Published:Thursday | June 6, 2024 | 7:48 AMBANG Bizarre
US researchers have found that sleep-deprived people are eight times more likely to commit homicide at 2:00 a.m. in an alarming link between the two behaviours. Experts say that people who suffer from broken sleep are emotionally "vulnerable...
Published:Thursday | June 6, 2024 | 7:11 AMBANG Bizarre
Several holidaymakers will celebrate flying away with a boozy tipple and may fall asleep on the plane, but this can have serious health implications. A new study has found that the combination of in-flight alcohol and cabin pressure puts strain on...
Published:Thursday | June 6, 2024 | 5:05 AMBANG Bizarre
People have long been advised to avoid using phones and watching TV before bedtime as the blue lights suppress the sleep hormone melatonin, but a new report questions the wisdom of this. The paper published in the medical journal Sleep Medicine...
Published:Thursday | June 6, 2024 | 4:57 AMBANG Bizarre
A good education and stimulating job can establish a "cognitive reserve" that wards off brain decline, but high levels of stress can negate these benefits. Experts in Sweden were aiming to discover why "some people cope better than...
Published:Thursday | June 6, 2024 | 4:48 AMBANG Bizarre
Drugs such as Ozempic have been found to prevent multiple types of the disease - including breast and bowel - in a study that involved 34,000 obese adults. Patients were 19 per cent less likely to develop cancer if they were on the drugs, known as...
NEW YORK :“History teaches us that the next pandemic is a matter of when, not if,” warned World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus earlier this year. He is right. That is why it is vital that the world...
CHICAGO: Now that a Manhattan jury has convicted Donald Trump of falsifying business records in order to cover up a crime – whether it is an election-related or a tax-related crime is not clear – a host of new questions arise. Will...
MONROVIA/WASHINGTON, DC :Even though most of the South Africans who went to the polls last week were women, all the country’s major parties are still led by men. Thirty years after the end of apartheid and the first free election – and...
JOHANNESBURG : South Africa has just completed its seventh national election since Nelson Mandela’s post-apartheid victory in 1994. Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) had won the previous elections with comfortable majorities,...
CAMBRIDGE: Two years ago, I outlined eight lessons from the Ukraine War. And though I warned that it was too early to be confident about any predictions, they have held up reasonably well. When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist's pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past's line-up of cartoons as...
Celebrating achievements to normalise accessibility Despite their visual impairments, both Professor Floyd Morris and Nigy Boy (Nigel Hector) share compelling narratives of perseverance, underscored by their education at The Salvation Army School...
Robert Finzi-Smith, a security consultant, emphasised the urgency of reinforcing security measures at Gordon House before proceeding with plans for a new Parliament building. John Azar, managing director of KingAlarm, echoed these sentiments,...
Employees of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) have disputed the agency's claims of responsiveness to sexual harassment issues identified in a 2022 internal survey. These employees, speaking anonymously to The Sunday Gleaner, recounted...
Residents of Maxfield Avenue in Kingston were stunned to learn that Kirkland Salmon, a local who had moved to the United States, was at the centre of a major gun and drug operation. According to authorities in Orange County, New York, Salmon, 42,...
High Court judge Justice Andrea Thomas delivered a nearly 50-minute judgment, ruling that the current incarceration of dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel, along with Shawn 'Shawn Storm' Campbell and Andre St John, is constitutional. This...
Jamaica faces a significant enrolment shortfall, exceeding 90% in three of the four subjects that the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) plans to discontinue, according to Education Minister Fayval Williams. Agricultural science (Double Award),...
Footballer Rafiek Thomas, 39, was tragically shot dead while sleeping at his Denham Town home on Tuesday morning, dealing a devastating blow to the youth of west Kingston who idolised him. The early morning attack, which also left a 35-year-old man...
University of the West Indies professor Dr Christopher Charles has expressed concern over Prime Minister Andrew Holness's recent remarks about Opposition Leader Mark Golding's dual citizenship. Dr Charles pointed out that holding dual...
Finalists in the islandwide contest conducted by a public committee chosen by the Council for Afro-Jamaican Affairs to mark the independence of Nyasaland (Malawi) on July 6, 1964.
Descending the steep gradients of Mount Diablo offers a stunning view of the picturesque Moneague Vale in St. Ann. The scenic route from Spanish Town, winding through the Rio Cobre gorge and the slopes of Mount Diablo, highlights both the natural...
Jamaica honoured its only living national hero, the Rt Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante, with the unveiling of his statue in Victoria Square, Kingston. The ceremony, featuring dignitaries such as Governor-General Sir Clifford Campbell, Prime...
Nearly 600 babies competed in the fourth Mead Johnson Baby Show, held at Ardenne High School. The show, opened by Hon A. Russell Graham, custos of St Andrew, included an address on child care. Fourteen month-old Paul Bassell, son of Mr and Mrs Paul...
The "Windrush" became a hub of activity during its three-day stay in Kingston Harbour. Friends and relatives crowded the Royal Mail wharf to bid farewell as passengers embarked smoothly with assistance from the military, police, and...
