Professor Wendel Abel, consultant psychiatrist at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, has welcomed a collaboration between the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and the local healthcare sector to increase mental health literacy for...
There’s no missing the huge breakaway on both sides as vehicles approach the Rio Minho bridge in Sanguinetti, Clarendon. It initially stoked fears and anxiety among residents before Tropical Storm Ian later barrelled through the Caribbean Sea...
Guidance counsellor for Rock River Primary School Jennifer Levi has revealed that students at the school were spared the trauma of the shooting incident last Monday in which a mentally ill man, known only as ‘Longman’, was killed by a policeman...
On entering the compound of the St Gabriel’s Anglican Church, where the service for Leonard ‘Merciless’ Bartley was held last Saturday, it was obvious that it was going to be a funeral service with a difference. The gate was manned by security...
Glenmuir High teacher Cameil Williams-Allen knows all about failure and having to keep pushing herself, and she makes no secret about it to her students in the classroom. Cognisant of the reality that some students might be feeling disappointed...
Sorrel farmers and lovers of the drink across the Caribbean stand to benefit from the findings of a Florida university research unit now evaluating varieties of the plant, their particular qualities, and the possibility of the crop being available...
Still reeling from the drowning deaths of their two sons in the United States last month, Reverend Keith Bulgin and his wife, Jacqueline, on Thursday recalled that Tavaris and Tavaughn Bulgin were protective, caring, dependable “fashion police”....
Sherika Smith was a picture of grief as she reminisced on the shock death of her 15-year-old son Tavaughn Patterson. In-between tears at her home in Blackwoods, Clarendon, she recalled the moment she found out that Tavaughn, who had been missing...
Glenmuir High School student Max Leiba, despite the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, breezed through the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams by getting straight A profiles in all but two of his 10 subjects. Among the...
This is the final of a four-part series featuring families who are yet to meet the back-to-school requirements for their children. Dezroy Elson of Diamond, Rock River, in Clarendon has taken a hard hit as he was left with only three of the 18...
This is the third of a four-part series featuring families that are yet to meet the back-to-school requirements for their children. Pansy Simpson of Tommy King, Rock River in Clarendon, is at her wit’s end trying to manage the additional...
This is the first of a four-part series featuring families who are yet to meet the back-to-school requirements for their children. ELAINE COLLINS and Ira McKenzie are praying that their children will be among those in school on September 5. The...
Despite battling termite infestation and space challenges, some Clarendon schools are pushing through to have a smooth start to the 2022-2023 academic year, with many telling The Gleaner that they are almost there with preparation. O’Neil Lewin,...
Major Paul Scott, principal of the May Pen Primary School, has been hooked on a specially made tablet called Learnit since he attended a diaspora conference on education, which was held in Manhattan, New York, earlier this year. Major Scott said...
THE MINISTRY of Education and Youth’s school furniture project at the Vere Technical High School in Hayes, Clarendon, has been providing a well-needed boost for both students and skilled persons in the community. Burchell Simmons, head of the...
Danah Cameron may be recognised by many as a public relations professional with a great personality and a pretty face. Looking at her, one would have trouble imagining her getting her nails dirty, tackling the grimy work of changing tyres or...
Nickeisha Singh Smith, 32, is one frustrated and worried mother. She is pondering the future of her 12-year-old son, who was placed at Foga Road High School 17 kilometres (around 10.5 miles) away from her home in Hayes, Clarendon. With the deck...
Information Technology teacher Daran Pitter traded the classroom for farming, and for him both are similar fields – they require nurturing. Recalling his own formative years, he said there were a lot of teachers who believed in him and could see...
For the first time in three years, Evan Reader Clarke was looking forward to a vacation in Jamaica that had nothing to do with death. Arriving in the island on Monday, the only glitch for her was the funeral of a cousin who had died in England. She...
A gut-wrenching wail shattered the atmosphere at a Clarendon vigil on Monday as relatives and loved ones gathered in prayer, hoping for a safe reunion with two young brothers who vanished after jumping from a bridge while swimming in the United...
EIGHTEEN-YEAR-old Angelique Chen has an avid interest in science and technology, which she has combined with her strong affinity for growing crops, to design her own vertical drum planter that removes the hassle from cultivating in a small space....
EDUCATION MINISTER Fayval Williams on Tuesday encouraged students at the New Fortress Energy back-to-school fair to take good care of the investment that has been made in their education. The approximately 600 students who turned up at the Wembley...
Almost a month after stevedore Scot Bamburry fell overboard a vessel and died, the body has still not yet been released by the police. CEO of Kingston Wharves Limited (KWL), Mark Williams, said “the matter remains an active police investigation”....
Having been expelled from two schools and on the brink of being kicked from a third, a youngster previously on a wayward path was among instructors at a recent two-week camp aimed at rehabilitating more than 150 students with behavioural issues,...
BERNARD LODGE is being considered as a model for what is being touted as Jamaica’s first agro-residential community. In his address on the final of the three-day Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show in May Pen, Clarendon, on Monday,...
