People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding says the party will discuss the findings of a policy commission which was mandated in 2021 to modernise its core philosophy as it stages its 84th annual conference this weekend. In early 2021,...
When Michael Fennell heard of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch and Jamaica’s head of State, on Thursday, it weighed heavily on his heart. Fennell is one of very few Jamaicans who got the opportunity to...
Days after Mico University College President Dr Asburn Pinnock called for the Government to capitalise on the global teacher shortage by training a surplus of educators for overseas institutions, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has noted the need to...
Industry stakeholders have welcomed the launch of a pensions scheme for the business community, the result of a partnership between the Victoria Mutual (VM) Pensions Management Limited and the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA)...
In an effort to reduce the number of Jamaicans who suffer annually with non-communicable diseases associated with high salt intake, the key results of a $13-million salt study undertaken by the Ministry of Health and Wellness will be released...
Angie Martínez, Dominican Republic’s ambassador to Jamaica was devastated when she was told last weekend that a significant mural her team paid to have professionally done at Franklin Town Primary School would not be completed in time for the start...
If you journey into Mount Felix, St Thomas, on a weekday morning, you will more than likely find one resident, Richard Thompson, strolling through the hills to the nearest active town in Sunning Hill. Mount Felix is located 4.5 miles north of Bath...
The Jamaica Food and Drink Festival – one of the island’s premier foodie events whose promoters fought endlessly for it to remain afloat annually during the COVID-19 pandemic – has been shortlisted for the international World Culinary Awards 2022...
Standing at four feet and six inches in height, both Aiden Smith and Matthew Whyte will be starting new chapters of their lives at Campion College on Monday. The duo, who have twin-like qualities but are completely unrelated, were among 114...
Hassanah Al-Saba said she always knew she would have achieved the rare feat of being a locally trained female Muslim pilot in Jamaica. On August 25, she completed enough flight time to receive her private pilot’s licence, 10 days after her 22nd...
Twelve years ago, Dean Morris’ world was ripped apart after when her eldest child, Shadae Barker, was murdered by her spouse, Ken Brissett. Soon after Barker was found dead, Brissett was found hanging in the St James community in which they resided...
La Sonja Harrison, newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is now happy that she followed the advice of her husband to become a teacher, and not a police officer, a journalist or a flight attendant. Harrison told The...
Three years after a brand-new elevator was installed at the Princess Margaret Hospital in St Thomas, orderlies are now strenuously carrying patients up flights of stairs again as the lift is out of service. The workers had been breathing a sigh of...
With the Sixth Form Pathways Programme becoming mandatory in a matter of days for thousands of former 11th-graders, schools are scrambling to retrofit spaces to accommodate larger populations. That is already running administrations millions of...
A decade and a half ago, Dwight Duncan and Neisha Williams could stay in their Seaview Gardens community and look across the Sandy Gully to Riverton City in St Andrew. However, their view is now blocked as poor maintenance has resulted in the gully...
Sitting in a dirt-base, partially collapsed one-room shack as she studied each night using a flashlight from her cellphone, Anita Stephenson was determined to excel and power her way through high school and teacher’s college to improve hers and her...
St Elizabeth farmer Robert Myrie is ruing yet another devastating fire, which has resulted in him suffering hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. The Flagaman-based farmer, who was doing business in the nearby town of Black River on Tuesday...
At the start of this upcoming academic year, I-Nation – a Rastafarian group which sells solely pan-African books and necessities – is gearing up to change the way in which the thousands of unaccounted for students in the pandemic are reached, by...
Jamaicans have been urged to temper optimism that the price cut on chicken meat announced by Jamaica Broilers Wednesday signalled a definitive pullback from skyrocketing inflation. Chicken is the most popular source of affordable meat protein, and...
At 76, instead of continuing to enjoy his golden years, Devon Bailey is trying to rebuild his life after watching the place he called home for four decades going up in flames on Tuesday. Bailey, one of four persons who occupied a seven-room...
Hortense Dixon-Grant, principal of the Valley Christian Ministries Basic School, is confident that when the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) returns to do its yearly inspection, the institution will score enough to gain full certification. The...
Rastafarian faithful have hailed the posthumous national honour to be bestowed on the religion’s founder, Leonard Percival Howell, as an atonement of sorts and a tectonic shift from the bitter days that characterised the movement’s infancy and its...
Rastafarians from The Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress Church in Bull Bay, St Andrew, are not caught up in the festivities as the island celebrates 60 years of Independence from Britain. The leaders of the church believe that Jamaicans...
SOME FISH vendors are reporting an improvement in the quality and quantity of the delicacy craved by mostly men for the just-concluded five-month conch harvesting season. This improvement has been attributed to the two-year ban that was imposed by...
Years after initial hesitancy when the local artificial insemination (AI) push began, goat farmers across the island are now rejoicing at the noticeable improvement in their herds. AI has been helping local goat, cattle and pig farmers to improve...
