Alia Atkinson has enjoyed remarkable success in the pool over a long career and the University of the West Indies, in recognition of that, will be bestowing the five-time Olympian with an honorary Doctor of Laws. Published August...
Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls are a revered bunch but not so revered that the cash-strapped group are exempt from the long hand of crime. Last week, the Jamaica Netball Association suffered the loss of not one, but two buses at the hands of...
Marcus Garvey’s Birthday passed three days ago and THE CLASSICS would like to take the opportunity to remember the great man, who Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has hailed as being “...
All the way back in 1980, the Government of Jamaica began a campaign to include its citizenry in the effort to fight crime. The campaign, though juxtaposed with yearly increases in crime, has had a modicum of success and is possibly Jamaica’s...
While many Jamaicans understand the importance of Marcus Garvey to the Pan-African movement and what he tried to do and even why he was granted hero status in Jamaica, many do not know the impact he has continued to have long after his death...
There aren’t many people who know what it was like at the Palisadoes Airport before the extension of the runway and the improvement of the terminals to facilitate international travel. Achieving that came at great cost and the resulting...
Tropical Storm Grace lashed the island with winds and rain, but outside of some flooding, there wasn’t extensive damage or the kind of displacement that can make for a harrowing experience. But 70 years ago almost to the day, recovery for...
Cuttlefish have sharper memories than humans as they get older. A new study has revealed that the fish can remember events right up to the last few days of their life and is thought to be the first evidence of an animal whose memory of specific...
A woman ran 100 miles on a treadmill in under 22 hours to break a world record. Amy Palmiero-Winters, whose left leg was amputated below the knee after a motorcycle accident in the 1990s, has become the first Guinness World Record holder for the...
A medium has claimed that she is married to the ghost of Michael Jackson. Kathleen Roberts says she has been in a relationship with the late King of Pop's ghost for a number of years and that he uses her as a vehicle to eat cookies. Roberts -...
A village is being terrorised by a mysterious vandal pouring baked beans through letterboxes. The mystery bandit has been covering doorsteps, homes, and cars with the famous orange sauce in the village of Wonersh in Surrey. A Surrey Police...
A man who has lived in a cave for 20 years got the coronavirus jab as soon as he learned about the pandemic. Panta Petrovic retreated to the unusual home as he wanted a quieter life and never knew about the global health crisis until he made a rare...
BEIJING – Among educated and internationally savvy Chinese, no current topic is more despised than the bickering over Chinese and American medal counts at the Tokyo Olympics. Narrow-minded nationalism holds scant interest for them, just as it...
LONDON – By hastily withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden has made a grave mistake, or so many argue. US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, for example, has called the Taliban’s swift takeover of the...
FUNAFUTI, TUVALU –Last year, Microsoft announced that it will be carbon-negative by 2030. “If we don’t curb emissions, and temperatures continue to climb,” the firm said on its official blog, “science tells us that the...
OXFORD – G20 leaders will meet in Rome at the end of October, in part to discuss how to deal with future pandemics. But the truth is that their countries’ actions have largely fueled the current one. Many G20 countries have been COVID-...
NEW YORK – The magnitude of the United States’ failure in Afghanistan is breathtaking. It is not a failure of Democrats or Republicans, but an abiding failure of American political culture reflected in US policymakers’ lack of...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist’s pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s line-up of cartoons as...
While many have lauded the defence of Maroon lands by its chief, Colonel Richard Currie, The Gleaner sees the potential for a repeat of the violence that dominated the lives of members of Tivoli Gardens, many of whom still carry mental scars from...
With resources stretched to their limit and in some instances past it, frontline workers who come down with COVID-19 could find themselves at the mercy of the virus with very little help coming their way. That’s because with so many instances...
The frustrations of taking a journey where you end up taking one step forward and two backward seems to be most familiar to those among us dedicated to fighting crime. Over on the western side of the island, despite inroads made by the police in...
The Gleaner Company (Media) Ltd. lost a most beloved family member recently, helping to lay him to rest just this week past. Errol Crosby’s life was one of service to his fellow man and his memorial is worth replaying, as The Gleaner...
Armed policemen, not at first recognisable as such, came face to face with armed members of the Accompong Maroons. The showdown, captured on video, went viral. And the subsequent arguments about sovereignty over the Cockpit Country means has since...
The Bank of Jamaica is working on its digital currency plans. What kind of impact this will have on the more economically forward-thinking among us is yet to be seen. But for the moment, hopes are high for the CBDC.
Jamaica’s entertainment sector had anticipated a recovery on the back of Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ announcement of its re-opening. But a spike in cases has seen that opening quickly rescinded. With many promoters having hastily put...
