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Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

KLE Group, which oversees the Usain Bolt’s Tracks & Records restaurants, UBTR, is hunting property even as it assesses potential traffic numbers for possible market entry in Falmouth...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Flavocure Biotech, a cannabis research company that is majority owned by Dr Henry Lowe, has received approval from the US Patent Office for a drug that treats glaucoma and myopia, or nearsightedness. According to the patent issued on May 7, both...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Young Jamaica sprinter Christopher Taylor is now ­focusing on his recovery, ahead of a move to Florida, where he will be coached by well-known trainer Rana Reider, this according to Dalton Myers, a director at JAD Professional Management, which is...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Fayval Williams says the Government was moving to reconstitute the board of Petrojam, the scandal-hit state-owned oil refinery. In her maiden sectoral presentation as energy minister in Parliament on...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: President of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), Professor Fritz Pinnock, gave some interesting responses when he appeared before the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) in Parliament earlier this week....

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Team Jamaica ended the 2019 IAAF World Relay at the Yokohama International Stadium in Japan in a creditable No. 2 position with a 27 point tally equal to that garnered by the host nation. However, it was by some distance short of the usual table...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Antony Anderson, the police chief, would understand why his recent press conference left most Jamaicans feeling unfulfilled and ungratified. It delivered far less than was promised. People remain as fuzzy as ever about the big vision for the...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

“This exciting discovery of live oil onshore Jamaica, based on our – (CGG) – study with PCJ, builds a strong case for the island – (Jamaica) – as an attractive region for future oil exploration within the Caribbean.” So said Sophie Zuquiyah...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

“Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it”. – Augustine of Hippo (350-430 AD) I am disappointed at the headline the Observer newspaper put to its story on Monday, April 29, 2019, reporting the...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Global pro-life advocates are slated to shore up the efforts of local campaigners when they visit Jamaica next week to participate in a number of activities to increase public awareness about the vexed issue of abortion. American pro-life...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

The Gleaner has been reliable informed that Andre Coley and Andrew Richardson are among three ­individuals, who have applied for the head coaching position for Cricket West Indies professional franchise, the Jamaica Scorpions. It is understood...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AMVanessa James/Gleaner Writer

Young people, especially those of the millennial and Generation Z cohort, have recognised the need to start their own businesses as their main source of income. They also see the need to graduate from tertiary institutions with a degree to either...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

It is confirmed! Under the Pulse Global brand, the best of African fashion comes to the Caribbean to show collections on a CFW runway that also features the best of the Caribbean’s fashion designers. The event, scheduled for June 13-16 in Kingston...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Shouts and screams of excitement pulsated throughout the Stephanie Hall Auditorium in St Andrew, recently, as André Hewitt and Kimberly Rose made history when they were crowned the first-ever Mr and Miss JTA St Andrew. The two, who became early...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Over 150 children enjoyed hours of fun, food, and frolic on the grounds of Caymanas Park when the Supreme Ventures Foundation recently staged the seventh annual Easter Egg Hunt for children in state care. The Easter Egg Hunt was created to give the...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: It is with great sadness to read the news about the killing of our children, and it's appalling to know that there have not been any measures put in place by the so-called political leaders who think and feel they have authority...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2019 | 12:00 AMKeisha Hill/Senior Gleaner Writer

Teachers play an important role in our lives. At the St Patrick’s Foundation, the teachers are always going above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that their students are familiar with the most up-to-date, innovative learning methods and to...

Published:Thursday | May 16, 2019 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera - Gleaner Writer

Montego Bay businesswoman Paula Kerr Jarrett, exchanged vows with New York business mogul Daniel Wegman, last weekend in the U.S. The ceremony was very intimate, as close family members gathered for the occasion. Paula's children Josh and Rebecca...

Published:Thursday | May 16, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Our minister of national security, Dr Horace Chang, is obviously trapped in politics and what it spews. A lot of hope, optimism and paper plans which include him attaining his own political divinity, which is hardly ever likely in his crazy...

Published:Thursday | May 16, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Well, Mother’s Day has come and gone, and while mothers across the country were generally celebrated in royal manner, that was not necessarily the case in many instances. Motherhood in Jamaica is oftentimes far more difficult and thankless than...

Published:Thursday | May 16, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Well done, Dirk Harrison, former contractor general, with the 42-page report of the investigation into the sale of Rooms on the Beach by Montego Beach (1975) to Puerto Caribe Properties Ltd and sale of beach lands by Urban Development Corporation (...

Published:Thursday | May 16, 2019 | 12:00 AM

It is very galling to hear the IMF making excuses as to why its austerity prescription has not worked in Jamaica, and of course in many other places. We still have very weak growth, new jobs which don’t pay a living wage and strained social...

Published:Thursday | May 16, 2019 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Saying that if he were in such a position, he would have taken back his money and pulled up stumps, billionaire investor Michael Lee-Chin yesterday expressed serious concern over the Rooms on the Beach saga. Lee-Chin, who chairs the Government’s...

Published:Thursday | May 16, 2019 | 12:00 AMNickoy Wilson/Gleaner Writer

A Crown witness yesterday told the court that he saw when Detective Corporal Kevin Adams fired two shots, hitting his friend Anthony ‘Toby’ Trought, who later died. The allegations are that Adams and Constable Jerome Whyte murdered Trought in cold...

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