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Published:Monday | May 22, 2023 | 1:46 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

The Legacy Suite at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston was last Wednesday transformed into ‘Cybersecurity Central’ with experts from Unified Technologies (UT) and Red Hat joining forces for an informative discussion around the ever-evolving...

Published:Monday | May 22, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

Today marks the new deadline for Peter Thompson, director general of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), to complete a report requested by the Integrity Commission (IC) on the employment status of Wayne Hunter at the...

Published:Monday | May 15, 2023 | 12:55 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

The Multicare Youth Foundation is on a recruitment drive to find adults who can volunteer time to provide support for at-risk youths for a year, according to counselling psychologist with the Foundation, Leeta Gayle. The Gleaner caught up with...

Published:Friday | May 12, 2023 | 12:47 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

THE BOLD vision of a united Europe articulated 73 years ago and embodied in the Shuman Declaration was the beginning of a project for European integration which achieved its objectives of paving the way for peace, stability, prosperity and...

Published:Thursday | May 11, 2023 | 1:20 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

The Jamaican economy is enjoying unprecedented growth and is poised for further development, according to Christopher Levy, group president and chief executive officer of the Jamaica Broilers Group. Levy’s comments came after a tour and ribbon-...

Published:Saturday | May 6, 2023 | 12:57 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

MAJOR DUDLEY Beek, known as a ‘legend’ in Jamaica’s aviation industry, plunged to his death in a plane crash yesterday morning in the Ballard’s Valley area of Highgate, St Mary. The passenger on the aircraft with Beek survived. Both men were...

Published:Saturday | May 6, 2023 | 12:10 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

The Jamaica Conch Cluster is on track to achieve Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for the conch fishery sector, an endorsement which will put it in a class by itself, following an independent pre-assessment exercise which was...

Published:Friday | May 5, 2023 | 1:17 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

AFFORDABLE INSURANCE, which offers protection against the risk of crop losses due to natural disasters, pests and diseases, as well as market volatility, is a welcomed initiative for farmers. However, this should not be seen as a cure-all for their...

Published:Wednesday | May 3, 2023 | 12:51 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

FIELD WORK conducted in the development of an early advisory system to forecast the frequency, volume, and places where sargassum is likely to be deposited on Jamaican beaches has thrown up new and emerging issues, some of which are yet to be fully...

Published:Tuesday | May 2, 2023 | 1:26 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

A FEARLESS crime-fighter who operated without fear or favour, and one who led his team on some of the most dangerous operations, is how retired Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Donald Pusey, who died yesterday, was remembered by former...

Published:Monday | May 1, 2023 | 12:37 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

THE VOLUME of garbage cleared during the Earth Day Beach Cleanup at Sirgany Beach in Kingston was welcomed yet troubling for Senator Matthew Samuda, the minister with responsibility for the environment. A total of 413 bags of garbage, with an...

Published:Saturday | April 29, 2023 | 12:12 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

Montego Bay, St James, Jamaica’s tourism mecca, is reeling from the ongoing deleterious effects of climage change, a situation which was recently brought to public attention by Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic...

Published:Saturday | April 29, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

EVEN AFTER breaking into the international market, local agro-processors continue to face many challenges to keep their market share, much less expand. Some of these obstacles include the lack of an enabling environment at home, according to David...

Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2023 | 12:58 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

Jamaicans have been challenged to start taking concrete action to mitigate and address climate change, given the severity of global problems associated with the issue. German Ambassador Jan Hendrik van Thiel made the declaration as he urged the...

Published:Tuesday | April 25, 2023 | 12:10 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

The Government of Jamaica has partnered with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to boost the island’s international competitiveness in the hot pepper industry. The project, titled, ‘Improving Phytosanitary, Food...

Published:Tuesday | April 25, 2023 | 12:07 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

When The Gleaner visited Kathleen Shaw-Gonzales at her business place in the Greenwich Town Fishing Village in St Andrew last week, she was definitely in work mode, with a full-length apron over her work clothing and gloves protecting her hands as...

Published:Monday | April 24, 2023 | 12:59 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

The Knight twins have been proving to be quite a handful for parents Treciana and Allister, who have not been able to get more than two hours sleep at any time since the siblings entered the world on Monday, April 17. Still, the couple – who also...

Published:Friday | April 21, 2023 | 12:21 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

Jamaica is poised to benefit further as the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) moves to expand its digital footprint in the region, deputy regional chair for the UNDP Latin American and the Caribbean, Linda Maguire, disclosed on Wednesday. “...

Published:Thursday | April 20, 2023 | 12:52 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has warned licensed third-party contractors who use its 300,000-pole islandwide distribution network to deliver cable and telecommunications signals that as it ramps up safety and accountability standards,...

Published:Thursday | April 13, 2023 | 12:50 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

Mona Sue Ho, senior manager at the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), says the agency’s faith in small business people across various sectors from four parishes has been justified many times over, and the entrepreneurs’ success needs to be...

Published:Thursday | April 6, 2023 | 1:01 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

The way is now clear for the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) to host its long overdue annual general meeting (AGM). The AGM, which was postponed twice in 2021, had been rescheduled for July 2022. However, Ian Hill, a member of the Westmoreland...

Published:Wednesday | April 5, 2023 | 12:11 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

AS JAMAICA and the wider Caribbean brace for another influx of sargassum weed along the islands’ beaches, research is ongoing to find productive uses for this open ocean brown algae, which is free floating and will not attach to the ocean floor....

Published:Monday | April 3, 2023 | 12:22 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

OPPOSITION SPOKESPERSON on Justice Donna Scott-Mottley soundly rejected a recommendation last week that the discretionary powers enjoyed by judges to grant bail to a person after conviction should be taken away. Scott-Mottley’s discharge came...

Published:Saturday | April 1, 2023 | 12:54 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

IN THE face of incredible odds, Jamaican farmers and fishers have demonstrated a resilience and commitment in recent years that has made this country the envy of many other more developed economies, according to minister of agriculture and...

Published:Saturday | April 1, 2023 | 12:17 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

The well-grassed condition of the sport field at The Mico University College, St Andrew, on Thursday, compared to 2012 when its dustbowl condition led to it being referred to as ‘The Sahara’ by staff and students alike, so impressed President Dr...

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