British slave owners in Jamaica have been condemned for imposing a system of labour that worked Africans to an early death, stifling by 93 per cent the projected population growth eight years shy of Emancipation. That genocidal model, according to...
Late professor and ambasssador Richard Bernal was praised Saturday as a colossus of diplomacy and a patriot who made far-reaching contributions to critical national-development institutions. Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, who worked closely...
The often fractious House of Representatives found common ground over concerns about Public Investment Management System (PIMS) oversight of capital projects during Thursday’s deliberations of the Standing Finance Committee when it met to debate...
Several hurdles will have to be overcome before Jamaica can receive the first barrel of oil under a reported oil deal between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, which was brokered by the United States and under which the island stands to benefit,...
More than a decade after it was recommended as part of a strategic review, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has confirmed that there will be a uniform change for all police personnel by the end of the financial year. Among the changes will be...
Japhene Campbell’s face was raw with grief and her tears ran down her cheeks moments after Justice Leighton Pusey sentenced Alten Brooks to one year and seven months in prison on manslaughter charges following the 2019 accident which claimed the...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) imposed a 20-day ultimatum on the Jamaican Government after it failed to respond to the body’s request for information about precautionary measures taken to prevent health and other dangers...
With just over three weeks before it comes into effect, some details of the policy proposal that Jamaican men employed to the public sector who become fathers will be entitled to a month’s paternity leave are still missing. The measure comes 43...
Consultant anaesthesiologist Dr Suzanne McDonald’s eyes welled with tears not once, but twice last week as she talked about a patient who she fought hard to save - but failed, and another for whom she could do nothing but sit with him until he...
When Brazil’s samba orchestra takes centre stage today at the Qatar World Cup, Jamaicans will join millions of football-crazy fans in supporting a team whose prowess and artistry have defined the beautiful game. The South Americans, who have...
Training institutions offering degree programmes for nursing in the Caribbean have not applied for accreditation from the regional accrediting body – Caribbean Accreditation Authority for Education and other Health Professional (CAAM-HP) the...
Massive and unexplained increases to paying customers for electricity usage and charge in August and September have many Jamaicans furious at light and power company Jamaica Public Service (JPS). The outrage has been expressed on social media, talk...
Stakeholders in the allied health service industry are urging Jamaicans to capitalise on thousands of practical nursing jobs available in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom – countries with large expatriate populations from the...
Having studied cooking while enrolled at Vauxhall High School in east Kingston, Rudolph Brown might well have become a chef. “Yes, man, I love the kitchen to this day,” Brown, a veteran Gleaner photographer, said in an interview days before the...
Ian Allen does not look a day older than the 37 years he has spent at The Gleaner Company, beginning as a photography clerk filing negatives in the library, before processing them in the era of black and white and later into a world of colour...
Professor Fritz Pinnock, who is battling criminal charges, resigned two months ago as president of the government-owned Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), but there has been no disclosure of whether there was a financial settlement. The...
The owners of a disputed 867-acre property in Little Bay and Brighton, Westmoreland, intend to press ahead with demolition plans in a bid to clear the land of squatters despite a protest that thwarted a planned exercise last week. Kathleen Eugster...
Five years after he promised to end the culture of privacy about the health status of elected representatives by releasing his own health records, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has not honoured the commitment he made as opposition leader. Neither...
Some of the children of late former Prime Minister and People’s National Party (PNP) President Michael Norman Manley are fuming over what they said was no consultation with them about the plan to use his image and that of former Prime Minister and...
Education Minister Fayval Williams will meet the board of Jamaica College (JC) shortly following its rejection of the Doran Dixon-chaired Governance Committee of the National Council on Education (NCE) directive that Old Boys’ Association (OBA)...
Former People’s National Party (PNP) chairman Phillip Paulwell believes the Opposition will suffer consequences for its decision not to support the Government’s bid last November to extend states of emergency (SOEs) in seven police divisions...
The Code of Regulations, which adjudicates on all aspects of the education system in Jamaica, is in need of urgent legislative surgery, according to the Professor Orlando Patterson-led committee in its report to the Government. Without immediate...
WIDESPREAD SUPPORT for concept and ideals aside, the Government’s ‘mandatory’ seven-year secondary-school programme has put it on a collision course with stakeholders in the sector, with many already suggesting that a sixth-form pandemic has been...
Following The Blueprint Ministry’s (FTM) aficionado Andre Buchanan has hit out against the leadership of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church in Jamaica, accusing the body of cosying up with the Pope – the head of the Roman Catholic Church – and...
Former Carmax used-car salesman Ian Lyn Muhammad has expressed shock and sadness that he is still flagged by the International Police (Interpol) as being wanted by Jamaican law-enforcement authorities. Lyn Muhammad said that the designation has its...
