Despite pledges of assistance for a homeless man who was awarded a Badge of Honour for Gallantry last Heroes Day after rescuing an injured cop who was left for dead in bushes of Portmore, St Catherine, he has found himself in a worse situation five...
When administrators at New Hope Preparatory School in downtown Kingston decided to construct a library and reading room, criminals from neighbouring areas made it known that they, too, wanted in on the project with extortion fees. The school, which...
When Kay Wilson-Kelly, operations manager at Port Computer Services Limited, a local computer software company which trades as Advantum Limited, realised that she was the only woman among men signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the...
WITH OVER 233 murders occurring islandwide in 10 weeks since the start of the year, at least one panellist at the Houses of Parliament’s Commonwealth Day ‘Year of Youth’ Forum, Reverend Michael Craig, was bold enough to point out his...
Desmond McKenzie, minister of local government and rural development, has expressed deep concern over the rash and increasing numbers of intentionally set bush fires given the prevailing drought condition across the island. He urged Jamaicans to be...
Sandra Ewan, a 58-year-old resident of Kingston living with special needs, has one major life regret: taking up the Government’s Special Early Retirement Programme (SERP) offer in 2018. The programme was initiated in light of the Pensions (Public...
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie is warning water truck drivers and operators not to sell domestic water they have already been paid to transport to people suffering as a result of the drought now being...
Vendors at the Coronation Market say they began seeing the impact of the drought on agricultural production months ago as farmers lost crops and saw stunted growth in some that produced yields. Herma Thomas said that she has been refusing to buy...
Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says Jamaica is now in its final stage of negotiations for citrus export to Trinidad and Tobago, the latest in a series of positive trade moves for the country. Addressing The Plant Quarantine...
Lloyd Ferguson, the 65-year-old co-founder of the secluded inner-city golden age home called Eira Schader in Trench Town, who is now on the brink of his retirement, has one regret in life that still lingers in his mind. He recounts that as a...
Jamaica now has its first multimillion-dollar plasma apheresis machine, which will improve blood donation and transfusion services in the country. The machine will offer a new science-based solution that receives blood from a blood donor and...
Journeying to Jamaica 32 years ago to take up a job as a psychiatrist is one risk that Burmese national Dr Myo Kyaw Oo took for which he harbours no regrets. He has since become a Jamaican citizen and brought his Burmese wife to Jamaica, where they...
Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, said the Government’s upcoming waste-to-energy programme will generate some 60 megawatts of energy. Waste-to-energy plants burn municipal solid waste to...
Not having a councillor for the last 20 months has not caused any great concern among residents of the Greater Portmore East Division who say they are fully satisfied with the efforts of the Portmore Municipal Corporation since the passing of...
The national caucus of councillors from the People’s National Party (PNP) has blasted the Government for its push to further delay the long-overdue local government elections, describing it as “negligence”. The Government on Tuesday tabled a bill...
Onion farmers in Heartease, St Thomas, are worried that they could suffer millions in losses as a beet armyworm outbreak in their fields wreaks havoc on their current crop even as they believe that the Government is not doing enough to help them....
Ackecia Gayle, head girl of Little Bay Primary and Infant schools, beamed with joy on Tuesday after hearing Education Minister Fayval Williams announce that her Westmoreland-based institution would be getting a new school bus valued at US$73,904....
Unlike many girls her age, Nia-Ashley Harris, winner of The Professor Wilma Bailey Award for the Most Outstanding Performance in geography in the May/June 2022 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, will boldly tell you she...
When Khalil James, fourth-place winner in The Gleaner’s Children’s Own Spelling Bee Competition 2023, innocently said onstage “Homogeneity ... homogeneity ... I never heard that word before” before being knocked out of the competition, his coach,...
Fifteen years after the world’s fastest man Jamaica’s Usain Bolt quipped that yam should be credited for his streak to 100-metre Olympic gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, Pearnel Charles Jr, minister of agriculture and fisheries, said that the...
The Government has invested approximately $12 million in importing two cutting-edge Agri Spray Drones, setting the pace for revolutionising how farmers conduct pest-control initiatives on crops islandwide. This investment is not only expected to...
More than two years after announcing plans to roll out Microsoft Office 365 free of cost, Education Minister Fayval Williams on Tuesday officially launched the campaign for software that could benefit half a million Jamaicans. The US$15-million (J$...
Registrar General’s Department (RGD) CEO Charlton McFarlane has indicated that he cannot guarantee that normal operations will resume at the agency’s 10 offices islandwide on Tuesday, following Monday’s sickout by disgruntled staff, who are upset...
When Sagicor SIGMA Corporate Run organisers previously announced the rule that entrants needed to be vaccinated in order to participate in the 24th staging of the event in 2022, Garfield Gordon – this year’s overall winner – was determined not to...
Ask standout student Thalia Grant where she hails from and she’ll say “a lot of communities”. That quip captures the bumpy journey of struggle she and her mom Sherine Bucknor have taken over the last 13 years following the murder of the teenager’s...
