The Reverend Jayson Downer, president and founder of Men of God Against Violence and Abuse, believes that while sociologists note that there has been a significant increase in presence in the home, fatherlessness remains a concern in Jamaican...
National Coordinator of Mentoring a Nation (MAN) Michael McAnuff-Jones has asserted that the strengthening of fathering in Jamaica requires the re-education of women. He said that mothers have been significant in downplaying the role of fathers...
Through its mobile learning and assessment unit, the HEART Trust/NTA has been providing on-the-spot assessment and certification of youth with various skills. Certification is offered in customer service, make-up artistry, bartending, painting,...
Yvonne Foster was the only woman among the almost 60 veterans represented at the National Memorial Service and Parade honouring military personnel who served in World Wars I and II. The 62-year-old, who never served in either World War, joined the...
Despite having a budget that is constantly short of $7 million, the Kingston Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) continues to be a haven for unattached young boys and those in need of special help. Throughout its existence, the association...
Change. That’s the message that inspires teenagers at Pembroke Hall High on a warm Monday afternoon, embracing a bigger mission than their frolicsome schoolmates fraternising on the compound after a long day of classes. Jahime Ashley is testament...
She smiled from ear to ear as she walked up to be presented with the Clarice May Gore scholarship. Shereece Bryan was one of the more than 60 students of The Mico University College who were recipients at the annual awards ceremony, held on...
Binil Sebastian recalls that her son, Vivek Attupuram, began counting when he was just one year old. That’s how she knew he would have a knack for numbers and problem-solving. “He used to ask some good questions – how things worked – and he was...
Darriane Taylor’s bareknuckled battle with depression has left him with scars that he now wears with pride as a badge of honour, and he believes that his life story will inspire others to be survivors. The Seventh-day Adventist recently graduated...
It might not be such a stretch to say St Patrick Grandison was destined to teach. Realising his calling, he began to wet his feet in the profession at 16 as a volunteer teaching mathematics and music at Port Maria Primary School in St Mary. He was...
Not wanting to disappoint her parents, Oneilia Bryan was on course for a career in the legal field when a question from a teacher jolted her to reality and made her switch paths. “Do you see yourself doing this for the rest of your life?” Bryan...
Lt Com Devon Foster was a picture of fulfilment as he spoke to The Gleaner aboard a vessel in the Kingston Harbour yesterday. Having migrated to the United States at the age of 13, he was happy to be home once again. This was no ordinary trip. Nor...
United Nations (UN) Day 2019 was celebrated globally last Wednesday. Jamaica’s celebration was themed #iAmtheSDGs, meaning, ‘I am the sustainable development goals (SDGs)’. The UN recognised the global challenges countries face and outlined 17...
Twenty-one-year-old Nastacia McFarlane is a product of the phrase ‘one and ready, two and drive’. Her mother has been in the taxi business for as long as she can remember – first as a taxi operator for a company and now as an entrepreneur, a...
Failure to pay over outstanding funds to University of Technology academic staff in a near-decade-long salary dispute triggered strike action at the Papine-based institution yesterday, but the administration has blamed the Government for being...
An expert has asserted that the failure to revolutionise the country’s education system to usher in new methods of teaching to make students crave information would be a betrayal of the nation’s children. Speaking at the inaugural Education...
When Carol Clarke got around the steering wheel of a Lada for her first driving lesson, the 20-something showed the diminutive Russian-made motor car that she had bigger beasts to conquer. Her spunk so impressed her driving instructor, a Mr Miller...
Michelle Scarlett became pregnant the summer after her grade nine year while she was attending Montego Bay High School in St James. She was only 14 years old and her father had thrown her out of the house. The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation...
For Bridgette Spence, her 10-year-old grandson, Derrick Palmer, is a changed person. She credits this change to the Friends of a Child Help Foundation, which has mentored him for the past four months. Spence was contacted by of the vice-principal...
The Confucius Institute at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, tasked to promote the learning of Mandarin, is banking on plans to expand its reach with a new, larger facility. The institute was the first to be opened in the Caribbean in...
Associate language professor at the University of Technology, Jamaica, Dr Rohan Lewis has asserted that Jamaica needs a larger corps of translators and interpreters. “One of the economic ministries is looking at the expansion of the tourism market...
Stung by widespread criticism of public remarks about the “Nicodemus in the night” arrests of former education minister Ruel Reid and Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President Fritz Pinnock, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has withdrawn what he...
Businesses along Riverton Boulevard on Spanish Town Road were flooded yesterday afternoon and operations halted. Christopher Nakash, chief executive officer of Nakash Construction, said the flooding began about 3:30 p.m. “The river can’t handle...
The Jamaican Language Unit at The University of the West Indies, Mona, is advocating for the use of Jamaican, otherwise called Patois, as the initial language of instruction at the early childhood level. The unit’s coordinator, Dr Joseph...
With a vision to pass on the love, the KaGra Foundation in South Florida has touched many lives over the last 17 years. It began after founder Derry-Ann Morgan lost her best friend, Kameisha Grant, in whose memory the foundation is named, as she...
