A former inmate is urging the Government to pump more resources and effort into programmes to steer young boys clear of the prison system. The 27-year-old ex-convict pointed out that many boys were being recruited to commit crimes by negative...
Seeking to gin up support for cashless transactions, Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has cast the digital economy as the future for Jamaica. Speaking at the launch of a Lynk ABM feature on Tuesday, Clarke recalled a trip to London on which he...
Sue-Ann Ebanks wallowed in grief outside her home in Spring Village, Old Harbour, on Monday, oozing regret that she had persuaded her sister to attend a community football match that descended into a killing field a day earlier. As Ebanks huddled...
Twenty farmers from Needham Pen, St Thomas, have benefited from an eight-week training programme on how to treat farming as a business to maximise their earning potential. The programme was conducted in April and June by the Rural Agricultural...
Despite a survey of 35 schools by the health and education ministries finding that most were non-compliant with the interim guidelines for beverages in schools, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said no action would be taken...
EDUCATORS AT the St Andrew-based Papine High School are advocating for greater investment in developing technical and vocational education programmes in secondary schools. In a recent interview with The Gleaner, headmaster Leighton Christie...
Papine High School is looking forward to the construction of a new three-storey block as it aims to eliminate the shift system and increase students’ contact time with teachers up from roughly three hours daily and improve overall academic...
The donation of 10 refurbished haemodialysis machines has boosted the capacity of the Spanish Town Hospital to take on an additional 30 new patients with renal illness. Valued at more than $28 million, the machines were donated by Renal Dynamics, a...
Administrators of Papine High School have launched a work-to-earn and mentorship programme to refocus at-risk teenage boys and loosen the influence of gangs that have historically infiltrated the school population. The strategy is reportedly...
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) ex-servicemen who had the honour of meeting Queen Elizabeth II were saddened by news of the passing of the monarch on Thursday as the news spread around the globe. The Queen, who made six trips to Jamaica during her...
Labour and Social Security Minister Karl Samuda is encouraging members of parliament (MPs) to work with the ministry to identify people who should be enrolled in the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), the State’s chief...
In her hour of greatest need, a gravely ill cop with 12 years of service to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said she has been shunned by her colleagues and is in desperate need of assistance. Grace-Ann Williams, 39, was diagnosed with...
A papier-mâché replica of folklorist Miss Lou more than 20 years ago by students and teachers of the Louise Bennett-Coverley Primary continues to be a centrepiece at the school’s yearly celebration and showcase of the late cultural icon. Patricia...
Opposition Spokesman on Education Damion Crawford has criticised the Government’s handling of a spate of teacher resignations, especially as schools reopen for the first full-scale academic year roll-out in three years. Calling it a misdiagnosis of...
Only three youngsters and two adults were on board the train from Linstead to Spanish Town in St Catherine, which arrived at its destination at 7:15 a.m. on Monday as the new school year began. The train from Old Harbour to the parish capital had...
School officials at some St Catherine-based institutions were upbeat as they welcomed students on Monday morning, hopeful for a successful new school year. For some, the orientation exercises were still ongoing, or extended. At St John’s Primary...
When gunshots rang out on Friday night, Doreen Jackson-Smikle began gathering her family members, frightened by the unknown of what was occurring beyond the walls of her residence in Pleasant View, Eight Miles. But when she called out to her 50-...
After decades of living in squalor within the shantytowns of Kingston Western, some residents are now banking on a new housing development in the area to improve their living conditions. Ground for the Victoria Palms development was broken on...
The community of Cheswick in eastern St Thomas has been contending with erratic water supply for decades. When Diane Wilson was 16 years old, she recalled having to make numerous trips, with a bucket of water atop her head, to and from her home...
An unfinished and abandoned community centre, on which construction work was halted for reasons unknown, stands as a stark metaphor for the entire district of Cheswick in St Thomas, which residents painfully lament has been neglected for years....
“You are not forgotten,” Morant Bay May Michael Hue told residents of Cheswick in St Thomas on Tuesday, trying to reassure them as the Government prepares to invest millions in improving “non-existent” infrastructure in the district. Hue was...
Residents and business persons in Spanish Town have clamoured for increased investment in safety and security as well as greater infrastructural development before an Emancipation Park-style recreational space is established in the Old Capital....
Maxine Sutherland-Jenkins is in emotional turmoil as her farmworker husband, Samuel Jenkins, lies in a hospital bed battling Stage Four cancer of the liver and spleen at The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). Jenkins, a family...
The children of the Port Royal Primary and Infant School were fêted on Friday by the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) as the state entity formally adopted the Kingston-based educational institution ahead of the new academic year. The day’s events were...
The chief executive officer of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) has stared down a rebellion and rejected as overblown the noisy resistance to draft legislation governing the licensing of teachers. Dr Winsome Gordon, who broke her silence in a...
