The Jamaica Food and Drink Festival – one of the island’s premier foodie events whose promoters fought endlessly for it to remain afloat annually during the COVID-19 pandemic – has been shortlisted for the international World Culinary Awards 2022...
Standing at four feet and six inches in height, both Aiden Smith and Matthew Whyte will be starting new chapters of their lives at Campion College on Monday. The duo, who have twin-like qualities but are completely unrelated, were among 114...
Hassanah Al-Saba said she always knew she would have achieved the rare feat of being a locally trained female Muslim pilot in Jamaica. On August 25, she completed enough flight time to receive her private pilot’s licence, 10 days after her 22nd...
Twelve years ago, Dean Morris’ world was ripped apart after when her eldest child, Shadae Barker, was murdered by her spouse, Ken Brissett. Soon after Barker was found dead, Brissett was found hanging in the St James community in which they resided...
La Sonja Harrison, newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is now happy that she followed the advice of her husband to become a teacher, and not a police officer, a journalist or a flight attendant. Harrison told The...
Three years after a brand-new elevator was installed at the Princess Margaret Hospital in St Thomas, orderlies are now strenuously carrying patients up flights of stairs again as the lift is out of service. The workers had been breathing a sigh of...
With the Sixth Form Pathways Programme becoming mandatory in a matter of days for thousands of former 11th-graders, schools are scrambling to retrofit spaces to accommodate larger populations. That is already running administrations millions of...
A decade and a half ago, Dwight Duncan and Neisha Williams could stay in their Seaview Gardens community and look across the Sandy Gully to Riverton City in St Andrew. However, their view is now blocked as poor maintenance has resulted in the gully...
Sitting in a dirt-base, partially collapsed one-room shack as she studied each night using a flashlight from her cellphone, Anita Stephenson was determined to excel and power her way through high school and teacher’s college to improve hers and her...
St Elizabeth farmer Robert Myrie is ruing yet another devastating fire, which has resulted in him suffering hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. The Flagaman-based farmer, who was doing business in the nearby town of Black River on Tuesday...
At the start of this upcoming academic year, I-Nation – a Rastafarian group which sells solely pan-African books and necessities – is gearing up to change the way in which the thousands of unaccounted for students in the pandemic are reached, by...
Jamaicans have been urged to temper optimism that the price cut on chicken meat announced by Jamaica Broilers Wednesday signalled a definitive pullback from skyrocketing inflation. Chicken is the most popular source of affordable meat protein, and...
At 76, instead of continuing to enjoy his golden years, Devon Bailey is trying to rebuild his life after watching the place he called home for four decades going up in flames on Tuesday. Bailey, one of four persons who occupied a seven-room...
Hortense Dixon-Grant, principal of the Valley Christian Ministries Basic School, is confident that when the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) returns to do its yearly inspection, the institution will score enough to gain full certification. The...
Rastafarian faithful have hailed the posthumous national honour to be bestowed on the religion’s founder, Leonard Percival Howell, as an atonement of sorts and a tectonic shift from the bitter days that characterised the movement’s infancy and its...
Rastafarians from The Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress Church in Bull Bay, St Andrew, are not caught up in the festivities as the island celebrates 60 years of Independence from Britain. The leaders of the church believe that Jamaicans...
SOME FISH vendors are reporting an improvement in the quality and quantity of the delicacy craved by mostly men for the just-concluded five-month conch harvesting season. This improvement has been attributed to the two-year ban that was imposed by...
Years after initial hesitancy when the local artificial insemination (AI) push began, goat farmers across the island are now rejoicing at the noticeable improvement in their herds. AI has been helping local goat, cattle and pig farmers to improve...
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...
