Both the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen and the Jamaica Gospel Star competitions will close for entries at midnight tonight. The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), organisers of the competitions, explained that the deadline was extended...
Never one to limit his creative artistry, singer Serani has spent the past few years working on different albums, two of which have already been recorded, and a third, which he started recording three weeks ago. “I’m just diversifying,” he...
OTHNEIL BLAGROVE, senior manager – Sales, JN Life Insurance Company, is urging Jamaicans to make pension planning a priority when planning for the future because of its importance when it comes to retirement or unforeseen circumstances. Blagrove...
For long-time technical official Stephanie Rahming-Taylor, the absence of the Carifta Games for the past two years created a hole which was difficult to fill. This year’s return was not only a relief for the athletes, but for her in continuing her...
Dear Mrs Dahlia Walker-Huntington, I am a Jamaican married woman with a daughter from a previous relationship. She would like to attend high school in America with the hope of living there, and I would like to grant her this wish. What steps can I...
Dear Mr Bassie, I would like to know under what circumstances would someone need to apply for a Marriage Visitor visa? Thanks in advance for any information. YY Dear YY, Persons must apply for a Marriage Visitor visa if they want to get married or...
COLOMBO AP): Sri Lanka’s president acknowledged Monday that he made mistakes that led to the country’s worst economic crisis in decades and pledged to correct them. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made the admission while speaking to 17 new Cabinet...
There was an aura of opulence as the glamorous Lorraine Miller walked up the aisle to marry the man of her dreams, Otis Henry. Although the duo engaged in a three-year courtship up to ‘I Do’, this fascinating journey dates back almost four decades...
BEIJING (AP): Shanghai authorities on Monday reported the first COVID-19 deaths in the latest outbreak in China’s most populous and wealthiest city. All three people who died were elderly, had underlying diseases such as diabetes and hypertension...
BEIRUT (AP): During a visit to Syria in 2017, Vladimir Putin lavished praise on a Syrian general whose division played an instrumental role in defeating insurgents in the country’s long-running civil war. The Russian president told him his...
THREE ICONS of Jamaican poetry and one acclaimed newcomer will be among the featured authors at the 2022 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, the annual literary festival headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago. Running from April 28 to May 1 with the theme ‘Four Days...
Michael A. Collins, manager of the Youth Banking Unit at JN Bank, says increased financial knowledge among Jamaicans will play a pivotal role as persons seek to recover from the economic shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic. He noted that one of the...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): A group of criminals with high-powered rifles stormed a city in Brazil’s southern Parana state late Sunday night, attempting a brazen robbery and engaging police in a shoot-out. Local media reported that the roughly 30...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry says he is “deeply saddened” at the loss of lives following a vehicular accident over the weekend that left at least six people dead and more than 70 others injured. Media reports said that the...
SOME 20 representatives from the Peace Innovators and the Trench Town Community Development Committee benefited from a capacity peace-building programme organised by the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), through the Community Advancement for...
Construction has now been completed on the Old Harbour Fire Station, one of four such facilities the Government committed to undertake as part of a multimillion-dollar investment in the infrastructure of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB). The Ministry...
THE EDITOR, Madam: You may not be perfect, but Jesus thinks you were worth dying for although He Himself was perfect. Such expression of affection as displayed by Christ was actually the birth of a love revolution, where prior, humans’...
It was pure joy on the faces of attendees at the inaugural St Mary Kite and Food Festival on Sunday at Buccaneer’s Jerk and Juice Lawn in St Mary. The event, which was billed as a family-oriented entertainment function, was, from all indications, a...
In England, whose governance system we shamelessly plagiarise, Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently received a letter of resignation from his justice minister. In a letter to the PM after Bojo achieved the dubious honour of being the first British...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing this letter in support of the open letter from David Abrikian to the Russian Ambassador to Jamaica in The Gleaner. I personally do not think that the ambassador should even be in Jamaica. He should have been asked...