A man was forced to sell his family car after his son racked up a £1,300 iTunes bill while playing a game. Ashaz Mutasa, seven, purchased a number of expensive top-ups while he was playing the mobile game 'Dragons: Rise of Berk' and...
A life-size statue of Elon Musk has been mocked after its unveiling. A bronze statue of the entrepreneur was placed in New York City by an investment website to mark his 50th birthday on Monday (28.06.21) but was savaged by unimpressed Twitter...
The first-ever joint human and dog counselling service has been launched. Pet food brand Naturo has introduced 'hound-selling' classes that will combine both canine and human therapy practices after research found that a third of pet owners...
Songs that get stuck in your head help boost memory and could be used to treat dementia. New research has found that melodic and repetitive 'earworms' such as Kylie Minogue's 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' and Queen's...
An octopus has produced a work of art at an aquarium in Florida. The Florida Aquarium shared video footage of Farallon the octopus creating a painting on a plastic-wrapped canvas as she is assisted by a human keeper. Biologists at the aquarium have...
QUITO/MADRID – Great-power competition, the troubling rise of xenophobic nationalism, existential environmental threats, and the ongoing COVID-19 onslaught present major global governance challenges. Against this backdrop, world leaders have...
LONDON – Many regard the market for Bitcoin – the world’s leading cryptocurrency – as a game of winners and losers played out among hedge funds, amateur investors, geeks, and criminals. The huge risk inherent in a highly...
STANFORD/GENEVA – The COVID-19 pandemic has created a laboratory for testing different governance systems in the face of a public-health crisis, ultimately revealing massive variance in country performance. For example, countries in East Asia...
NEW YORK – Where did COVID-19 come from? The source of the pandemic is a subject of immense importance. But more than 18 months after the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), the question of the pathogen’s origin...
STANFORD – One in four. That’s the proportion of American women who are considering downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce due to the impact of COVID-19. In just one year, the pandemic has driven more than two million women...
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 lineup of cartoons as...
While the re-opening of entertainment in Jamaica promises a return to some kind of normality for large swathes of the population that depend on the industry, there is caution to note. The Gleaner’s Editorial of June 27 highlights the caution...
The downturn in tourism is beginning to look like an uptick. And there is more good news coming for the industry as Jamaica may have opened another route to its shores that were previously not a consideration. Welcome, the Middle East? Published...
With the mention of very short-term solutions to Jamaica’s vaccine shortages coming from the government, business and tourism leaders are worried that the road to economic recovery for the country may be much longer and more arduous than at...
The construction industry, unlike almost every other sector that makes up Jamaica’s economic ecosystem, has continued to grow. With housing developments all over the corporate area going up at break-neck pace, that boom, has run into a...
Nineteen Olympic and World Championships medals into a fabulous career, Veronica Campbell-Brown, still arguably the greatest woman to ever don the Jamaican colours, called it quits. The moment passed fairly quietly for such a giant on the track....
Jamaica may be missing yet another economic opportunity, as espoused by first-time Parliamentarian, Juliet Holness. According to Holness, investors in the trade are pulling up stumps because of the red tape involved in exporting Ganja from Jamaican...
The Prime Minister’s announcement of the re-opening of entertainment and creative sectors was met with a sigh of relief from stakeholders in that industry. However, not everybody is happy, and there are those, for whom, COVID-19 disaster is...
‘Everybody hates George’. George Wright is like a man without a country at the moment. He is not wanted on the Government benches since his resignation from the Jamaica Labour Party and despite Speaker of the House assigning him a seat...
On June 20, 1971 The Sunday Gleaner lead story headlined 'Jason, of Jamaica, back from the sea' recounted the ordeal of 14-year-old Jason Whyte who had spent 17 days adrift at sea, surviving on raw fish and seawater. He was returning from...
The world has no idea how well Judith Wolloughby, Miss Jamaica 1960, would have performed at the Miss Word competition that year. She pulled out before the competition, but before and after, she certainly made her mark. Before, when she captured...
Months before the unveiling of Jamaica as a freshly minted independent nation, the country had completed the design for its new flag. Fifty-nine years later, the Jamaican flag still holds the position of being very unique. There are not many flags...
Many speak about the 1980 elections and its bloody nature. But the seeds of what was to become the most violent elections in Jamaica’s 59-year history had begun to be sown much earlier. In fact, four years earlier, Cabinet begged the Governor...
Jason Whyte’s recovery from being adrift at sea for 17 days was nothing short of miraculous. Surviving on raw fish and water, sometimes from the sea, the 14-year-old should have died. But his will to live was great, even after being forced to...
A woman who is fed up with men says she has fallen in love with an alien. Abbie Bela has claimed that she was recently abducted by extraterrestrials who took her from her flat in London and fell head over heels for one of her captors. Bela told The...
