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Published:Tuesday | April 27, 2021 | 1:41 AMTameka Gordon/Senior Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Tuesday | April 27, 2021 | 1:32 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

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...

Published:Tuesday | April 27, 2021 | 1:14 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Tuesday | April 27, 2021 | 1:06 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer Jonielle

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...

Published:Sunday | April 25, 2021 | 11:31 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Sunday | April 25, 2021 | 11:24 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Sunday | April 25, 2021 | 11:15 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Sunday | April 25, 2021 | 11:08 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Sunday | April 25, 2021 | 10:47 PMPaul-Andre Walker/Digital Editor

The name VP Records is almost synonymous with hit-making reggae and dancehall music today, but it wasn’t always that way. Interestingly, the name, which smacks of the longer abbreviation VIP (Very Important Person), came about from the...

Published:Thursday | April 22, 2021 | 11:01 PM

On April 18, 1967, Sir Donald Sangster was laid to rest. The funeral was not dissimilar to one accorded a hero. The Gleaner, like it has been for many of Jamaica's most important moments, was there for the funeral, forever keeping the memory...

Published:Thursday | April 22, 2021 | 10:49 PM

The funeral of Sir Donald Sangster was no small matter. Marking the occasion in a most fitting way was The Gleaner’s coverage of the funeral. The gravitas of the occasion was not lost on the writer, neither was the esteem with the man was...

Published:Thursday | April 22, 2021 | 10:33 PM

Reggae icon Bob Marley, not long after being shot, went to the ‘One Love’ concert and famously, and maybe heroically, got Prime Minister Michael Manley and Opposition leader Edward Seaga, to hold hands in a display of unity that belied...

Published:Thursday | April 22, 2021 | 10:18 PM

Coming from near and far, Jamaicans helped make the visit of Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, a moment that would be etched in the collective memory of both countries for the next 55 years. Selassie, himself, cried. The Gleaner captured those...

Published:Thursday | April 22, 2021 | 10:08 PM

West Indies Cricket celebrated a historic whitewash of India all the way back in 1962, helping Jamaica celebrate what was going to be their independence in fine style. Led by the second black captain and a Jamaican, Sir Frank Worrell, had been...

Published:Thursday | April 22, 2021 | 12:34 AMBANG Bizarre

A man has been left with half a house after a communication breakdown with the builder. Bishnu Aryal, from Nepal, had spent years saving up thousands for his dream property in Sydney, Australia but a mix-up with the developer, Zac Homes, turned his...

Published:Thursday | April 22, 2021 | 12:30 AMBANG Bizarre

A secondary school received a library book from a former student that was 32 years overdue. St. John Fisher Catholic High School in Peterborough explained how a book called 'Manners Make a Difference' arrived in the post recently, with...

Published:Thursday | April 22, 2021 | 12:26 AMBANG Bizarre

A dinosaur footprint from a "Jurassic giant" has been found on a beach in Yorkshire. Marie Woods noticed the fossilised print as she was collecting shellfish and experts believe it was made by a dinosaur with a body length of eight to...

Published:Thursday | April 22, 2021 | 12:07 AMBANG Bizarre

A man has spent over 100 days live streaming himself in a shed. Tim C Inzana has spent the entirety of 2021 in isolation and says he is prepared to do so for a number of years as he creates a piece of art. The concept could be a moneyspinner for...

Published:Thursday | April 22, 2021 | 12:01 AMBANG Bizarre

A pensioner won over £100,000 on the lottery after forgetting his glasses and not being able to choose his regular numbers. Dennis Fawsitt usually uses family birthdays for his weekly EuroMillions ticket but went for a lucky dip after...

Published:Wednesday | April 21, 2021 | 3:09 AMIsabelle Mateos y Lago for Project Syndicate

LONDON – Nearly everywhere one looks nowadays – newsrooms, corporate manifestos, and government agendas – climate change has moved from the fringe to center stage. And central banks, after long standing on the sidelines, have...

Published:Wednesday | April 21, 2021 | 3:00 AMNouriel Roubini for Project Syndicate

NEW YORK – There is a growing debate about whether the inflation that will arise over the next few months will be temporary, reflecting the sharp bounce-back from the COVID-19 recession, or persistent, reflecting both demand-pull and cost-...

Published:Wednesday | April 21, 2021 | 2:07 AMMark Esposito, Landry Signé, and Nicholas Davis for Project Syndicate

CAMBRIDGE – As massive online platforms have given rise to numerous virtual marketplaces, a gap has opened between the real and the digital economy. And by driving more people than ever online in search of goods, services, and employment, the...

Published:Wednesday | April 21, 2021 | 1:41 AMJeffrey D. Sachs and William Schabas for Project Syndicate

NEW YORK/LONDON – The US government needlessly escalated its rhetoric against China by claiming that a genocide is being mounted against the Uighur people in the Xinjiang region. Such a grave charge matters, as genocide is rightly considered...

Published:Wednesday | April 21, 2021 | 1:21 AMLaura Tyson and Jan Mischke for Project Syndicate

BERKELEY – With COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out and supportive fiscal and monetary policies fuelling aggregate demand, the US economy is poised to return to its pre-pandemic output level later this year. The labor-market recovery, however...

Published:Tuesday | April 20, 2021 | 12:27 AM

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...

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