Cristophe Phillips has high hopes of securing a job in Jamaica after recently becoming the first deaf graduate to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance and Choreography at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts....
When Meghan Swaby saw a piece of land she inherited, from the will of a deceased neighbour, being cleared for the construction of a new house for her just in time for Christmas, she openly wept. For two decades, the woman from Warrick district in...
This Christmas season, 155 laptops will be distributed among students at the five campuses of the Windsor School of Special Education. The gifts were handed over to the school on Wednesday by Food For The Poor Jamaica at the institution’s Duncan’s...
The house that 76-year-old retired vendor Enid Walters-Johnson lived in for more than four decades is now on the verge of collapsing. Fortunately, she now enjoys peace of mind, having been the first recipient to have her wish of a new home for...
When Dekardiago Nelson rose to give the final address from the party in power at the 14th sitting of the National Youth Parliament of Jamaica on Monday, he placed those opposed to the island’s push to become a republic in the crosshairs. Nelson,...
With his grounded beliefs and Anglican faith, Jovan Johnson, the Press Association of Jamaica’s (PAJ’s) 2023 Journalist of the Year, has thrived amid the challenges faced by all media workers in making their way in the industry today. “The Church...
Stressing the importance of spiritual intervention from the Almighty heading into a new year as the island seeks to overcome the challenges it faces, the National Prayer Vigil Committee launched its 2023 event on Thursday. Now in its 31st year, the...
Attorney-at-law Gavin Goffe has noted that persons buying motor vehicles in Jamaica may soon need the services of a lawyer, as is the case with purchasing real estate. Under the new Road Traffic Act, which was passed in 2018 and took effect earlier...
Political figures and stakeholders in the health sector were yesterday thrown into mourning as news emerged that longtime publich health advocate Professor Winston Davidson had died after a brief illness. Davidson died yesterday morning while...
If Sherene McIntyre’s life were to end tomorrow, she would have already been proud to have broken the glass ceiling with one major accomplishment. That is becoming the first deaf person to graduate from the Jamaica Theological Seminary (JTS) as a...
A TOTAL of 47 hard-working students who performed outstandingly in the last Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations were awarded with scholarships and bursaries by the Jamaica National (JN) Foundation on Sunday. These scholarships from the...
THE BEST Dog in Show at the True Pet Expo and German Shepherd All-Breed Championship on Sunday was Becks, an imported timber Rottweiler dog who arrived in the island the previous Monday. According to its owner Warren Clarke from Warrack Kennel in...
After missing out on being there in person to collect her honorary doctorate from the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) in July, Jamaica-born multimillionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr Trisha Bailey opted to make the...
The Korean government has donated 4,103 tablets, valued at US$600,000 (J$92,835,576.82) to Jamaica’s One Laptop or Tablet Per Child initiative, which was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2020. The gift, which represents the second-...
Nile Anderson, the 2024 Rhodes Scholar, harbours dreams of becoming Jamaica’s dreamgineer – a term he coined himself, which will bring engineering to another level in the nation through his dreams. He also has visions of his fellow countrymen...
Mere hours before six-year-old Arianna Salmon was slain in a St Andrew triple murder on Friday, she wrote a letter of gratitude to her teacher, stating “I love you”, before heading home. Following those three powerful words was an attempt by the...
While a 5.6-magnitude earthquake was rocking Jamaica last Monday, a team from True Pet Food happened to be in the middle of a free pet therapy session on the grounds of Hillel Academy in St Andrew. The session was geared towards introducing this...
In an effort to continue re-energising the 85-year-old People’s National Party (PNP), a new junior shadow Cabinet was announced yesterday with 23 budding politicians from across the island. While introducing the group, PNP President Mark Golding...
Immaculate Conception High School, Jamaica’s top-performing school, is not waiting for the Government to make good on a previously promised school-bus system that would assist in providing safety and convenience of its girls and educators. With...
Filth and days of unchanged diapers will assault your senses when approaching the dilapidated one-room structure glaucoma patients Hugh Wauchope, 75, and Lorna Allen, 68, had no choice but to settle into at 11 Miles in Bull Bay, St Andrew, 19 years...
While murders in Jamaica dipped by 12 per cent up to last month when compared to the same period last year, Governor General Sir Patrick Allen wants the fall to be even greater. Since the start of the year, 141 fewer people were killed when...
IN AN effort to improve literacy in the 248 underperforming schools islandwide, the Ministry of Education and Youth is targeting a five per cent increase in performance over the next three years. Fayval Williams, minister of education and youth,...
Transport Minister Daryl Vaz has called on his counterpart Opposition spokesman to discuss their differences after the latter took offence to comments made by the minister and announced he was withdrawing from the Transport Sector Committee on...
In the aftermath of a bizarre incident Saturday night, a man yesterday remained in police lockup having engaged in a short-lived joyride with a Mercedes Benz GLE 53, valued approximately J$35 million, on the compound of Stewart’s Automotive Group...
When Jeneail Henry, a 17-year-old trackstar from Wolmer’s High School for Girls, went to the CIBC FirstCaribbean Walk for the Cure 5K on Sunday, her main goal was just to outshine her schoolmates for the fun of it, not to become the winning female...
