Chorvelle Johnson-Cunningham is among a new generation of brilliant women who have helped to revolutionize Jamaica’s banking industry. It was not so long ago that educated black Jamaican women could only aspire to be tellers and clerks in the...
Diana McCaulay is a proficient Jamaican writer who has earned herself a multiplicity of awards and recognition as testament to her ability at the craft. McCaulay, who resides in St Andrew, has written and published four novels. 'Dog Heart...
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford once posited the now-iconic quote "beauty is in the eye of the beholder''. This is true on a general basis but Joan Crawford stunned the world with her beauty in the year 1963, when she was crowned Miss...
Merlene Joyce Ottey has spent a great deal of her life surrounded by the track and a cheering audience. For a large part of that life, she was considered the greatest sprinter male or female in Jamaica's history. Ottey, from Cold Spring in the...
The name Portia Simpson Miller will forever ring as part of Jamaica's political history. Simpson-Miller is the first female prime minister of Jamaica, when she swept into power in 2006. Simpson-Miller, the first female president of the People...
The pomp and pageantry surrounding the granting of city status to Montego Bay in 1981 was something to behold. The Gleaner captured the events with these pictures among the many its photographers used to immortalize the occasion.
There aren't many drive-in cinemas in Jamaica, that number depleting over the years but there was a time when it was all the rage. A couple of hurricanes put paid the Harbour View Drive-In, while unprofitability took care of a few others over...
When Michael Manley became Jamaica's fourth Prime Minister, he promised to create, not just an equal-opportunity society, but one that took care of its most vulnerable. One area where the difference between 'the haves' and 'the have...
Montego Bay has long been the tourism Mecca of Jamaica. But that wasn't always the case. When, in 1981, the St James capital was granted city-status, everything changed. The pomp and ceremony that went with the official classification bore...
It was a heart-wrenching moment when the proud island of Jamaica had to come to grips with no longer having a national airline of its own. For almost all its independent life, the country had boasted of being among the few in the world to have its...
Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2021 | 10:09 PMBANG Bizarre
A couple from Las Vegas have revealed that builders installing a swimming pool at their home have discovered animal bones from the ice age. Matt Perkins recently moved to Vegas with his husband and was shocked to find police officers at the...
Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2021 | 10:04 PMBANG Bizarre
A condom is being released to mark the day the UK is set to move out of lockdown. Men's digital health clinic FromMars are giving away June 21st condoms to protect sexual health once limits on social contact are removed by the UK government....
Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2021 | 9:49 PMBANG Bizarre
A mother was flagged as a terrorist after sending a bank transfer. Interpol investigated Susan Govindasamy after a £500 payment for her horse Isis was labelled with the words 'funds for Isis'. Govindasamy had sent the money to a...
Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2021 | 9:35 PMBANG Bizarre
A shopper has completed his six-year challenge to park in every car parking space at his local Sainsbury's store. Gareth Wild, from Bromley in London, decided to take on the challenge to make his shopping trips "less mundane" and...
Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2021 | 9:01 PMBANG Bizarre
A man got a shock after a 'dead' snake came back to life in his hands. Snake catcher Stuart McKenzie was called out to a golf course in Australia to find a red belly snake and assumed the reptile was dead when he found it under a bucket...
CAMBRIDGE – If it ain't broke, don't fix it, the old adage goes. But the world's current vaccination plan is very much “broke,” and nobody seems to be fixing it, despite the disastrous consequences for lives,...
NEW YORK – The governments of South Africa, India, and dozens of other developing countries are calling for the rights on intellectual property (IP), including vaccine patents, to be waived to accelerate the worldwide production of supplies...
WASHINGTON, DC – Bitcoin and other privately issued cryptocurrencies have generated a frenzy of excitement, with most of the analysis focused on their appeal and apparent drawbacks. But relatively less attention has been paid to an even more...
LONDON – Pedro Castillo is an authoritarian left-wing populist without the charm or charisma of most populists. Keiko Fujimori is a recently incarcerated right-wing populist, the daughter of a former dictator who is serving a 25-year sentence...
WASHINGTON, DC – Latin America and the Caribbean need a hard reset. With less than one-tenth of the world's population, the region has accounted for more than one-quarter of total COVID-19 deaths. The pandemic continues to rage almost...
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...
Kamina Johnson Smith's assertions that she was cyber-harassed has left a cloud over a number of parliamentarians and there is need to clear the air. Not just that, but there is also the issue of showing women who have been the victims of...
The Jamaica Boxing Board oversees a sport that has been hard hit by COVID-19. A most decidedly contact sport, there hasn't been a way for the sport to survive under these conditions. But now, a lifeline might be in the distance, that is if the...
In the wake of a Gleaner story that revealed the way teachers had been 'helping' students get good grades on their School-Based Assessment, the island's universities have come out to point out that the high school experience has not...
The case of former senior manager at the National Commercial Bank, Andrea Gordon, was big news when it broke in June of 2020. The 52-year-old made headlines again during her trial when she admitted her guilt and the court heard details of the way...
