Two years after the 2020 establishment of the Breast Health and Oncology Centre at Andrews Memorial Hospital, founding clinical director and oncologist Dr Jason Copeland and his team became pioneers of a new method for performing a breast cancer-...
Political commentator Dr Paul Ashley is contending that any infrastructural project undertaken by the Government at this time is being done to shore up votes for the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as the local government elections loom. In fact...
Declaring that Jamaica is in a state of “perpetual anger”, Doran Dixon is encouraging more citizens to engage alternative dispute resolution services offered by the Ministry of Justice to work through disagreements. “There’s too much anger...
Importers and distributors of plastic lunch boxes are demanding clarity from Senator Matthew Samuda, the minister with responsibility for the environment, on the looming ban on such containers. The ban, which is also extended to personal-care...
Principal Director of the National Integrity Action (NIA) Danielle Archer has expressed concern that no significant progress has been made in the fight against corruption to shift perception in the last four years, and is urging the Government to...
Any decision by the Government to reallocate funds from the tertiary sector to the primary, secondary and early levels of the education system would have the cumulative effect of depleting resources from the country’s education system overall,...
Rovel Chambers, head of the Information Communication and Technology Department at Discovery High School in St Ann, wants the information technology (IT) curriculum for secondary schools to be officially updated to include segments for coding...
A European Union (EU) delegation is currently in Jamaica and looking to develop partnerships with Jamaican companies in the renewable energy sector to assist the country in meeting its 50 per cent target for renewables by 2030 in a remix of the...
Antoin Marshall has a dream of performing on opera house stages all over the world, using his gift to share his experiences as a Jamaican and a black man, while also helping to demolish the notion that opera is reserved for the affluent of society...
Business owners who operate along Slipe Road in Kingston were yesterday outraged at having not received adequate notice of the road’s closure to facilitate the premiere of Bob Marley: One Love, the Hollywood film about the reggae legend, at the...
Following what he described as a successful protest outside the Jamaican consulate-general’s office in Miami, Florida, United States (US), yesterday, Dr Rupert Francis, chairman of the Jamaica Diaspora Crime Intervention...
Declaring that there is a “general state of unreadiness on many sides”, Information Commissioner Celia Barclay is urging organisations to utilise the six-month grace period extended by the Office of the Information Commissioner (IOC) to ensure that...
The management of Sunbeam Children’s Home in St Catherine says it is considering legal action against the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) over what it says was the agency’s dereliction of due process in deciding to delicense the...
Principal of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Professor Densil A. Williams, has signalled the institution’s renewed intention of becoming a global activist academy; one, he said, that works in the best interest of the people. “We...
Commercial entities that operate on The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, will soon face an increase in fees as the university revamps its rate structure to align with market dynamics. This move, as well as a review of its self-...
Nine years ago, friends and family of Melissa Silvera gathered at the St Andrew Parish Church to witness her wedding to former Member of Parliament Jolyan Silvera. Yesterday, Jolyan and her relatives and friends congregated at that same church but...
An “acrimonious” relationship between councillor for the Mocho division, Romaine Morris, and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament for Clarendon North Central Robert Nesta Morgan is what Morris said contributed to his decision to...
After the bloody 1980 elections, where more than 800 Jamaicans were killed, the first National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB) was convened by the Church in an attempt to unite a nation torn apart by political tribalism. Forty-four years later,...
Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles Jr is enlisting the help of members of parliament (MPs) in curbing incidents of Jamaican farmworkers absconding on the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Programme (SAWP). Data provided...
More than 500 taxi operators had their public passenger vehicle licences suspended last year under the New Road Traffic Act, president of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS) Egerton Newman has disclosed. It is an...
Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles Jr has labelled as a “big problem” the number of Jamaican farm workers who abscond when participating in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme (SAWP). It is an issue, he said,...
A very optimistic Andre Smith applied for the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme (SAWP) in early 2022 and did the required interview. But, after waiting for months with no updates, he became a little discouraged. “To how the time weh...
Despite a decline in murders in 2023 over the previous year, more than half of Jamaicans say they feel less safe now in their homes than they did a decade ago. The findings were revealed in a survey conducted between November 24 and December 7...
Shanice Sudlow was in downtown Kingston on New Year’s Eve with her three sons waiting to watch the fireworks that light up the sky annually to welcome the new year. However, the heavily pregnant 29-year-old’s anticipation for the main event was...
The iconic Air Jamaica aircraft tail that greeted travellers at the roundabout leading to the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) in Kingston has been removed and is to be exhibited in a museum. Its removal is part of the renovation and...
