Jamaican children shielded in restrictive home environments from the coronavirus pandemic may be vulnerable to early-onset mental-health disorders, says Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughan. The displacement in school and family since Jamaica recorded...
THE GOVERNMENT is to announce the final decision on the sitting of the 2020 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) by next Monday. In a virtual meeting held by the Overseas...
MAXINE REYES grew up in the community of Marley Hill in South Manchester with her great-grandmother. She has fond memories of climbing mango trees and walking to school barefooted but this little girl never imagined that she would one day serve in...
The Jamaican Government is still mulling over its options in the face of insistence by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) that it will press ahead with external exams in July despite resistance by several regional states. Cabinet has not yet...
THE UNIVERSITY Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) has been finding ways to cope amid the COVID-19 crisis. In an interview on Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer Kevin Allen told The Gleaner that they have been using added technology to support their...
PRINTERS, LAPTOPS, projectors and monitors valued at $1.5 million were donated to the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) by the Universal Service Fund (USF) on Tuesday. The handover of equipment is part of a $50-million grant...
FOOD BILLS across Jamaica’s 50 children’s homes and places of safety have increased since schools shuttered on March 13 amid the local spread of COVID-19, forcing wards to be home full time. The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA)...
Preliminary reports of child abuse to the National Children’s Registry in March fell by approximately 28 per cent compared to the previous month, signalling to welfare authorities that hundreds of children might be at greater risk of exploitation...
When Rolando Nooks’ father passed away three years ago, his sister was unable to travel for the funeral and made one request of him. Using his mobile phone, the Jamaican streamed the service live for his sibling to view. “I was leaning into this...
It was a double whammy of inconvenience for Sharon Carter, a vendor in Metcalfe Market, Annotto Bay. Carter, who lives in St Catherine, had just recently been relieved of the lockdown in the parish and is now being affected by the quarantine which...
Sandra Ferguson resides with her children and grandchildren in a concrete dwelling that is sectioned into four living quarters in the Fort George Road area of Annotto Bay. With 10 of them sharing kitchen and bathroom facilities, Ferguson said...
It has been more than a decade since two days of torrential rainfall sank the road connecting Aleppo Heights and Cromwell Land in St Mary. The road was fully rehabilitated by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund in partnership with the Aleppo...
Port Maria Mayor Richard Creary has urged the Government to quarantine two St Mary communities that recorded a total of six new COVID-19 cases on Sunday. Creary was particularly concerned that those who tested positive were reportedly asymptomatic...
Sixty-year-old Fitzroy James was a picture of contentment as he sat in a minibus, selling 3,000 pounds of yam, Irish potato, cabbage, and other produce in Barbican, St Andrew, yesterday. He was one of several farmers gathered at a mid-morning...
“Spanish Influenza is still raging through this town. The hospital is very much over-crowded,” read an excerpt from an October 18 Gleaner newspaper. The year was 1918 and Amos Foster was 25 years old, and on the cusp of beginning his medical...
AMID THE outbreak of the novel coronavirus, Allana Campbell’s family relocated from St Catherine to Stewart Town in Portland. When The Gleaner visited the family’s abode, the 14-year-old was seen perched atop a scaffolding on an unfinished...
Though miles away from home, 16-year-old Jaiden Weir-Jackson is extending her charity to Jamaicans as the Government seeks to flatten the COVID-19 curve. In the coming weeks, reusable cloth face masks that are fitted with charcoal filters will be...
COVID-19 has unravelled the thread of worship and social cohesion that bind Jamaica’s 6,000 Muslims, but adherents have, like other people of faith, adapted rituals to cope with the new norm of distancing. This reality has become more apparent in...
Chiceta Dacres Brown of Mount Friendship in St Andrew has been sewing reusable face masks to act as a layer of protection against the COVID-19 respiratory disease as the country continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Dacres Brown, a designer...
Picking out their own produce at the market was part of their shopping ritual Calvin Renford and his wife relished, but with the onset of COVID-19 locally, the couple has to now explore new means of grocery shopping. They reside in Breastworks,...
The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) has received more than 30 reports of price-gouging since a law prohibiting exploitative costing took effect on March 31. Price-gouging occurs when a seller increases the prices of goods, services, or...
A Jamaican who resides in the United States has launched a food-delivery platform for Caribbean restaurants in an effort to cushion the harsh impact of COVID-19 on business operations. The US has become the epicentre of the virus over the last...
A team at Mona-Tech Engineering Services has embarked on a mission to repair ventilators and biomedical equipment in the island’s public health sector free of charge as the island tackles the coronavirus pandemic. The deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, which...
Operations were delayed yesterday as the Central Sorting Office (CSO), the headquarters of Jamaica’s postal service, underwent emergency sanitisation amid the threat of coronavirus contagion from the commingling of staff at a call centre sited...
Thousands of healthcare workers across the island’s four regional health authorities are working daily to help treat, trace, and detect cases of the deadly coronavirus across the island. Since Jamaica recorded the first case of the virus that...
