San José, Costa Rica: EXCITED to show off and put to use their technological, cultural, and soft skills, seven local university students said the 10th staging of the Huawei Seeds for the Future Programme held in San José, Costa Rica, was eye-...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica: DONNIVER HAUGHTON, a 21-year-old university student with a recently diagnosed heart condition, is one of several Jamaicans currently trying to find a method to alleviate debilitating heart-related illnesses during a ‘Tech4good...
THE WELL-MANICURED Wespow field has been home for the Montego Bay United Football Club for the past 12 years but yesterday, the organisation’s new owners indicated that they had eyes on the Catherine Hall Multipurpose Stadium as its next abode. It...
Orville Powell, who for the last 23 years has been the owner of Seba United before it became Montego Bay United, has passed the reigns of the organisation over to new management. Montego Bay United will now be run by the partnership of Yoni...
Zone C’s hot Trelawny derby left William Knibb Memorial High on life support as they were defeated 2-0 by hosts Cedric Titus High School in a rescheduled ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup match yesterday. In a very intense game, Terron Eccleston scored in the...
WILLIAM KNIBB Memorial High School survived a potentially devastating three-point deduction with a hard-fought 2-0 win over York Castle High School in the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup yesterday. Needing a win to make it into the top four teams in Zone C,...
CORNWALL COLLEGE and Irwin High School, meeting for the second time in this season’s ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup, are yet to find a way to separate themselves, playing to another 1-1 draw at the Irwin High Sports Complex in St James yesterday. Irwin had...
WILLIAM KNIBB High School’s chances to advance to the second round in this season’s ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup competition took a nosedive when the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association docked them three points for using an ineligible player in a...
Zone C leaders Cedric Titus High will be seeking their fifth win of the season when they visit York Castle High in a top-of-the-table clash in the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup competition in Brown’s Town, St Ann, today. Kick-off is set for 3:30 p.m. Both...
THE MANNING’S School are yet to lose in this year’s ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup season, and one of the reasons for that is their coach, Everton Tomlinson. “Wi come to collect our three points, not to draw. Stop play with the game,” screamed Tomlinson...
WESTERN BUREAU: TWELVE-TIME champions Cornwall College thrashed Spot Valley High School 4-0 in Zone A in their clash in the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup football competition at Cornwall College yesterday. Dominating from early in the first half with the...
The Lay Magistrate Association of Jamaica’s [LMAJ] St James Chapter has donated six fans to Farm Primary and Infant School in St James. The presentation which was made on Wednesday, September 13, was heartily welcomed and saw both students and...
MOVED BY the heat that students of Farm Primary and Infant School have been battling amid high temperatures, the Indian community in Jamaica will donate 300 wall-mounted fans to 70 schools. The initiative, which will cost $1.8 million, will benefit...
BUCKETS AND basins have become new and recurring additions to classrooms at the Chetwood Memorial Primary School in Montego Bay, St James, as students and teachers grapple with leaking ceilings on rainy days. When The Gleaner visited the school on...
A FIRST-CLASS experience it was for players of the P.H.A.S.E.1 Academy AAU Team, who got a chance to rub shoulders with National Basketball Association (NBA) players Draymond Green from Golden State Warriors and Kenny Lofton Jr, from the Memphis...
Baby Harmony Wong, who needed emergency surgery overseas after being diagnosed with a congenital heart defect a few days after birth, passed away on Monday night. Harmony, who was born at the Cornwall Regional Hospital on July 16, was diagnosed...
WESTERN BUREAU: While his parents and family members are overwhelmed, 12-year-old LeBron Anderson, who emerged as the top student in western Jamaica in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations, is simply looking forward to getting into a new...
Western Bureau: The Gleaner’s Western Bureau reporter Christopher Thomas was one of 15 persons to receive special honours and awards at Sunday’s staging of the 2023 St James Independence Civic Ceremony at Sam Sharpe Square in Montego Bay, St James...
It was a magical moment for new parents Justin Wong and Michaelia Morris when they welcomed their firstborn, beautiful baby girl Harmony, to the world on July 16. But days after her birth, the unthinkable happened as the baby developed...
Despite the stigma surrounding autism, 12-year-old Xavier Harrison stands as living proof that autistic children are capable of academically doing as well as, if not better than their peers. Xavier, who aspires to become a builder, scored 359 out...
WHILE 14-year-old burn patient Ackalia Dunkley is undergoing treatment and therapy at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Georgia,, she is in high spirits and wants her well-wishers not to worry about her too much....
Her offering quality education for children at what was then Whitter’s Learning Centre, provided a spark that drew huge interest among a number of parents. With growing demand for education of a higher level and with students doing so well, the...
HE STOOD in the principal’s office and begged for just one more chance to prove that he could change from being a troublemaker and do right by them and himself. Not squandering the opportunity and subsequently overcoming the many hurdles in his way...
THREE MONTHS after being first for a fire safety poster competition at her school, which ultimately placed her second in the parish, 14-year-old Ackalia Dunkley is now battling for life after being injured in a fire at her home. Dunkley, who is...
