Vendors at the Coronation Market say they began seeing the impact of the drought on agricultural production months ago as farmers lost crops and saw stunted growth in some that produced yields. Herma Thomas said that she has been refusing to buy...
Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says Jamaica is now in its final stage of negotiations for citrus export to Trinidad and Tobago, the latest in a series of positive trade moves for the country. Addressing The Plant Quarantine...
Lloyd Ferguson, the 65-year-old co-founder of the secluded inner-city golden age home called Eira Schader in Trench Town, who is now on the brink of his retirement, has one regret in life that still lingers in his mind. He recounts that as a...
Jamaica now has its first multimillion-dollar plasma apheresis machine, which will improve blood donation and transfusion services in the country. The machine will offer a new science-based solution that receives blood from a blood donor and...
Journeying to Jamaica 32 years ago to take up a job as a psychiatrist is one risk that Burmese national Dr Myo Kyaw Oo took for which he harbours no regrets. He has since become a Jamaican citizen and brought his Burmese wife to Jamaica, where they...
Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, said the Government’s upcoming waste-to-energy programme will generate some 60 megawatts of energy. Waste-to-energy plants burn municipal solid waste to...
Not having a councillor for the last 20 months has not caused any great concern among residents of the Greater Portmore East Division who say they are fully satisfied with the efforts of the Portmore Municipal Corporation since the passing of...
The national caucus of councillors from the People’s National Party (PNP) has blasted the Government for its push to further delay the long-overdue local government elections, describing it as “negligence”. The Government on Tuesday tabled a bill...
Onion farmers in Heartease, St Thomas, are worried that they could suffer millions in losses as a beet armyworm outbreak in their fields wreaks havoc on their current crop even as they believe that the Government is not doing enough to help them....
Ackecia Gayle, head girl of Little Bay Primary and Infant schools, beamed with joy on Tuesday after hearing Education Minister Fayval Williams announce that her Westmoreland-based institution would be getting a new school bus valued at US$73,904....
Unlike many girls her age, Nia-Ashley Harris, winner of The Professor Wilma Bailey Award for the Most Outstanding Performance in geography in the May/June 2022 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, will boldly tell you she...
When Khalil James, fourth-place winner in The Gleaner’s Children’s Own Spelling Bee Competition 2023, innocently said onstage “Homogeneity ... homogeneity ... I never heard that word before” before being knocked out of the competition, his coach,...
Fifteen years after the world’s fastest man Jamaica’s Usain Bolt quipped that yam should be credited for his streak to 100-metre Olympic gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, Pearnel Charles Jr, minister of agriculture and fisheries, said that the...
The Government has invested approximately $12 million in importing two cutting-edge Agri Spray Drones, setting the pace for revolutionising how farmers conduct pest-control initiatives on crops islandwide. This investment is not only expected to...
More than two years after announcing plans to roll out Microsoft Office 365 free of cost, Education Minister Fayval Williams on Tuesday officially launched the campaign for software that could benefit half a million Jamaicans. The US$15-million (J$...
Registrar General’s Department (RGD) CEO Charlton McFarlane has indicated that he cannot guarantee that normal operations will resume at the agency’s 10 offices islandwide on Tuesday, following Monday’s sickout by disgruntled staff, who are upset...
When Sagicor SIGMA Corporate Run organisers previously announced the rule that entrants needed to be vaccinated in order to participate in the 24th staging of the event in 2022, Garfield Gordon – this year’s overall winner – was determined not to...
Ask standout student Thalia Grant where she hails from and she’ll say “a lot of communities”. That quip captures the bumpy journey of struggle she and her mom Sherine Bucknor have taken over the last 13 years following the murder of the teenager’s...
The Government is taking steps to issue menu options and nutritional guidelines to chefs, cooks and canteen operators at schools that continue to prepare, buy and sell food and drinks that are high in sodium and sugar content. Christopher Tufton,...
While a disappointed Taevion Morgan cried after placing sixth in The Gleaner’s Children’s Own Spelling Bee Championship four years ago, Sharee Morgan immediately sprang into action with one goal: to get her son under the wings of that year’s...
Courtney Greaves, the 11-year-old head girl of Jessie Ripoll Primary School, has created history as the youngest awardee to date in the Global Poetry Foundation Competition and for being the first to win seven awards in a given year. Greaves...
At 21 years of age, Sudan Lawson does not believe she has been given a fair chance at pursuing her passion in life. The disabled young woman spends each day crying and hoping for a better life inside the dilapidated one-room dwelling she shares...
Moments after hearing his name announced as Journalist of the Year 2022, Giovanni Dennis descended the steps of the Courtleigh Auditorium almost apologetically, wiping away tears rather than breaking into whoops of joy and fist-bumping triumphalism...
In an effort to provide climate justice to Jamaicans, Opposition Spokesperson Senator Sophia Frazer Binns is calling for higher budgetary allocations to the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation and, more specifically, the environment and...
Although hundreds of red mangrove saplings have been planted in recent years to replenish the dying mangrove population along the Palisadoes strip in Kingston, those efforts have gone in vain as pollution and lack of maintenance have caused many of...
