Yesterday’s celebration of Mother’s Day was another daunting experience for Michalia Dawkins, the lead beneficiary of the recently relaunched Shining Hope Foundation. It was a difficult day as it reminded her of single motherhood and the loss of...
Drivers who have amassed over 10 demerit points in recent years could still face the possibility of having their driver’s licences suspended even if they have gone to traffic court and paid their fines. In an interview with The Gleaner yesterday,...
AS JAMAICANS celebrated Read Across Jamaica Day yesterday, numerous readers from government and corporate bodies called for more parents and guardians to encourage our nation’s children to stick with the tradition of reading physical books over...
Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has rejected concerns of critics who are of the view that the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) should not expand the sorrowful Crying Child Monument in downtown Kingston, so that more names of...
Residents of Berwick Road in Whitfield Town, Kingston, have blamed a lack of response to repeated calls for the only street light in that section of the community to be repaired for the fatal attack on District Constable Ricardo Jarrett. According...
The fact that the American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ) could only give 23 discretionary grants for the 2023-2024 period, turning down more than half of the more than 50 local charities which applied, continues to weigh on the mind of Dr Laura Tanna....
Matthew Hyde, the 20-year-old student accused of torturing his ex-girlfriend in his dorm room at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in February, was again remanded until May 17, when he will undergo a committal hearing. This decision...
On Monday morning, a desperate Sean Ramsay moved from one automated-teller machine (ATM) to another in Portmore, St Catherine, making multiple attempts to withdraw funds to pay his fare to go to work. All dispensers were out of cash, leaving Ramsay...
Legal and Constitutional Affairs Minister Marlene Malahoo Forte suggested on Tuesday that Jamaicans could be called on to participate in more than one referendum as the Government works to overhaul the nation’s Constitution. Malahoo Forte, who is...
Ronardo Ormsby, one of two inmates released from the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre in time for Easter after their fines were paid by Food For The Poor Jamaica (FFTP), vows never to lay his hands on a woman again. Ormsby told The Gleaner in...
Egerton Newman is calling for taxi operators to have a formal set of working hours, expressing concern that some of them are running themselves into the ground by working up to 16 hours per day. Newman, who is the president of the Transport...
A group of Corporate Area taxi operators pooled funds to patch sewage-filled potholes at the intersection of West Queen Street and West Parade in downtown Kingston on Good Friday. According to the cabbies, who ply routes from downtown Kingston to...
The Government has established a Tourist Train Committee to provide oversight of the execution and management of the strategic engagement with a potential investor partner, who, one year ago, expressed an interest in reviving the service from...
The main reason Arianna Buchanan, a teacher’s child, applied for one of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade’s Jamaica 60 Scholarships, is because she knew firsthand that her mother’s meagre salary was only enough for hand-to-mouth...
Seventeen-year-old Shedeque Alisia Calvert had plans to visit a tax office to get a taxpayer registration number (TRN) on Monday to register for a HEART/NSTA Trust cosmetology course. Given that her father’s name was not documented on her birth...
The first 60 of 100 Snuggle Nests kits which were donated under the ‘Right Start - A Maternal and Newborn Care Initiative’ were distributed among expectant mothers, and in-patient mothers due for discharge at Victoria Jubilee Hospital in downtown...
When Saneika Davis heard that her best friend, Adrianna Laing, was badly burnt in a fire that claimed the lives of her three brothers at their Westmoreland home in September 2022, she fainted. When Saneika saw Adrianna at the Norman Manley...
The Government has granted permission to an industrial minerals and aggregates company to bring life to hundreds of kilometres of state-owned railway lines laying idle for over three decades. The train tracks fall under the control of the Jamaica...
Matthew Hyde, the 20-year-old student accused of torturing his ex-girlfriend in his dorm room at The University of the West Indies, Mona, will return to court on Friday to continue his bail application. On Monday, Judge Lori-Anne Cole-Montaque...
Despite pledges of assistance for a homeless man who was awarded a Badge of Honour for Gallantry last Heroes Day after rescuing an injured cop who was left for dead in bushes of Portmore, St Catherine, he has found himself in a worse situation five...
When administrators at New Hope Preparatory School in downtown Kingston decided to construct a library and reading room, criminals from neighbouring areas made it known that they, too, wanted in on the project with extortion fees. The school, which...
When Kay Wilson-Kelly, operations manager at Port Computer Services Limited, a local computer software company which trades as Advantum Limited, realised that she was the only woman among men signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the...
WITH OVER 233 murders occurring islandwide in 10 weeks since the start of the year, at least one panellist at the Houses of Parliament’s Commonwealth Day ‘Year of Youth’ Forum, Reverend Michael Craig, was bold enough to point out his...
Desmond McKenzie, minister of local government and rural development, has expressed deep concern over the rash and increasing numbers of intentionally set bush fires given the prevailing drought condition across the island. He urged Jamaicans to be...
Sandra Ewan, a 58-year-old resident of Kingston living with special needs, has one major life regret: taking up the Government’s Special Early Retirement Programme (SERP) offer in 2018. The programme was initiated in light of the Pensions (Public...
