Two days prior to dancehall artiste Shenseea hosting her first birthday festival at Plantation Cove, St Ann, Associated Brands Industries Limited signed an ambassadorship deal with her to promote their product line. The partnership also includes...
MAKING THE decision of dropping secular music and giving one’s life to Christ is not an easy task, but one Junior Tucker has proudly conquered in the last 27 years. For Tucker, it’s one which took resilience and thee help of the Church, to make a...
Having earned his Master of Science in Sport Business Management from the University of the West Indies, Mona, just a year ago, former Caribbean Boxing Federation Welterweight Champion and two-time Wray...
When Paul Brown was announced as the winner of the National Commercial Bank Foundation’s Dr Rickert Allen Scholarship, he shed tears of joy. It was a breakthrough moment after a rough period, not just over the last 20 years but particularly the...
As the nation prepares for another Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, one ongoing issue of concern for Sandra Samuels, president of Jamaica Reach to Recovery (JR2R), is that islandwide, the public sector lacks enough radiologists to conduct...
Colonel (ret’d) Martin Rickman, CEO of German Ship Repair Jamaica (GSRJ) Limited, has enough faith that Jamaicans can take on huge vessels in multiples for repairs and renovation in Kingston. After vast years of experience from being in the Jamaica...
The Council of Voluntary Social Services (CVSS) has been unintentionally training more women than men in the last year, even as it acknowleges that both genders need equal attention. This point was made during the 84-year-old institution’s annual...
Gabrielle Sibbles knew from an early age that she did not want to become a doctor, yet she is eager to forge a career within the realm of medicine. She has chosen to undertake studies in the emerging field of biomedical engineering, aiming to...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the retirement of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Fitz Bailey is an event that persons across the nation have not been taking well, given his ability to apply control over gangs and crime in communities they...
After much introspection and research, the Ministry of Health and Wellness is making an effort to place a greater focus on patient-centred care over disease-centred care. “The fact is that our population is visiting our facilities, and we are...
As 2024 winds down to the last quarter — a projected peak season for seniors to be left at hospitals, especially during the Christmas holiday period — Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, chief medical officer in the Ministry of Health and Wellness,...
Sian-Mahay Wilson’s landmark appointment as the first female principal of the 112-year-old all-boys Calabar High School is the culmination of 29 years of hard work and dedication. In September 1995, Wilson first stepped through the gates of the St...
In an effort to create more wealth and have it remain in Jamaica, Pearnel Charles Jr, minister of labour and social security, is calling for more housing developers to create concepts to be sold only to senior citizens. It is a concept that is...
Oneil Boucher, winner of the very first award in Jamaica’s inaugural Gamers Fest JA event on Saturday, says he wants the opportunity to pursue tertiary level education. According to the 23-year-old from Manchester, after completing Mandeville High...
Four years after Jaden Henry suffered his first episode of epilepsy, the 12-year-old child knows what he wants to become in the future. That is a neurologist, the professionals he goes to for care and treatment. Jaden, one of the 41 Courts Dare to...
Dr Kenneth Russell, deputy opposition spokesperson on education and community development, has expressed concern that some schools lack the basic resources to operate when they reopen next week. “It’s one thing to reopen and to have the doors open...
Waynette Strachan, the Opposition’s junior spokesperson on education and community development, on Wednesday, called on the Ministry of Education to provide clarity on the plans for schools with delayed openings as a result of damage from Hurricane...
The nation has reached a crisis point with the recent underperformance in mathematics, by students nationwide, in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) external examinations, according to Senator Damion Crawford, opposition...
With this year’s observance of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month just days away, the Rotary Club of Downtown Kingston is seeking to raise $7 million to sponsor prostate cancer tests and treatment for men who cannot afford them. Prostate cancer is the...
When Tessanne Chin surprised Sasha Gay Sutherland with a $500,000 scholarship for her Bachelor of Music in Performance degree on Saturday evening, the young woman was left utterly speechless. The presentation occurred on stage right after...
If you ask Najae Murray, a 2024 Jamaican Chevening scholar, why he applied for the prestigious British government’s offering, his response would more than likely be because of “a chance encountered in a supermarket”. Last week, Murray was announced...
Like scores of Jamaican youth before him, Brandon Farquharson, 2024 Burger King Open Tertiary Scholarship recipient, has to bury the idea of becoming a medical doctor because he failed the self-financing programme required by the university of his...
The secret to celebrating 65 years of marital bliss is grounded in tolerance of each other, Donald John Duff and Dr E Marilyn Duff declare. On Sunday, the couple celebrated their 65th anniversary with a blessing inside the Webster Memorial United...
John-Ross Crooks is on a mission to become Jamaica’s first software engineer for bridging medical technology. It is a goal he aims to reach with his latest achievement. He was selected alongside Joshua Newsome to receive the National Commercial...
When Hurricane Beryl struck Jamaica seven weeks ago, Reverend Marjorie Downer anticipated that the 83-year-old St Peter’s Anglican Church would sustain damage. However, she was not prepared for the complete collapse of the roof, which has left the...
