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...
More than seven households located along the Rocky Hill Road in the Gibraltar Housing Scheme, St Mary, have complained about persistent low voltage for more than a month. The residents lamented about spending most days in darkness. They claimed...
Residents of Third Street in Trench Town are experiencing a heightened level of anxiety as mere hours after a shootout claimed the life of Corporal Oliver Mullings and 26-year-old Shemar Fletcher, a second fatal incident occurred, taking the life...
The Rollington Town Health Centre in Kingston on Friday became the 39th facility to be adopted under the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ Adopt-a-Clinic Programme. The 43-year-old type-two health centre will benefit from an injection of more than...
REGIONAL DIRECTOR of the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA), Errol Greene, says the main issue facing the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) is the high number of outdated medical equipment that medical personnel have to rely on the...
The Equality For All Foundation Jamaica (EFAF) is reporting that more organisations are becoming more tolerant of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) employees. After an explorative case study on the employment of LGBTQ+ people...
As she gazed into the distance at the home in which Michael ‘Mikey’ Graham once lived, Shantal Thomas was at a loss as to how she would carry on in caring for her three children, two of whom were fathered by him. Speaking with The Gleaner on Friday...
Joshua Mattis believes that the sport of skateboarding has saved his life, offering him an avenue to break free from his abusive past and set him on a course for a brighter future. “It changed my life a lot because if it wasn’t for it, me woulda...
Attorney-at-law Matthew Royal believes that the Broadcasting Commission’s move to impose an immediate ban on the playing of music glorifying lottery fraud, the use of illegal substances and illegal firearms raises a number of potential...
As part of yesterday’s commemoration of World Mental Health Day, the Convent of Mercy (Alpha) in Kingston received a symbolic wellness bench, representing a safe place for students of the all-girls institution to unburden themselves from the...
