Not everyone is ready to pop open the champagne over last week’s signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) by the island’s political leaders and representatives from other sectors of society aimed at achieving a sustainable reduction in crime...
Forty years on, Gregory Wilson* can vaguely recall the faces of two bus operators who kidnapped him after he naively boarded their vehicle decked out in a snazzy green shirt and green pants in the run-up to the 1980 general election. However,...
The relatives of Superintendent Leon Clunis – the leader of the ill-fated Horizon Park police operation in St Catherine that saw him and two other cops murdered – are lauding staff at the Spanish Town and Kingston Public hospitals, where Clunis was...
Scores of Jamaicans are suffering in silence as they face an uphill battle for justice in medical negligence lawsuits locally. The matter comes under scrutiny amid cries of exhaustion from some doctors, many of whom claim their mental and physical...
They came out by the dozens – mostly women, pushing, shouting and pleading with passing volunteers to spare a care package – even though none of the bags with groceries was intended for them. At times, their pleas led to squabbles as their...
Ironically, the very health crisis that Jamaica is battling has reportedly pressured the country’s resources so severely that it has caused a number of doctors to be out of work. In spite of the country’s need of healthcare workers to fight the...
As the Andrew Holness administration launches a fourth zone of special operations (ZOSO), this time in the war-torn August Town community in St Andrew, researchers at the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) say they have been struggling to...
As corruption investigations deepen into operations at the St Ann Municipal Corporation, life for residents of Parry and Steer towns, in particular, has been a frenzy of fear, gunshots and bloodshed as warring gangsters push the parish’s gun crimes...
A footballer? Or a scientist to develop his eco-friendly ‘Geo-Towns’ that would change the health of the world? The possibilities were endless for young Geovaughn Allen before he was struck dead by a motor car while celebrating his matriculation...
Sexual abuse among children as young as two years old has increased due to the COVID-19 lockdown, noted a Clarendon medical practitioner, who labelled some of the cases as “very vicious”. Dr Bradley Edwards, senior medical officer at the May Pen...
THE FAMILIES of the two cops slain in Spanish Town, St Catherine, last Friday, are each entitled to a $14-million payout from the Government. But they could be in for a long wait as it usually takes years before the funds are disbursed, renewing...
One-year-old Gregton Wilson smiled as he grabbed a memorial poster of his late mother Eletia Brown last Thursday, growing increasingly frustrated as his older brother, six-year-old Melvin, hugged and kissed her picture. Two months after Brown was...
Former prison medic Dr Raymoth Notice believes that like millions of people around the globe now protesting against racial inequalities and police abuse, Jamaicans should take to the streets to send a strong message to the Government that it should...
AS MANY companies look to have more staff return to the office tomorrow as the work-from-home order issued as part of the COVID-19 containment measures expires, eyes will be focused on the outsourcing sector, where an outbreak at Alorica’s Portmore...
Healthcare workers at the island’s smaller, less equipped hospitals seem to be hit hardest by a reduction of ‘sessions’ and overtime due to the restructuring of patient care caused by COVID-19. Across the island, hospitals have been sending home...
Sharon Hollister* is thankful her 15-year-old son has completed another month without having a run-in with the law. That is to her knowledge at least. Though still a student, the teenager has been arrested by the police at least seven times in the...
Charmaine Legister is vibrant, straightforward and wraps almost anyone who enters her taxi in her charm. These qualities, she told The Sunday Gleaner, are key ingredients behind her successful enterprise even as many of her male colleagues plying...
At least 10 stores inside the Portmore Mall have fallen casualty to the economic chokehold brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, with several others struggling to stay afloat as St Catherine businesses grapple with revenue losses. And with a 14-day...
For drummer Conroy Gordon, the hardest part of being locked away day after day in the narrow confines of a stranded cruise ship is his inability to tell his two daughters when Daddy will be home. For the past month, he has been battling this...
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed nearly 250,000 lives around the world and has heaped great suffering upon humanity, but if Jamaicans focus on becoming more charitable towards each other, the resilient island will stand strong in the face of...
For years, residents and political representatives in Portmore, St Catherine, have bragged about the so-called Sunshine City’s self-reliance, even calling for the municipality – with its myriad of shopping and resource outlets – to be declared a...
Government is stressing social distancing as one of the main practices to counter the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 in Jamaica. But for residents of several of the Corporate Area’s toughest inner-communities, such a practice falls short of wishful...
Local child-rights advocates have added their voices to international concerns about child abuse and negligence during the indeterminate period of school closure and stay-at-home measures to stem the spread of COVID-19. Last week, the Child...
Winston Peneng* will be 82 years old in September. On Thursday, the elderly man sat patiently in a pharmacy awaiting his hypertension medication as others around him navigated each other cautiously and in hospital surgical masks. “I don’t look it,...
Pharmacies across Jamaica have been hit hard by the COVID-19 scare, and it seems that those in the rural areas are hurting the most, as a shortage of medication for the symptoms, sanitisation products and fear of exposure to the respiratory disease...
