Prime Minister Andrew Holness is worried that the widening skills gap in the construction industry will undermine a recovering Jamaican economy, even as he anticipates a construction boom along the north coast. The prime minister’s concerns, and...
This year’s staging of The BossMom Network’s Mother’s Day activities will see another philanthropic project under the theme ‘BossMom Builds’. Launched in 2020, the BossMom Network is a community of mothers-in-business, building viable businesses,...
PARIS (AP): As France elects a president, Paris-based artist Vincent Aïtzegagh is going to ground, escaping to a bucolic village to avoid what, for him – and millions of other left-wing French voters – is a painful, even impossible, electoral...
NAIROBI (AP): Mwai Kibaki, the former Kenyan leader whose distinguished political career was tarnished when he won a second presidential term that was followed by deadly post-election violence, has died at the age of 90. Kibaki’s death was...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): The leaders of the rival Koreas exchanged letters expressing hope for improved bilateral relations, which plummeted in the past three years amid a freeze in nuclear negotiations and North Korea’s accelerating weapons...
One can tell that artistes mean business when they do a collab and then step up their game with a well thought-out, GQ-esque photo shoot to accompany the song. Wayne Wonder and Frankie Sly’s recently released single, Party All Night Long, produced...
Andre Barnaby is on a quest to ensure that people in and around his community are actively keeping their environment clean. He has been providing decorated garbage bins that have been placed at strategic locations to motivate people to use them,...
LONDON: George Dyer, one of London’s most renowned tailors, has died at age 67, following a heart attack. The bespoke couturier from St Elizabeth, Jamaica, worked with an array of celebrities during an illustrious career spanning decades. Dyer...
BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC): The Belize government has confirmed that Ambassador Alexis Rosado has “relinquished” his diplomatic posting overseas after he appeared in a court on sexually related charges. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
LONDON: Britain’s longest-serving black MP, Diane Abbott, could soon have a park renamed in her honour thanks to a slavery review conducted by Labour-controlled Brent Council in north west London. Gladstone Park, in the Dollis Hill area of the...
It was probably for the best that Rwandan President Paul Kagame was in the middle of a three-day visit to Jamaica when news broke of the extraordinary asylum deal Rwanda had struck with the United Kingdom (UK). With no opportunity to grill the...
The Insurance Company of the West Indies (ICWI) is encouraging its customers’ children at the primary, preparatory and high-school levels to nominate a teacher who has helped them through the challenges of COVID, so that their teachers can be...
THE NATIONAL Baking Company Foundation (NBCF) has been announced as a lead sponsor of the 2022 Child Month celebrations. The event, organised by the National Child Month Committee, will be celebrated under the theme, ‘Listen up! Children’s Voices...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I have always been a great fan of editorial cartoons. So, when a story appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s website concerning a newspaper editor issuing an apology for a cartoon he had published, it piqued my...
THE EDITOR, Madam: One of the noticeable traits of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda is his calm demeanour, although he is perceived by some in his country as authoritarian. Despite this, Kagame has managed to balance his image well. Especially...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Everyone, including children, deserves to enjoy the highest standard of physical and mental health. This is not the case for children who are bullied. Children who are bullied can experience depression, anxiety and increased...
To my friend, Dr Johny Coomansingh, whose call I missed and made the excuse, “My phone responds only some of the time. It is like a worker in Trinidad.” George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright, satirist and Nobel Prize winner, quipped, “...
CARICOM states led the way in the Organization of American States (OAS) on April 21 in a historic vote to suspend the status of the Russian Federation as a permanent observer to the OAS. Eleven other CARICOM countries supported Antigua and Barbuda...
Nadine Braham, a single mother of a 12-year-old blind child who is also diagnosed with sickle cell disease, speech impediment and autism, has been longing to go back to work and regain her independence ever since her son was born. Since Tyrique...
Health officials across the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) are sharing the optimism of Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton and Dr Brian James, president of the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ), that the island is in a...