A culture of 'finding a job' and the fear of failure are two of the critical factors that have steered young people away from the various government...
The Gleaner's Youthlink Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) seminar series, geared to help secondary-level students with the formula to excel, will roll out today.
Calabar High's Traves Smikle and St Hugh's High's Candecia Bernard could improve on their national junior discus records when competition begins in Champs 100, the centenary celebration...
A leading business-development specialist is calling for the various micro-business finance schemes, particularly those aimed at young people, to be placed under one umbrella....
Lawyers representing reggae superstar Buju Banton have gone to court with a belated attempt to get him released on bail. The lawyers claim that Buju, whose correct name is Mark Myrie, has not been provided...
TWO WEEKS after Parliament passed a bill establishing the Office of a Special Prosecutor, Contractor General Greg Christie has urged legislators to turn their focus on creating an office of a corruption...
TOUGH TALK shattered the sombre mood at the thanksgiving ceremony of slain police Corporal Miguel Cuff as federation chairman, Corporal Raymond Wilson, rallied members of the constabulary to action...
WASHINGTON (AP):United States President Barack Obama and House Democratic leaders struck a last-minute deal Sunday with abortion foes to secure the final few votes needed to remake America's health-care system, writing a climactic chapter...
WESTERN BUREAU: A SPECIAL court of justice and prison to prosecute and punish corrupt high-ranking officials and cops should be set up in Jamaica, a police inspector said yesterday.His damning assessment of leadership...
RESIDENTS at the Mustard Seed Communities' children's home in Adelphi, St James, were yesterday treated to food and friendship from the Kiwanis Club of Providence, Montego Bay...
THE JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) yesterday rallied its supporters to the defence of the Government, arguing that it was under threat from propaganda and orchestrated attempts by people to topple the Golding administration....
WESTERN BUREAU:IT WAS business as usual this past weekend with the strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew having little or no effect on flights from London Gatwick Airport to Jamaica...
A POLICE armoured car at the corner of Rose Lane and Drummond Street was the only reminder last Thursday of the gunfight that took place at the Hannah Town-Denham Town border three days earlier....
WESTERN BUREAU:WITH JUST under a month before the winter tourist season ends, Jamaica is experiencing a seven per cent increase in stopover arrivals, Tourism Minister...
GOVERNMENT MINISTER Edmund Bartlett yesterday mounted a staunch defence of a controversial American Airlines accord and charged that he has never misled the Cabinet or Parliament during his 25 years in public...
It's been a bumpy 30-month ride for self-proclaimed "Driver" Prime Minister Bruce Golding, with no apparent end in sight. For the past two and a half years,...
THE BELIEF that many policemen and women are corrupt has joined low salary and bad working conditions as the main reasons educated young Jamaicans are shying away from a career in...
TWO JAMAICAN Constabulary Force (JCF) members stood under a tree at Kingston College, talking to a student whose shirt was not tucked into his trousers.
A SENIOR police sergeant told The Sunday Gleaner that to bypass the selection process, prospective recruits gain entry into the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) through bribery.She alleges that it is relatively easy for people to make contact with...
The missing train station in St Margaret's Bay, Portland, was striking, but the desolation where the one in May Pen, Clarendon, once stood is especially jarring.
In a situation where one person out of a population is a deviant, we would focus an explanation of his deviance on the formation of his personality. But in a situation where an entire section of a population is deviant, our focus inevitably must be directed to processes that shape the foundations of behaviour.
Christopher 'Dudus' Coke will remain on the United States most-wanted list even if he is not extradited by the Jamaican authorities.An official of the US Attorney's Office says the west Kingston strongman known as the...
ACUTE POVERTY and violence are denying students vital hours in the classroom. These age-old problems have not gone unnoticed by researchers and the Ministry of Education.
