The Norman Manley Law School, like neighbouring institutions like the University Hospital of the West Indies, match up with the best in the world. Maybe the Queen’s blessing in 1975 has something to do with that. Food for thought. Published...
With the litany of human rights abuse allegations that international organisations have hit Jamaica with makes this story, dating all the way back to 1967, interesting. There aren’t many who, having not been around in 1967, would believe the...
India’s gift of vaccines to Jamaica should not have been surprising, since the countries pledged friendship with each other as far back as 1966. Even before that, the link between India and Jamaica, with indentured labourers coming to the...
Published:Wednesday | April 28, 2021 | 10:44 PMBANG Bizarre
A football team had their training interrupted after an alligator invaded their pitch. Toronto FC were holding a training session in Florida earlier this week when the reptile wandered out onto the field. A clip posted on YouTube shows players...
Published:Wednesday | April 28, 2021 | 10:31 PMBANG Bizarre
A man purchased Argentina's Google domain name after the site went down. Nicolas Kurona was able to buy the domain for just £2 through a perfectly legal process, much to his surprise. Kurona revealed that he was working on a client's...
Published:Wednesday | April 28, 2021 | 10:19 PMBANG Bizarre
A group of builders were horrified after finding human remains buried under a patio. Robbie Kearney made the gruesome discovery as he was digging a soak-a-way hole for the drainage under the patio and stopped his work immediately. The five...
Published:Wednesday | April 28, 2021 | 10:15 PMBANG Bizarre
A woman nearly lost her vision after she mistook nail glue for eye drops. Yacedrah Williams went to bed having left her contact lenses in and woke up in the early hours having realised her mistake. However, she grabbed a small bottle of nail glue...
Published:Wednesday | April 28, 2021 | 10:05 PMBANG Bizarre
A sex doll has been filmed ranting about the human race. Video footage shows the doll, named Nova, unleashing a tirade against the state of the world and questioning how humans have been able to survive as a species. In the clip, Nova can be heard...
BERLIN/WASHINGTON, DC – Last September, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, the General Assembly adopted a landmark declaration affirming a commitment to “mobilize resources” and “show...
NEW DELHI – It is humbling when a columnist must retract his words soon after penning them. Just two months ago, after India rushed millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines to over 60 countries, I praised the country's “vaccine...
NEW YORK – Europe continues to lead the world in climate action. In the last week alone, the European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement enshrining in law the objective of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 55% by 2030...
COLLEGEVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA – We expect spokespeople and other hired guns to do their best with losing arguments if no winning ones are available. But it is dismaying when we, too, behave like a cornered politician's press secretary,...
ATHENS – Europe has discovered its moral Rubicon, the frontier beyond which commodification becomes intolerable. The line in the sand that Europeans refuse to cross, come what may, has just been drawn. We bowed to bankers who almost blew up...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist’s pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s line up of cartoons as...
When Jamaica began bauxite extraction all the way back in 1952, the country was put on a path of rapid development but. But there was a problem. We exported bauxite but never invested in the products bauxite made. From the bi-products of bauxite, a...
Fifteen years ago, Jamaica’s penchant for corruption was laid bare when Trafigura Baheer, a Dutch company, was alleged to have breached its country’s anti-corruption laws when it won an oil-lifting contract with the Petroleum...
Journalism lost a giant last week with the passing of Michael Sharpe. Sharpe’s legacy was never in question, though the 65-year-old seemed far from calling it a day before his untimely passing. He had more to do. That zeal for journalism was...
Corruption in Jamaica seemed the order of the day last week and in a Sunday Gleaner expose, Tameka Gordon got teachers to admit that in a bid to stop the loss of its students because COVID-19 has impacted their ability to do School-Based...
The family of convicted Tivoli Gardens strongman, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, has forever been plunged in infamy. The name Coke has forever been linked to organised crime. Well, at least, that’s the narrative the community offers up...
The decision to stage the Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships at such a belated stage was never going to be easy. While many are looking forward to the return of the most impressive high school event in the world, there are a few...
The news that Jamaica will not take part in this year’s staging of the World Athletics Relays came as a shock. Or maybe not so much. The truth is the COVID-19 pandemic has destroyed much of the countries sports and this is just the latest...
The revered Carolyn Cooper is a literary scholar and a Jamaican author. In addition to this, she is a professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona. From 1975 to 1980, she was an assistant professor...
Sabrina Hosang Jordan is the CEO of Caribbean Food Delights. She is a young business leader who is recognised among her peers as a model team builder and motivator. This profound characteristic trait is also seen as the driving force behind her...
Rose Hudson Wilkin was born in Montego Bay Jamaica on January 19, 1961. She is more popularly known for being the first black person to become a Church of England Bishop. She has also served as Chaplin to the speaker of the house from 2010 to 2019...
Known for her commitment to journalism, Wyvolyn Gager has made a significant impact in the world of mass communication. It was in 1994 that she became the first woman to become Editor-In-Chief of The Gleaner. She served in this position until the...
