There is seething discontent among rank-and-file police personnel about the lack of specialised training in interfacing with the mentally ill. Recent violent confrontations involving mentally ill persons have seen two assailants killed by the...
A series of armed robberies in a Ewarton community in St Catherine has left one resident fearing for her life and that of her daughter’s. The Price Lane resident recalled the horrifying evening when four masked perpetrators invaded what she used...
While not yet out of the woods, residents of Unity and Fern Hill in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew, have been breathing a sigh of relief as they now have access to a more regular supply of water flowing through their pipes. The waterflow, which is...
As the dreaded sound of gunfire sent chills down the spine of Cary Ambersley-Salmon, her 12-year-old daughter alerted her to the sound of her younger sister apparently vomiting. But they faced their worst fears when they realised that five-year-old...
The family of an eighth-grade student at Tacky High has accused school authorities of barring her from attending online classes because she has no uniform. Teachers in most schools require the camera feature to be turned on during lessons and have...
AN AUTISTIC child born to an 11-year-old mother has years later proven to be a blessing despite the traumatic conception. Cassandra Terrelonge, 30, who was seduced and raped by a 19-year-old boy, has battled with self-acceptance and the reality of...
Unsuccessful in his efforts to land a job, 23-year-old Kadeen Christie spends his days sketching portraits of popular Jamaican personalities, engaging a skill he has been nurturing since he was four years old. Living in the poverty-stricken...
“I am pained.” Those words capture the magnitude of the test the Rev Karl Johnson faces as he assumed the pastorate of the historic Phillippo Baptist Church in Spanish Town, the former Jamaican capital that is seized with mob crime and endemic...
A number of teachers have been finding it taxing to deliver online lessons while fulfilling other duties and manage their personal lives as they find themselves, like parents and students, wishing for a return to the classroom. It has been tough...
The Chinese Garden gifted to Jamaica on its 50th year of Independence in 2012 and commemorating the island’s then 40-year anniversary of diplomatic relationship with the People’s Republic of China has been ravaged by tropical storms Grace and Ida...
Every day after Deron Daley leaves a blank canvas on Jamaica’s streets, pedestrians and motorists dump volumes of garbage for him to clean up after them. But that’s not the biggest concern weighing on the mind of the street-sweeper. It’s the future...
Monday’s start to the new academic year has resurrected a new sense of dread for Sandrine Bailey. Unemployed and blind, Bailey says her two teenage children are glum about their prospects as they have no laptops or tablets to log on to Internet...
The stillness of the night air on Olympic Way is a time warp for Kervin Rose, whose jerk pan was once a crackling cauldron of flavour, wooing palates from near and far. But nightlife on a road that traditionally hummed with activity has been halted...
Fire victims of Oxford Street are urging Kingston Western Member of Parliament Desmond McKenzie to follow through on commitments they said he made in the wake of a midsummer tragedy. The residents, whose homes were consumed in an inferno around 4 p...
On Friday when employees were released from work early to give them the opportunity to stock up on food supplies before the mandatory three-day lockdown, many of them instead rushed to bookstores to acquire items that are on their children’s...
Residents of sections of Waterhouse in St Andrew Western battled hunger while others made quick dashes to corner shops with an eye out for patrolling soldiers during the last three-day lockdown, which ended on Tuesday. When The Gleaner visited the...
“I never thought that I would be able to go to university because of the pandemic,” said an excited Nastassia Singh as she accepted a scholarship yesterday to attend medical school at The University of the West Indies, Mona. The St Andrew High...
It was after listening to former government minister K.D. Knight sharing the story of his wife Dr Pauline Knight’s death over a week ago to COVID-19 on Radio Jamaica’s ‘Hotline’ that Neil Newell had a change of heart, deciding to take become...
Inflamed by years-long stagnation in salaries and inertia in negotiations, more than 40 contracted drivers of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) staged an islandwide sickout and protest on Thursday to press for better remuneration. The entrance to the...
Despite having had to resort to using shovels to channel floodwaters on to the road and away from their homes, some residents of Unions Estate in St Catherine are fearful that they could still experience disaster if the National Housing Trust (NHT...
The rising number of COVID-19 cases and the corresponding increase in mortalities have reawakened the anxiety of mortuary attendants, who are concerned for their own safety, says the director of patient affairs at the University Hospital of the...
The Corporate Area-based Hope Zoo, which had been teetering on the brink of closure as COVID-19 ravaged its revenue streams, has been given a lifeline to help sustain its operations, including more than 1,100 animals, by Lifespan. Lifespan CEO...
Church leaders yesterday stood in solidarity with the Ministry of Health and Wellness in encouraging Jamaicans to take up COVID-19 jabs as the island battles a third wave of the pandemic with confirmation of the worrying Delta variant in the island...
Odaine Latchman still shudders as he replays in his mind how a more than 40-year-old fruit tree snapped, smashing the roof and bulldozing his zinc and board home early Wednesday morning. The collapsed walls of the six-bedroom home at 95 Mark Lane...
Had Tropical Storms Fred or Grace taken aim at Jamaica, it appears that the country would have been unprepared for its onslaught as some of the island’s drains – for which multimillion-dollar cleaning programmes have been announced in recent months...
