THE EDITOR, Madam: What mental health services will be provided after we have allowed Lower 6 (ages 16-17) CAPE 2022 students to be placed under severe anguish, unfathomable physical distress and untold mental strain? In one country, secondary...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I vividly recall that about this time 60 years ago, Jamaica was getting all excited in anticipation of the coming Independence. I recall when the National Anthem was finally chosen and the rush to get the words and music to the...
PORT OF SPAIN(CMC): Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar says she intends to raise as a matter of urgent public importance in Parliament on Wednesday, the government’s recent announcement of an increase in fuel prices. The one dollar (one TT...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Police have launched a search for the killers of two elderly Chinese brothers, whose bodies were found with their hands tied with plastic zip ties in their home in Petit Bourg, east of here, on Tuesday. Police said 87-year-old...
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, on Tuesday downgraded the outlook for the world economy this year and next, blaming Russia’s war in Ukraine for disrupting global commerce, pushing up oil prices, threatening food supplies, and increasing...
Sprawled like a gigantic swimming pool atop a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan is an asphalt-and-clay pond holding enough water to produce electricity for 1.6 million households. It’s part of the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant, which uses simple...
Travellers shed their masks and cheered as pilots and conductors announced that a federal judge in Florida had struck down a national mask mandate on airplanes and mass transit. “Feel free to burn them at will,” a New Jersey conductor told...
Migrants deserve fair and equal treatment, whether they are Black, White or Coloured, but that is not what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cooked up. He has devised what his critics have called “a callous, inhumane plan” to deport Black...
The 2022 Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA) Honour Awards went off with minimal hitches. After a late start, the host for the evening, media communications specialist Roxene Nickle, jumped quickly into the programme much to the...
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador failed to find enough votes to pass a constitutional reform limiting private and foreign firms in the electrical power industry, marking the first major legislative setback for the president. However,...
Authorities in Puerto Rico said Tuesday that an electronic toll collection system was the target of a cyberattack over the weekend, the latest such incident in recent years. The system, known as AutoExpreso, is run by a private operator called...
Through no fault of their own, developing countries face a perfect storm of famine, political upheaval, and debt crises. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Western-led sanctions it triggered are partly to blame, as are COVID-19 lockdowns in...
Central banks around the world are considering whether to issue their own digital currencies. While financial inclusion is often cited as a key motivation, this outcome is not automatic. Precisely how can central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs,...
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda paid official visits to Jamaica and Barbados last week. He was in Jamaica from April 13-15 and in Barbados from April 15-17. In both countries, President Kagame spoke of the need to strengthen the direct contact...
A man who locked his ex-girlfriend in his house and raped her, despite a warning from his father that he could end up in prison, has lost his fight to have his 25 years of imprisonment overturned by the Court of Appeal. Jermaine Burke, who was...
WESTERN BUREAU: AS JAMAICA slowly returns to some semblance of normality following the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, Montego Bay’s Acting Mayor Richard Vernon is urging young people to get involved in farming, in order to bolster Jamaica...
WHEN YOU sit, you use less energy than you do when you stand or move. Research has linked sitting for long periods of time with a number of health concerns. They include obesity and a cluster of conditions, including increased blood pressure, high...
THE PRINCIPLES of applied behaviour analysis (ABA) are used to change and improve socially significant behaviours as well as communication, social and learning skills. Most people consider ABA to be a treatment method for managing the symptoms of...
Two fishermen who pleaded guilty to possession of undersize lobster in the St Ann’s Bay Parish Court will return on Thursday, April 21, for sentencing. They are 55-year-old Leonard Anderson of Charles Town, St Ann, and 57-year-old Bryan Rutty of...
A belief in self-reliance has kept Hector Whyte ploughing, sowing, and reaping for the past 35 years. The farmer, who had a variety of produce on sale at Monday’s staging of the St Mary Agri-Expo, told The Gleaner that he has built on his father’s...