With the start to the Atlantic hurricane season less than 24 hours away, farmers and householders in New Haven, St Andrew, are fearing the worst should another tropical storm sweep the island. It’s a painful refrain for the residents, who have for...
Janine De Windt, regional manager, Curaçao Tourist Board, is very upbeat that Jamaica will continue to help her country with its path to tourism recovery from the negative effects of the pandemic. One way in which Jamaica has already started is by...
The government of Curaçao is excited and optimistic about the new investment and foreign earnings the Jamaican hotel brand, Sandals, will bring to their country when it opens shortly. Maria Elena Seferina, managing director of Curaçao Hospitality...
Olympian Yohan Blake has sprinted to the aid of down-on-luck Irene Morgan, a shut-in in Smithville, Clarendon, who had recently pleaded for assistance to repair her dilapidated home. Morgan, who suffers with peripheral arterial disease and who...
While many youth from rural Jamaica are shying away from continuing in a legacy of farming, which has sustained their communities, 18-year-old former ward of the state Rohane Grey is glad to accept the call. The Hanover native is in his second year...
Former state ward Megais Simpson believed that the intervention of social workers to shape the course of his life over the past 17 years has been instrumental in setting him on a path to success. The 19-year-old believes that were it not for the...
Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has vowed to launch a campaign to scrub some colonial-era names from the capital city. Moments after Monday’s renaming of a section of Tower Street in honour of late civil-rights activist Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, Williams...
Health and Wellness State Minister Juliet Cuthbert Flynn is happy that opposition Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna has joined her call for parliamentary action to amend the country’s abortion law even as debate on the contentious issue intensifies...
Wahkeen Murray, former acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology, was yesterday pressed to establish whether she knew that Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh resided in the United States at the time of his appointment and while...
If the United Way of Jamaica is grateful for one thing in 2022, it is the ability to again host its grand gala fundraising event called ‘Live United for Mom’ on Mother’s Day. While board chair of United Way of Jamaica, Chorvelle Johnson...
Six years ago, intuition gnawed at Kimoy Buchanan not to leave her house for a nearby games night but she disobeyed. The then businesswoman and mother of three decided to go because she wanted to support the festivities hosted by a friend. But...
Two teenage cousins are on a mission to help students recover from the learning loss caused by COVID-19-induced disruptions in the education sector by honing their reading skills and develop a deeper appreciation for books. Bookworms Debra-Kay...
Concerned farmers in St Elizabeth are now satisfied with the new date announced for completion of the long-awaited Essex Valley Agricultural Development Project (EVADP), following delays caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the ongoing...
There were a number of times in 22-year-old Valicka Pryce’s life when she, her mom and her sister had to literally run for their lives. Years ago, community violence forced them to flee their inner-city community in the capital city and head for...
As concerns continue to swirl over the Sixth-Form Pathways Programme (SFPP) scheduled to start in the next four months, Jamaica’s chief education officer is calling for principals to direct outgoing 11th-graders they cannot accommodate to the...
Thirty-one-year-old Brian Turner believes that it was a stipend being offered for participating in the USAID-sponsored A Ganar programme in 2012 that saved him, then an at-risk youngster in an inner-city community, from a life of crime. He believes...
Education Minister Fayval Williams says she will not be quick to jump at the recent recommendations from the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) to sack three principals heading government-operated institutions over their “flagrant disregard” for the...
Member of Parliament Juliet Holness sought to cool raging tempers in Violet Bank Wednesday, urging residents to exercise patience as they demanded quick response from the operators of heavy equipment to clear a landslide that marooned the community...
Several workers in the construction industry have warned Prime Minister Andrew Holness against opening the floodgates to imported labour, arguing that hundreds of skilled tradespeople are market-ready though most have not received formal training...
In the struggle to get access to water, some residents of Whitfield Avenue in St Andrew have no option but to risk their lives and venture behind enemy lines to secure the precious commodity from a makeshift standpipe, even while their community is...
Nadine Braham, a single mother of a 12-year-old blind child who is also diagnosed with sickle cell disease, speech impediment and autism, has been longing to go back to work and regain her independence ever since her son was born. Since Tyrique...
Noting that the coronavirus pandemic was not yet over, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is urging Jamaicans not to become complacent as the Government has the power to reinstitute infection-control restrictions should there be a...
Some 20 years ago, carpenter Dave Wright looked at the abandoned Montpelier train station in St James and saw it as the perfect home for his furniture operation. Securing a lease with the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC), he soon breathed new life...
Colin Coyle, a 31-year-old ex-convict who spent eight years in prison for armed robbery, is begging for a second chance at life on the straight and narrow path. Since his release from prison on September 29, 2021, he has been finding it difficult...
Seprod Group CEO Richard Pandohie is calling for a strengthening of economic ties between Canada and Jamaica, urging the leaders of the North American country not to see the island as only seeking handouts. He was speaking at an event yesterday at...
