Published:Saturday | April 30, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
It could be costing the country in the region of $8 billion annually to treat road-accident victims at the various hospitals across the island.Preliminary findings from data gathered for 2014 by the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), in association...
Published:Friday | April 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
TAJAY ROWE will be 13 years old in three days, but he will not be able to celebrate this significant milestone like a normal teenager as he has not talked, walked, or been able to help himself in any way since birth. Tajay’s brain was damaged...
Published:Friday | April 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The Government is being encouraged to take the lead in creating a workforce that will be competitive in the global marketplace and can respond to advancements in technologies.Chief Executive Officer of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica,...
Published:Friday | April 15, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The State-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) recorded close to 2,000 accidents last year, with just over 75 per cent of drivers being involved in at least one accident over the period.But the company's managing director, Colin Campbell, is...
Published:Saturday | April 16, 2016 | 11:01 AMRyon Jones
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) Limited has set out guidelines on how it will deal with drivers involved in accidents and other incidents on the road.Some 846 JUTC drivers were involved in at least 1,997 accidents between 2014 and 2015, but...
Published:Saturday | April 16, 2016 | 11:29 AMRyon Jones
The Postal Corporation of Jamaica (PCOJ) is targeting the start of its money remittance services this year as part of efforts to grow its earnings and remain relevant in an increasingly digital society."We had a plan that was advanced, but because...
Published:Friday | April 8, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano has expressed the commitment of his organisation to help Jamaica exploit the benefits of nuclear energy.The island has long flirted with the idea of introducing nuclear...
Published:Saturday | April 9, 2016 | 9:53 AMRyon Jones
A weight was lifted off the shoulders of the six first year Jamaican veterinary medical students at the University of the West Indies (UWI) School of Veterinary Medicine in Trinidad and Tobago last week as the Government reversed a decision to no...
Published:Saturday | April 9, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The National Water Commission (NWC) is pulling in millions of dollars each month from unsuspecting customers who are being charged a late fee even though they paid in full the bill that they had been issued by the State-owned entity.That's because...
Published:Saturday | March 19, 2016 | 3:07 PMRyon Jones
Ten private-sector entities have disclosed that they contributed a combined total of more than $144 million to the two major parties in the lead-up to the just-concluded general election.Weeks after Proven Management Limited told The Sunday Gleaner...
Published:Thursday | March 17, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Fifteen-year-old Janique Burgher won gold in the Class Three high jump on yesterday's third day of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletic Championships to go with the bronze she won in the event...
Published:Friday | March 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Former People's National Party (PNP) Member of Parliament Collin Campbell will not be resigning as the managing director of the state-run Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) despite the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) taking power.A confidant of...
Published:Saturday | March 5, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Dr Norman Dunn could be headed to the Supreme Court as he continues his battle to wrest St Mary South East from the People's National Party's (PNP) Dr Winston Green.The PNP's standard-bearer crossed another hurdle...
Published:Saturday | March 5, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Scores of popular tourist attractions operating across the island are doing so without a licence, in breach of the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) Act. A significant number of these entities are places that offer accommodation, with one such being the...
Published:Saturday | March 5, 2016 | 2:35 PMRyon Jones
Turkish national Tahir Sarioglu, who has been living in Jamaica for close to a year, lost his son, Can Ilber, in a freak accident on the Whitfield Hall property at the foot of the Blue Mountains on Saturday, February 27, after he and a number of...
Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The State-funded Cardiff Hotel and Spa has recorded a loss of more than $400 million over the past three financial years, 2012-2015, but the Human Employment and Resource Training/National Training Agency (HEART Trust/NTA) which operates the...
Published:Thursday | February 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The Jamaica Public Service's (JPS) efforts to regularise electricity usage in the Majesty Gardens community in South West St Andrew is being met with mixed feelings, as some residents welcome the legal connection while others want to have nothing to...
Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 10:40 PMRyon Jones
The Duncan sisters, Imani and Patricia, who both ran on the People's National Party's (PNP) ticket, failed in their bid to replace their father in the House of Representatives after being rejected by the electorate during yesterday's general...
Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 3:02 PMRyon Jones
The disabled and elderly in eastern St Thomas have been finding it challenging to cast their votes, as nothing has been put in place to facilitate them accessing the polling stations. One such voter, 80-year-old Zeris Baker, who was pushed in a...
Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 2:29 PMRyon Jones
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has revealed that eastern St Thomas is one of the areas singled out for special attention. The Gleaner team came up on a contingent of JDF personnel at the Airy Castle Post Office in the Port Morant division of...
Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 9:20 AMRyon Jones
Twelve votes for the People's National Party (PNP) and seven for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) were the numbers given by the cluster leaders 90 minutes into voting at polling stations 42 A and B in Dalvey, eastern St Thomas. The PNP's Dr...
Published:Friday | February 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Officials of the two major political parties have confirmed that they have received millions of dollars in contributions from the local private sector, but Jamaicans will have to wait a bit...
Published:Friday | February 19, 2016 | 10:48 AMRyon Jones
Party promises 5,000 new jobs in the short termThe Jamaica Labour Party is promising major changes in the local information and communications technology (ICT) sector within the first six months to a year if it is elected to form the next government...
Published:Friday | February 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
For most of her life, Kerensia Morrison has been described as unassuming, and this is a trait she hopes will work in her favour now that she has decided to take the plunge into representational politics....
Published:Friday | February 5, 2016 | 12:52 PMRyon Jones
The rise of Paul Hannam from being a United States Navy corpsman to medical doctor is being touted as more proof of the outstanding ability of Jamaicans to excel wherever they call home.Hannam left Jamaica at age 17, fresh out of Knox High School,...
