Eight years ago when Kayon Samuels went to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) for laser eye surgery, she thought it was the saving grace she needed to restore her vision. However, it did the total opposite. The mother of boys at the time said she...
Three years after the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) should have certified 300 basic schools, the goal has finally been achieved. In May 2016, there was a three-year engagement of a new board of commissioners for the ECC targeting 300 early...
The Government is cracking down on a criminal gang accused of a land grab on the outskirts of Clifton, St Catherine, and will today start the demolition of 30 illegally erected houses. The lands, which fall within the Government’s Greater Bernard...
Dorraine Duncan and Jhordan Channer, co-founders of Island City Lab, have called for the Government to urgently establish cycle lanes in the Corporate Area. The youthful duo, who argued on the second day of a Jamaica Institution of Engineers’...
Before entering Digicel Rising Stars, not many people knew 17-year-old Camperdown High School fifth-former Mozein Sutherland – the eventual winner of the 2022 staging of the contest – could hold a note. Sutherland told The Gleaner on Monday that...
A leading trade unionist has expressed opposition to the plea for a moratorium on the payment of statutory contributions for security guards as well as the proposed amendment of the Minimum Wage Act to change the workweek from 40 to 60 hours. Those...
Residents believe the Government’s solution of rebuilding a retaining wall for the worsening breakaway in Craig Hill, Mavis Bank, is misguided. According to numerous residents who gathered in the area on Sunday to observe the operations after a day...
For 44-year-old Gregory Fullerton, knew that he needed a career change three years ago. Although Fullerton knew he needed this change, the former bank teller, who served the National Commercial Bank for 14 years up until September 2019, just could...
Charmaine Vassell-Shettlewood, the senior public health nurse who marshalled hundreds of her colleagues doing COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and vaccinations in Kingston and St Andrew, died on Wednesday after a period of illness. “We’ve lost an...
JAMAICA IS on the verge of implementing a new National Consumer Protection and Welfare Policy, which will better empower consumers to make informed choices. On Tuesday, representatives of the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC), the Ministry of...
What little thought residents of Albion Mountain in St Thomas could spare for the rain associated with Hurricane Ian drenching their community on Monday, was for the impact it would have on the already badly eroded road surface. “A no storm we a...
When the time came for the announcement of the final of the top three entrepreneurs in the Scotiabank Vision Achiever Programme for 2022, Jerome Cowans took out his smartphone, walked down the aisle, and started recording the historical moment. He...
August 16 will forever be etched into Zenora Reynolds Davis’ memory after she suffered huge losses as a result of two devastating fires which ravaged farms in Flagaman, St Elizabeth, on that exact date in both 2019 and 2022. When the third...
SENIOR CITIZENS have been given a reason to celebrate now that the revision of the National Policy for Senior Citizens is complete, their having waited patiently for years. The launch of the revised National Policy for Senior Citizens coincided...
Franklin Witter, minister of state in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, is calling on Jamaicans to raise and harvest more tilapia fish. He was addressing the media at the launch of the Many Moods of Tilapia Cooking Competition at the...
Residents of the Hope River Bridge area, Constitution Hill, Dallas, and other communities in St Andrew East Rural are calling for urgent road repairs in their districts, especially along thoroughfares they traverse daily to get into the capital...
LA SONJA HARRISON, president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is batting for secondary-level students to be given the option to pursue a vocational skill or academics. Speaking at the Rotary Club of Kingston’s weekly luncheon last...
After two consecutive days of protest action, transport operators who ply sections of St Andrew West Rural have called for a traffic ticket amnesty and have pledged to hold police and other state authorities accountable after airing grouses at a...
At the centre of Comfort Castle Primary and Infant School in Moore Town, Portland, stands an eyesore: an old principal’s cottage which has been in ruins since it lost its roof during the passage of Hurricane Gilbert 34 years ago. The structure...
People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding says the party will discuss the findings of a policy commission which was mandated in 2021 to modernise its core philosophy as it stages its 84th annual conference this weekend. In early 2021,...
When Michael Fennell heard of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch and Jamaica’s head of State, on Thursday, it weighed heavily on his heart. Fennell is one of very few Jamaicans who got the opportunity to...
Days after Mico University College President Dr Asburn Pinnock called for the Government to capitalise on the global teacher shortage by training a surplus of educators for overseas institutions, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has noted the need to...
Industry stakeholders have welcomed the launch of a pensions scheme for the business community, the result of a partnership between the Victoria Mutual (VM) Pensions Management Limited and the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA)...
In an effort to reduce the number of Jamaicans who suffer annually with non-communicable diseases associated with high salt intake, the key results of a $13-million salt study undertaken by the Ministry of Health and Wellness will be released...
Angie Martínez, Dominican Republic’s ambassador to Jamaica was devastated when she was told last weekend that a significant mural her team paid to have professionally done at Franklin Town Primary School would not be completed in time for the start...
