Residents of Phase Two of Seaview Gardens say they have yet to receive titles to their properties despite having paid off their mortgages, some which started some 40 years ago. The residents took Prime Minister Andrew Holness to task when he...
Entrepreneur Richard Shepherd says that he was spurned by insurance companies years ago when he explored the prospect of protecting his business investment. His upholstery shop was located on High Holborn Street on the fringes of the downtown...
One year after the Government reported that roughly $300 million in COVID-19 welfare relief was uncollected, some Jamaicans have still not been able to collect their disbursement as they do not have the requisite identification documents. The COVID...
When Colleen Beaumont migrated to Canada in 2010, the needy children in Jamaica remained on the former teacher’s mind. More specifically, she worried about the poverty-stricken children living in the Corporate Area, having grown up in a settlement...
Summer is fast-approaching and the Curaçao Tourist Board recently invited The Gleaner to not only attend their 2022 Global Trade Symposium between May 23 and 26, but to also bask in the adventures that await visitors this summer in the country...
Lorna Goodison-Chamberlin will forever cherish the fact that her late sister – the hard-hitting journalist, opinionated radio talk-show host and prolific playwright Barbara Joy Gloudon – served as a gateway to opportunities not only for family...
More than 20,000 electronic traffic tickets have been issued by the police across the island since they were first equipped with e-ticketing devices six months ago. The e-ticketing application, the pilot of which was launched last November, is...
With the return of face-to-face classes and pre-pandemic idealism, anti-drug advocates in Jamaica are lobbying for more support as they fight against not only tobacco smoking but the use of methylenedioxymethamphetamine – a stimulant commonly known...
With the start to the Atlantic hurricane season less than 24 hours away, farmers and householders in New Haven, St Andrew, are fearing the worst should another tropical storm sweep the island. It’s a painful refrain for the residents, who have for...
Janine De Windt, regional manager, Curaçao Tourist Board, is very upbeat that Jamaica will continue to help her country with its path to tourism recovery from the negative effects of the pandemic. One way in which Jamaica has already started is by...
The government of Curaçao is excited and optimistic about the new investment and foreign earnings the Jamaican hotel brand, Sandals, will bring to their country when it opens shortly. Maria Elena Seferina, managing director of Curaçao Hospitality...
Olympian Yohan Blake has sprinted to the aid of down-on-luck Irene Morgan, a shut-in in Smithville, Clarendon, who had recently pleaded for assistance to repair her dilapidated home. Morgan, who suffers with peripheral arterial disease and who...
While many youth from rural Jamaica are shying away from continuing in a legacy of farming, which has sustained their communities, 18-year-old former ward of the state Rohane Grey is glad to accept the call. The Hanover native is in his second year...
Former state ward Megais Simpson believed that the intervention of social workers to shape the course of his life over the past 17 years has been instrumental in setting him on a path to success. The 19-year-old believes that were it not for the...
Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has vowed to launch a campaign to scrub some colonial-era names from the capital city. Moments after Monday’s renaming of a section of Tower Street in honour of late civil-rights activist Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, Williams...
Health and Wellness State Minister Juliet Cuthbert Flynn is happy that opposition Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna has joined her call for parliamentary action to amend the country’s abortion law even as debate on the contentious issue intensifies...
Wahkeen Murray, former acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology, was yesterday pressed to establish whether she knew that Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh resided in the United States at the time of his appointment and while...
If the United Way of Jamaica is grateful for one thing in 2022, it is the ability to again host its grand gala fundraising event called ‘Live United for Mom’ on Mother’s Day. While board chair of United Way of Jamaica, Chorvelle Johnson...
Six years ago, intuition gnawed at Kimoy Buchanan not to leave her house for a nearby games night but she disobeyed. The then businesswoman and mother of three decided to go because she wanted to support the festivities hosted by a friend. But...
Two teenage cousins are on a mission to help students recover from the learning loss caused by COVID-19-induced disruptions in the education sector by honing their reading skills and develop a deeper appreciation for books. Bookworms Debra-Kay...
Concerned farmers in St Elizabeth are now satisfied with the new date announced for completion of the long-awaited Essex Valley Agricultural Development Project (EVADP), following delays caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the ongoing...
There were a number of times in 22-year-old Valicka Pryce’s life when she, her mom and her sister had to literally run for their lives. Years ago, community violence forced them to flee their inner-city community in the capital city and head for...
As concerns continue to swirl over the Sixth-Form Pathways Programme (SFPP) scheduled to start in the next four months, Jamaica’s chief education officer is calling for principals to direct outgoing 11th-graders they cannot accommodate to the...
Thirty-one-year-old Brian Turner believes that it was a stipend being offered for participating in the USAID-sponsored A Ganar programme in 2012 that saved him, then an at-risk youngster in an inner-city community, from a life of crime. He believes...
Education Minister Fayval Williams says she will not be quick to jump at the recent recommendations from the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) to sack three principals heading government-operated institutions over their “flagrant disregard” for the...
