Lloyd Barrett admits that prior to suffering the debilitating stroke which changed his life more than a decade ago, there were some warning signs which he did not recognise, and so he ignored them. He admits to being always hypertensive and...
Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) President Lenworth Fulton will not be seeking a return to office when the 126-year-old organisation hosts its long-overdue election of officers. He made the disclosure during a Gleaner interview on Wednesday,...
Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has committed to undertaking a robust public awareness campaign aimed at reducing the stigma surrounding mental health issues. Tufton said the campaign would also target the widespread negative...
After delivering the keynote address at the annual patients’ banquet at the Bellevue Hospital in Kingston, one of the patients asked Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton whether there was any law to mandate that his relatives take him...
Minister with responsibility for Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw has signalled his intention to press the Government to do more to take the fight to thieves who prey on farmers. At Thursday’s keynote address to the official commissioning...
It is beginning to look a lot more like Christmas at the Greenwich Town Fishing Village in downtown Kingston than it did last year. Park tables and benches have been installed and a gazebo is under construction within the small green space, which...
Some 390 farmers in Little Park, St Elizabeth, are now benefiting from a reduction in the cost of irrigation water, thanks to an upgrade to the National Irrigation Commission’s (NIC) pump station in the area. The station has been retrofitted with a...
There is uncertainty as to who will succeed businessman and attorney-at-law Howard Mitchell as chairman of the National Health Fund (NHF) after he demitted office yesterday. In confirming his break with the organisation after a one-year tenure,...
Governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), Richard Byles, has described inflation as the worst enemy of Jamaican businesses and declared the bank’s commitment to wage a vigorous fight against it. His comments came while making his first report to a...
The 1,000-acre Minard Estate in Brown’s Town, St Ann, is up for divestment because of high operational costs and diminished income generation. The estate is operated under the auspices of Agro-Invest Corporation (AIC), a business-facilitation unit...
Consumers could be paying more for table eggs for Christmas as the Jamaica Egg Farmers Association (JEFA) has recommended that its members increase their farm gate prices from $350 to $380 per dozen for loose eggs and to sell branded eggs at $410...
Social-media platforms are emerging as a new frontier for female sex workers amid curfews and gathering restrictions implemented to curb the coronavirus outbreak. Dr Alisha Robb-Allen, acting senior medical officer of the HIV/STI/TB Unit - Health...
“There is no question that Jamaica has to become a republic.” That definitive declaration was made by Prime Minister Andrew yesterday, while delivering the keynote address during the official opening ceremony at Christel House Jamaica in Twickenham...
Motorists can now pay outstanding traffic tickets without attending court by accessing a new online service being offered by TaxO Express, which will research and find long outstanding tickets and tabulate the respective charges, for a fee of...
Department of Correctional Services data are showing that more criminals incarcerated in Jamaica’s adult penal institutions are getting their hands on cellular phones and other electronic communication devices, despite legislation which makes this...
“Public distraction” – according to Prime Minister Andrew Holness – over the high-end Ruthven Towers apartment complex in New Kingston has forced the Government to put on hold a planned Phase Two of the National Housing Trust (NHT) development....
Veteran attorney-at-law Nancy Anderson has been lauded in death for her fierce advocacy for human-rights causes, especially for the vulnerable who languished on the margins of society. Anderson, an American migrant, was a leading voice for the...
UNAIDS Country Director for Jamaica Manoela Manova is recommending condom distribution in prisons as an effective tool to help reduce the HIV transmission rate in local penal institutions. Noting that such a strategy has been shown to be beneficial...
While there is no HIV hotspot in the country as the sexually transmitted infection is present in communities across the island, the heath ministry has said that, because of the population density in town centres, new cases are most likely to pop up...
Lamenting that the fight to end HIV/AIDS is only thrust into the spotlight once a year as the globe celebrates World AIDS Day on December 1, activist Joan Stephens is calling for an all-hands-on-deck, yearlong campaign to drive down transmission...
Veteran livestock geneticist Jasmine Holness has called for stringent monitoring and evaluation systems to be put in place, supported by accurate record-keeping, to enable the recently launched National Livestock Genetic Improvement Programme is to...
Jamaica is now on a “knife-edge”, according to Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson, following a legislative deadlock in the House of Representatives late last night, effectively putting a halt to the seven-police division states of emergency (SOEs...
Member of Parliament for St Catherine Eastern, Denise Daley, on Tuesday made an impassioned plea for Spanish Town, the capital of St Catherine, to be restored to some semblance of the grandeur it enjoyed during its reign as the capital of Spanish...
Dr Peter Phillips on Tuesday called for an overhaul of Jamaica’s parliamentary system to move it away from the current dispensation of being a welfare channel for members of parliament to instead promote social and economic policies for the benefit...
Dr Peter Phillips on Tuesday called for an overhaul of Jamaica’s parliamentary system to move it away from the current dispensation of being a welfare channel for members of parliament to instead promote social and economic policies for the benefit...
