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Published:Thursday | June 25, 2020 | 12:43 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Information technology company GeoTechVision Jamaica has objected to statements made by Technology Minister Fayval Williams in Parliament on Tuesday that the company delivered substandard devices to the Government under the Tablets in Schools...

Published:Tuesday | June 23, 2020 | 12:22 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

A WEEK after laying down an ultimatum to shut down the transport sector if a fare hike was not granted, bus and taxi lobbyist Egeton Newman’s bombast spat and sputtered before engaging first gear. Newman, president of the Transport Operators...

Published:Monday | June 22, 2020 | 12:00 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Being a policeman and a father of four sometimes proves tough for Constable Fitzgerald Anderson of Specialised Operations in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). Anderson said that although he is away from home most of the time, he gets...

Published:Monday | June 22, 2020 | 12:27 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Denham Town Primary will be renamed the Edward Seaga Primary and Infant School in August. Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie made the announcement yesterday during a special church service at the Pentecostal City Mission Church in Kingston...

Published:Saturday | June 20, 2020 | 12:21 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

A FEELING of euphoria has overtaken the Ardenne High School family, after its Schools’ Challenge Quiz team on Thursday dethroned the defending champions, St Jago High, in the finals of the 2020 season. Ardenne won by 34 points to St Jago’s 25....

Published:Friday | June 19, 2020 | 12:25 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Concerned residents of the Black Street area in Eleven Miles, St Thomas, are appealing to the public and state agencies to lend a helping hand to a family living in depraved conditions in Bull Bay. While neighbours have been pitching in to assist...

Published:Tuesday | June 16, 2020 | 12:20 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Residents of Fourth Street in Trench Town are accusing the Jamaica Defence Force of abusing two of its residents last Friday. One of them reportedly had two of his teeth knocked out. Rita Graham said on Monday that she was jolted into action by...

Published:Tuesday | June 16, 2020 | 12:18 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Rosalie Hamilton, councillor for the Rae Town division in Kingston Central, has pushed back at concerns that the local police were not invited to a recent meeting she hosted to broker a truce between warring factions in the area. Speaking with The...

Published:Monday | June 15, 2020 | 12:28 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

One of the bullets suspected to have come from the M16 rifle used by 39-year-old Damion Hamilton to murder two cops at an upstairs house in Horizon Park on Friday could have killed Kamika Blake* had she been watching television that morning. Two...

Published:Saturday | June 13, 2020 | 12:21 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Instead of discarding hundreds of fans consumers had returned, plus those that had been in storage for lengthy periods and could not be sold, Conway Wang of Reggae Breeze, forged a partnership with Xavier Johnston of SmartEco Blockchain Solutions...

Published:Wednesday | June 10, 2020 | 2:00 PMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

STACY ESCOFFREY looked on in defeat yesterday at her destroyed stall at the Rae Rae Market in downtown Kingston. It was a case of déjà vu. “It costs more than $15,000 to build a new stall. “Around 1:30 a.m., my co-worker called me saying fire a...

Published:Monday | June 8, 2020 | 12:27 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Having not visited the beach for the last six months, Junior ‘Jah’ Marsh and his wife, Mary, decided to risk heading from Spanish Town to the seaside haven of Hellshire, Portmore, on Sunday, even if they would be in breach of coronavirus...

Published:Monday | June 8, 2020 | 12:06 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Still suffering from a gunshot wound he said he is sure came from a shot fired by a member of the security forces during the 2010 manhunt for West Kingston strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, George Harriott has expressed, 10 years later, that he...

Published:Saturday | May 30, 2020 | 12:00 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Ninety-six Jamaicans who were stranded overseas for months due to border restrictions to stem the spread of COVID-19, have finally returned home and have expressed elation to The Gleaner.  They arrived around 9:00 a.m. at the Norman...

Published:Saturday | May 30, 2020 | 12:27 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

AS THE 2020 hurricane season begins in another two days, residents of Cedar Avenue in Nightingale Grove, St Catherine, have reflected on some scary experiences they have had in the past when heavy rains pounded the country. For years, Cedar...

Published:Tuesday | May 26, 2020 | 12:23 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

WITH MORE than 500 residents of the Kingston Western constituency rendered homeless by fire in the last six years, four families who received keys to houses in Denham Town have been warned against the hazard of stealing electricity. Local...

Published:Saturday | May 23, 2020 | 12:17 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

MORE THAN 200 members of the Jamaica Society for the Blind (JSB) were given care packages of food and other essential items yesterday amid the COVID-19 pandemic, courtesy of Jenny Jenny Productions. Founder of Jenny Jenny Productions, Jennifer...

Published:Friday | May 22, 2020 | 12:11 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

EARLY CHILDHOOD institutions that are not government-funded have found themselves in a bind, since their business models depend on children attending school, but are not able to do so because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sharon Golding, administrator...

Published:Wednesday | May 20, 2020 | 12:34 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

HANNAHLISA HALL is just eight years old but she is a battle-hardened soldier who has survived three strokes. The child and her mother, Claudette Grant, visited the Combined Disabilities Association office on Ripon Road in Kingston yesterday to...

Published:Monday | May 18, 2020 | 12:27 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

New measures including the mandatory wearing of face masks for the resumption of church services beyond a 10-person capacity could not muffle the praise of congregants at Power of Faith Ministries in Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday. Scores of...

Published:Friday | May 15, 2020 | 12:00 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Councillors in Kingston and St Andrew have put infrastructural development projects in their respective divisions on pause, and have been channelling all funds and attention towards providing care packages of food and other essentials to residents...

Published:Thursday | May 14, 2020 | 12:23 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Kingston’s coastline, stretching from Rae Town to the Bank of Jamaica along Port Royal Street, is currently undergoing major restoration, made possible through a US$30-million loan from the World Bank. The loan was provided under the multilateral’...

Published:Monday | May 11, 2020 | 12:22 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Sixty-three-year-old Clayton Wright was asleep inside his one-bedroom home on West Avenue in central Kingston on Saturday, shortly after midnight, when he was jolted from his slumber as fire singed the top of his head. Wright, who walks with the...

Published:Saturday | May 9, 2020 | 12:17 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Many taxi and bus operators in sections of Kingston and St Andrew are seemingly adhering to social-distancing guidelines outlined by the Government for the sector, in terms of the number of passengers they are allowed to transport at a time. These...

Published:Friday | May 8, 2020 | 12:06 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

The rising murders and bloodletting in the St Andrew South Police Division is not lost on Ileen Graham, whose 21-year-old son, Shannon Staple, was killed by gunmen on Phillip Avenue in Olympic Gardens on Sunday morning. Despite the police division...

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