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Published:Monday | November 27, 2023 | 12:10 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

With his grounded beliefs and Anglican faith, Jovan Johnson, the Press Association of Jamaica’s (PAJ’s) 2023 Journalist of the Year, has thrived amid the challenges faced by all media workers in making their way in the industry today. “The Church...

Published:Friday | November 24, 2023 | 12:11 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

Stressing the importance of spiritual intervention from the Almighty heading into a new year as the island seeks to overcome the challenges it faces, the National Prayer Vigil Committee launched its 2023 event on Thursday. Now in its 31st year, the...

Published:Tuesday | November 21, 2023 | 12:08 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

Attorney-at-law Gavin Goffe has noted that persons buying motor vehicles in Jamaica may soon need the services of a lawyer, as is the case with purchasing real estate. Under the new Road Traffic Act, which was passed in 2018 and took effect earlier...

Published:Monday | November 20, 2023 | 12:10 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

Political figures and stakeholders in the health sector were yesterday thrown into mourning as news emerged that longtime publich health advocate Professor Winston Davidson had died after a brief illness. Davidson died yesterday morning while...

Published:Friday | November 17, 2023 | 12:11 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

If Sherene McIntyre’s life were to end tomorrow, she would have already been proud to have broken the glass ceiling with one major accomplishment. That is becoming the first deaf person to graduate from the Jamaica Theological Seminary (JTS) as a...

Published:Friday | November 17, 2023 | 12:06 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

A TOTAL of 47 hard-working students who performed outstandingly in the last Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations were awarded with scholarships and bursaries by the Jamaica National (JN) Foundation on Sunday. These scholarships from the...

Published:Thursday | November 16, 2023 | 12:06 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

THE BEST Dog in Show at the True Pet Expo and German Shepherd All-Breed Championship on Sunday was Becks, an imported timber Rottweiler dog who arrived in the island the previous Monday. According to its owner Warren Clarke from Warrack Kennel in...

Published:Monday | November 13, 2023 | 12:09 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

After missing out on being there in person to collect her honorary doctorate from the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) in July, Jamaica-born multimillionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr Trisha Bailey opted to make the...

Published:Saturday | November 11, 2023 | 12:06 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

The Korean government has donated 4,103 tablets, valued at US$600,000 (J$92,835,576.82) to Jamaica’s One Laptop or Tablet Per Child initiative, which was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2020. The gift, which represents the second-...

Published:Friday | November 10, 2023 | 12:11 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

Nile Anderson, the 2024 Rhodes Scholar, harbours dreams of becoming Jamaica’s dreamgineer – a term he coined himself, which will bring engineering to another level in the nation through his dreams. He also has visions of his fellow countrymen...

Published:Tuesday | November 7, 2023 | 12:10 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

Mere hours before six-year-old Arianna Salmon was slain in a St Andrew triple murder on Friday, she wrote a letter of gratitude to her teacher, stating “I love you”, before heading home. Following those three powerful words was an attempt by the...

Published:Monday | November 6, 2023 | 12:08 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

While a 5.6-magnitude earthquake was rocking Jamaica last Monday, a team from True Pet Food happened to be in the middle of a free pet therapy session on the grounds of Hillel Academy in St Andrew. The session was geared towards introducing this...

Published:Thursday | November 2, 2023 | 12:11 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

In an effort to continue re-energising the 85-year-old People’s National Party (PNP), a new junior shadow Cabinet was announced yesterday with 23 budding politicians from across the island. While introducing the group, PNP President Mark Golding...

Published:Monday | October 30, 2023 | 12:09 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

Immaculate Conception High School, Jamaica’s top-performing school, is not waiting for the Government to make good on a previously promised school-bus system that would assist in providing safety and convenience of its girls and educators. With...

Published:Monday | October 30, 2023 | 12:07 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

Filth and days of unchanged diapers will assault your senses when approaching the dilapidated one-room structure glaucoma patients Hugh Wauchope, 75, and Lorna Allen, 68, had no choice but to settle into at 11 Miles in Bull Bay, St Andrew, 19 years...

Published:Friday | October 27, 2023 | 12:07 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

While murders in Jamaica dipped by 12 per cent up to last month when compared to the same period last year, Governor General Sir Patrick Allen wants the fall to be even greater. Since the start of the year, 141 fewer people were killed when...

Published:Thursday | October 26, 2023 | 12:08 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

IN AN effort to improve literacy in the 248 underperforming schools islandwide, the Ministry of Education and Youth is targeting a five per cent increase in performance over the next three years. Fayval Williams, minister of education and youth,...

Published:Wednesday | October 25, 2023 | 12:12 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

Transport Minister Daryl Vaz has called on his counterpart Opposition spokesman to discuss their differences after the latter took offence to comments made by the minister and announced he was withdrawing from the Transport Sector Committee on...

Published:Monday | October 23, 2023 | 12:09 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

In the aftermath of a bizarre incident Saturday night, a man yesterday remained in police lockup having engaged in a short-lived joyride with a Mercedes Benz GLE 53, valued approximately J$35 million, on the compound of Stewart’s Automotive Group...

Published:Monday | October 23, 2023 | 12:08 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

When Jeneail Henry, a 17-year-old trackstar from Wolmer’s High School for Girls, went to the CIBC FirstCaribbean Walk for the Cure 5K on Sunday, her main goal was just to outshine her schoolmates for the fun of it, not to become the winning female...

Published:Tuesday | October 17, 2023 | 9:13 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

Despite not being able to save one of five women from a fiery crash in April 2022, Keith Nugent and Ruel Grant remained grateful yesterday after receiving the only two Badges of Honour for Gallantry at King’s House on National Heroes Day. After...

Published:Monday | October 16, 2023 | 12:07 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

After a 19-per-cent fare increase came into effect for public transport operators yesterday morning, numerous Corporate Area passengers complained that they were being charged varying fees, some not in accordance with those outlined by the...

Published:Thursday | October 12, 2023 | 12:09 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

With Jamaica recording a decline of 12 per cent in murders since the start of 2023, when compared to last year, Reverend Astor Carlyle, pastor at Webster Memorial United Church, believes that members of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group can help...

Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2023 | 12:11 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

Immediately after Hansle Parchment was handed the key to the township of Morant Bay, St Thomas, on Monday, the Olympian was speechless. Although the Morant Bay High School alumnus was appreciative of the honour made possible by his alma mater and...

Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2023 | 12:09 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

IF THERE is one Jamaican you will meet who is grateful about being laid off three years ago during the pandemic, that is entrepreneur and twice teenage mother Shally Hall. After being laid off in 2020, she was introduced to the NCB Foundation’s...

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