DESPITE MULTIPLE initiatives and the dedicated work of many, road crashes remain the second-leading cause of violent deaths in Jamaica and, according to the National Road Safety Council, the risk is especially high for young drivers.

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth:THE GLEANER recently spent some time with Osmond Samuda, alias Sergus or 'Shooi', a shoemaker who operates in the town of Santa Cruz.

MAY PEN, Clarendon:INGRID PARCHMENT, executive director of the Caribbean Coastal Area Management (C-CAM) Foundation, is hopeful that soon there will be a proper...

AT 4:30 p.m. when it came to an end, the excited children didn't want to go. For the previous two and a half hours, they were having the time of their lives by The Gleaner's North Street, Kingston, car park that was transformed into a giant playground and learning centre with lots of fun and exciting things for them to do.

THE JAMAICA Constabulary Force (JCF) has announced several changes in the way it collaborates with other state agencies to conduct enforcement operations.The changes came after the Police High Command, in a statement released yesterday, conceded that...

As a football lover, I am very concerned that there is not a football field in the parish suitable to play a Red Stripe Premier League match.

WESTERN BUREAU:THE VEXED issue of inaccessibility to private firearm licences by some members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) became a point of discussion by delegates at the Police Federation's 69th annual...

THE CAYMAN Islands government this month set up a task force to oversee the enactment of a United States measure to catch tax dodgers called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).