Steve Ashley, chairman of the Association of Friends and Families of Substance Abusers (AFAFOSA), has argued that inadequate funding for the court mandated to treat drug addicts is contributing to the country’s crime rate. Ashley told The Gleaner...
LGBTQ advocates in Jamaica have urged the island’s lawmakers to note the wind of change blowing across the Caribbean and repeal the country’s colonial-era buggery laws that effectively criminalise same-sex relations. Local politicians have been...
While attending primary school, K-Omar Sang was teased relentlessly because of a learning disability which made reading difficult. The now-16-year-old Ronald Lopez School of Hope student told attendees at a Child Protection and Family Services...
Grammy-Award winning recording artiste Orville Burrell has expressed doubt about hosting another Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation (SMADF) benevolent concert because of the controversy surrounding the $100 million raised in the last staging in...
It was like a scene out of a movie, a resident of Cross Keys, Manchester, told The Gleaner as she recalled the horrifying experience of being held up at an establishment in which works earlier this week. The stillness in the small town square was...
The Government has given its clearest indication that it is not averse to considering a public-private partnership to build a state-of-the-art prison. The disclosure was made on Wednesday by Zavia Mayne, the state minister in the Ministry of...
A senior University of the West Indies lecturer involved in the just-launched Mona Prison Project is hoping that the programme will be expanded beyond the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre to other prisons and even online. Dr Dave Gosse, who...
Visiting Qatar for the football World Cup was not on Dr Erica Gordon-Veitch’s bucket list. Though the paediatric and family dental surgeon is an ardent supporter of Brazil, she would have been more than content cheering them on from her home in...
Graduates of The Mico University College on Thursday received a lecture on the importance of people development from founder and CEO of Island Grill, Thalia Lyn, who was bestowed with an honorary doctorate. Lyn, reminiscing on the journey that...
In four days, Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend would have been celebrating her 36th birthday. And the woman, who her friends describe as the life of the party, was looking forward to doing something spectacular. But her life was cut short before those...
Labelling the garbage disposal practices of some Jamaicans as “antisocial behaviour”, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is promising stronger enforcement of laws to address how waste is managed. Speaking at Wednesday’s handover ceremony of 50 garbage...
Two decades ago, a then 21-year-old mother of two was allegedly wilfully infected with HIV by someone she was dating. The Portland native told The Gleaner that she was actively pursued by the man, who she described as appearing to be quiet and...
The slow take-up of the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV drug in Jamaica has sparked concern for Dr Richard Amenyah, UNAIDS multi-country director in the island. PrEP, which is usually in the form of a pill, is designed to be taken by HIV-...
An ongoing gang feud between the Upsetta Mafia and Super Star gangs operating out of Hannah Town in west Kingston is believed to have sparked the killing of two men in the community on Tuesday morning. Twenty-eight-year-old Lance Thompson and 30-...
The junior council of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has given overwhelming support for the establishment of cadet units in all schools to combat student violence. Friday’s unanimous vote at the first sitting of the...
President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) John Mahfood has indicated that he would not support the Government implementing back-to-back 14-day states of emergency (SOE) to circumvent opposition resistance. Like Deputy...
Sandra Greenland was a vendor in Half Way Tree four years ago when she encountered members of the Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) having a silent protest to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW), which...
A King’s Counsel and human-rights lobby are cautioning the Government against tabling legislation that would impose a minimum sentence for murder of 30 years, arguing that such decisions should be left to the discretion of the courts. Executive...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is admonishing those who he says seek to malign the private sector, contending that cooperation between the Government and enterprises is integral to the country’s development. “This argument that seeks to villainise...
In the wake of Monday’s controversial fatal shooting of a 24-year-old in central Kingston by a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier, a former army chief has knocked the Government’s imposition of states of emergency (SOEs) as a crime-fighting...
The Government has received an unsolicited bid from a prominent Jamaican developer to construct a $30-billion prison on 300 acres of land in Hartlands, St Catherine, a well-placed Gleaner source has disclosed. The proposed prison would be built on...
What should have been a glorious moment for Romario Goulbourne as he celebrated achieving his bachelor’s degree in marine engineering from the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) saw him torn between two worlds under a cloud of uncertainty. The 25-...
Rosalee Gage-Grey, CEO of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), is bemoaning the fact that 70 children have died violently across the island since last October, saying this reflects the normalisation of violence in the society in...
November has taken on special significance to 22-year-old Shakiel Cephas. In November 2018, he was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and the following November, he got news that the cancer had gone into remission. And on Thursday,...
Residents of Olympic Gardens in the St Andrew South Police Division have welcomed Tuesday’s reimposition of a state of emergency (SOE), contending that the Holness administration’s crime-fighting measure will make them safer. The measure, which...
