A 98-case jump in COVID-19 cases and a 15th death will concentrate the minds of a Cabinet subcommittee that meets today to review the record one-day increase. New concerns are rising about whether to postpone the September 3 general election...
Published:Friday | December 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
For decades, Christmas in west Kingston community of Fletcher's Land brought out the best in neighbours. There was cooking and the sharing of meals with anyone who asked, parties, street dances, and just fun for everyone.In recent years, there has...
Published:Tuesday | December 18, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Leader of the Opposition Dr Peter Phillips has accepted an invitation from Prime Minister Andrew Holness to meet to discuss issues pertaining to how they can unite in the fight against crime.Holness wrote to Dr Phillips seeking a meeting between the...
Published:Friday | November 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Nearly four decades after they were promised land titles and started paying property tax, residents of the section of Drewsland near the banks of the Sandy Gully popularly known as 'Bottom Drewsland', continue to occupy their properties as '...
Published:Tuesday | November 6, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Beverly Barakat, the property consultant and real estate dealer who was a co-accused in one of the fraud cases against attorney-at-law Jennifer Messado, is happy she has been cleared by the court but livid at how the police went about constructing...
Published:Thursday | October 25, 2018 | 3:34 PMPaul Clarke
Ambassador of France to Jamaica Denys Wibaux has described the ‘A Touch of France’ exhibition as a showpiece event for France-Jamaica relations and continues to serve as a significant catalyst for further cooperation. The exhibit,...
Published:Friday | October 12, 2018 | 1:34 PMPaul Clarke
Josep María Bosch Bessa, the Spanish Ambassador to Jamaica, has expressed a desire for greater economic cooperation between both countries, citing the longstanding historic friendship enjoyed over the years since the establishing...
Published:Friday | September 28, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
In the not-too-distant past, the inner-city community of Jones Town in south St Andrew was a hotbed of criminality, driving fear into the minds of law-abiding people living there and those who only heard its name.But the community has changed much...
Published:Monday | September 17, 2018 | 1:22 PMPaul Clarke
The Government has signed a contract with China Harbour Engineering Company to construct a new bypass for Three Miles in St Andrew to help ease traffic congression. Three Miles was closed more than a week ago to facilitate construction works to...
Published:Saturday | September 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Daryl Vaz is scheduled to announce the phased ban on single-use plastic and Styrofoam tomorrow, and it could not come soon enough for Suzanne Stanley, CEO of Jamaica...
Published:Monday | September 3, 2018 | 9:53 AMPaul Clarke
Motorists across much of the Corporate Area spent little time in traffic as the new school term got underway and new traffic adjustments got their first real test. Drivers who spoke with The Gleaner said that they were surprised by the...
Published:Friday | August 17, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Life has never been easy for the residents of Bucks Common in May Pen, Clarendon.Over the years, the community has developed a reputation as one where deadly violence is an ever-present reality, creating a stigma that the residents say is unfair and...
Published:Friday | August 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Business operators are being promised that raw data collected in the recently launched Jamaica Survey of Establishments (JSE) will not be shared with any other agency or authority by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), which is conducting...
Published:Friday | August 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Jamaica's investment ties with Mexico in the area of tourism could be strengthened in the coming months, following talks between Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett and Mexican Ambassador Juan Jose Gonzalez Mijares."One of the issues, among many,...
Published:Tuesday | June 19, 2018 | 3:08 PMPaul Clarke
Much is being placed on the Revised Foreign Trade Policy which was recently approved by Cabinet, as Government seeks to streamline policy coordination on trade across ministries, departments and agencies, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister...
Published:Thursday | June 7, 2018 | 2:59 PMPaul Clarke
Nurses at the Andrews Memorial Hospital in St Andrew remain off the job this afternoon in protest over what they say is a cut in their salaries and benefits and the alleged refusal of the institution's management to address their concerns. The...
Published:Thursday | May 10, 2018 | 1:57 PMPaul Clarke
The Jamaica and United States governments today signed an amended Air Services Agreement to facilitate increased cargo trade. “Our aviation partnership with Jamaica has always been robust and mutually beneficial, so [we] will be augmenting...
Published:Wednesday | May 2, 2018 | 2:53 PMPaul Clarke
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Audley Shaw, is encouraging small and medium-sized enterprises to formalise their operations so as to gain greater access to low interest funding. “[They] must realise that they too...
Published:Monday | April 30, 2018 | 4:45 PMPaul Clarke
The Government today launched a pilot project to provide 5,000 solar lamps to residents in inner-city communities across St Andrew. The project, which is being overseen by the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), is aimed at reducing house fires...
Published:Friday | April 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Bloody gang wars are something that residents of the central Kingston community known as 'Tel Aviv' have lived with for decades.Either the long-running battle between thugs from the neighbouring community of South Side or internal conflicts,...
Published:Thursday | March 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Less than 50 per cent of Jamaicans believe the country enjoys freedom of the press, according to the latest findings by the Latin America Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), a regional research group. The study was conducted by the Centre for...
Published:Monday | March 12, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Disgruntled teachers are stepping up pressure on the Government for a second day of protest action to deliver a better salary package than the 16-per cent over four years that they are being asked to accept.Yesterday, in preempting the likely...
Published:Monday | February 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica Howard Mitchell says he welcomes the tabling of the Occupational Health and Safety Bill and that he awaits a robust and healthy debate and the passage of the Bill into Law at an early date.The...
Published:Monday | February 19, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Just the mention of the word rape and several taxi operators react with scorn. They say it is one of the most hateful criminal acts being perpetrated on females, reasoning that imposter taxi drivers should be weeded out of the system and...
Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
The RJRGLEANER Honour Awards gala began with nine nominees who had a chance to be named the 2017 Gleaner Man of the Year. In the end, there stood only one in the person of Professor Gordon Shirley, an outstanding public servant and...
