A legal fight is looming at the Labour and Social Security Ministry as Deborah Patrick Gardner, the chief technical director in charge of labour issues, is suing Permanent Secretary Collette Roberts Risden for allegedly demoting...
Elliott Tanner will graduate from the University of Minnesota next month with a major in physics and a minor in maths and is planning to get his doctorate next. His mother Michelle revealed that he taught himself to read at a very young age. She...
The Ministry of Education is providing four buses to assist students in Portland, particularly those attending Happy Grove High School, who are experiencing challenges as a result of the work under way on the Portland to St Thomas leg of the...
Andy Evans left his wallet, which contained his driving licence, bank cards, and cash in a taxi when he travelled back from a gig in June 2015. The father-of-two assumed that the wallet was gone forever when he stepped out of the cab in Manchester...
MADRID (AP): THE “SI SE PUEDE! (Yes we can!)” chants gradually faded at the Santiago Bernabéu as the minutes passed and Real Madrid looked beaten. As the end of regulation approached, many in the stands – and on the field – were close to giving up...
Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles faced intense criticism during Wednesday’s meeting of the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) and was accused of being “complicit” in the banking sector’s alleged rip-off of...
Western Bureau: A BRILLIANT half-century from Marlon Powell steered St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) into the finals of the ISSA GraceKennedy T20 Cricket Competition with a six-wicket win over Excelsior High School at the STETHS Sports...
Champions of the inaugural Dream XI Jamaica T10 competition will be decided today when the Surrey Royals take on the Surrey Kings at 1:30 p.m. at Sabina Park. The Jermaine Blackwood-led Surrey Kings will be banking on their big-hitting opener...
The average time for the completion of divorces in Jamaica has been slashed from three years in the past to 20 months in recent times, with many couples in the last year untying the knot within 16 weeks. Justice Minister Delroy Chuck, who made the...
ATOMICA’s class act in the Thornbird Stakes, after being slammed into by OUTBIDDER at the off, seven and a quarter lengths clear of runner-up GOLDEN WATTLE, makes Gary Subratie’s runner a tough horse to beat in Saturday’s fillies-only Portmore at...
An expert witness has disclosed that phone record data showed that incarcerated alleged Clansman-One Don Gang honchos Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan and Jason ‘City Puss’ Brown had at least four different cell numbers between January and August of 2019....
JAMAICA’S UNDER-17 Reggae Girlz’s hopes of upstaging favourites United States in the Concacaf Under-17 Women’s Championship quarterfinal and eventually booking a place in the final and Under-17 Women’s World Cup later this year were crushed at...
The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has refused to disclose the cost of financing the controversial upgrade of banknotes scheduled for release later this year. An Access to Information (ATI) request submitted by The Gleaner for the cost to revamp the notes...
MELBOURNE, Australia (CMC): JAMAICAN GOAL shooter Jhaniele Fowler won her personal duel with compatriot Shamera Sterling and had an almost perfect game to lead West Coast Fever to a 60-51 win over Adelaide Thunderbird in the Supernetball League...
Former People’s National Party (PNP) senator, Paul Miller, has been hailed in his death as a patriot and passionate youth and community advocate. Miller died at hospital on Tuesday after complaining of feeling unwell. Maxine Henry-Wilson, former...
Dr Pauline Watson Campbell has shed some light on Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in her book S ealing the Cracks: Managing Behavioural Problems in the Classroom. Published in 2019, the book highlights the challenges of having...
Set for Saturday, May 7, the Deborah N.O.W conference will change the atmosphere in the volatile August Town community. The event, which doubles as a brunch, promises to be an exciting and spiritually moving experience, as it reinforces the value...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE rehabilitation of Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) projected for completion by December 2024, Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Morais Guy is convinced that the renovation costs could be almost double the Government’s...
BOGOTA (AP): As women in the United States find themselves on the verge of possibly losing the constitutional right to abortion, courts in many other parts of the world have been moving in the opposite direction. That includes in a number of...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Jamaica has expectedly seen a rise in the COVID-19 cases since the end of the Easter holidays. There are several reports in the media where the minister of health and wellness is apparently not ruling out making adjustments to...