Palm Sunday 2024 was not celebrated in its usual fashion at the Emmanuel Apostolic Church on Slipe Road in Kingston over the weekend. In addition to celebrating the Christian belief in the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem - when He was...
Former Nigeria President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has noted that, while Africa and the Caribbean and have consistently worked together to enhance areas of governance, economics, and health security, a change in direction was necessary to tackle...
As a young child he made a living selling Kisko pops in Coronation Market while navigating the streets of Rose Town and Whitfield Town in south St Andrew, years before migrating to the United States (US) where he would carve out a career in...
The Jamaica Association of Composers Authors and Publishers (JACAP) will not be compensated for the millions of dollars being sought from Restaurants of Jamaica, trading as KFC, for alleged infringement of copyright. Last week, the Court of Appeal...
A high percentage of the police force’s crime scene investigators are experiencing serious mental health challenges due to repeated exposure to gruesome crime scenes and stomach-churning autopsies, a recent study has revealed. Even more concerning...
Nestled in the serene community of Haddon in Moneague, St Ann, is Jacob’s Ladder. A safe haven where modern-day disciples and angels care for scores of the most disadvantaged children and adults. Located on 150 acres, it is the largest operation...
It cost the country $87.4 million to import special templates to print ballots for the last four elections, $53.7 million of which have gone down the drain because a high percentage of Jamaicans continue to shun their democratic right to vote. The...
The National Housing Trust (NHT) reportedly recommended abandoning plans to fund Phase Two of the controversial upscale Ruthven Towers project to make way for it to be undertaken by any interested private developer. The recommendation was...
Harold Brady, the disbarred attorney and former politician, has been ordered to serve 30 days in prison for failing to hand over half of the $140 million he collected for a publicly owned company from the sale of a St Andrew property. However,...
Gwendoline Martinez* was at work when she got the telephone call every parent dreads. Her nine-year-old daughter, Chyelle Hernandez*, had lost sight in her right eye after an incident involving another student at Goshen Primary School in St Mary,...
AUDITOR GENERAL (AG) Pamela Monroe Ellis says she will be dispatching two reports to Parliament on Monday that had been previously sent by her for tabling in the legislature, but were returned to her department yesterday by Speaker of the House,...
THE GOVERNMENT is taking steps to ban the discharge of effluent into the Rio Cobre with the development of legislation to tackle the vexed issue. Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Thursday that he has given instructions to the National...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRANSPORTATION MOGUL Oliver Townsend says residents of St Thomas can now look forward to luxury passenger and courier transportation services via his Knutsford Express bus services come January 2025. “We are almost islandwide, and...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CASE against Sheena Headley, the St James woman who was arrested in June 2022 after $85-million worth of cocaine was reportedly seized at her home, has been pushed back to April 12 due to her lawyer’s absence from the St James...
A week before Yvette Samuels was hospitalised for breast cancer, she was at school ensuring that her students were adequately prepared for the upcoming Primary Exit Profile examinations. On Wednesday, the first day of the exams, Samuels, who has...
THE FIRST person whose sentence was challenged by the director of public prosecutions (DPP) because he did not receive the mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment under the 2022 Amendment to the Firearms Act is to face a retrial. He is...
SOME PARENTS are expressing grave concerns over the mental well-being of their daughters who attend a prestigious Corporate Area all-girls high school following the deaths of two students within a near three-month window. The latest death occurred...
THE ‘UNUH app’, a mobile life skills application intended for youths from age 13-18 years, was launched on Thursday by the Civil Society Boost Initiative (CSBI) in collaboration with RISE Life Management Services. Nicholas Buddal, a sixth-form...
When The Gleaner on September 14, 2022 published an article titled, ‘There’s gold in them hills’, referencing the Canadian miners finding traces of gold and copper in their first drill hole in Bellas Gate, St Catherine, little did they know that a...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has rolled out new and revised housing benefits to National Housing Trust (NHT) contributors and beneficiaries. Effective July 1, 2024, the National Housing Trust will make changes to its Home Improvement Loan policy...
PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness said yesterday that his Government is seeking to close Jamaica’s wealth gap, announcing a trust fund to benefit underprivileged children, which will be accessible when they become 18 years old. Holness, in a four-hour-...
KEN WRIGHT PIER, Port Antonio: THE 59 Haitian children with varying disabilities, along with their 13 caregivers, left Portland yesterday after undergoing screening and medical check-ups conducted by the Ministry of Health. The children, along with...
AMID THE growing frustration of census workers over remuneration, the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has failed to outline a timeline for payments owed for the recently concluded 2022 population and housing census. The census commenced...
WHEN HE was 18 years old, retired public servant and radio broadcaster John McFarlane was involved in a near fatal bike crash. He recalls riding down Half-Way Tree Road, before a taxi that was headed in the opposite direction swerved in his...