Published:Thursday | August 13, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Just three months ago, the small community of Padmore in west rural St Andrew was the scene of jubilation, as residents celebrated the success of the students who excelled in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) and were awarded places at prominent...
Published:Friday | August 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
If acting president of the National Water Commission (NWC), Mark Barnett, is true to his word, members of Greenwich Town community in south west St Andrew could soon be breathing easier.Barnett has promised that the NWC will be taking steps to...
Published:Friday | August 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Member of Parliament for west rural St Andrew, Paul Buchanan, is promising help for students of Padmore Primary who performed outstandingly in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) but whose parents are struggling to find the money to have them take...
Published:Friday | August 7, 2015 | 11:11 AMRyon Jones
With severe drought affecting the country, and most schools scheduled to begin the new academic year in less than a month, the Ministry of Education is bracing for a possible disruption of classes."It is possible, (but) we hope not," Education...
Published:Thursday | August 6, 2015 | 12:45 PMRyon Jones
Scarred by sexual abuse, sexually exposed or otherwise sexualised, some children are acting out these bad lessons in places of play and learning."One of the things I am seeing a lot of ... is children as young as three, four, five years old are...
Published:Friday | August 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Education Minister Ronald Thwaites is defending the administrators of secondary schools who have been asking parents to pay up auxiliary and other fees well before the start of the new school year.With some parents complaining that the joy of their...
Published:Wednesday | August 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Jamaica’s two major telecommunications companies, LIME and Digicel, are assuring customers that their numbers have not been provided to third parties in the wake of complaints from persons who have been receiving unsolicited text messages advertising goods and services...
Published:Friday | July 24, 2015 | 11:16 AMRyon Jones
More than pride will be at stake when the Reggae Boyz face Mexico in the finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup today.Already assured of a share of US$500,000 (J$58.5 million), the members of the squad could double that if they pull off the victory and...
Published:Friday | July 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
For decades, it appeared the authorities had forgotten the community known as Frog City in St Andrew, with residents there living in filthy, smelly conditions and without basic amenities.But now, help could be on the way for the residents in the...
Published:Friday | July 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
While many Jamaicans have reacted favourably to news that five members of the United States Congress have written to President Barack Obama urging him to nudge the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to relax the terms of its agreement with Jamaica,...
Published:Thursday | July 9, 2015 | 9:47 AMRyon Jones
At least one member of the Scientific Research Council (SRC) believes that persons who have attached motors to handcarts to get them to move faster and easier should be recognised for their creativity."We don't want to kill their creativity," said...
Published:Saturday | July 11, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The four teenage girls, whose merciless beating of a 13-year-old boy at the Yallahs High School was recorded, were remanded when they appeared in court last Thursday afterthe judge viewed a tape of the incident.The schoolgirls, who are charged with...
Published:Friday | July 3, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The police and the Road Safety Unit in the Ministry of Transport are becoming very concerned over the increasing practice of persons attaching motors to handcarts to have them move faster.In recent weeks, several of these motorised handcarts have...
Published:Saturday | July 4, 2015 | 1:16 PMRyon Jones
'Wicked' was the word of choice for many motorists using the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 yesterday as they reacted to the new toll fees which came into effect.Despite several advertise-ments in the print and electronic media about the new rates...
Published:Thursday | June 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Despite a record-breaking number of fatalities last year (65) motorcyclists continue to flout the law while putting themselves and others at risk by not wearing the proper safety gear and seem determined to ensure the death toll record is broken...
Published:Friday | June 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Housing woes in several inner-city communities have forced scores of persons to live in board houses on premises which could ignite in a minute. Today, The Sunday Gleaner continues its series looking at some of those communities.They live in a...
Published:Friday | June 26, 2015 | 5:23 PMRyon Jones
The police are reporting that at least 278 children under the age of 16 have been sexually abused within Kingston and St Andrew since the start of the year. Of this number, 46 girls were impregnated."We see this as a major problem," Assistant...
Published:Friday | June 19, 2015 | 5:02 PMRyon Jones
"More than a father" is how Dane Kelly is described by his eldest son, Vaughn.Kelly has been caring for his three boys on his own in the tough inner-city community of Olympic Gardens in St Andrew for the past nine years, after their mother decided...
Published:Saturday | June 20, 2015 | 4:39 PMRyon Jones
Determined to teach the Government a lesson, the island's teachers have declared that anything short of a double-digit salary increase will not be accepted.Speaking with The Sunday Gleaner after they voted to reject the Government's seven per cent...
Published:Saturday | June 6, 2015 | 2:06 PMRyon Jones
The smile threatened to break through but hardly came, while his speech impairment as a result of cancer was obvious, but still the winner of Jamaica's largest Lotto jackpot was on cloud nine as he told The Sunday Gleaner that the first thing he...
Published:Thursday | May 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Over the past seven years a non-governmental group, Eve For Life, has quietly gone about the business of providing a guiding light for hundreds of Jamaicans.The group targets mainly females between the ages of 13 and 24 with the majority of them...
Published:Monday | May 25, 2015 | 4:54 PMRyon Jones
Jamaica's 100m sprint hurdler, Andrea Bliss, looks set to miss next month's National Trials to select the country's team to this year's World Championships, having suffered a grade-two hamstring tear.Bliss, 34, sustained the injury last Wednesday...
Published:Friday | May 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Officials of the top-ranked Corporate Area girls' high school, The Queen's School, are refusing to comment, but The Sunday Gleaner has been told that the parents of at least eight students have been instructed to find new schools for them...
Published:Friday | May 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
He was expected to look out for her, fight her battles and protect her - after all, he is her older brother, but instead he robbed her of youth and innocence.That is the story of Makedah* who, at age seven, was molested repeatedly by an older...
