Security-conscious Jamaicans can now monitor movements at their homes and businesses via the Falcon B series remote monitoring and control device system. The innovation was created by electronics engineer Lindon Falconer, who believes his invention...
Recipient of the Jamaica Diaspora Agriculture Task Force’s (JDAT) initial Investor Circle micro grants, Patricia Parchment, plans to venture into commercial bee farming. Parchment, who is currently involved in the harvesting and bottling of...
Dear Mr Bassie, My passport has expired and it contains my current United Kingdom visa. Will I be able to transfer it to my new passport/? Please advise. – NI Dear NI, Persons might need to transfer or replace their visa if...
Dear Mrs Walker-Huntington I am writing to ask you for some advice about seeking citizenship as an adopted son of an American. I was 14 years old when my parents adopted me in 1991. However, they separated shortly after the adoption. My mother died...
Reigning RJRGLEANER Sports Foundation Tennis Player of the Year, Rowland ‘Randy’ Phillips, said he is aiming to lower his International Tennis Federation (ITF) world ranking in 2019. The 24-year-old Phillips, who had an outstanding...
Sprinting legend Usain Bolt is calling for greater support for Special Olympics Jamaica (SOJ), as they prepare to compete at the 2019 World Games in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Bolt, yesterday, through his Usain Bolt Foundation, donated $1...
The Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) is inviting the public to participate in its flagship event for Customs Week, its inaugural Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Day, this Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The day, which is part of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Gary Howell, managing director of the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ), is pleading with the residents of Norwood, St James, to complete outstanding payments for their lands so that they can collect their titles. “We have been...
THE EDITOR, Sir: As someone who was born Lucea, Hanover, I am taken aback by an article on January 10 in another newspaper, titled ‘We disagree’, highlighting a proposal by the local People’s National Party (PNP) councillors to...
THE EDITOR, Sir: The level of crime and violence in Jamaica is quite frightening, to say the least. Nonetheless, it is nothing strange to persons who understand spiritual warfare. The Holy Spirit, in Ephesians 6:12, opines, “We wrestle not...
National defender Dominique Bond-Flasza said the week-long training camp that ended on Sunday ahead of the Jamaica senior women’s football team’s FIFA Women’s World Cup campaign in France proved to be extremely competitive because...
Members of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) and other industry players in the packaging sector have committed to supporting the increased recovery of plastic bottles by facilitating an expansion of Recycling Partners of...
Barcelona surprisingly signed Kevin-Prince Boateng on loan from Italian club Sassuolo yesterday, until the end of the season. The 31-year-old Boateng has appeared to be past his prime after playing for the likes of AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund,...
THE EDITOR, Sir: According to the article in The Gleaner, the Jamaican Government is proposing to use the stock market to raise funds for infrastructure projects in a move to avoid increasing the national debt. The article indicates that Dr...
Noted Jamaican immigration-rights advocate Irwine Clare has warned against high expectations of preferential treatment towards blacks or any other minority group should Kamala Harris be elected president of the United States (US). Harris, a first-...
THE EDITOR, Sir: The double standards of the Organization of American States (OAS) and United States (US) as regards democracy were well exposed by Gordon Robinson in the Sunday press, putting the Andrew Holness administration’s treatment of...
With nine days to go before the state of emergency (SOE) in St James expires, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has led an impassioned defence of the crime-suppressing measure as an effective method of staunching the tide of murder that...
More than 15 schools and citizens living in volatile and vulnerable communities are to benefit from the Ministry of National Security’s ‘I Am Purpose’ campaign. The campaign, which started in September 2018, focuses on the value...
Juxtaposing the rallying cry for reparation from Britain for slavery for almost 200 years, climate-change consultant and former senator Raymond Pryce is demanding that the Jamaican State be compensated by the United States for environmental...