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Pulse Schools Model Search winner off to Paris

Published:Thursday | January 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

The Pulse Schools Model Search, which concluded last October, is already showing results. This past week, the winner of the inaugural competition, Kamaria Powell, flew to Paris to complete assignments for one of France's luxury design houses. The...

British High Commissioner bats for local farmers

Published:Thursday | January 17, 2019 | 12:00 AMAlbert Ferguson/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU:Asif Ahmad, the British high commissioner to Jamaica, has said farmers could produce more if they were being paid on time by the hotels and restaurants that buy their goods."I reminded the private sector that they, too, have to change...

We are not growing satisfactorily - PM Holness

Published:Thursday | January 17, 2019 | 12:00 AMAlbert Ferguson/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU:Prime Minister Andrew Holness is expressing frustration with the economic condition of the country, arguing that despite doing everything correctly, the economy has not grown satisfactorily over the last three years."Last quarter, the...

Automated system to speed up legislation drafting process

Published:Thursday | January 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

With more than 100 proposed laws in the pipeline, the introduction of the Legislation Production Management System (LPMS) should lessen the time it takes to complete a piece of legislation, according to Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck.Chuck made...

Tufton: More major repairs coming for Cornwall Regional Hospital

Published:Thursday | January 17, 2019 | 12:00 AMChristopher Thomas /Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU:Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says that the ongoing restoration work at the problem-plagued Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, is set to intensify, with plans afoot to replace the 10-storey building's inner...

No excuse for corruption - Seaga

Published:Thursday | January 17, 2019 | 12:00 AMChristopher Serju/Gleaner Writer

President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters' Association (JMEA) Metry Seaga on Tuesday challenged other business owners/operators to turn the spotlight on themselves in the fight against corruption."When we think corruption, we tend to only...

Tony Deyal | Hair we go again, folks

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM

When I was a boy, my hair was thick, then it turned thin, then it turned grey, then it turned loose. I had problems with split hair. Most of mine split about 10 years ago. I reached the point where a hair on the head was worth two in the brush.Yet,...

Jaevion Nelson | The fallacy of trickle-down economics

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Earlier in January, subsequent to the announcement by the minister of finance and public service, Dr Nigel Clarke, that a record 1.3 million Jamaicans are now employed, I tweeted the following statement:"1.3 million people employed but what kind of...

Rid your surroundings of bulky waste - Gordon

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AMGareth Davis/Gleaner Writer

PORT ANTONIO, Portland:Faced with the dengue fever outbreak, Executive Director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) Audley Gordon is pleading with residents in Portland to rid their surroundings of bulky waste.Gordon's...

Little People Big Moves | Esther Omoregie - The Life of the Party

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

MANDEVILLE, Manchester:When Esther Omoregie is not busy being a diva - showcasing her witty personality - she can be found co-hosting a children's programme on NCU FM, working on outreach projects for the needy, and living life like it is golden....

Vuitton's Abloh celebrates Michael Jackson in Paris menswear

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP):Louis Vuitton's designer Virgil Abloh transported celebrity guests at Paris Fashion Week to the graffitied streets of New York in a dramatic menswear ode to Michael Jackson.Abloh, the first African-American to head a major European...

British High Commission stages song competition

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM

The British High Commission in Jamaica will stage its second 'Songs of the UK in JA' competition to unearth new talent.The competition invites Jamaicans 18 years and over to enter, performing a song by a UK artiste or group. The submission of...

Shanese Watson gives back to her community

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AMShanna Monteith/Gleaner Writer

PROSPECT, St Thomas:Service before self may seem an unfair request to many, but to Shanese Watson, high achiever and philanthropist of Prospect, St Thomas, the mission is greater than the 'me'.Having realised that literacy and unemployment were the...

Krayoon Carnival more than a band, it’s a movement

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AMStephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writer

Unlike the Cayman Islands, Barbados, St Lucia, and the twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica never had a carnival tradition before the '90s - first introduced on the University of the West Indies, Mona campus by students coming from these...

'I don't remember' - Witness in Vanessa Kirkland murder trial says she cannot recall details of the incident

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AMNickoy Wilson/Gleaner Writer

A Crown witness yesterday, in answer to several questions, indicated that she could not remember some of the details surrounding the March 20, 2012, murder of 16-year-old Immaculate Conception High student Vanessa Kirkland.The witness, who was...

Chace The Great to waltz away with Reggae Trophy

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

OUTGUNNED by big horse SHE'S A MANEATER, and before that WILL IN CHARGE in the Diamond Mile, top sprinter CHACE THE GREAT faces lesser rivals in this afternoon's Reggae Trophy at five furlongs straight.However, the Dwight Chen-trained six-year-old...

Dalton Myers | Wanted: More awareness of JAIP

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM

I've always believed that the Jamaican Athletes Insurance Plan (JAIP) was a very good initiative by the Government that is geared at developing sport in Jamaica. It therefore bothers me that ever since the launch and implementation of the programme...

Girlz integrating well in camp

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AMRachid Parchment/ Sports News Coordinator

National defender Allyson Swaby is pleased with the integration of new players into the senior women's football team as it prepares for the FIFA Women's World Cup in France this June.The Reggae Girlz are in a six-day training camp where 12 new...

Big guns clash in BEL semis

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Defending champions Kingston Hummingbirds will be looking to floor St Ann Orchids with speed when both teams meet in the first of today's two semi-finals in Netball Jamaica's Berger Elite League (BEL) at the Leila Robinson Courts, beginning at 6:00...

Orville Higgins | Windies selectors did a good job

Published:Friday | January 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM

It is not very often that the West Indies selectors come up with a squad that I find difficult to disagree with any of the players they choose. Team selection is a very tricky business even at the best of times, but when your team is struggling and...

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