Members of the Ecumenical Education Committee (EEC) are calling on the Government to revisit aspects of the no-fee policy at the secondary level ahead of the start of the new school year in September. The group is arguing that the policy has been...
Some motorists who traverse the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 are firm in their decision to boycott the toll road, as pressure grows for operators to roll back rate increases that took effect on Saturday. The pushback has primarily come from...
Hours after Saturday’s shooting death of 50-year-old Denise Bell in Seaforth, St Thomas, Rashelle Bennett was still in disbelief that her mother would never return home. Although the 50-year-old businesswoman’s blood stained the road, Bennett was...
One-third of the more than 6,000 surgery cases now in backlog at public hospitals across the island include people suffering from hernia-based problems that require elective surgeries for repair. In May, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher...
Glenford Fearon, a farmer in the rural community of Rose Hill in Summerfield, Clarendon, is a happy man today having moved into a new home with his family. In the past, when the hurricane season approached, Fearon would be worried sick. His unease...
ONE-THIRD OF the backlog of over 6,000 surgery cases in public hospitals across the island is persons suffering from hernia-based problems who are in dire need of elective surgery. This amounts to 2,000 persons with hernias who require surgery, but...
Retired national swimmer Kanute Kelly still sports the green Jamaica athletic blazer he wore to the National Stadium on August 6, 1962. The nostalgia of that moment – of the dot on the atlas charting the unknown future – still fills him with pride...
In an effort to refresh the fading walls of downtown Kingston in time for Jamaica’s 60th Independence anniversary celebrations, local creatives have partnered with paint manufacturers to offer all business owners in the commercial district a 25 per...
Thea-Nicole Davis was heartbroken when some parents told her that despite their children being in dire need of remedial attention, they would not be sending them to a summer education programme she initiated for needy youth. Davis had invested time...
Like scores of university students in Jamaica, Leahcim Powell was excited about the idea of jetting off to the United States for the very first time on the work-and-travel programme. Powell said he spent around J$300,000 to prepare documents and...
When entrepreneur David Bowen saw the roll-out plan for the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project, the Grants Pen resident said he predicted the St Thomas fishing village would soon lose its economic value. But some residents jeered him and...
If there was a local movie called The Art of Forgiveness, Khadene Guyah would have been the perfect star for it. Turning point of the movie for her would have been on March 17, 2021. That is the day she tragically lost her husband, Kedo Guyah, a...
The Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) owes approximately $2 million to some emergency medical technicians (EMTs)/paramedics for work already done. One person is now arguing a case with an outstanding payment as far as four years. EMTs provide...
Five months after floating the idea of suspending the common external tariff and other stamp duties on imported chicken leg quarters, Agriculture Minister Pearnel Charles Jr said the Government had not taken the controversial step. Small chicken...
A new mural dedicated to dads across Jamaica will be unveiled on the walls of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) shelter in downtown Kingston on Sunday in recognition of Father’s Day. Twenty-five-year-old artist Anthony ‘...
Three months after relieved students of the Homestead Primary and Infant School were allowed to resume face-to-face classes after COVID-19 restrictions forced them online, they were yet again relegated to the virtual set-up as a recent flare-up of...
Now that $1.3 billion has been spent on the recently completed 4.7-metre-wide boardwalk along the Kingston waterfront under the Port Royal Street Coastal Revetment Project, Jamaicans who live and operate in the area are calling on the Government to...
Days into the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, residents of Weise Road in Bull Bay, St Andrew, are reiterating desperate pleas for the repair of a damaged culvert and the shoring up of the Chalky River with gabion baskets. They insist that the...
A day after a widely circulated video featuring a classroom bust-up sparked national outrage, a high-ranking police commander has warned of a wave of student indiscipline and violence taking over the city. Senior Superintendent Michael Phipps,...
Residents of Phase Two of Seaview Gardens say they have yet to receive titles to their properties despite having paid off their mortgages, some which started some 40 years ago. The residents took Prime Minister Andrew Holness to task when he...
Entrepreneur Richard Shepherd says that he was spurned by insurance companies years ago when he explored the prospect of protecting his business investment. His upholstery shop was located on High Holborn Street on the fringes of the downtown...
One year after the Government reported that roughly $300 million in COVID-19 welfare relief was uncollected, some Jamaicans have still not been able to collect their disbursement as they do not have the requisite identification documents. The COVID...
When Colleen Beaumont migrated to Canada in 2010, the needy children in Jamaica remained on the former teacher’s mind. More specifically, she worried about the poverty-stricken children living in the Corporate Area, having grown up in a settlement...
Summer is fast-approaching and the Curaçao Tourist Board recently invited The Gleaner to not only attend their 2022 Global Trade Symposium between May 23 and 26, but to also bask in the adventures that await visitors this summer in the country...
