Controversy surrounding decisions to award one beauty or another in competitions of that nature are not abnormal, after all, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. But when 20-year-old Lilliana Antoinette Cisneros announced her Venezuelan heritage...
Much has been said about Bob Marley not being interred in National Heroes’ Park, but his funeral in Alexandria (one of two that day), where he was born, was very much like that of a hero’s. His final resting place, a mausoleum, has...
Vere Technical, well known for its exploits on the track throughout the late 1980s and ‘90s, as well as for producing one of the greatest schoolboy football teams of all time, also has, maybe a less well-known history, of producing fine...
Jamaica has won the Miss Jamaica World competition on three occasions and has made the semi-finals 23 times. That success has come from the rigid process of elimination the country goes through with its contestants becoming savants after having...
A woman woke up to discover blood dripping down onto her face from her ceiling. Ana Cardenas, from Texas, awoke in the early hours of the morning when she discovered the horrific scene in her bedroom. She told KTSM: "It grossed me out. I was...
Dead bodies are being used to create new coral reefs. Cremated human remains are mixed with concrete and sank into the ocean as part of a new 'green burial' service designed to encourage new ecosystems for sea creatures. US funeral firm...
Alcohol made from radioactive apples grown near Chernobyl has been seized by Ukrainian officials. Scientists and distillers helped create the booze, called 'Atomik', using ingredients sourced from the still-radioactive exclusion zone in the...
A man has stunned Twitter users by revealing that he eats raw chicken and out-of-date steak when he finishes a workout. The social media user, who goes by the handle @BlazenBrady, revealed that he regularly eats raw meat to keep his muscles bulging...
A woman staged a rehearsal for her own funeral in the Dominican Republic. Mayra Alonzo was desperate to find out what her funeral service would be like so decided to stage a trial run in the city of Santiago. Alonzo was dressed in white for the...
NEW HAVEN – The surge of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India shows that the pandemic is far from over. While most developing countries in Asia and Africa managed to keep their death tolls low over the past year, it is only a matter of time...
TEL AVIV – The sudden eruption of war outside and inside Israel’s borders has shocked a complacent nation. Throughout Binyamin Netanyahu’s 12-year premiership, the Palestinian problem was buried and forgotten. The recent...
NEW YORK – From a European sovereign credit-risk perspective, the COVID-19 pandemic differs from other recent crises. First, the current economic crisis arose from recession-inducing lockdowns to combat a viral contagion, rather than from an...
WASHINGTON, DC – This period in US history could go down as the moment when America’s democratic system for electing a president – the most consequential duty of US citizens – was broken, perhaps for good. True, the US...
LONDON – Nearly five years after the Brexit referendum, and in the five months since Brexit itself, the debate about the future of the City, the financial centre of London, has remained a dialogue of the deaf. Those who voted in June 2016 to...
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...
The Gleaner has seemingly grown impatient with the tardiness of the Jamaica Labour Party in handling a black eye from allegations surrounding one of its new Members of Parliament. The fact that the issue is closely related to national outcry about...
The scenes from a shoot-out between police and alleged murderers, fresh from a caper, played out on phones all over the island, turning the intersection of Trafalgar, Hope and Waterloo roads into something from a movie. However, the grief of a...
Chief internal auditor at the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has made findings, that if borne out, could prove more entrenched corruption within the government’s various arms. The Gleaner, insistent on bringing these...
Our world is increasingly being caught on camera. With the change has come questions about privacy and appropriateness. In truth, there is much to loathe about the cellphone-wielding cameramen and women more interested in grabbing followers than...
The ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships is now over. The drama, the joys, and the pain over the course of five days are left for the memories of those who witnessed, but the meaning of the greatest high-school...
Whenever a story like this grabs national attention there is the inevitable look back at how a tragedy could have been avoided. A dead 14-year-old and a jailed accused later, those questions come thick and fast, especially for those closest to the...
The Corporate juggernauts that push capitalism to newer and greater heights just keep chugging along, no matter what. There can be no greater example than the revelation, in last week’s Gleaner, that Island Records had prepared a death...
Louise Bennett, “Miss Lou, “a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator, is the most decorated among Jamaican poets and songwriters and with good reason. Born on September 7, 1919, Bennett is most revered for the part she played...
When Kamala Devi Harris, attorney at law, became the 49th Vice President of the United States of America, she also became the highest-ranking female official in US History. And what’s more, she is of Jamaican and Indian parentage. Harris was...
The brilliant mind and determination of Jevene Bent has carried her from a humble childhood in Southfield, St Elizabeth to leading men and women in Jamaica’s police force and prison system. Teaching was her first focus, before switching to a...
