Fifteen businesses and individuals filed for bankruptcy since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic last March, with runaway credit-card arrears and financial illiteracy cited as overwhelming factors for personal debt through to the end of 2020....
The doors of a former health centre in Cassava Piece, St Andrew, were opened on Sunday to host a medical camp, activating calls from residents for the facility to be reinstated. Camps sponsored by the Indian High Commission were held across eight...
Kerese Oakley-Williams had her first encounter with God at Moorlands Summer Camp in 2015. She took the next step in her spiritual walk by attending baptismal classes at Swallowfield Chapel, taking the plunge in faith that August. The thriving...
Born out of Principal Wayne Robinson’s vision to change the method of teaching as some students were not being engaged in classes, Jamaica College yesterday launched its US$500,000 (J$72 million) STEAM Infusion Project. STEAM is an educational...
The gaping hole in the bridge that connects the major communities of Richmond and Highgate in St Mary has more than doubled in size since its collapse eight months ago. Residents have renewed desperate pleas for the structure to be repaired, even...
Jamaicans Candice Johnson-Rowe and Marvin Rowe have called the high-rise and fast-paced country, Japan, their home for more than 10 years. It was Johnson-Rowe who first made the 8,035-mile journey away from her birthplace in Yallahs, St Thomas, in...
With not much improvement since the new academic year began last October, residents of Epsom in St Mary are still calling for the two schools in the rural district to be reopened for face-to-face classes. Epsom Primary School is a multi-grade...
Jamaica’s 2021 Rhodes Scholar, Fitzroy Wickham, who hails from Orange Hill, St Ann, lost his father to cancer when he was just two years old. He and his sister, Kimberly, then grew up in a single-parent home, headed by mom Florence. “I was acutely...
Fifty-eight-year-old Donald ‘Oney’ Taylor has spent almost four decades beautifying gardens in communities across St Catherine. The resident of Independence City in Portmore made a switch from working as a jeweller and loader man after an accident...
For more than half of his life, nine-year-old Joshua Ramsay battled with acute myeloid leukaemia, a cancer of the blood cells. Today, his family holds on to handprints, photos depicting his fighting spirit and a bundle of hair from 2017 when he...
“It’s a source of life.” That is how Kevon Palmer, 26, describes the Rio Cobre in St Catherine. “When all doors are closed, you can come to the river. If you have a fish pot, you can set it and catch some crayfish or some fish and that’s a day’s...
Window-high flood marks are a stark reminder to residents of Sunnyside, Linstead in St Catherine, of the terrifying May 2017 ordeal. The rains, caused by a trough affecting the central Caribbean, pounded the country from Monday night, May 15, into...
The flow of the serene Rio Cobre fused with the sound of scrubbing brushes and the laughter of playful children is typical for residents of Pleasant Hill in Bog Walk, St Catherine. Elise Williams, 35, was born and raised in the area and has been...
The contamination of the Rio Cobre, reportedly by effluent from a bauxite mining company, remains a long-standing problem for residents who use the river for domestic purposes or depend on it for their livelihood. Since 2010, the National...
The 2020 graduating class of The University of the West Indies, Mona, were yesterday lauded for their resilience. Vice Chancellor Professor Hilary Beckles asserted that students were tested, not only by their professors, but by the COVID-19...
Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa Etienne, has said that in the last week, roughly 2.5 million people were infected with COVID-19 in the region, the highest weekly cases since the onset of the pandemic. “Virtually...
Daniel Buchanan was four years old when he developed a love for planes and almost two decades later, he is a Federal Aviation Administration-licensed commercial pilot and flight instructor. Born in the United States, his father would take him to...
Content editor and youth language coach, La-Toya Samuels-Cousins, has launched a literacy programme aimed at igniting a passion for reading in young children. The 36-year-old told The Gleaner that Penpals Writing Club was birthed from a genuine...
At least one high school principal has asserted that the lack of face-to-face engagement and limited cognitive stimulation have accounted for significant learning loss among students. Principal of Cumberland High School in St Catherine, Darien...
Ten members of the judiciary, nine of whom are females, were yesterday appointed to serve at higher levels within Jamaica’s justice system. Appointed were Vivene Harris, who will serve as Judge of Appeal, effective January 11; Carole Barnaby, who...
A true Jamaican patriot, visionary leader, tourism mogul extraordinaire and the greatest marketer tourism has ever seen. That is how tourism giant 79-year-old Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who passed on Monday in the United States, is remembered by...
More than 1,000 persons with disabilities have been added to the registry of the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) since March 2020, an influx caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of people who reached out to the council...
Implementing the Disabilities Act, which was passed in October 2014, would be a “dream come true’’ for an estimated 15 to 20 per cent of the Jamaican population, or between 410,000 and 540,000 persons, this year. The act seeks to ensure full...
At 10 o’ clock yesterday morning, scores of homeless and indigent people had already flocked to the gates of the St William Grant Park in downtown Kingston for their annual New Year’s Day breakfast from the mayor. Among them was 81-year-old Roy...
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic came the rise in wearing protective masks, which abruptly excised half of the face from communication, creating a challenge for members of the deaf community. The covering deemed a critical barrier to guard...
