As Jamaica battles an ever-growing medical waste disposal crisis, at least three private incinerator operations in St Catherine have been stalled due to long delays from environment overseers in granting permits. And the operators are furious....
“My greatest Christmas wish is for mom to come home,” are the heartfelt words of 11-year-old Fytzroi Robinson. And his mother, Tameka Henry, is doing everything in her power to make that a reality. The child came to national attention two weeks...
“The video, though I don’t know what preceded the clip, shows a disturbing level of aggression and use of pepper spray on a juvenile,” declared Hamish Campbell, assistant commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM)....
They were trapped for 24 hours. Twenty-four hours of hunger, uncertainty, and waist-high crocodile-infested water whipping the wheel wells of their disabled vehicles. Some persons were, at most, what would have been a normal 20 minutes drive from...
A broken individual who was possibly abused as a child and desperately in need of attention may be behind last week’s multiple bomb threats that impacted over 70 institutions across the island, mental health experts believe. The police have...
The drains are blocked and the roads are flooded and muddy whenever it rains. Piped water is non-existent, and so, too, are street lights – their absence brightest after dark. Now, residents of Hartlands, a farming community in St Catherine, are...
There are suggestions that some employers may find themselves in conflict with the soon-to-be-enacted Data Protection Act by asking jobseekers to detail their medical history on application forms. It is unclear how widespread the practice is, but...
Business operators at 35 Gordon Town Road will continue living on the edge at least for another week as their St Andrew Eastern Member of Parliament (MP), Fayval Williams, discusses a way forward following the suspension of a demolition exercise at...
They often start off in primary school playing ‘bum pon wall’, a game of chance and skill in which rubber bands are used. But by the time they reach high school, some of these students have already mastered the art of gambling with cards, dice,...
They are called Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS), commonly known as ‘forever chemicals’ – a group of highly toxic non-degradable man-made elements that can cause serious health problems over time. They are found in just about everything...
Over the last few decades, the accuracy of election polls have decreased due to commercial, ‘non-political science’ pollsters, whose findings are often misinterpreted due to a lack of informed literature on voting behaviour. That’s the argument...
Cybercriminals have targeted Jamaica’s security systems more than 19 million times in the first half of this year, and experts believe that figure could be much more as hackers launch more sophisticated global attacks. The cyberattacks include...
The Supreme Court has issued an injunction against a real estate developer and has ordered the National Land Agency (NLA) to explain how a parcel of land slated for a multimillion-dollar apartment complex has two conflicting titles reflected on its...
The acceptance of a wheelchair-bound student by Merl Grove High School last week has calmed tempers among administrators and staff at the Hydel Group of Schools in St Andrew, who last Thursday described the child’s loving, hard-working persona, and...
Twenty-three-month-old Kishawn Henry and Rushane Barnett were inseparable. There was no greater joy for the boy than ‘jockey rides’ on the man later convicted for the death of the infant, his mother, and three siblings in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon...
Politicians have surpassed the police as the most corrupt group in Jamaica, according to a Sunday Gleaner-commissioned study gauging public perception on corruption. Which is not surprising, noted pundits, pointing to a string of strong-arm tactics...
The prime minister is the member of parliament for his beloved Olympic Gardens community, yet Pastor Rennard White holds little regard for Andrew Holness and those who sit with him in Gordon House. They and their predecessors are at the root of...
Kingston College may have to cut back on some of its extracurricular activities come September, as the school administration reveals that the 98-year-old institution has been struggling to meet the multimillion-dollar budget to fund them annually....
Locked away inside a beach hovel, fisherman Mark Needham* flips television channels and puffs a marijuana spliff. These keep his mind off the fact that his very livelihood has caused him to be crippled from the waist down. Alas, his life at sea is...
They were crime-fighters of an era when guns were less prevalent but the vileness and coldheartedness of Jamaica’s gangsters were regarded as much the same as today... or worse. Even in death, the legacies and crime-fighting methods of retired...
The irony was glaring as inmates at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre peered over a perimeter wall from their jail cells upstairs – so close it seemed they were almost a part of the funeral – to bid farewell to former Chief...
They cry. They pray. They turn to substance abuse. They even self-harm. Just to cope. Those who are able to get help are more hopeful. Several find more wholesome ways to manage. A high percentage of Jamaican mothers, especially single mothers with...
The Government’s decision to push back indefinitely the construction of a cardiac ward at the island’s sole children’s hospital has placed scores of kids in need of heart surgery in further jeopardy. That’s the belief...
The shuttered Happy Corner Bar at the entrance to August Town in St Andrew stands as an eerie reminder of what once was. Believed by some to be haunted by the ghosts of its victims, even the caretaker of the premises on which it sits stays far...
Scammers are reportedly targeting persons hoping to rent houses in the gated Phoenix Park Village housing development in St Catherine, swindling over one million dollars in the latest case of rent fraud via illicit players in the Airbnb industry....
