When Macquisha Smith never returned to her workstation last Thursday afternoon after leaving to meet a family friend, her employer, Natisha Miller, became anxious. Her unease was further fuelled when the salon’s receptionist phoned her the...
Garnet Johnson, whose board house was crushed by a tree on September 30 and who lamented having spent years in state homes as a child, has finally been reunited with his mother. Days after The Gleaner shared the 28-year-old man’s story, his mother...
When Derran Wright saw his neighbour’s house inside Richie Lane on fire during the wee hours of Sunday morning, he was jolted into action and sought to help extinguish the blaze. Little did he know that it was an act of arson allegedly committed by...
Fayval Williams, minister of education, youth and information, says Jamaican students are behind when compared to other children globally, noting that the time has come for this to be accepted and necessary actions taken to fix this problem. “We...
After suffering days without electricity and water last week, Prime Minister Andrew Holness offered reassurance to residents of Port Royal on Wednesday that the Goverment would come good on its promise of improved sewerage and other infrastructure...
Education Minister Fayval Williams is pleading for patience from the disgruntled faculty at the Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI) who have vowed to engage in a second day of sickout protests in a bid to twist the Government’s arm in...
NEVILLE WRIGHT, councillor for the Trench Town division, blames the booming multimillion-dollar construction industry and persons in different divisions for illegal dumps now piled on some areas connected to Maxfield Avenue in St Andrew. The...
Marlon Roberts, the man accused of killing homeless persons in Kingston for years, was gunned down by the police last Friday. Head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Corporate Communications Unit, Senior Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay told...
A minor road that leads residents from Georgia in rural St Thomas to the Trinityville main road is now on the verge of becoming fully eroded. Already, about half of the road has already been eroded by water flowing from Copper Hole, two beautiful...
AMID BILLIONS of dollars now being pumped into road development projects in St Thomas, residents of Windsor Forest believe they are forgotten, with a section of their roadway which is on the brink of collapsing. Based on previous publications, a...
On September 24, Winston Findlay proudly aided his ailing wife, Carolyn, outside of the Pembroke Hall Community Centre after she was inoculated with her first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Back then, Mr Findlay told The Gleaner that he would...
Equality for All Foundation Jamaica has blamed Jamaica’s social and justice systems for distressed members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community falling prey to gangs in recent years. LGBTQ+ people have often...
Despite the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) warning that only vaccinated stakeholders in Port Royal will benefit directly from a cruise call by the Nieuw Statemdam on November 25, some residents, including vendors, are still unwilling to take the...
When pains associated with breast cancer jolted former journalist and editor Petre Williams Raynor, she could have thought of no other way to ease her anxiety other than by putting pen to paper. Now, one year after her diagnoses in September 2020...
The National COVID-19 Vaccination Operationalisation Task Force has suggested that the Government implement a vaccinate-or-test mandate for public-sector workers amid concerns over a slow take-up of COVID-19 vaccines across the island. With roughly...
LOSING A son to violence in Norwood, St James, has driven Jennifer Brown, winner of the Supreme Ventures Foundation (SVF) Supreme Heroes Programme for 2020, to become the well-known change agent she now is in her community. Her son, Jason Anderson...
For her sixth birthday celebration on December 10, kidney cancer patient Nyla Simpson hopes to have a mermaid party on the beach. However, she first needs to keep her chemotherapy treatment on track at some $140,000 per month, which her family is...
Daniel Sinclair was looking forward to celebrating his 21st birthday on October 19, and one of his plans before his demise was to start the construction of a new house for both his brother and father. More than 100 building blocks now lay stacked...
Nineteen-year-old Giovanni Scott, who rescued 13-year-old Winshae Barrett in the mountains of Spring Bank, St Thomas, after a two-day search, is now left with mixed feelings. Although happy that Winshae was found, he was disappointed that the...
The upcoming Christmas season will not be the same for residents of Standpipe in St Andrew, as they mourn the loss of their community patriarch, Dr Lloyd Cole. Cole, who is popularly known not only for bringing Christmas cheer at his offices in...
When the coronavirus pandemic hit Jamaica’s shores in early 2020, Keino Brown and Jermaine Wright were in danger of drowning in the tidal wave of unemployment that swept aside the jobs of more than 135,000 people at the height of the crisis. But...
With two recent cases of persons with mental illnesses reportedly killing two men within the public space and other persons escaping serious injury after being attacked, the health ministry is moving to boost its community-based intervention...
In June 2020 when Yvonne Ewers felt a pain in her gums, she initially thought it was just another toothache. But after she removed her tooth and the pain did not subside, she knew something was wrong. It was a sign of lymphoma. That is cancer of...
Life for 28-year-old Garnet Silvanous Johnson has always been heading downhill. Johnson said it all started when he was reportedly given up by his mother, in Chudleigh, Manchester, when he was seven months old in 1993. When he returned home last...
When Patria Baugh spent over a decade taking care of her autistic daughter, Leah, she thought she was facing the greatest battle of her life. However, it was only preparing her for a tougher challenge: breast cancer. The Jamaica-born Baugh now...
