The Bahamas is courting Jamaican farmers and producers to help boost the archipelagic state’s food security, noting that the CARICOM nation imports almost 90 per cent of its food supply. The call was made on Sunday by Leroy Major, executive...
Outgoing Clarendon Custos William Shagoury on Sunday poured scorn on the popular Parish Pavilion Competition at the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show, suggesting that dishonesty has resulted in the essence of the contest being lost....
Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding believes that having pumped more than $500 billion into the education sector in the last two decades to boost outcomes, the country has not received bang for its buck. “What has caused our dismal performance in...
Come September, students at Sydney Pagon Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Academy in St. Elizabeth will have the option of learning how to make cassava flour and tap into the economic potential of the local produce. The...
When John Allgrove, one of the owners of Whitfield Hall – an 18th-century site of rustic cottages in the Blue Mountains – received a call that the historic treasure was engulfed in flames in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the 84-year-old was...
When Marlon Kerr’s rough, boisterous, authoritative, aggressive, tall and ‘trapting’ (strapping) neighbour, Annette Irving, from the gritty inner-city community of Tivoli Gardens, told him in February to leave the streets and start free training to...
AS TIME winds down for the start of the Sixth-Form Pathways Programme in secondary schools, educators with the Ecumenical Education Committee (EEC) are insisting that the Government consult with all churches and trusts before implementing the...
As the clock wound down for the women’s 100-metre hurdles finals at Hayward Field in Oregon, Elizabeth Smith started to suffer a throbbing headache hundreds of miles away in Jamaica as her granddaughter Britany Anderson settled down for the biggest...
On the brink of the pandemic, Edward Daley’s intuition told him to leave his job as a chef overseas, return home, and seek a new career that gave him a sense of purpose. The 34-year-old, who has been a chef for a decade, obeyed his inner voice. At...
Elaine Foster-Allen, former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, has added her voice to warnings that the estimated 120,000 students who were missing from online classes in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic will cause grief for...
A flock of birds joined those gathered to witness the opening of the newly renovated multimillion-dollar office building for the European Union (EU) Delegation to Jamaica on Tuesday. Seconds before Prime Minister Andrew Holness took the microphone...
THERE WAS an almost 100 per cent increase in the number of Jamaicans who reported experiencing domestic abuse or violence over the last five years. According to Zavia Mayne, minister of state in the Ministry of National Security, the annual number...
Members of the Ecumenical Education Committee (EEC) are calling on the Government to revisit aspects of the no-fee policy at the secondary level ahead of the start of the new school year in September. The group is arguing that the policy has been...
Some motorists who traverse the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 are firm in their decision to boycott the toll road, as pressure grows for operators to roll back rate increases that took effect on Saturday. The pushback has primarily come from...
Hours after Saturday’s shooting death of 50-year-old Denise Bell in Seaforth, St Thomas, Rashelle Bennett was still in disbelief that her mother would never return home. Although the 50-year-old businesswoman’s blood stained the road, Bennett was...
One-third of the more than 6,000 surgery cases now in backlog at public hospitals across the island include people suffering from hernia-based problems that require elective surgeries for repair. In May, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher...
Glenford Fearon, a farmer in the rural community of Rose Hill in Summerfield, Clarendon, is a happy man today having moved into a new home with his family. In the past, when the hurricane season approached, Fearon would be worried sick. His unease...
ONE-THIRD OF the backlog of over 6,000 surgery cases in public hospitals across the island is persons suffering from hernia-based problems who are in dire need of elective surgery. This amounts to 2,000 persons with hernias who require surgery, but...
Retired national swimmer Kanute Kelly still sports the green Jamaica athletic blazer he wore to the National Stadium on August 6, 1962. The nostalgia of that moment – of the dot on the atlas charting the unknown future – still fills him with pride...
In an effort to refresh the fading walls of downtown Kingston in time for Jamaica’s 60th Independence anniversary celebrations, local creatives have partnered with paint manufacturers to offer all business owners in the commercial district a 25 per...
Thea-Nicole Davis was heartbroken when some parents told her that despite their children being in dire need of remedial attention, they would not be sending them to a summer education programme she initiated for needy youth. Davis had invested time...
Like scores of university students in Jamaica, Leahcim Powell was excited about the idea of jetting off to the United States for the very first time on the work-and-travel programme. Powell said he spent around J$300,000 to prepare documents and...
When entrepreneur David Bowen saw the roll-out plan for the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project, the Grants Pen resident said he predicted the St Thomas fishing village would soon lose its economic value. But some residents jeered him and...
If there was a local movie called The Art of Forgiveness, Khadene Guyah would have been the perfect star for it. Turning point of the movie for her would have been on March 17, 2021. That is the day she tragically lost her husband, Kedo Guyah, a...
