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Stephen Francis steps down as head coach at MVP
Stephen Francis has stepped down as head coach of the very successful MVP Track and Field Club. In a release today, president Bruce...
CommentsThree charged in connection with St Catherine double murder
Investigations by the police in Old Harbour, St Catherine have resulted in three men, including one who is now detained at the Horizon Remand Centre, being charged in connection with a double...
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Hostile takeover? - Supreme Ventures chairman calls attorneys over move to oust board
Caught off guard by what appears to be a dual effort by new Trinidadian shareholder Zodiac and investment house Mayberry at a hostile takeover of the Supreme Ventures Limited board, the current directors are huddling with their lawyers on how to...
CommentsNew FLA board mandated to 'clean ship' - We are up to the challenge- Anderson
Minister of National Security Robert Montague has charged the newly appointed board of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) to "clean ship" as they seek to restore public trust in the embattled entity.Retired Major General Antony Anderson is tasked...
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Government, US agency partner to control mosquitoes
Up to 90 per cent of some homes have been found to be breeding grounds for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, but the Government will be partnering with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the coming months to deal with this...
CommentsTo eat, or not to eat? - Where should Christians draw the line regarding meat eating?
Ellen Street, Manchester"The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Say to the Israelites: 'Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat: You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud."There are some that only...
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Manning Cup heats up - KC, Calabar clash in feature quarter-final match
Traditional rivals Kingston College and Calabar High will meet for the first time in many years as the ISSA/FLOW Manning Cup quarter-final round kicks off today.The teams have been drawn into two groups of four teams each. In one group are St Andrew...
CommentsLaw urges WI to brace for spin challenge
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (CMC):Head coach Stuart Law is envisioning a trial by spin when West Indies clash in the opening Test against Zimbabwe, starting here today."This is a Test venue. The wicket here is traditionally very good for batting and spins...
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Express Catering to open first Starbucks outlet by February
Express Catering Limited, which runs a series of food outlets at the airport in Montego Bay, expects to make a lot more revenue when it opens a...
CommentsBerger owner rejected, plans to get on with business
ANSA Coatings International Limited got just over three per cent more of the Berger Jamaica shareholdings, a result that signalled overwhelming rejection of its bid...
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Connecting tourism and entertainment
Argentina's ambassador to Jamaica, Ariel Fernandez, is very enthusiastic about Jamaican popular music.
In a story in last Sunday's Gleaner, he spoke at length about not only the recent internat...
CommentsChart Watch iTunes | The Green gives 'Marching Orders'
The new release, Marching Orders, by The Green, was the top album on the iTunes ranking of reggae albums up to early yesterday morning. It was ahead of Legend (Remastered) by Bob Marley and the Wailers, another new release separating that 'best of'...
CommentsLetter of the Day | Time for a new Lutheran Reformation?
THE EDITOR, Sir:Where have we reached after 500 years when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses of the church door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg, Germany? Is it time for someone else to nail another theses on another church door?In the 1920s,...
CommentsSanction pigs for sexual harassment!
Masculinity in Jamaica seems to demand the blatant objectification of women by physically assaulting them and using aspects of their bodies to describe them often in sexual ways. You would be foolish to think our university campuses would have men...
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Gov't set to strip Catalonia of powers over independence bid
BARCELONA (AP):The crisis over Catalonia's quest for independence escalated yesterday, as Spain's central government prepared the unprecedented step of stripping the wealthy region of some of its self-governing powers after its leader refused to...
CommentsMH17 investigators appeal for information about Buk photo
THE HAGUE (AP):An international team investigating the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine appealed yesterday for information about a photograph which prosecutors believe...
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Editorial | Justice reform and sentence reduction
Jaevion Nelson | Don't abandon rural Jamaica