaks first on social media and credibility is often the casualty, Jamaican hotelier Christopher Issa delivered an unexpected but forceful defence of traditional…
March 3, 2026 by Tanesha Mundle

‘I did not see him attacking any of the officers’

A key prosecution witness in the trial of six policemen charged in the 2013 Acadia Drive triple killing testified yesterday that she saw police personnel firing at a man who ran from a vehicle and…
The RJRGLEANER Communications Group’s Lyndhurst Road offices in St Andrew.
March 3, 2026

RJRGLEANER moves to accelerate corporate integration

The RJRGLEANER Communications Group is streamlining several of its subsidiaries in a move to improve corporate efficiencies. In a statement, the group noted that the Supreme Court on February 19…
A street light in Denham Town, west Kingston.
March 2, 2026 by Corey Robinson

Light after death

Residents of Denham Town in west Kingston received a massive upgrade of street lights in the community last week, a move some residents welcomed but believed came a little too late following the…
A black plume of smoke rises from a warehouse at the industrial area of Sharjah City in the United Arab Emirates following reports of Iranian strikes in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 1, 2026.
March 2, 2026

Caribbean states react as US, Israel go to war with Iran

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): At least three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have expressed concern at the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East after the United States (US) and Israel…
Centenarian Alice Drysdale Stewart sharing a moment with her son, Oswald Edwards, during her birthday celebration on February 21 at The Little Copa in Bull Bay, St Andrew.
March 2, 2026

Forever 15

If you asked Alice Drysdale Stewart, who achieved the milestone of 100 years on February 19, how she is feeling, her first utterance would cheerfully be, “I feel good as a 15-year-old!” On February…
Agnes Johnson, 101 years old, tells her story.
March 2, 2026 by Carl Gilchrist

Project launched to encourage centenarians to tell their stories in St Ann

St Ann Custos Joseph Issa’s ‘Custos Commando’ initiative reached a new level last Thursday with the launch of the Centenarian Story Telling Project, a brainchild of Cienna Smith, a lawyer by…