Angella Nichol’s diagnosis with kidney disease 20 years ago came as a shock, but after two decades of dialysis treatment which is critical to keeping her alive, she has penned a book hoping to offer hope and encouragement to others. I See God, a...
The University of the West Indies (UWI) has established a subcommittee to examine the forces outside of its control, which sometimes affect its balance sheet. Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles said rising government debt, impairments and...
Seven-month-old twins Kaile and Kaila Mason have spent much of their short lives apart. When she was just a day old, Kaile was whisked away from the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in downtown Kingston to the nearby Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC...
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) will be formulating a policy to allow for continued assessment and flexibility in the administration of its examinations. That declaration was made as the organisation yielded to pressure from Jamaica and...
“I shop for food far less. I can’t buy fruits for my kids, and that hurts. My kids are hungry most of the time … ; can’t afford gas and electricity bills. Sometimes we sleep in darkness. First in my life I have to be living like this.” That was the...
Some 1,056 of the 2,373 early childhood institutions (ECIs) across Jamaica are in need of substantial support from stakeholders to be certified, having earned below 50 per cent in their most recent inspections. The infant schools and departments,...
Preliminary reviews by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) have shown that all Jamaican sites being monitored for the air pollutant, PM2.5, have exceeded the World Health Organization’s (WHO) limit of 5 micrograms per cubic metre (...
Imaging and Intervention Associates has donated $500,000 to RISE (Reaching Individuals through Skills and Education) Life Management Services, towards its after-school programme. The initiative, dubbed ‘Personal Development and Educational...
Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, state minister in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, is hopeful that vaccination take-up across Jamaica will increase in the coming weeks, following the confirmation of another COVID-19 variant in the island this week. “I...
Hear The Children’s Cry convenor Betty Anne Blaine is calling for a cultural campaign on how to listen and speak to children. Blaine explained that children have a right to a voice, but culturally, they are socialised to be seen and not heard. That...
Gift and fruit baskets, centrepieces, and bottomless flowerpots are just a few of the items 65-year-old Cynthia Cooke makes from wicker, which is a pliable twig. “To see my handiwork when I’m finished and to hear somebody say, ‘A you do it?’ I...
Seven years after ditching life in the Corporate Area for farming in Three Hills, St Mary, Conzley Clarke and Federick Samuels have no regrets. That sense of satisfaction was evident as the two farmers weighed and sold a wide range of produce to...
A belief in self-reliance has kept Hector Whyte ploughing, sowing, and reaping for the past 35 years. The farmer, who had a variety of produce on sale at Monday’s staging of the St Mary Agri-Expo, told The Gleaner that he has built on his father’s...
The Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) will be seeking to increase the speed of its trains that run from Kingston to Montego Bay once the track is restored. At the time the rail service was discontinued in 1992, trains chugged away at 30 miles per...
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Mona School of Business and Management, Dr David McBean, has recommended that a portion of the National Housing Trust’s funds be reallocated to the education sector. He reasoned that increased resources should also be...
An imminent transatlantic knowledge-sharing agreement will lay the design groundwork for the revival of the railroad from downtown Kingston to Three Miles, which could soon be woven into the fabric of everyday life for a modern commute to work,...
After years of battling eviction threats and desperately seeking a new home, the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA) is gearing up to engage in “creative accounting” and to “beg, borrow, and plead” as it prepares to...
A neighbour’s deteriorating eyesight was the genesis of Georgia Crawford Williams’ creation, LifeSavers Wipes, which recently won the top prize in global innovations at the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). Her mother had taken the...
Local importers are calling on the agriculture ministry to increase transparency in the importation of chicken back and chicken neck. CJ’s Export, Import and Manufacturing Company Limited, a Westmoreland-based family business, has not sold chicken...
Schools across Jamaica have been directed to utilise metal detectors daily, as part of measures to improve the safety of students and staff. This directive from the minister of education, Fayval Williams, follows Monday’s fatal stabbing of Khamal...
National Mathematics Coordinator Dr Tamika Benjamin has asserted that to break the cycle of poor performance in mathematics, the subject must be tackled at all levels of the education sector. The pass rate of Jamaican students in mathematics at...
Production of medical grade oxygen at Industrial Gases Limited (IGL) will be increased by 40 per cent with the commissioning of an oxygen PSA plant. IGL, Jamaica’s lone supplier of medical oxygen, currently produces 13 tonnes of the product daily...
Hinting at a rise in fees, The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) St Augustine Campus will be revitalising its funding model to significantly reduce its dependence on government subvention. Professor Brian Copeland, pro-vice-chancellor and...
A fit, 50-year-old Richard Brown was the first participant to cross the finish line in the corporate ‘team bubble’ run at Sunday’s 24th staging of the Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run, the biggest road race in Jamaica since the coronavirus outbreak of...
The Ministry of Education has agreed to put on hold student transfers for the twinning of high schools, an initiative geared at the sharing of best practices to improve learning outcomes. Acting Chief Education Officer Dr Kasan Troupe said that...