Crime Stop Jamaica has partnered with Kingston Creative in its ‘Paint the City’ project in an effort to reduce violence in communities with high incidences of crime. Initially launched in 2018, the Paint the City initiative was to create street...
Cornelia and Melvin Yorke formed an instant connection when they first met 10-year-old Sara* through the Child Protection and Family Services Agency’s (CPFSA) Take a Child Home for the Holiday programme in 2019. During the brief time that the...
Perhaps World Cup wagonists might muster $150 to purchase a mini-flag. More committed supporters might dig deep into their pockets to buy authentic team jerseys for $20,000 each. But Travin ‘TJ’ Jackson went far beyond the average football fan by...
For the past five years, the streets leading to Eleven Miles in Bull Bay, St Thomas, have been largely deserted as fearful residents make a deliberate effort to lock themselves inside their homes, fearful that they could become targets of hits...
Civil servant O’Neil Hamilton is encouraging more youngsters to see the value in volunteering their time and service over the allure of getting rich quickly especially through illegal means. In fact, he recalled that it was through volunteering...
Gonzalo Tuñon was among the many Argentina fans and supporters worldwide who were left stunned by the team’s 2-1 loss to underdogs Saudia Arabia on Tuesday in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. After all, the importance of winning at footabll is so...
Police Commissioner Antony Anderson is seeking to broaden the reach of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF)’s benevolent arms in assisting the dependents of slain police officers. Speaking with The Gleaner on Tuesday at a luncheon for children of...
Edson Jones, a Jamaican native who emigrated to the England 18 years ago, has not shied away from supporting his homeland in football and other sports. Jones, who has backed Argentina in a number FIFA World Cup stagings since the 1970s, said,...
With fears that local productivity could fall, the 2022 FIFA World Cup presents a dilemma for bosses torn between allowing staff to enjoy what is dubbed the greatest show on Earth or impose strict measures to tune it out and continue with business...
Christopher Green had already acquired a 70-inch flat-screen television as he prepared to accommodate football fans and tap the bubbling interest in the 2022 FIFA World Cup. He has operated along Lyndhurst Road for many years, but this is the...
Locals are welcoming a plan to widen the bridge in Borobridge, St Ann, which is located along the main thoroughfare from the community leading to Cave Valley. This planned works was disclosed by Everald Warmington, minister without portfolio in the...
The Government is set to restore nine breakaways along roadways in St Ann South Western, according to de facto Works Minister Everald Warmington. Warmington made the announcement on Wednesday following a tour of the road network in the constituency...
“The dream has been fulfilled,” declared Rohan Campbell as he basked in the reality that he would now be working at the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) as an electrical technician, having successfully completed a programme of training for...
WITH AN eye on global markets, local manufacturer and distribution company Cal’s Manufacturing Limited intends to enter the food processing industry within the next three years, opening the door for the export of more Jamaican-made products. The...
Danielle Mullings is on a mission to positively impact communities and inspire young people. The 23-year-old recently earned a bachelor of science degree in software engineering with a minor in Film Studies with first class honours from the faculty...
Some people believe that a mother is a daughter’s best friend, and this has certainly been the case for 22-year-old Danielle Johnson, who, on Saturday, graduated alongside her mother, Julian Redwood-Johnson, from The University of the West Indies (...
Police Commissioner Antony Anderson has bemoaned the lack of youth participation in community organisations geared at preserving the safety of Jamaica’s neighbourhoods, with fewer than half of the designated groups active. Anderson argued that...
CHRISTOPHER GARDENER was once a cheerful young man who has always been determined to work and earn his way through life. But two years ago, he fell ill and as a result, his health, and life as he knew it, took a sharp turn for the worse. Gardener...
Despite the soaring fortunes of the global services sector in Jamaica, business process outsourcing outfits (BPOs) are haemorrhaging hundreds of jobs monthly, stoking concerns among some sector interests about companies’ retention rates. Many of...
Seventy-six-year-old Gladstone Grant, whose vision is clouded by cataracts, has found the night-time trip along the Mount Vernon Gap breakaway in St Thomas particularly challenging. Since the roadway crumbled under the weight of torrential rain...
Having been repeatedly trapped inside their community following heavy rainfall and perennial flooding from the overflowing Negro River, residents of River Head in St Thomas said they are weary of state neglect and are demanding swift intervention...
Police Corporal Rohan Smith is a highly dedicated individual who places service above self. His overarching goal is to improve society by doing one good deed at a time for the betterment of the nation and its children. Smith, on Friday, received...
Ministry of Education officials have been warned to tread carefully on religious rights and freedoms as it seeks to establish protocols to govern devotional exercises in the wake of bizarre scenes on Wednesday at Oberlin High School where dozens of...
With school-age children committing 52 gun-related murders and 82 shootings in Jamaica since 2018, there are calls for increased action to keep firearms out of the hands of students and away from places of learning. The issue of violence...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has expressed certainty that once Jamaica leverages technology to achieve prosperity and establishes more partnerships with technology firms like Huawei, the leading world provider of information and communications...
