St Catherine schools are bracing for battle as the new academic year beckons in September. But the test for many of them is not academic, though they are fighting for hearts and minds. The challenge, for some, is also existential. Naggo Head...
It was not surprising that of the 80 students who participated in a weeklong robotics camp organised by the Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) Foundation and Halls of Learning, Robeano Davis came out on top with a quadruple victory. Given his...
Distributors and whole-salers of liquor and non-alcoholic beverages are being forced to put added pressure on customers to return empties in order to purchase drinks as the global glass bottle crisis persists. Clement Stevens, director of Papine...
As Jamaica’s monkeypox case count inches up weekly, hospitals and other healthcare facilities have bolstered efforts to stem the virus’ spread. Dr Michael Bent, regional technical director at the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA), said the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has bemoaned that not enough local professionals are cashing in on Jamaica’s culture as he made a rallying cry for more people to join the orange economy. He was speaking on Wednesday at a ground-breaking ceremony...
High teacher migration rates are raising a new threat to school administrations beyond the struggle of stretching manpower. Principals are now facing the dilemma of perhaps abandoning some curriculum programmes in the upcoming academic year amid...
It was a chilling experience for businesswoman Anika Tate, who was awakened by explosions outside her home Sunday morning. She watched in shock, on a CCTV camera monitor, as unidentified assailants firebombed her establishments. The incident...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday said he envisions a future in which the Court of Appeal is viewed as a “world-class” court. Noting strides made in recent years to have the court staffed with a full complement of judicial clerks, the...
The Government is now seeking contractors to undertake a massive overhaul at the Spanish Town Hospital amid rising demand for services and a boom in road and housing construction projects across St Catherine. “It’s been a long journey that we have...
Jamaica-born civil-rights activist Roy Hackett has been lauded for his unwavering commitment to ensuring that black and Asian minorities in the United Kingdom had equal opportunity in employment and that they were spared discrimination on the...
Keith Slayter made the Emancipation Day celebrations in Top Hill, St Catherine, a family affair as he brought his nine- and 15-year-old sons to see donkeys race for the very first time in their lives. Slayter, who travelled from Kingston for the...
Retired Sergeant Peter Xavier Williams, who assisted in hoisting the Jamaican flag on August 5, 1962, an hour before midnight, signalling Jamaica’s political Independence, says it was a privilege to play a role in the joyous and historic occasion....
JAMAICA’S FORESTRY Department is eyeing the use of high-tech devices, such as the Huawei Technologies and Rainforest Connection-developed ‘The Guardian’, to assist with monitoring and preserving the island’s forest reserves. The Guardian is an...
School administrators have expressed confidence that the national school Nutrition Policy will be effective in reducing the high rates of non-communicable diseases, such as childhood obesity, once implemented. Key stakeholders, including canteen...
Residents across several St Catherine communities have welcomed the announcement byPrime Minister Andrew Holness that measures are now in place to rid the streets of noisy bikers who have been proving a nuisance to persons in their communities,...
Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) President Michael Ricketts; Vice-President Raymond Anderson, directors, and other JFF staff members pledged support during a visit to the grieving family of 18-year-old Jedine Carr, a female football player who was...
Cultural music blaring from speakers within the Kingston Craft Market near the waterfront has done little to pique the interest of residents, tourists or passers-by to drop by and make purchases. With the nation celebrating its 60th year of...
Alicia Adamson was on Friday crowned the 2022-2023 Nurse of the Year during the annual Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) and LASCO Chin Foundation awards ceremony. Adamson, who has served as a midwife for nine years and also as a registered nurse...
The Reverend Joan Williamson recalls sitting on a wall near the Victoria Jubilee Hospital while growing up in downtown Kingston, daydreaming that someone passing by would notice her impoverished reality and need for help. “There were days which I...
Although the residents of Pondside in Yallahs, St Thomas, have grown accustomed to years of intermittent water supply, the now empty taps that they have been having for the last three months have caused them to become restive and enraged. Shirley...
Despite being birthed on the soil of the Cayman Islands, the rich Jamaican blood and enthusiastic, innovative spirit runs deep in the veins of Tricia Williamson, chief executive officer of Bambusa. Williamson, who came to live in Jamaica at the age...
FOLLOWING A four-hour meeting on Tuesday between the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) and the National Workers Union (NWU) to discuss the subpar working conditions of sanitation workers, the 72-hour strike notice issued on Monday...
For the past four years, Moni’s Voice has been utilising crocheted artwork to promote domestic violence awareness and to assist those who have courageously left an abusive spouse or family member in efforts of rediscovering their own voice. Loi-...
For Dana Baugh, founder of BAUGHaus Design Studios, being Jamaican is nothing short of a blessing. “[It] is everything. I mean how much of a blessing is it to be born in Jamaica ... on an island like Jamaica [and] to grow up with the types of...
Sanitation staff are accusing the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) of depriving them of overtime salaries while they work in poor conditions and with inadequate equipment for the past seven months. “Dem deal wid we like the...
