The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has been hauled to court for J$3.267 million in uncollected rent for residential premises in Harbour View, Kingston. The claimant, Michelle Knott-Neckles, has accused the SERHA, which manages state...
Dr Pauline Watson-Campbell, the woman who started Jamaica’s first inclusive early childhood institution 36 years ago with special needs students, has welcomed Monday’s long-awaited effecting of the Disabilities Act. Watson-Campbell, an occupational...
With ways to go in making public spaces and buildings more disabled-friendly, chairman of the Combined Disabilities Association, the Reverend Arthur Taylor, is hailing Monday’s long-awaited effecting of the Disabilities Act as a “bittersweet moment...
Marlene Myers, mother of a 38-year-old intellectually disabled woman, was elated on Tuesday as the Disabilities Act came into effect, offering hope for the full protection of the rights of many who have lived on the fringes of society. Myers...
Despite the flare-up of violence and murders in the August Town division in St Andrew, African Gardens – one of the five communities within the division – has not recorded a single murder in the last four years. For this, the model community topped...
Were it not for creativity, a shifting of target market and riding the tides of the pandemic, Recycling Partners of Jamaica (RPJ) said it would not have increased its 2021 collection of plastic bottles by 49 per cent when compared to the previous...
A day after 13 guns, including 10 high-powered rifles, were seized by cops in Florence Hall, Trelawny, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has appealed to Jamaicans to support the Government’s latest ‘Operation Get Every Illegal Gun’ campaign. Speaking...
Illegal cabbies who ply the St Mary to Half-Way Tree route have lamented being locked out of regularisation as hackney taxi operators for the last 30 years. That shutout has been partly blamed for the prosecution of their colleague, 26-year-old...
Jamaican lawmakers have been urged to overhaul decades-old legislation and update fines deemed out of step with modern-day trends. Karyl Thorpe, 2021 national youth parliamentarian from St Catherine South Eastern, used the platform of Gordon House...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding has pushed back at claims by former People’s National Party (PNP) Chairman Phillip Paulwell that the organisation would suffer dire consequences for its decision not to support the extension of states of emergency (...
Even as the hierarchy of Jamaica’s police force has cited mounting gun seizures at the Stadium East field in St Andrew as evidence of incremental gains, security chiefs consulted with Cabinet on a response to an avalanche of murders. Killings have...
Lenworth Fulton, president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), is warning consumers to brace for an increase in the price of chicken from small farmers across the island beginning month-end. This follows the announcement by Jamaica Broilers...
Maureen Dwyer, acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education and Youth, has acknowledged the concerns of disgruntled staff of the Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI) but said that she could not give a timeline for their...
Farmers are being courted for registration in the National Identification System (NIDS), the one-stop database through which the Holness administration aims to formalise thousands of Jamaicans who are off the grid. That intervention is expected to...
Glenmuir High School has been announced as the top value-added traditional/secondary school in the island based on a recent study conducted by the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission. On Thursday, the Jamaica Education Transformation...
Former Education Minister Ronald Thwaites yesterday expressed satisfaction with the findings of the Professor Orlando Patterson-led Jamaica Education Transformation Commission as its long-awaited report was launched after a comprehensive review of...
Christmas Day, for the second consecutive year, was disheartening and filled with regret for Jash Gray*, a prisoner at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston. Gray, who called The Gleaner on Christmas Eve directly from his phone...
When non-violent offender Craige Garricks was told that Food For The Poor (FFP) Jamaica stood in the gap for his family and paid the $300,000 fine for his release from prison in time for Christmas, he was beyond excited. The 25-year-old said he was...
Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has expressed outrage that criminals are turning illegal parties into battlegrounds to settle scores and unleash bloodshed. His concern comes days before Christmas amid fears of a proliferation of...
Like most residents in Merrivale, St Andrew, Hylton Anderson had settled in overnight prepared to enjoy rest and relaxation at typical Sunday pace. But on December 12, around 4:30 a.m., the rumble of a convoy of concrete-mixing trucks at the...
A grieving St Andrew family is appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the murder of four-year-old Quhaine James, who was shot in the head two Saturdays ago in a drive-by shooting in which a man was also killed, to share what they know to help...
The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) is to erect a six-storey $238-million complex geared towards elevating the services and offerings of the facility to international standards. The disclosure was made yesterday as the St Andrew-based...
Two aspiring medical doctors and three nurses were awarded scholarships totalling $1.6 million for the 2021-22 academic year by the Ignite IGL Foundation Scholarships on Thursday. The student doctors will each receive $650,000 per year for five...
In little over a year from now, philanthropist Reverend Dr Craig Brown intends to open a free-of-charge, comprehensive medical centre for the poor and needy on the grounds of the Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church, located off Windward Road in...
One of the leaders of a protest staged yesterday across from the United States (US) Embassy in Liguanea, St Andrew, objecting to what is said was that country’s meddling in the current Ethiopian conflict, has declared that he would have no...
