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Stories by Tamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Published:Sunday | September 8, 2019 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

“If my mother were here, she would say ‘Guh deh gal’.” These were the words of American actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, who was filled with pride at her ability to honour her mother by sharing with the...

Published:Thursday | September 5, 2019 | 12:22 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

NEWLY INSTALLED Custos of Manchester Garfield Green has announced plans to continue to fight the maladies that threaten the development of the nation. Green, who has spent a considerable number of years serving the business community as an...

Published:Saturday | August 31, 2019 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: When Lloni Jones and Sheldon Williams are not busy with school and extracurricular activities in Montego Bay and Clarendon, respectively, they can be found, during the summer break, feeding street people, reading with the...

Published:Saturday | August 31, 2019 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done – Proverbs 19:17 For the past 30 years, Michael Harris and his family have been giving back to communities and families across...

Published:Saturday | August 24, 2019 | 12:12 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Old England, Manchester: For the past four years of her life, 17-year-old Akailia Green has gone through much more than many of us will ever go through in our entire lifetime, if at all. Having been diagnosed with lupus, a long-term autoimmune...

Published:Saturday | August 24, 2019 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: “During this time (attending school part-time) I even started an online store – Bree’s 24 hours Fashion. I sold a variety of clothes, shoes and accessories,” Shabina Mitchell said, as she recounted all she did to make her...

Published:Saturday | August 17, 2019 | 12:09 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: For those of us who grew up with the support of both parents, it was a reality many of us took for granted. Knowing that dinner would be ready when we got home and everything was planned out each year for a smooth start to...

Published:Saturday | August 17, 2019 | 12:05 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Berry Hill, Manchester: In 2002 when Robert Robinson was arrested for simple larceny, he had no idea that he would be forgotten in the prison system for 17 years, with no certainty that he would ever see the light of day and under a name his...

Published:Saturday | August 10, 2019 | 12:21 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: The policing strategy of implementing states of public emergency (SOEs) and zones of special operations continues to be labelled as ineffective. However, Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson has said that...

Published:Saturday | August 3, 2019 | 12:17 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Having reached over 7,000 young people through its initiatives, non-governmental organisation, Young Women and Young Men of Purpose (YWOP/YMOP), is poised to reaching thousands more with its new scholarship offering and a...

Published:Saturday | August 3, 2019 | 12:05 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Ramble, Manchester: It started with the vision Henry Powell had to start a church in that particular area. Then it morphed into gatherings at various homes of those, now foundation members, who bought it into that vision. After finally, having an...

Published:Saturday | July 27, 2019 | 12:13 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Ramble, Manchester: “ Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near: Let the wicked forsake his way and the righteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God...

Published:Saturday | July 27, 2019 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Have you ever thought about how the people of old managed life without much of what we have today? According to associate director of communication at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Maryland, USA, Pastor Samuel Neves, we enjoy...

Published:Saturday | July 20, 2019 | 12:18 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: “We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” – Kavita Ramdas It was...

Published:Tuesday | July 16, 2019 | 12:27 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: People’s National Party (PNP) leadership aspirant Peter Bunting did not mince words during the launch of his Rise United campaign on Sunday in Manchester as he knocked the governing Jamaica Labour Party and sought to...

Published:Monday | July 15, 2019 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: Thousands of representatives from across Jamaica were last night present at the Manchester High School in the parish for Central Manchester Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Bunting's launch of his...

Published:Saturday | July 13, 2019 | 12:20 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn has suggested that an independent examiner be hired to help bring closure to the weeks-long contention over documents between defence attorneys and prosecutors in the...

Published:Saturday | July 13, 2019 | 12:11 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” – Isaiah 11:6 He is wise beyond his...

Published:Saturday | July 13, 2019 | 12:10 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness’. Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ...

Published:Thursday | July 11, 2019 | 12:20 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: Unfair and prejudicial. That was how defence attorneys labelled the ongoing haggling over documents in the multimillion-dollar Manchester Municipal Corporation (MMC) fraud trial yesterday. During the cross-examination of a...

Published:Wednesday | July 10, 2019 | 12:26 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: There was an early adjournment of the multimillion-dollar Manchester Municipal Corporation fraud trial yesterday, following a request by the defence counsel for more time. This postponed the cross-examination of the deputy...

Published:Tuesday | July 9, 2019 | 12:18 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: A deputy superintendent of police assigned to the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) has revealed that more than $2 million was found in the house of one of the accused as the multimillion-dollar...

Published:Saturday | July 6, 2019 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: Striving for excellence in education, excelling at any task set before her, being determined, and having tenacity no matter the challenge are tenets of the strong value system ingrained in Dr Lesline Davis at a young age....

Published:Saturday | June 29, 2019 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: “She is so ungodly.” “He has no God in him.” These are statements you will hear frequently when someone tries to describe the behaviour of a person whose actions are not considered Christ-like. And while no man has the...

Published:Saturday | June 29, 2019 | 12:09 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Mandeville, Manchester: It is inevitable that life throws curveballs, but how you react to what comes at you is more important than the experience. Do you succumb under the pressure or do you rise above it stronger than before? Author, women’s...

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