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...
The Bahamas is courting Jamaican farmers and producers to help boost the archipelagic state’s food security, noting that the CARICOM nation imports almost 90 per cent of its food supply. The call was made on Sunday by Leroy Major, executive...
Outgoing Clarendon Custos William Shagoury on Sunday poured scorn on the popular Parish Pavilion Competition at the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show, suggesting that dishonesty has resulted in the essence of the contest being lost....
Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding believes that having pumped more than $500 billion into the education sector in the last two decades to boost outcomes, the country has not received bang for its buck. “What has caused our dismal performance in...
Come September, students at Sydney Pagon Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Academy in St. Elizabeth will have the option of learning how to make cassava flour and tap into the economic potential of the local produce. The...
When John Allgrove, one of the owners of Whitfield Hall – an 18th-century site of rustic cottages in the Blue Mountains – received a call that the historic treasure was engulfed in flames in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the 84-year-old was...
When Marlon Kerr’s rough, boisterous, authoritative, aggressive, tall and ‘trapting’ (strapping) neighbour, Annette Irving, from the gritty inner-city community of Tivoli Gardens, told him in February to leave the streets and start free training to...
AS TIME winds down for the start of the Sixth-Form Pathways Programme in secondary schools, educators with the Ecumenical Education Committee (EEC) are insisting that the Government consult with all churches and trusts before implementing the...
As the clock wound down for the women’s 100-metre hurdles finals at Hayward Field in Oregon, Elizabeth Smith started to suffer a throbbing headache hundreds of miles away in Jamaica as her granddaughter Britany Anderson settled down for the biggest...
On the brink of the pandemic, Edward Daley’s intuition told him to leave his job as a chef overseas, return home, and seek a new career that gave him a sense of purpose. The 34-year-old, who has been a chef for a decade, obeyed his inner voice. At...
Elaine Foster-Allen, former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, has added her voice to warnings that the estimated 120,000 students who were missing from online classes in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic will cause grief for...
A flock of birds joined those gathered to witness the opening of the newly renovated multimillion-dollar office building for the European Union (EU) Delegation to Jamaica on Tuesday. Seconds before Prime Minister Andrew Holness took the microphone...
THERE WAS an almost 100 per cent increase in the number of Jamaicans who reported experiencing domestic abuse or violence over the last five years. According to Zavia Mayne, minister of state in the Ministry of National Security, the annual number...
Members of the Ecumenical Education Committee (EEC) are calling on the Government to revisit aspects of the no-fee policy at the secondary level ahead of the start of the new school year in September. The group is arguing that the policy has been...
Some motorists who traverse the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 are firm in their decision to boycott the toll road, as pressure grows for operators to roll back rate increases that took effect on Saturday. The pushback has primarily come from...
Hours after Saturday’s shooting death of 50-year-old Denise Bell in Seaforth, St Thomas, Rashelle Bennett was still in disbelief that her mother would never return home. Although the 50-year-old businesswoman’s blood stained the road, Bennett was...
