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Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:09:20 -0500
‘We never knew we would be murdered’
WESTERN BUREAU: A Hanover woman who was among the congregants at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Paradise, St James, on Sunday when deadly violence erupted is now emotionally drained after realising how close she came......

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:09:26 -0500
BLOODY HELL
WESTERN BUREAU: The bloodstained concrete where Tanicka Gordon, the woman who was reportedly sacrificed in a bizarre ritual in St James on Sunday, was testament to the horror that unfolded at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:07:15 -0500
‘It was like prison’
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Kevin O. Smith’s Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries raked in close to $1 million per week from offerings, consultations and spiritual encounter, The Gleaner has learnt. Smith, who assumed the title His...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:10:11 -0500
Ja has lost an icon in Powell, says Henzell
St Elizabeth businessman Jason Henzell yesterday expressed sadness at the passing of former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, who died on Monday from complications associated with COVID-19. Powell, 84, who was born in New York to...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:09:33 -0500
Search party rejoices in finding 13-y-o
Nineteen-year-old Giovanni Scott, who rescued 13-year-old Winshae Barrett in the mountains of Spring Bank, St Thomas, after a two-day search, is now left with mixed feelings. Although happy that Winshae was found, he was disappointed that the...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:09:15 -0500
Eminent politicians, civil servants top Heroes Day honourees
After three decades in politics, former People’s National Party (PNP) President Dr Peter Phillips yesterday headed the list of politicians honoured during the National Honours and Awards ceremony. Phillips, who previously served as a senator and....

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:08:40 -0500
Elderly female farmer chopped to death
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents in the quiet farming community of All Sides, near Warsop, in Trelawny, are still struggling to come to grips with the brutal murder of an elderly female farmer, who was found dead in her bed with multiple chop wounds on...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:09:02 -0500
CPFSA: Children safe after deadly ritual
WESTERN BUREAU: The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) has reported that the 15 children who were present during a bloody ritual at the Dr Kevin O. Smith-led Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Paradise, St...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:33 -0500
DEATH THREATS
NORWICH, Portland: The family of Davian Bryan, the Portland man who allegedly abducted nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia and who has been implicated in the disappearance of another girl, said that they are now living in fear after receiving death...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:45 -0500
Bath feels betrayed by fugitive
Residents of Bath, St Thomas, are ruing that their goodnatured hospitality has come to haunt them as they cited betrayal on Sunday by the main suspect in the abduction of nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia and person of interest in the disappearance of.....

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:05:29 -0500
Bath’s women awake to new era of fear
The stark tension associated with the missing girls saga over the weekend in Bath, St Thomas, is in total contrast to what residents describe as a usually relaxed and safe environment. In fact, they admit that the happenings have dramatically...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:05:24 -0500
‘A house divided will not stand’
In a no-holds-barred address to Comrades at the People’s National Party’s (PNP) 83rd annual conference on Sunday, former president P.J. Patterson called for all hostilities within the organisation to cease as he delivered a sharp rebuke to warri...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:18 -0500
Fire-proof hero!
When Kyme Duncan was jolted from sleep by the shrill cry of his helper with news that his friend’s house was ablaze, he was spurred into action to assist his neighbour. That dedication to his Tower Isle community saved the life of his friend’s....

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:53 -0500
Golding vows to end ‘educational apartheid’
President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Mark Golding, said that a government led by him would pump significant resources into early childhood education to ensure that students transitioning to secondary schools have the required competence...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:06 -0500
Power parents graduate together with distinction
Kemar Gayle and Caroney Gregory met in college, embarked on parenthood, and recently mastered it together – literally! – with the award of their Master of Arts in teacher education and teacher development, with distinction, from The University o...

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:07:55 -0500
‘Please don’t kill him’
A desperate plea for the safety of her abductor was the first thing that reportedly left the trembling lips of an obviously traumatised nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia, when she was found in Arcadia, St Thomas, on Saturday following a two-day search.....

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:08:04 -0500
Holness, Golding square off over vax campaign
It started out as a Twitter spat between Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding over the Government’s COVID-19 vaccination blitz tours islandwide, which were supposed to include the Opposition to show unity and encourage....

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:07:42 -0500
Still on ice
An increase in the number of Jamaicans dying annually has triggered an explosion in unregulated funeral service providers popping up all over the country, with some even setting up shop in housing schemes, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt. The...

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:07:20 -0500
‘Only a mad man would not get the vaccine’
Forty-two-year-old Garth Lindsay has been living on the streets of Montego Bay, St James, for the past 15 years. He left his hometown in Fellowship, Portland, in search of a better life, completing the 135-mile trek after five days, and today has......

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:12:07 -0500
SPIRITS BROKEN
WESTERN BUREAU: After pumping more than $300 million in cash and kind into the Jamaica’s COVID-19 response effort, alcohol producers here have become the pariahs of the health sector. Their fate was decided by Minister of Health and Wellness Dr......



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