Rebel Salute 30 came to a premature end at Plantation Cove in Richmond, St Ann on Sunday morning after the police went onstage and ordered an end to the event, shortly after seven. It came at the end of I Wayne’s performance, and as Fanton Mojah...
This is a five-sister act, the likes of which have rarely been seen or heard of and, certainly, there’s no stopping them. The five sisters, children of Leon and Gladwin Johnson, who left Jamaica with their mother several decades ago as children,...
Jamaica’s first alleged case of suicide for 2024 took place on Tuesday when 19-year-old bartender Tameika “Nicky” Atherton reportedly hanged herself from a tree near her house in Islington, St Mary. But while media reports say the police have ruled...
STUDENTS OFTENTIMES excel academically when their parents, mothers especially, are employed to the school they attend. Michaela Lawrence of Marymount High School in Cromwelland, Highgate, St Mary, is one fine example. Her excellence, however, has...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is seeking to downplay comments he made about “hate speech” while speaking during a monthly discussion forum of the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, DC. During his presentation, Holness had indicated that to address the...
Finance Minister Nigel Clarke had full support on Tuesday as he sought to pass an Act to Amend the Public Debt Management Act, to allow the Government to borrow funds for pre-investment planning and development activities. “Section 10 of the Public...
Motorists in the major towns in St Ann will see relatively fewer traffic changes for the Christmas season this year. St Ann’s Bay remains unchanged while there are minimal changes to Ocho Rios and Brown’s Town, according to Mayor Sydney Stewart....
The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus is set to launch a joint Periodontal Research Programme after receiving a US$1-million grant from the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research...
Exactly a year after his passing, the building housing the Ocho Rios fire station in St Ann has been renamed the Larenzo Garnet Douse Building in honour of the firefighter who died in the line of duty on November 30, 2022. The incident occurred...
Alando Terrelonge, the member of parliament (MP) for St Catherine East Central, says his focus since becoming the representative for the constituency in 2016 has been mainly on education, and, based on his contribution to the Constituency Debate in...
THE GOVERNMENT’S leading communications branch, the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), has met 78 per cent of its performance target as of September 30, which, according to Robert Morgan, minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime...
The Reverend Canon Abner Powell, who for many years played pivotal roles in the lives of many people in Western Kingston where he was based at All Saints Church at West Street, and as chaplain at Kingston College, died yesterday morning. Powell’s...
Professor Aldrie Henry-Lee, pro vice-chancellor, graduate studies and research at The University of the West Indies (UWI), says the United Nations General Assembly Convention on the Rights of the Child, which became effective in September 1990, has...
The People’s National Party (PNP) believes it will win the next municipal election in the Brown’s Town division, which it has dominated over the past 42 years, winning six of the eight elections contested there. This comes as it claims a poll by...
The newly installed president of the University of Technology (UTech), Dr Kevin Brown, has urged the graduating class of the institution to consider themselves leaders, stressing that Jamaica needs their leadership to achieve first-world status....
Moneague College in St Ann has offered scholarships valued at more than $16 million to 150 students at the institution as it continues to assist students who are doing well academically, but in need of financial assistance. A grade point average of...
Fitzroy Wickham, the 2021 Jamaica Rhodes Scholar who is now in his third year of his Doctor of Philosophy studies at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, has more to be proud about right here at home. The academic wiz’s teacher-mom, Florence...
Thirty-five-year-old Dianna Pinnock of Epworth, St Ann, is to be sentenced in the St Ann Parish Court on November 16 after pleading guilty to the November 2013 murder of retired postmistress, 63-year-old Nathlee Hamilton in Beecher Town, St Ann....
Kaydian Harty didn’t just decide to enter representational politics out of the blue. Or orange, for that matter. After completing university, she spent 13 years working at the St Ann Municipal Corporation as public relations officer, gaining...
The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and contractors have been urged to ensure that residents of Fowler Town in South East St Ann have electricity by Christmas. Daryl Vaz, minister of science, energy, telecommunications and transport, was...
Founder and director of Great Shape! Inc’s iCare programme, Steven Stern, is advising Jamaicans to wear sunshades to help protect their eyesight. Speaking to The Gleaner during a free one-week eye care clinic in Mango Valley, St Mary, Stern said...
The North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) is today mourning the loss of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Annotto Bay Hospital, Marsha Lee, who died suddenly on Monday while overseas. Lee, who was 45, gave 27 years of service to the...
The Sandals Foundation has supported Breast Cancer Awareness Month with the donation of 140 mammograms that have been earmarked for women in rural Jamaica. The donation marks the foundation’s continued partnership with the Jamaica Cancer Society...
IN A move geared at uplifting their spirits, 21 residents of the Golden Age Home were treated to a day of fun at the Ocho Rios Bay Beach on Wednesday. Every quarter, the Kingston-based home for the elderly, which houses over 450 residents, takes a...
IN THE field of hospitality managers, Clifton George Reader is as five-star as they come. A 40-year veteran of the industry, Reader, a justice of the peace, and former president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), is currently vice...
