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ELECTION WOE - COVID Cabinet team to review 98-case one-day jump

Published:Friday | August 21, 2020 | 12:00 AMshanna monteith, Paul Clarke, Chris Serju, and Judana Murphy/Gleaner Writers

A 98-case jump in COVID-19 cases and a 15th death will concentrate the minds of a Cabinet subcommittee that meets today to review the record one-day increase. New concerns are rising about whether to postpone the September 3 general election...

On the Corner | Fletcher's Land residents push for unity at Christmas

Published:Friday | December 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

For decades, Christmas in west Kingston community of Fletcher's Land brought out the best in neighbours. There was cooking and the sharing of meals with anyone who asked, parties, street dances, and just fun for everyone.In recent years, there has...

Phillips willing to meet Holness after urging from Jamaica House

Published:Tuesday | December 18, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Leader of the Opposition Dr Peter Phillips has accepted an invitation from Prime Minister Andrew Holness to meet to discuss issues pertaining to how they can unite in the fight against crime.Holness wrote to Dr Phillips seeking a meeting between the...

On the Corner | Stumped by the State - 'Bottom Drewsland' residents in limbo as they wait on Government for land titles

Published:Friday | November 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Nearly four decades after they were promised land titles and started paying property tax, residents of the section of Drewsland near the banks of the Sandy Gully popularly known as 'Bottom Drewsland', continue to occupy their properties as '...

Relief & Anger - Former Messado co-accused blasts cops after being freed by the court

Published:Tuesday | November 6, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Beverly Barakat, the property consultant and real estate dealer who was a co-accused in one of the fraud cases against attorney-at-law Jennifer Messado, is happy she has been cleared by the court but livid at how the police went about constructing...

French Ambassador highlights significance of ‘A Touch of France’ exhibition

Published:Thursday | October 25, 2018 | 3:34 PMPaul Clarke

Ambassador of France to Jamaica Denys Wibaux has described the ‘A Touch of France’ exhibition as a showpiece event for France-Jamaica relations and continues to serve as a significant catalyst for further cooperation. The exhibit,...

Spanish ambassador bats for stronger economic ties with Jamaica

Published:Friday | October 12, 2018 | 1:34 PMPaul Clarke

Josep María Bosch Bessa, the Spanish Ambassador to Jamaica, has expressed a desire for greater economic cooperation between both countries, citing the longstanding historic friendship enjoyed over the years since the establishing...

Peaceful playground - Jones Town residents say no need for an SOE in their community

Published:Friday | September 28, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

In the not-too-distant past, the inner-city community of Jones Town in south St Andrew was a hotbed of criminality, driving fear into the minds of law-abiding people living there and those who only heard its name.But the community has changed much...

Three Miles bypass coming

Published:Monday | September 17, 2018 | 1:22 PMPaul Clarke

The Government has signed a contract with China Harbour Engineering Company to construct a new bypass for Three Miles in St Andrew to help ease traffic congression. Three Miles was closed more than a week ago to facilitate construction works to...

JET banking on new plastic policy to save the environment

Published:Saturday | September 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Daryl Vaz is scheduled to announce the phased ban on single-use plastic and Styrofoam tomorrow, and it could not come soon enough for Suzanne Stanley, CEO of Jamaica...

Smooth traffic in Corporate Area

Published:Monday | September 3, 2018 | 9:53 AMPaul Clarke

Motorists across much of the Corporate Area spent little time in traffic as the new school term got underway and new traffic adjustments got their first real test. Drivers who spoke with The Gleaner said that they were surprised by the...

Give them a chance, watch them soar - SDC rep confident that with support Bucks Common residents can rise above their past

Published:Friday | August 17, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Life has never been easy for the residents of Bucks Common in May Pen, Clarendon.Over the years, the community has developed a reputation as one where deadly violence is an ever-present reality, creating a stigma that the residents say is unfair and...

Gleaner Editors' Forum | Nothing to fear! - STATIN blocked by law from sharing business survey findings

Published:Friday | August 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Business operators are being promised that raw data collected in the recently launched Jamaica Survey of Establishments (JSE) will not be shared with any other agency or authority by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), which is conducting...

Mexican Ambassador pushing for greater tourism ties with Jamaica

Published:Friday | August 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Jamaica's investment ties with Mexico in the area of tourism could be strengthened in the coming months, following talks between Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett and Mexican Ambassador Juan Jose Gonzalez Mijares."One of the issues, among many,...

Revised Foreign Trade Policy to be tabled in Parliament as White Paper soon

Published:Tuesday | June 19, 2018 | 3:08 PMPaul Clarke

Much is being placed on the Revised Foreign Trade Policy which was recently approved by Cabinet, as Government seeks to streamline policy coordination on trade across ministries, departments and agencies, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister...

Nurses at Andrews Memorial Hospital protesting, surgeries being affected

Published:Thursday | June 7, 2018 | 2:59 PMPaul Clarke

Nurses at the Andrews Memorial Hospital in St Andrew remain off the job this afternoon in protest over what they say is a cut in their salaries and benefits and the alleged refusal of the institution's management to address their concerns. The...

JA and US sign amended air services agreement on cargo trade

Published:Thursday | May 10, 2018 | 1:57 PMPaul Clarke

The Jamaica and United States governments today signed an amended Air Services Agreement to facilitate increased cargo trade. “Our aviation partnership with Jamaica has always been robust and mutually beneficial, so [we] will be augmenting...

Shaw tells SMEs to formalise operation to better access funding

Published:Wednesday | May 2, 2018 | 2:53 PMPaul Clarke

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Audley Shaw, is encouraging small and medium-sized enterprises to formalise their operations so as to gain greater access to low interest funding. “[They] must realise that they too...

Gov't launches solar lamp pilot project

Published:Monday | April 30, 2018 | 4:45 PMPaul Clarke

The Government today launched a pilot project to provide 5,000 solar lamps to residents in inner-city communities across St Andrew. The project, which is being overseen by the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), is aimed at reducing house fires...

Cruel & clueless - 'Tel Aviv' held hostage by young gangsters who don't know what they are fighting for

Published:Friday | April 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Bloody gang wars are something that residents of the central Kingston community known as 'Tel Aviv' have lived with for decades.Either the long-running battle between thugs from the neighbouring community of South Side or internal conflicts,...

Press freedom is limited - Study reveals that less than 50 per cent of Jamaicans believe media has a free voice, while trust is declining

Published:Thursday | March 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Less than 50 per cent of Jamaicans believe the country enjoys freedom of the press, according to the latest findings by the Latin America Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), a regional research group. The study was conducted by the Centre for...

Standoff, School lockdown; teachers' protest enters day two

Published:Monday | March 12, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Disgruntled teachers are stepping up pressure on the Government for a second day of protest action to deliver a better salary package than the 16-per cent over four years that they are being asked to accept.Yesterday, in preempting the likely...

PSOJ welcomes tabling of the Occupational Health and Safety Bill

Published:Monday | February 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica Howard Mitchell says he welcomes the tabling of the Occupational Health and Safety Bill and that he awaits a robust and healthy debate and the passage of the Bill into Law at an early date.The...

They are imposters! - Taxi drivers urge police to deal severely with rapist operators

Published:Monday | February 19, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Just the mention of the word rape and several taxi operators react with scorn. They say it is one of the most hateful criminal acts being perpetrated on females, reasoning that imposter taxi drivers should be weeded out of the system and...

Professor Gordon Shirley is RJRGLEANER Man of the Year

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

The RJRGLEANER Honour Awards gala began with nine nominees who had a chance to be named the 2017 Gleaner Man of the Year. In the end, there stood only one in the person of Professor Gordon Shirley, an outstanding public servant and...

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