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...
As he toured the site for the new Morant Bay Urban Centre on Thursday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared that it was time for St Thomas to shed its status as the ‘forgotten parish’ and move from its history of rebellion to revolution. Noting...
Jamaicans have been cautioned to exercise extreme care in sending their children overseas to parents and guardians amid growing concerns over transnational custody battles. The trend of children being retained without parental consent is gravest...
A testimonial from Lashawnda Bailey Miller was strong enough to raise patrons’ hopes for a successful eighth staging of the annual Christmas in July trade show on Tuesday. Functioning as normal during the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic was no...
Deputy Minister for Investor Outreach in Saudi Arabia Badr Al Badr says investors from his country are ready to invest in Jamaica. Badr, who spoke at a business luncheon on Friday at the Port Royal Cruise Ship Pier, was accompanied by an 80-member...
Romey-Ann Hibbert, a midwife and nurse assigned to Noel Holmes Hospital in Hanover and a member of the executive of the Nurses Association of Jamaica, said she has witnessed lives change during the height of the pandemic when uncertainty persisted...
For Claudia Reid’s son, standing up for what is right is nothing new. So she was unsurprised to learn of his decision to separate a Tivoli Gardens High schoolteacher and a 16-year-old boy student involved in the June 6 classroom brawl that could...
A Manchester family is in grief after a 15-year-old boy was shot dead Saturday evening as he bravely came to the rescue of his mother during an attack by robbers. Vesteroy Sinclair instinctively reacted to screams from his mother, Paulette Ingram,...
The coronavirus pandemic and its implications on the educational system are without a doubt one of the key areas that have demonstrated that more work needs to be done to implement more information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the...
The Government is in discussions with four overseas entities for a partnership deal engaging local nurses and doctors on three-month ‘flexi-contracts’ in the United States to stem the tide of migration. Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher...
A mental health and wellness campaign is being hailed for restoring a sense of calm among students at the Clan Carthy High School in Kingston after almost daily fights characterised their readjustment in a return to classroom in March after two...
A tampon shortage believed to have been triggered by global supply chain issues compounded by rising fuel costs, problems sourcing raw materials, and labour shortages has been causing distress for many Jamaican women trying to find their preferred...
The secret to her long life and good health, reveals Eliza Ann Kennedy Young, is her devotion to God and the ability to discern when it was time to quit her strenuous job to follow Christ wholeheartedly. Young retired from her job at a poultry-...
The fresh tyre skid marks along Valdez Road, off Old Harbour Road in St Catherine, is proof of speeding motorists through the community. This has caused disgruntled residents to erect blockades on either side of the roadway to force undisciplined...
Twelve years after the closure of a blood donation centre at the Spanish Town Hospital (STH), a new unit was reopened on Tuesday. The reopening of the facility is expected to alleviate the inconvenience usually suffered by blood donors, who were...
Still on edge a week after the ear-splitting sounds of gunfire in a deadly daylight attack shattered the peace in Spanish Town last Tuesday, even the sound of a motorbike driving by is enough to strike fear into traumatised people in the Old...
