Rising food costs and a growing energy bill have combined with other factors to prompt the management and staff at the Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf (CCCD) to rethink its outlook going forward. With that adjusted outlook comes a renewed...
There is growing consensus for Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey to be recognised in her own right for the job she did alongside her husband – and long after his death – in raising awareness among people of African descent about their heritage and as a...
Group Deputy Chairman Dr Lawrence Nicholson challenged members of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group on Tuesday to continue to offer high-quality service to its clients and the wider public. Delivering the keynote address at the company’s Long-...
These days Lloyd Barnett spends most of his time reflecting on the good old days when he held a decent nine-to-five job, was upwardly mobile, and had not a care in the world. Each morning his mother, Cynthia Barrett, helps her son into a...
The security forces have ceded ground in Southside, one of several communities in the Kingston Central Police Division, where rival gangs have unleashed a reign of terror this year. That is the view of a relative of 23-year-old Shedaine Richards,...
The parents of 13-year-old Camperdown High student Lamekia Lamont, who has been missing since Friday, are fearful that her disappearance might have been orchestrated. Obadiah Lamont, a security officer, sought to calm his frayed nerves on Palm...
Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) Holdings has revealed that it enjoyed autonomy over the leasing of government land without Cabinet or ministerial oversight. This admission from SCJ Holdings Managing Director Joseph Shoucair left Dr Wykeham McNeill,...
Business operators got a reminder on Wednesday that with the Fourth Industrial Revolution already impacting global transactions, they need to get on board or get left behind. Chief Executive Office of the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship,...
PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness last week admitted that he was well aware and taking note of the public discourse around events affecting the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), of which he is leader, and the Government he leads. He was delivering the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said that the country is still paying for ideological missteps of the Michael Manley-led People’s National Party (PNP) administration from 1972 to 1978. Speaking yesterday at the launch of this year’s Jamaica...
The disruptions in the egg market triggered by COVID-19 have left many farmers on the brink of ruin, with others facing severe financial hardships, a situation which may result in Jamaica being forced to import eggs for Christmas – for the first...
A small urban farm is springing some pleasant surprises – Rocksprings Farm off Windward Road, Kingston, in the vicinity of the Jamaica Flour Mills, is operated by a farm group comprised of young people. They said they are engaged around common...
A woman identified as Adaica ‘Poochie’ Lawrence of Fourth Street, Greenwich Town, in south-west St Andrew was taken into custody by the police on Thursday following a protracted search of the premises, a day after Prime Minister Andrew Holness...
Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa Etienne, yesterday warned that “complacency is our greatest enemy” in the fight against the COVID-19 spread, charging that countries and territories in Latin America and the...
A falling-out amid the executive of the Jamaica Egg Farmers’ Association (JEFA) over alleged abuse of government subsidy, as well as the subsequent sidelining of the sector lobby, has pitted President Roy Baker against his vice-president, Mark...
From humble beginnings at Collies Road in Olympic Gardens, where he was regarded as an exceptional goalkeeper, Bobby Grantley Dixon rose to achieve international acclaim for his skills in the recording studio, in the process earning the moniker ‘...
Leaders of the Maroon communities in Portland and St Mary on Thursday signed a petition, appealing to the authorities to respect the final resting place of their forefathers and the cultural legacy bequeathed to them by stopping all further leases...
Opposition Spokesman on Agriculture and Rural Affairs Victor Wright’s analogy of the police killing of American George Floyd with the Government’s “disgraceful removal” of small farmers from the former Bernard Lodge Sugar Estate failed to ignite a...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ decision to strip Portland West Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz of the land, environment, and climate-change portfolio has been lauded by a leading environmentalist and public commentator. But Peter Espeut does not...
SMALL BUSINESS Asso-ciation of Jamaica (SBAJ) President Hugh Johnson has vowed step up its advocacy in support of farmers he claims are being evicted from a section of the former Bernard Lodge sugar estate of which Cabinet has approved a sale of...
The recent delivery of 10,000 pounds of West Indian Red peppers from the farm of Gary Coulton at the Spring Plain Agro-Park in Clarendon was met against the backdrop of a major COVID-19 setback. As the farm was ramping up activities to meet this...
THE JAMAICA Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT) has said that Portland Western Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz was ill advised in seeking to obtain a 25-year lease that would have allowed him to construct a private cabin on protected lands in...
Jamaican public-health inspectors have been accused of being complicit in facilitating the sale of carcasses of stolen animals, a senior agriculture official has said. The surprise disclosure by Peter Thompson, CEO of the Rural Agricultural...
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is shaping up to be one with a significant difference from other years, with regional countries already reeling from a prolonged drought, as well as the economic fallout from the global pandemic COVID-19. Among...
Late aged-care and social work advocate Sybil Francis has been described as a gentle powerhouse and a source of inspiration to hundreds of people whose lives she touched. Francis, a former director of the Social Welfare Training Centre and chairman...
