The Government is taking steps to issue menu options and nutritional guidelines to chefs, cooks and canteen operators at schools that continue to prepare, buy and sell food and drinks that are high in sodium and sugar content. Christopher Tufton,...
While a disappointed Taevion Morgan cried after placing sixth in The Gleaner’s Children’s Own Spelling Bee Championship four years ago, Sharee Morgan immediately sprang into action with one goal: to get her son under the wings of that year’s...
Courtney Greaves, the 11-year-old head girl of Jessie Ripoll Primary School, has created history as the youngest awardee to date in the Global Poetry Foundation Competition and for being the first to win seven awards in a given year. Greaves...
At 21 years of age, Sudan Lawson does not believe she has been given a fair chance at pursuing her passion in life. The disabled young woman spends each day crying and hoping for a better life inside the dilapidated one-room dwelling she shares...
Moments after hearing his name announced as Journalist of the Year 2022, Giovanni Dennis descended the steps of the Courtleigh Auditorium almost apologetically, wiping away tears rather than breaking into whoops of joy and fist-bumping triumphalism...
In an effort to provide climate justice to Jamaicans, Opposition Spokesperson Senator Sophia Frazer Binns is calling for higher budgetary allocations to the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation and, more specifically, the environment and...
Although hundreds of red mangrove saplings have been planted in recent years to replenish the dying mangrove population along the Palisadoes strip in Kingston, those efforts have gone in vain as pollution and lack of maintenance have caused many of...
When family and friends came together on January 22 to celebrate the 100th birthday of Jamaican World War II veteran, Gervist Adolphus Neale, not only was he at a loss for words, but he shed tears of joy. As the adage goes, ‘Once a man, twice a...
Nearly two years after the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) announced that the Caribbean’s first beach erosion monitoring tower was installed at a cost in excess of US$1 million along Half Moon Bay Beach in Hellshire, St Catherine,...
Reverend Sean Major-Campbell, pastor of Christ Church in Vineyard Town, Kingston, is calling for more thorough audits of all agencies tasked with protecting children in the wake of the Office of the Children’s Advocate’s (OCA) damning report into...
When cookshop operator Thia Jones’ cousin died leaving a son behind nine years ago, she did not hesitate to take him in, although she was living in a one-bedroom structure with her mother and her own biological son in Hopeful Village, St Andrew....
Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon-Harrison has indicated that the police have not yet approached her office for witness statements or with requests for interviews since it tabled the report flagging the Child Protection and Family Services Agency’...
Fifty-one-year-old Moveta Clarke suffered a stroke last November while her new three-bedroom house was being constructed under the New Social Housing Programme. It was the third stroke for the former domestic helper, who also has a brain tumour....
Nearly two years after Cabinet approved the development of a national higher-education policy, work is now being done on its framework, including ways to make it easier for students to fund tertiary-level studies. In April 2021, Education Minister...
With only one student enrolled on December 1 at Inglewood Basic School in Manchester, the rural-based early childhood institution was on the verge of closing its doors and sending its three educators home. By the start of the January term, four...
With road safety experts suggesting that a rigorous programme giving public transport operators defensive driving lessons could help in restoring order to the island’s roads and reduce fatalities, Alphonso Grennell has stepped up to action the idea...
With new cases of alleged fraud coming to public attention days into the new year, David Salmon, the sole youth voice at the 43rd annual National Leadership Prayer Breakfast, pleaded with the nation’s leaders to fight corruption. Speaking at the...
With the nation recording 1,498 murders in 2022, Bishop Christine Gooden-Benguche could not help but address the scourge of crime at the 43rd annual National Leadership Prayer Breakfast on Thursday. While delivering the main address, Gooden-...
Last October, Cameal Gibbs buried her first son, who died from an illness, and she is now clinging to a thread of hope, praying not to lose her last and only surviving son, Joshua Hanson, a road crash victim now in a coma. Hanson is currently being...
Noting that it is impossible to complete all 122 cases down for trial in the current term of the Home Circuit Court, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn is urging defendants to plead guilty if they are and not to further burden...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has expressed hope that the stipend being paid to jurors will soon be examined with a view to increasing the amount to encourage more persons to serve. At the start of the Hilary Term in the...
Members of the minority caucus of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) have expressed dissatisfaction with a response from CEO Robert Hill regarding hundreds of street lights which remain dysfunctional across the Corporate Area...
Councillor Jacqueline Lewis said that she alerted the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) to the potential dangers of several uncovered storm drains in the Norman Gardens Division several years ago, but nothing was done to address...
Residents of Portsea in St Elizabeth on Thursday expressed their disgust at telecommunications company FLOW and a neighbour for the recent erection of a cell tower in their community in alleged violation of a stop order on the site even as they...
A month before the close of the old year, Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr, vice-president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), predicted that there would be at least 473 road fatalities for 2022. Other specialists in Jamaica were predicting a...
