NEW DELHI – One of the most significant socioeconomic changes accelerated by COVID-19 must surely be the rise of digital labour platforms. Of course, platform-based employment had already been growing exponentially before the pandemic. But...
ISLAMABAD – This month, G20 finance ministers agreed to a proposal to issue $650 billion worth of the International Monetary Fund’s reserve asset, special drawing rights (SDRs), and an additional six-month moratorium on debt payments...
WASHINGTON, DC/CAMBRIDGE – Globally, extreme poverty is increasing for the first time in 20 years. Although some poor countries are now receiving COVID-19 vaccines, the pandemic is set to drive nearly 150 million people into extreme poverty...
The Latin American and Caribbean region lost 26 million jobs as a result of the pandemic, and started 2021 with a complex employment landscape aggravated by new waves of contagion and slow vaccination processes that make the prospects for recovery...
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...
When Dr Horace Chang tried to put the crime-fighting expertise on show, he stepped on the toes of the Diaspora, which has seen the country plunged into more and more violence and feel they have an impact to make. With the continuously depreciating...
DMX’s trademark bark, along with those husky, guttural rhymes are as unmistakable as they are unforgettable. The great, but troubled rapper, passed away just last week, sending memories of his link to Jamaica cascading along with the tears...
Not for the first time, the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships is in jeopardy of not being held. As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc and vaccination drives struggle to keep up, there is no definite date for the...
The not-so unthinkable happened last week as Portmore United and Waterhouse Football Club were ‘forced’ to pull out of the 2021 FLOW Concacaf Caribbean Club Championships (FCCC) because their teams were not prepared for the effort. Now...
With violence against women at the top of the country’s collective agenda, and the #metoo movement not yet in the world’s rear view mirror, it is interesting that the government of Jamaica were on the verge of passing a sexual...
The Gleaner laid bare last week, the terror under which an entire community lived on account of a killer in its midst. The story reminds us of the Edmund Burke quote “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...
This week The Gleaner looked at varying issues, including CARICOM’s digital agenda, Jamaica’s need to up the ante on its vaccination drive to facilitate economic recovery, and Johnny Grave’s out-of-place comments on matters of...
Maureen Samms-Vaughan is known internationally as a pioneer in the field of child health, development and behaviour. A native of the parish of St Thomas, Maureen knew early on that medicine was where her heart lie. In those innocent years she would...
Many may know the prominent Marlene Hamilton Hall located at the University of the West Indies, but who is Marlene Hamilton? Hamilton was Pro-Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI), her 1991 appointment making her the first...
Jamaica has the most bars in the World per square mile, and it is no fluke that our spirits have gained notoriety worldwide due to their quality. To mention the word rum and not mention Joy Spence would be tantamount to blasphemy, as the affable...
The legendary Deon Hemmings McCatty was born on the 9th of October in 1968, in the parish of St Ann, Jamaica. A former 400 metre hurdler, she is best known for being the first Jamaican and the first woman from the English-speaking Caribbean to win...
It is not often that a woman holds a high-ranking position in the army. However, Commodore Antonette Wemyss-Gorman has broken that stereotype and has gone on to create 'waves in the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). Wemyss-Gorman has continuously...
When Byron Lee was given a mandate from Prime Minister of Jamaica, Edward Seaga, to help spread Jamaica’s musical culture overseas, the seeds of carnival were sown. By 1990, carnival in Jamaica was as big an event as any. Take a look at these...
The culture of the island called Jamaica has always been something that has produced worldwide interest. The poet laureate has, since the position’s inception, been one where the holder of the title is seen as something of a purveyor of that...
The reverberations from the killing of Martin Luther King went well past the borders of the United States, much like the ripples from the civil rights movements in that country spread across the world. Jamaica was not exempt from either and Prime...
The Jamaica Labour Party were the first to govern the island of Jamaica after Independence in 1962. The Gleaner was there for the unveiling of that first government but was also there for the first time universal adult suffrage was at play during...
The year 1962 was important for the island of Jamaica. It was the year the country became a sovereign nation. But something else happened that year. The University of the West Indies (UWI) no longer had to send its students to the University of...
Published:Wednesday | April 7, 2021 | 11:15 PMBANG Bizarre
A message in a bottle travelled from England to Norway in eight months. Ida Hodnebo was walking with her son Tallak on the island of Jomfruland when they came across a glass bottle with a hand-written note inside. The message had been penned last...
Published:Wednesday | April 7, 2021 | 11:08 PMBANG Bizarre
Talented canines have been taking to the waves at the Dog Surfing Championships in Florida. The event took place in challenging conditions on Easter Sunday (04.04.21) but a Labrador named Lily overcame choppy waters to claim a dominant victory. Six...
Published:Wednesday | April 7, 2021 | 10:33 PMBANG Bizarre
A baby boy has made medical history after becoming the first child in the world to be born with three penises. The child from Iraq suffers from a condition called triphallia that has never previously been reported, according to doctors from...
