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The foundation operated by Jamaican international music star Shaggy has not filed mandatory audited financial statements for the last two years, placing itself in danger of being stripped of its charity status, the agency that regulates charitable...

A lot of Jamaicans have been nyamming up themselves on social media because the American group SOJA won the Grammy earlier this month for ‘Best Reggae Album’. The title of the top-rated album is Beauty in the Silence. Angry Jamaicans should listen...

CRISIS – AND REFORM The Commonwealth Secretariat’s governance and the efficiency, effectiveness, and impact of its programme delivery, especially for development, have been under considerable scrutiny in recent years, and mainly so by major...

A woman once related a story to me of how, during the later stage of her pregnancy, she boarded a bus from Half Way Tree to Portmore and ended up standing the entire journey notwithstanding many men being seated on the bus. She, like many other...

After a first listen, the song Rise Above the Storm somehow puts itself on repeat somewhere in the psyche, but in a good way. Singer Maxine Reyes says Rise Above the Storm “was written while cleaning [her] kitchen in the middle of a rainstorm”...

The book Reimagining Caribbean Methodism for Contemporary Society is a collection of lectures, articles, and sermons that are systematised to make a compelling argument for a new vision of Caribbean Methodism that is more relevant to the needs and...

The McWhinnie Abrahams were a prominent family of merchants and planters in and around Chapelton, Race Course, and May Pen in Clarendon, in St Catherine, and in Kingston and St Andrew during the 19th and 20th centuries. The family is linked to...

Earlier this week, The Gleaner reported that Prime Minister Andrew Holness had expressed concerns regarding a shortage of skilled labour in the Jamaican marketplace and that the country may soon be forced to import skilled workers for the...

The announcement of plans to divest the Milk River Spa in Clarendon ought to be placed on hold at this time. Instead, the Parliament – Government and the Opposition – should take very seriously a German geologist’s comment with respect to our spas...