Veronica Campbell Brown could easily be described as one of Jamaica’s sprinting icons who brought several firsts to the tiny island in the athletic world. Born in Clark's Town, Trelawny, the diminutive Campbell-Brown was quoted in the...
Marcia Llyneth Griffiths is one of Jamaica’s famous female songbirds, immediately recognisable as one of Bob Marley’s trusted backup singers from the group, the ‘I Three’s’. Growing up in the tough neighbourhood of...
The constitutional advance of May 5th 1953 established the Council of Ministers to replace the Executive Council. A Chief Minister along with seven ministers were appointed, with each minister heading a separate ministry with Jamaican Permanent...
Lorna Goodison could be described as the quintessential scribe and a consummate professional in the literary sphere. The long list of accolades and honours signifies a distinguished and dignified career, it would be difficult to deny anywhere...
Failure seems to have an allergy to the political career of Minister of Education, Youth and Information, the Honourable Fayval Williams. That career has been littered with a number of firsts and she has turned those firsts into stories of success...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 1:09 AMBANG Bizarre
A Norwegian runner has unofficially broken a world record for running a half marathon barefoot in the snow. Jonas Felde Sevaldrud revealed that he was keen to make a record attempt after his early attempts at running on the ice weren't as...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 1:06 AMBANG Bizarre
A map of the world has been created with flour to highlight cocaine use. The map has been created by Nathan Wyburn to mark the launch of the NOW TV series 'ZeroZeroZero' and is constructed from flour – the street name for the drug....
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 1:03 AMBANG Bizarre
A man has been reunited with a wallet he lost in Antarctica 53 years ago. Paul Grisham was serving as a US Navy meteorologist in 1968 when he lost the wallet, but he was only reunited with it recently after a building was demolished on Earth's...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 12:59 AMBANG Bizarre
A cow named after a Spice Girl has sold for a world record price. Wilodge Poshspice was sold for £262,000 at an auctioneer in Carlisle, doubling the previous record of £131,250 that was paid out for a heifer in 2014. Breeder Christine...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 12:55 AMBANG Bizarre
Migratory birds are getting drunk on berries in Texas. The cedar waxwings return to the US state at this time every year but have caught the attention of residents after getting intoxicated on the fermented fruit. The birds have been seen acting...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, DC – The toxic cocktail of climate change, conflict, and COVID-19 is making itself felt most intensely in the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries. As a result, a record 235 million people worldwide will...
LONDON – COVID-19 has exposed the myriad weaknesses of modern capitalism. And in many countries, past cuts to social services and public health have amplified the damage wrought by the pandemic, while other self-inflicted wounds to the state...
NEW YORK – In his autobiography, Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, told the story of how leadership and grit transformed a tiny nation on a sandbar into an open, competitive, and prosperous metropolis. In the decades since,...
PARIS – In September 2000, 189 countries signed the “Millennium Declaration,” shaping the principles of international cooperation for a new era of progress toward common goals. Emerging from the Cold War, we were confident about...
CAMBRIDGE – Economic development relies on the creation of more productive jobs for an ever-rising share of the workforce. Traditionally, it was industrialisation that enabled poor countries to embark on this transformation. Factory work may...
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...
Finding that solitary light at the end of a tunnel is necessary if our fledgling democracy is to grow into the mature corruption-free, meritocratic existence envisioned by the creators of the system and The Gleaner looked deep to find that nugget...
There is a saying that goes something like … “Beneath every story, there is another story.” Has The Gleaner, unfolded drama within the already dramatic clashes between the Public Accounts Committee and Labour and Social Security...
The idea of putting minors behind bars is supposed to, largely, be about rehabilitation, but a Gleaner story on the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) report on the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correction Centre paints a picture that makes...
Kevin used to be a girl and his story, published in The Gleaner last week, may say more about Jamaica as a society than it tells about him. Read it again to see if you catch our drift. SEX-CHANGE FREEDOM Trapped in a woman’s...
The violence a teenager meted out on a young child made headlines last year and the now 17-year-old has been sentenced. Many times after the initial shock and disgust the public feels when we read of these horrors wears off, we forget the victims...
Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) and The Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society are at odds over abortion and the rights to minors. The argument spilled over into ideology about God or no-God. NOT OF GOD JCHS slams CAPRI for...
Last week Jamaica recorded the highest number of positive COVID-19 tests since last March when the pandemic breached our coastal waters and the signs are, there’s worse to come. Why? According to the Ministry of Health, Jamaicans have not...
When the Most Honourable Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer married Jamaica’s third prime minister the Most Honourable Hugh Shearer, she was already a giant in her own right. The daughter of former Minister of Health, Dr Herbert Eldemire, the...
In the period between the launch of the first islandwide trade union in 1936 and the granting of Universal Adult Suffrage in 1944, a new framework for the Jamaican political process was created. However, the historiography of the period has focused...
