The ongoing failure of successive administrations to take decisive action has been cited as the main reason for the growing scourge of informal settlements across the country, but is one the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government is prepared to...
The performance of educators in the classroom is to come under greater scrutiny from the Ministry of Education in its ongoing drive to improve outcomes and efficiency. Education Minister Fayval Williams has accused administrators and teachers of...
Tuesday’s official signing of an agreement for the establishment of the National Baking Company Foundation STEM Enhancement Scholarship Fund will be a major game-changer in developing a cadre of quality educators in science, technology, engineering...
By the time Dawn and Jermaine Wilks received a telephone call at 4 o’clock Monday morning that fire had destroyed the meat mart they operated in Oxford Market in downtown Kingston, the source of their livelihood had already been turned into glowing...
Following the death of Daniel Palmer, 77, at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) on December 4, 2020, his daughters have been unable to get clearance to bury him, because of what they claim is the disregard being shown to them by the...
A simple plan, pegged to more than $200 million worth of investment in infrastructure, human resources, goods and services over the past 20 years, is the success formula behind telecommunications giant Digicel. Board chairman of Digicel Jamaica,...
Lawmakers yesterday sought to reshape the Sexual Harassment Prevention Bill to include new definitions for working relationships in light of the changing nature of workplaces in modern times. An idea to also extend protection beyond tenant-landlord...
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie has dismissed speculation that the death of veteran broadcaster Michael Sharpe on Tuesday was linked to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine he received on Sunday, March 14. Speaking with the...
Technology Minister Daryl Vaz has challenged Jamaica’s telecommunications providers to keep step with new and emerging technological trends that will both serve our local space and transport the country to new horizons on the global stage. He said...
St Catherine North West Member of Parliament Hugh Graham will be pushing the parliamentary Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) to retable the censure motion against George Wright, the government MP who is at the centre of an assault saga that...
The mounds of solid waste and the burn marks along both sides of the section of the Sandy Gully bridge which separates the inner-city communities of Waterhouse and Drewsland in West Central St Andrew, bear testament to the manner in which residents...
The return of public health nurse Novelette Stennett to the Linstead Anglican Church at 2:23 on Tuesday afternoon with the much-anticipated vials of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine triggered excitement among the persons who had been waiting, some from...
COVID-19 vaccination operations at St Joseph’s Hospital in Kingston descended into confusion on Monday morning in stark contrast to the National Arena, where soldiers manned lines and maintained order. Waves of Jamaicans have turned out at...
Reeling from financial losses running into hundreds of thousands of dollars, Maureen ‘Angella’ McDermott was forced to dump rotting fish on Tuesday in the wake of the resurrection of the economy after the COVID-19 Easter weekend lockdown. McDermott...
Having taken a battering from bad weather in the form of strong breezes which since January had limited their trips out to sea, as well as wreaked havoc with their catches, fisherfolk at the Greenwich Farm Fishing Village in Kingston were preparing...
Fisherman Errol was in a foul mood when The Gleaner caught up with him at the Rae Town Fishing Village, downtown Kingston. One of his friends had made a commitment to a customer that she could get fish to buy and Errol was livid because his catch...
The health sector is in a worse situation than anyone can imagine, and three weekends of consecutive lockdowns will only make things worse, according to shadow minister on health, Dr Morais Guy. The weekend lockdowns, aimed at curbing the spread of...
As Jamaica prepares for the pilot phase of a digital delivery system to be rolled out in the imminent lockdowns, several food and pharmaceutical stakeholders have expressed reservation about its success. Others just don’t have a clue. The...
The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has blasted the Government for its failure to address “the most pressing issues affecting the Jamaican people” during the Budget Debate, which ended on Tuesday. It took particular issue with Finance...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness used the occasion of his COVID-19 inoculation at the Good Samaritan Inn on Monday to reiterate his support for the National Identification System (NIDS), insisting that the registration process would have been much...
The distribution of care packages to 30 families of students of the Elletson Primary and Infant School on Friday will make a big difference in their lives. However, there are another 20 families which the school identified as being in desperate...
COVID-19 had a hand in Thursday’s commemoration of Global Recycling Day by Recycling Partners of Jamaica Limited, as many members of the public took the Government’s ‘tan a you yaad’ mandate to heart and opted not to turn out for the collection...
As the local COVID-19 vaccination drive continues with a one-day record of 13 deaths and 821 additional cases on Tuesday, more Jamaicans are turning out to be immunised against the deadly virus which has claimed more than 2.6 million lives globally...
UNICEF’s Country Representative to Jamaica Mariko Kagoshima is urging Jamaicans to get vaccinated against COVID-19, in order to start repairing the damage to lives and livelihoods caused by the global pandemic. She offered some insight into the...
A flood of senior citizens who turned up for COVID-19 jabs without appointments at The Good Samaritan Inn in Kingston yesterday created a logistical headache for administrators seeking to vaccinate private healthcare workers. Admitting that they...
