Some 20 years ago, carpenter Dave Wright looked at the abandoned Montpelier train station in St James and saw it as the perfect home for his furniture operation. Securing a lease with the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC), he soon breathed new life...
Colin Coyle, a 31-year-old ex-convict who spent eight years in prison for armed robbery, is begging for a second chance at life on the straight and narrow path. Since his release from prison on September 29, 2021, he has been finding it difficult...
Seprod Group CEO Richard Pandohie is calling for a strengthening of economic ties between Canada and Jamaica, urging the leaders of the North American country not to see the island as only seeking handouts. He was speaking at an event yesterday at...
Ever since she was a student at Solid Base Preparatory School, Jhaneille Esson’s responsible demeanor and go-getter attitude always made her a favourite for youth leadership roles. So it came as no surprise to her, or her parents, Jhann-Marie and O...
The 50th PriceSmart store globally, which will open its doors to customers in Portmore, St Catherine, next Tuesday, will be a ‘Green Club’ aimed at limiting its carbon footprint in Jamaica. In 2020, Jamaica became the first Caribbean nation to...
Although the Government recently announced a 20 per cent relief on electricity bills for almost half a million households for the months of April, May, June, and July, Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) President and CEO Michel Gantois is calling...
Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association President John Mahfood believes that the Government should consider giving up its shares in the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the sole distributor of electricity in the island. Marubeni...
Delmoi Bailey has been living inside an 8’x8’ dilapidated board structure in Brighton, St Elizabeth, for the last 12 years, in which she raises her four children. The house, which has two single beds, a fridge and a stove, was originally owned by...
At age 14, Kedesha Channer’s dreams of becoming a nurse went up in smoke as she stopped attending school to avoid jeers after she started showing symptoms of scoliosis. The condition, which is a sideways curvature of the spine, is most often is...
Parents of children attending Dallas Primary & Junior High School in rural St Andrew reached their boiling point on Monday morning with the current chairman...
Until Tuesday, there were about one or two Braille machines assigned to each class at the Salvation Army School for the Blind, which, at times, had up to 40 students in each session. The lack of consistently working Braille typewriters at the...
Being an orator for royal visits is no easy task, says Fae Ellington, one of Jamaica’s most embraced broadcasters. On Monday, while gearing up for the arrival of Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and...
Residents living in Wareika Hill in east Kingston have welcomed the Government’s move to establish an army base in the community to target gangsters who have been hiding in the mountainous terrain and unleashing mayhem on the country. During a...
With the Government’s withdrawal of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) orders last Friday, faithful participants in the annual Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run hope the new freedom will be a silver lining that will allow thousands of persons to...
Nearly seven years ago, during preparations for the arrival of then United States President Barack Obama, crab, corn, and soup vendors who sell along the southwestern end of National Heroes Circle in Kingston were temporarily dislocated. Now, on...
“Him is no don! Him is no don! Him is a peacemaker!” a niece of Emeilo Morris shouted while she, other women and children protested along Maxfield Avenue in St Andrew on Friday, decrying what they say was a cold-blooded murder by police officers....
Party promoters and other stakeholders in the entertainment industry are celebrating the expiration of the COVID-19-related orders under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA), which largely banned activities in the sector with a brief respite in...
With at least two infants dying in the island since the start of the year after reportedly being inadvertently locked inside parked vehicles for several hours, the Kingston Eastern Police Division yesterday rolled out a Child Vehicle Safety...
James Porteous, a 43-year-old student at the Jamaican-German Automotive School (JAGAS), is ready to build an electronic car in Jamaica. That was one of the forces behind him enrolling into the institution and is now pursuing a HEART/NSTA Trust...
A new round of supply lock-offs could begin as early as this Friday as the National Water Commission (NWC) moves to manage rising global energy costs which are being exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war. Describing the oil market as volatile, NWC...
Eighty-four-year-old Gilford Smith, a retired farmer, has one major life regret, and that is not having a pension plan in place. Pension planning is one crucial aspect of life which many persons in Jamaica take for granted and do not prepare or...
The restoration of Jamaica’s railway service will be one of the proposed milestone projects to be undertaken by the Government in recognition of the nation’s 60th independence celebration. Minister of Transport and Mining, Audley Shaw, said the...
“I feel like I’m going to jail!” were the last words Karl Russell heard from the nine-year-old special-needs child he had in his care for four years up to February 22. Russell is not a born Jamaican man. However, he was born in Manchester, United...
Less than 24 hours after the Government announced that new currency notes would be put into circulation soon, the Jamaica Society for the Blind has clamoured for inclusion in the final sign-off of the dollar bills. Conrad Harrison, executive...
During the return of full face-to-face classes today, Tracey Ann Holloway Richards will not be surprised if 100 fewer students than the number originally enrolled will turn up at Maxfield Park Primary School in Kingston. On Jamaica Day, which was...
