A love triangle is the alleged cause of the latest flare-up of violence among some Corporate Area schools, resulting in at least three students sustaining injuries and one institution closing its doors out of fear for those under its care....
Leonard Francis, the newly appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), is urging the relevant stakeholders to hold him accountable for his stewardship of the agency which oversees the country’s...
Leonard Francis, the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), says the entity will be fostering a culture of collaboration and research to further its mandate of sustainable environmental protection...
Curious onlookers and plant enthusiasts on Friday morning gathered at Palm Drive in Hope Royal Botanic Gardens in St Andrew to gaze upon the Talipot palm, more commonly referred to as century palm, a self-destructing plant that flowers once in its...
MINISTER WITHOUT Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Matthew Samuda, says the Government has made significant infrastructure investments and honed its emergency response to minimise the impact of the drought season. “It...
Former Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has labelled plans by the new chairman of the Finance Committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) Dennis Gordon to request an audit into the operations of the municipality under his...
A departure from “convention” in the establishment of committees at the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) triggered a heated debate during its general meeting on Tuesday. The disagreement resulted in 15 Jamaica Labour Party (JLP...
For almost two years, Stacy Ann Hynes has been trying to get a shadow for her 11-year-old son, who has attention deficit disorder (ADD). Children with ADD have great difficulty concentrating. Shadows provide one-on-one support in classrooms to...
Principal Shernet Clarke Tomlinson is very aware of the many negative stereotypes people have of the West Kingston inner city in which the Edward Seaga Primary School is located. However, she told The Gleaner that those negative perceptions are not...
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Robert Hall, assisted by relatives, was busy chopping down trees from around his home in Kingsworth, Jacks Hill, St Andrew, in an effort to prevent the raging fire that had started the day before from...
Parliamentarian Fitz Jackson says he will be seeking clarification from the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) regarding penalties for deposit-taking institutions (DTIs) that breach the new service standards for the operation of automated banking machines (ABMs...
The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) is aiming to have the entire campus powered by solar energy by October this year, through a US$1.5-$3 million solarisation project. The project is being done in partnership with Emirati state-owned renewable...
The majority of staff at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) has signed off on the government’s compensation restructuring programme, which its president, Professor Andrew Spencer, believes is an indication of the high morale of employees at...
While blasting the governing Jamaica Labour Party for the “cowardly approach” it had taken in the Hamas-Israeli conflict, Opposition Spokesperson on Foreign and Foreign Trade Angela Brown Burke has reiterated the People’s National Party’s (PNP)...
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says it will be closely monitoring the Rio Cobre Water Treatment Plant project in Content, St Catherine, to ensure that customers get the best rates possible. Prime Minister Andrew Holness earlier this...
EDWIN ALLEN High School girls team’s victory in the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships on Saturday has been declared the ‘best birthday gift’ for the institution celebrating its 60th anniversary. The Frankfield, Clarendon-...
A week before Yvette Samuels was hospitalised for breast cancer, she was at school ensuring that her students were adequately prepared for the upcoming Primary Exit Profile examinations. On Wednesday, the first day of the exams, Samuels, who has...
WHEN HE was 18 years old, retired public servant and radio broadcaster John McFarlane was involved in a near fatal bike crash. He recalls riding down Half-Way Tree Road, before a taxi that was headed in the opposite direction swerved in his...
Nineteen years ago, Issalem Calixte, a pastor in the commune of Lascahobas, Haiti, converted his church in the rural depressed area of the Quimpe VI locality into a school to serve the unprivileged children in the district. For almost two decades...
The low salaries paid to teachers can be attributed to the fact that the profession is dominated by women, President of the National Education Association, United States (US) Rebecca ‘Becky’ Pringle has asserted. Pringle, who was the guest speaker...
THERE IS a need for more public education around what constitutes violent discipline before any move to institute a total ban on corporal punishment, Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison has asserted. Her comments follow the findings of the...
THE MINISTRY of Education and Youth says it will be seeking $1.5 billion from the finance ministry towards the procurement and installation of closed-circuit security television (CCTV) surveillance systems in schools across the island. Richard...
Teachers who were engaged in the marking of school-based assessments (SBAs) for last year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations say they are yet to be paid. Their frustration is compounded by what they described as the “...
Minutes before the new mayor of Kingston, Andrew Swaby, pledged a bipartisan approach to the operations of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), during yesterday’s swearing-in ceremony for councillors, supporters of the People’s...
Political commentator Lloyd B. Smith, asserting that the ruling Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) showing in the recent local government elections created a breeding ground for rifts to develop, has declared that Prime Minister Andrew Holness’...
