We had our friends at SLEEK scanning the streets of Trinidad for some of the best carnival moments on Tuesday and got a few fun moments. Also, the Rainforest Seafood Festival...
HAVANA (AP):Cuba's foreign minister on Thursday formally accepted a European Union (EU) invitation to begin talks on improving ties, and expressed concern over upheaval in key ally, Venezuela,...
Last week, a young Jamaican university student approached me in the car park.He said he'd heard me speak on some issues of importance to the Caribbean like "how financial innovation and technology...
The Management of the Sizzling Slots Limited gaming group has dismissed as erroneous, misleading and most unfortunate, a report in the Financial Gleaner of February 28, 2014, which gave the impression that the gaming group was suffering from financial...
Fujitsu this week announced that it has been named to Fortune Magazine's 2014 list of the World's Most Admired Companies for a second consecutive year.In being selected for this year's list, Fujitsu ranked highly for its innovation, social...
St Vincent and the Grenadines has launched its e-passport, saying the document is even more secure than the machine-readable passport launched in 2005."The e-passport has a lot of enhanced security features - tamper-proof, with a chip embedded...
Next week is being observed as World Kidney Awareness Week, under the theme 'Chronic Kidney Disease and Ageing' with the aim to raise awareness that chronic kidney disease can develop at any age but become more common with increasing...
With sales of J$3.2 billion and pre-tax profit of J$91 million, The Gleaner Company's financial performance was flat in 2013 - the result of consumer uncertainty and the contractionary impact of Jamaica's agreement with the International Monetary Fund,...
Nearly eight months after the implementation of the Public Health Tobacco Control Regulations, Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson says he remains committed to protecting the welfare of Jamaica's citizens, particularly children, from the negative effects...
Described as "small-sized", the Chinese Garden project, for which Prime Minister Portia Simpson and China's Ambassador to Jamaica, Dong Xiaojun, broke ground at Hope Gardens, St Andrew recently, is slated for completion in...
Carlene Sinclair, president of the Realtors Association of Jamaica (RAJ), expressed great optimism for the local real-estate industry, following the recent acceptance of 400 local realtors into the National Association of Realtors (NAR).This significant...
THE EDITOR, Sir:As a Jamaican living overseas, Keiran King's summation of how Jamaica became so poor (Gleaner, 'Why Jamaica is poor', March 5, 2014) lacked answers; the article was more of a speculative nature.
THE EDITOR, Sir:I notice that your columnist, Ronald Mason, took it upon himself to ventriloquise the 'poor' last Sunday ('That screeching environmentalist') by implying that environmentalists who have objected...
THE EDITOR, Sir:In response to The Gleaner's editorial of March 6, 2014 titled 'Beware of the xenophobes', I am a black nationalist, but I am not a xenophobe.