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...
QUICKSTEP PRIMARY and Basic School in St Elizabeth is now the envy of many other institutions in the parish, following a recent retrofitting with a state-of-the-art play area which rivals playgrounds at First-World institutions. The latter was the...
President of the Haiti-Jamaica Society Myrtha Désulmé says the 59 disabled Haitian children who are to be granted asylum has “diminished a stain of shame” from the Jamaican Government, which last month denied nationals from the violence-ravaged...
Western Bureau: Residents in sections of Eastern Hanover, mainly in the Hopewell and Chester Castle divisions of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), are expressing deep concern about the number of non-functioning fire hydrants that are in...
Over a decade after he rose to prominence, thanks to his roadside art gallery, the roadside artist returns to the place where it all started, better, more experienced, and a more focused artist. And suddenly, people are starting to remember the joy...
Following Tuesday’s parliamentary debacle, occasioned by a government walkout led by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, one political analyst is suggesting that Opposition Leader Mark Golding and members on his side of the political divide answer to...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness will be under the microscope in Parliament’s Lower House today when he makes his contribution to the Budget Debate, which comes three weeks after a hotly contested local government election that has balanced Jamaica’s...
The absence of E. G. Hunter, the National Works Agency (NWA) boss, at a crucial St Catherine Municipal Corporation physical-planning meeting on Tuesday has halted discussions on the much-needed expansion of Municipal Boulevard and Grange Lane in...
Experts are cautioning parents to be on the lookout for the harmful effects that the marketing of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and beverages can have on children’s health. These kinds of messages sent out by the food and beverages industry –...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding targeted Jamaica’s 30,000 teachers in his contribution to the 2024-2025 Budget Debate on Tuesday, outlining several commitments to the group if the People’s National Party forms the next government. Golding, who was...
Sandwiched between Gordon House and the old Headquarters House in Kingston, Opposition Leader Mark Golding yesterday took the balance of his contribution to the Budget Debate to the streets after his presentation was halted in Parliament by an...
Weighing in on the raging debate surrounding the recent Privy Council quashing of Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer’s murder conviction, former Prime Minister Patterson and his colleague King’s Counsel Hugh Small said the decision taken to proceed with...
Despite his concerns that leadership of two of the three branches of Jamaica’s Government is in one household, Opposition Leader Mark Golding says it is up to House Speaker Juliet Holness and her husband, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, to decide if...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding has dismissed Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke’s claim that Jamaica would have been blacklisted had general consumption tax (GCT) not been removed from imported raw foodstuff. Following his opening of the 2024-2025...
There are very few beverages, other than water and plain milk, that the industry manufactures to help with schools becoming compliant with the Ministry of Health...
Nineteen years ago, Issalem Calixte, a pastor in the commune of Lascahobas, Haiti, converted his church in the rural depressed area of the Quimpe VI locality into a school to serve the unprivileged children in the district. For almost two decades...
Questions are being raised about the silence of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) on the steps being taken to complete the 2022 Population and Housing Census, amid a disclosure of “under coverage” by Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke....
Attorneys for Adidja 'Vybz Kartel' Palmer and his co-defendants in the Clive Williams murder case have come out swinging in defence of the men, declaring that they had nothing to do with the attempts to taint the jury. Responding to suggestions and...
THE JAMAICA Constabulary Force’s (JCF) 14,094-strong members will today embark under the leadership of Dr Kevin Blake at the helm, boasting among them new and existing constables with degrees in forensic science, forensic chemistry and law. The man...
To address the issues of water scarcity experienced across various communities in St Ann South Eastern, the Government is looking to partner with bauxite companies to conduct a study of their properties to determine the availability of water wells...
