A new cohort of young leaders to serve on the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) Children’s Advisory Panel (CAP) have been officially installed. The 20-member panel of individuals – aged 18 years and older – will serve as the fifth...
DR PATRICK Prendergast, campus director at The University of the West Indies, Mona – Western Jamaica Campus, has encouraged media practitioners to remain vigilant in keeping press freedoms from being destroyed or erased and to not be afraid to...
PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness is encouraging Jamaicans to exercise their ‘social conscience’ in protecting the environment through participation in upcoming Labour Day activities. Holness was speaking at the official launch and announcement of the...
Green Earth Peanut Company Limited, a Jamaican company operated by a group of young adults, is happy with the prospects of breaking into regional and international markets. The company was founded six years ago by entrepreneur Akeem Edwards, who...
Local manufacturer Stanmark Processors Company Limited is seeking to boost Jamaica’s ackee supply by planting 1,000 trees within the year. Shona Sadler-Campbell, the chief operations officer of the 32-year-old family-owned company, lamented that...
At least one lecturer believes that mentorship is the key to increasing the participation of women and girls in the digital world and the ICT sector. According to Dr Phillipa Bennett, a lecturer in the Department of Computing at The University of...
Patricia Garrick’s love for agriculture continues to blossom through her meticulously maintained fields, where she nurtures fruit trees. Despite walking with a limp for much of her senior life as a result of arthritis in the ankle joint, Garrick,...
Farmers in St Thomas have called for more work to be done in the sector to explore and take full advantage of the coconut palm’s (Cocos nucifera) versatile nature. Characterised as a “golden” plant by members of the Kanga Gully Farmers Group in...
It was Kimona Bowen’s first encounter being immersed in virtual reality (VR), an experience she initially found to be very frightening. But soon after, the engagement with the technology piqued her interest, serving as further motivation to pursue...
SINCE THE 2021 demolition of African Martyrs of Uganda Early Childhood Institute (ECI), which was situated in Ten Miles, Bull Bay, St Andrew, the bulk of students seeking placement have turned to Bethel Basic School for enrolment. But with limited...
LOCAL FARMERS want the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to amplify their calls and encourage the private sector to invest in utilising more of Jamaica’s natural resources to manufacture merchandise distinctive to the island. They have lamented...
Vandals have been tampering with National Water Commission (NWC) systems, sometimes stealing pieces of critical equipment, causing disruption to the company’s operations for hours and even days at a time. In one of the latest attacks, thieves made...
Pensioners in the community of Bull Bay, which is located at the St Andrew-St Thomas border, are expressing frustration at the inconvenience they now have to endure to access crucial services since the demolition of the local health centre and post...
DURING THE heights of the COVID-19 pandemic, St Mary native Aneta Blackett-Ricketts quickly realised a growing need to assist the less fortunate within her community of Islington. By starting a feeding programme that satisfies the hunger of the...
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Jacqueline Dillon has noted that the Domestic Violence Intervention Centres (DVICs) have been having a major impact since their inception in 2021, with more males stepping forward to report abuse. While the...
As the town’s population steadily grows, so have calls for the installation of traffic signals in the town centre of Junction, St Elizabeth. Residents of the area have argued that the signals could reduce accidents as they regulate traffic....
Local not-for-profit entities can now submit proposals for an opportunity to benefit from the Local Engagement and Action Fund (LEAF) under the Field Support Services Project Caribbean (FSSP-C) funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC). Available are...
Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon-Harrison is encouraging Jamaicans to become positive interrupters within the lives of the nation’s children. Speaking on Wednesday at the media launch of Child Month 2023, which will be observed in May, Gordon-...
A thick plume of smoke hung over sections of downtown Kingston on Wednesday afternoon as a raging fire consumed two tenement properties, leaving at least nine adults and six children homeless. Twenty-five-year-old Yanique Ross, who was conducting...
Residents of Black River in St Elizabeth are expressing concern over the safety of users of the JAG Myers Municipal Park, especially children, after a large crocodile was spotted sunbathing at the municipal facility recently. Not only are they...
Nineteen early childhood educators in the Southeast region of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), who are beneficiaries of the multimillion-dollar grant funding programme to pursue tertiary education, were last week presented with cash. They...
The Government is being called on to do more to trigger a shift in how society views people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Carla Moore, an advocate and lecturer at The University of the West Indies’ Institute for Gender and Development...
Jamaican writers Kwame McPherson and Demoy Lindo are among 28 individuals whose short stories have been shortlisted for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Administered by the Commonwealth Foundation, an intergovernmental organisation, the...
Through its Build Back the Love for Jamaica campaign, charity organisation Food For the Poor (FFP) Jamaica is building on its long tradition of assisting underprivileged Jamaicans. In conjunction with the FFP’s efforts, Boom Energy Drink recenty...
St Elizabeth councillors are calling for greater use of technology and an increase in police patrols to deter criminal elements preying on small business owners. Speaking at the monthly meeting of the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation on Thursday...
