Two months after Jamaica announced the candidature of Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith for the post of Commonwealth secretary general, the country remains in the dark as to the cost and source of funding for the campaign. The Ministry...
One word describes the whole being that is Carla Seaga, and it’s loyalty. It’s a characteristic her late husband and former Prime Minister Edward Seaga revered in his public and personal life. Three years after his passing on May 28, 2019, she has...
Staff at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) are becoming increasingly agitated over health risks at the New Kingston building from which they work and are fixing to file a lawsuit against the agency seeking redress...
Growing up in one of Kingston’s toughest neighbourhoods, Waterhouse, 19-year-old Jamaica College honour student J’Voughnn Blake has defied every stereotype of young people born in such communities, blazing a glorious trail in both the sporting and...
Leslie Samuels was destined for the health sector, following in the footsteps of his father, who is a doctor; his mother a registered nurse; and aunt, also a doctor. The Mandeville-raised Samuels was in his third year of medical studies at The...
Rebecca Hayle is the mother of five and grandmother of 12, but on any given Sunday morning at the Church of Pentecost in Kingston, it’s easy to believe all adults between 30 and 50 years are her children because they all call her “Mama Becca”. It’s...
As Jamaica’s COVID-19 positivity rate returns to double-digit territory, the island’s medical professionals are looking on with bated breath after finally being able to get a breather following the island’s deadliest and traumatic two waves of the...
Career diplomat, lawyer, wife, mother and Stoke City for life football supporter, British High Commissioner to Jamaica Judith Slater, is delighted to be posted here. She is fascinated by the Jamaican culture and believes there is nothing else in...
Relaxation of COVID-19 requirements has generated mixed views, some glad for the respite, while others, especially the elderly with comorbidities, are taking no chances with the viral disease that has caused havoc worldwide, killing millions. For...
There is far more substance to Georgia Crawford Williams than being the protective sister of Senator Damion Crawford. The wife, mother, radio host, broadcaster and researcher has added consultant and entrepreneur to her large portfolio, which also...
Today is being observed as Resurrection Sunday in Christendom as followers of Jesus Christ celebrate His victory over death by crucifixion and His ascension to be at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for all who seek Him....
The Webster Memorial United Church on Half-Way Tree Road in St Andrew has defied the odds by maintaining capacity congregations when other established churches are struggling with membership in an increasingly secular society. It may be because the...
He has stoked many a political fire, throwing stones at Old Hope and Belmont roads, the headquarters of the two major political parties, and has swum upstream against popular tides, challenging the status quo at all levels. The fearless and brave...
If some parliamentarians have their way, the Office of the Political Ombudsman would cease to exist in its current state as an independent commission of Parliament and be subsumed under the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ). On the other hand...
If effervescence was a person, it would be the beautiful Eldemire girl who married Hugh Shearer and has been championing causes for senior citizens in Jamaica. Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer is a medical doctor and the island’s resident ageing...
She may be 80 years old, but Beverley Manley-Duncan’s unmistakable voice still commands attention, whether it’s coming to you through the airwaves, the phone, via a YouTube video or if she is sitting across from you. She has also been the voice...
Love her or hate her, Paula Vanessa Llewellyn, Jamaica’s first female and outgoing director of public prosecutions (DPP) – the Government’s chief prosecutor – has courage. Lots of it. The girl who grew up believing she was ugly, outfitted with real...
Pamela Monroe-Ellis could not have imagined that her carefree days in St Mary sailing down the hill from her house on coconut boughs – the only girl among several cousins and brothers – was preparation for the job she now holds as Auditor General...
Audrey Tugwell could have held down an evening or night job as a radio announcer among some of the finest female voices to have graced Jamaican radio in the early 1980s. The alluring voice was, still is, as captivating as it is convincing. Instead...
A half-century since the People’s National Party (PNP) swept to power on the shoulders of its charismatic late former leader Michael Norman Manley, and on a promise that “better must come”, the party’s dreams, visions and efforts for a more...
Omar Anglin swears that if his eyes did not stray to the computer screen of the Wexford Court Hotel general manager who was about to interview him for a job to wash pots in the hotel’s kitchen, he may have been condemned to a short life expectancy...
Today, his remains could have been nearly 20 years old, but instead, his life was saved by a certificate of excellence in instructional technology mounted on the wall of the August Town home he shared with family members. Ricardo Allen vividly...
Many Jamaicans who left their homeland in pursuit of better fortunes overseas have abandoned plans to return to the island as a result of its high murder rate. One diplomat serving on the world stage said Jamaica will continue to lose many of its...
The majority of Jamaicans are opposed to the idea of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for children or the wider populace, a Bill Johnson-Mello TV poll has found. The survey, which was conducted among 1,176 people in 84 communities between January 14...
It is hard to mistake Pamela Coke-Hamilton for anything other than the high-powered, heavyweight international trade expert, diplomat, attorney-at-law and trailblazer she is, yet too often she is wrongly seen as the secretarial accompaniment to...
