Director of the Meteorological Service of Jamaica, Evan Thompson, has said there are no instruments locally to record lightning activity but from anecdotal evidence, there has been more lightning in recent weeks. “Climate change suggests that we...
Coordinator of the Jamaican Language Unit at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Joseph Farquharson, has asserted that there is still a stigma attached to Patois, otherwise called Jamaican creole, because it was born out of the island’s...
The Translators and Interpreters' Association of Jamaica will today launch a translation competition, paying homage to cultural icon Louise Bennett-Coverley. The decision was made to include Patois against the background of the United Nations...
The Ministry of Health and Wellness has halted the importation of a common heartburn medication, Ranitidine, with immediate effect. The move followed a report from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other international bodies...
Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown has made a plea for more resources to be given to the office she has held since November 2015. “I have a communications adviser, she is a volunteer given to me by a foreign country [for six months]. That...
Orette Fisher, electoral consultant and former director of elections, last week pitched a solution to the problem of flags and other paraphernalia which remain in constituencies after an election period. Sharing that he has observed elections in a...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has noted that the island’s infrastructure has become obsolete and is not able to withstand current weather events. “Jamaica is now experiencing longer and more intense periods of drought, followed by shorter and...
Fontana Pharmacy handed over a framed storyboard about cultural icon Louise Bennett-Coverley to the Jamaica Library Service (JLS) on Tuesday. The ceremony, which was held at the JLS’s Tom Redcam Drive headquarters, formed part of the 100 days of...
Jamaicans needing diagnostic services will have other options besides public-health facilities come October. The Ministry of Health and Wellness has forged a partnership with 10 private radiology and diagnostic service providers across the island...
Young leaders have called for wider public education about the Office of the Political Ombudsman, which was established in 2002. The 19 young leaders met with Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown last Friday in a forum commemorating the 14th...
It’s largely a guessing game when the more than 25,000 blind Jamaicans pick up a local bank note. While there are distinguishing marks at the edge of each banknote which can be felt to reveal what denomination it is, several bills in circulation...
At six years old, she was enrolled in a Kingston-based primary school, knowing only about five consonants and a couple vowels. She wasn’t able to sound out any words and she had a few sight words but not enough to be able to read a sentence. The...
Learning Innovations for Autism Management (LIAM) is on target to create an inclusive educational system that supports children with autism. Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that prevents people from understanding what they see, hear...
The name Father Richard Ho Lung has become synonymous with the poor in Jamaica. Today, he celebrates his 80th birthday and he desires for Jamaicans to become more charitable towards the poor. Forty years ago, he founded the Missionaries of the...
Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith has revealed that 48 Jamaicans have sought the ministry’s assistance in locating relatives in the Hurricane Dorian-hit Bahamas. Already, some of them have been located. “Efforts to locate others are...
It was euphoria and high energy for the Big 185! After its first publication on September 13, 1834, The Gleaner showed no signs of slowing down yesterday morning and kicked off the festivities with a grand road march in downtown Kingston. Led by...
The spirit of collaboration was in the air yesterday as Pembroke Hall, Ardenne, and Haile Selassie high schools merged for a musical and drama piece while Vaz Preparatory and Holy Family Primary performed an incorporated dance routine at the launch...
As Jamaica breathes a sigh of relief that none of its nationals have been reported dead so far, one of the most devastating stories has emerged out of The Bahamas. For 18-year-old Zachary Bain, the onslaught of Hurricane Dorian will be etched in...
Children of Jamaica Outreach Inc (COJO), a New York-based Jamaican charity, awarded just over US$40,000 in scholarships to 10 wards of the State yesterday. The awardees were nominated by children’s officers from the various parishes and selected...
Thirty-five current and former employees of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group were yesterday toasted for their sterling years of service to the multimedia organisation. The function, held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, was the first combined long-...
As relief efforts continue in hurricane-ravaged Bahamas, Faith Cathedral Deliverance Centre on Waltham Park Road in St Andrew has initiated a drive that it hopes will expand to a national scale. Bishop Herro Blair said that during their church...
He left Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland for a visit to The Bahamas in 1990, but his stay was made permanent, having met his now wife there. Richard Little never imagined that the Queen’s Cove, Grand Bahama, home he shared with his wife and three...
Sixty-two students were presented with scholarships from the Portia Simpson Miller Foundation on Thursday. At the annual scholarship ceremony, held at the Spanish Court Hotel, former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said the scholarships,...
At least 70 public education institutions and three communities have benefited from a climate-change partnership forged between the governments of Japan and Jamaica. Jamaica is among the eight participating Caribbean countries in the Japan-...
The Jamaican Government yesterday expressed sympathy and pledged support to the people of The Bahamas following the passage of the fierce Hurricane Dorian, which pummelled the island on Monday and Sunday. Dorian, which slammed into the islands as...
