PORT ANTONIO, Portland: A NEW school block, which is to accommodate approximately 90 grade one students at the Norwich Primary School in Portland, was declared open last week Wednesday....
KINGSTON, THE nation's capital, spanning 21.8 square kilometres and with a population of little more than 89,000, sticks out like a sore thumb when it comes to electricity theft.Twenty-five per cent of the total...
WESTERN BUREAU: Pan Caribbean Sugar Company (PCSC), the owner of the Frome and Monymusk sugar factories, says it is seeing encouraging signs that its relationship with local cane suppliers and farmers is steadily improving....
Alleged killer cop's trial put off - The murder trial of a policeman charged with the 2012 shooting of a pregnant woman in St Thomas failed to get under way yesterday. It has been rescheduled for December 1....
PORT MARIA, St Mary: HUNDREDS OF uniformed primary school students marched down the main thoroughfare in Port Maria, St Mary, last Friday for the parish's annual Child Month March against Child Abuse....
WESTERN BUREAU:The defence in the Michelle Coudray-Greaves murder case yesterday told the jury that if they have any doubt about the evidence against Ivan Taylor, who is charged with the killing, they should find him not...
A senior member of the clergy has called for the society to fess up to the reality that Jamaicans are not honest people. The Reverend Rennard White, vice-president of the Jamaica Evangelical Alliance and president...
The yacht Henri Lloyd led all participating boats into the Ken Wright Pier in Port Antonio, Portland, on Saturday, which is the 12th leg of the World Clipper racing competition....
Junior Energy Minister Julian Robinson has been given the responsibility of heading a task force to find ways to reduce the theft of electricity from the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS)...
BORN IN 1958, Patricia Josephs grew up seeing her grandparents and other persons of Top Hill depending on The Gleaner to know what was happening outside their rural community."When I was at a younger age, my grandparents used to get The Gleaner.
Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) [the parent company of LIME Jamaica] today announces the appointment of Grace Silvera as director of communications and culture.Silvera will join CWC in June and will be based in the company's Miami office.
The Wolmer's Trust Schools are this year celebrating 285 years as one of the Caribbean's oldest educational institutions.To mark the milestone, Wolmer's is hosting a weeklong celebration, which began with a service yesterday...
As the debate over the decriminalisation of marijuana continues, a voice from the Church has signalled that weed should be considered one of the panaceas to Jamaica's economic woes.The Reverend Rennard White, vice-president...
CASTLETON, St Mary: GLEANER VENDOR and ex-policeman Reuben Walters has spent most of his life in St Mary, but was born in Guy's Hill, St Catherine, a few miles across the parish border.Walters, 82, was sworn into the police force ...
A team at the marine attraction Dolphin Cove Limited has successfully rescued a stranded dolphin on the island's shores last week.The team was notified of the animal's distress after a group of hotel staff saw him struggling ashore...
The Gleaner Company edged up its turnover by 1.4 per cent during the first quarter, but reported an after-tax loss of J$3.4 million, an improvement on the company's net loss of J$16 million for the same period last year.The first quarter is normally...
Despite spending the past three years working the streets of Kingston as a homosexual prostitute, Toni Brownis still not convinced that his lifestyle is right.
WITH SIX weeks to go before the close of negotiations between CARICOM and Canada for a trade and development agreement, Minister of Foreign Affairs A.J. Nicholson is signalling that the region has drawn its proverbial line in the sand.
Members of the disabled community have welcomed the move by the Government to finally table in Parliament legislation to give full protection to persons with disabilities.
NEGRIL'S tourism interests have expressed a willingness to discuss with Government stakeholders, including the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), the proposal to have breakwaters installed to help arrest beach erosion in the resort town.
The Judicial Committee of the United Kingdom Privy Council, which remains Jamaica's final appellate court, has been pretty quiet in relation to the island over the past two years, as few cases have left Jamaica to be heard by the law lords in London.
THE ELECTORAL Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) says it is seriously considering the implementation of a quota system as a move to boost the number of women legislators.
Christians have been persecuted in one way or another and in different parts of the world since time immemorial, but what is emerging now appears to be the new global reality.
Seventeen-year-old Marsha Jamesis no stranger to hardship. Since she was 15, she has been on the streets selling her body to men who see her as fresh meat to be used, abused, spat out and discarded.
