While Prime Minister Andrew Holness agreed with those who said Major General Antony Anderson’s and Ainsley Powell’s contracts should be a matter of public record but pointed out that there were complicated legal hurdles to traverse...
The word Trafigura has made headlines throughout the country on many occasions and it did so again last week as former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, along with four other members of the People’s National Party will have to testify in...
The Jamaican saying “We little but we Tallawah” personifies Clarendon-born singer and songwriter Millicent Dolly May Small aka Millie Small. A true icon in her own right, Small was a pioneer, becoming the Caribbean's first...
Edith Dalton-James was an outstanding social worker and political activist. The astute pedagogue was a leading educator in the 20th century who used her platform as a teacher to instil knowledge, discipline and seeds of social change in students....
Dr Cicely Williams was not only Jamaica's first female doctor but also a pioneer of maternal and child health globally. Dr Williams was always a caring, nurturing soul, and it was those qualities that led her to travel to the UK to pursue her...
She's most recognisable as Miss World 1976 as well as the mother of Damian ‘Jr. Gong’ Marley, but Cindy Breakspeare is so much more. Though a successful entrepreneur today, after starting a business in 1979, with friend Donna Coore...
Edward Seaga’s overwhelming victory in the 1980 General Elections generated islandwide celebrations as women of all classes dominated the crowds who took over the streets. For some, Jamaica had been saved from the threat of communism; all...
The first time a woman took part in jury duty in Jamaica, The Gleaner, was there, the 1945 case, making headlines. The case, one about an ‘unnatural offence’ The Daily Gleaner, March 7, 1945 First woman juror in Jamaica assize case...
Women begin to make their mark with bye-election The history of women in politics is long and storied and The Gleaner has been there to tell that story, like in 1939 when the first of those women, Mary Morris Knibb, contested a civic election....
All the way back in 1955, Princess Margaret, Chief Minister the Honourable Norman Manley, and The Gleaner were there for the opening for what was then a modern Princess Margaret Hospital, but the royal also voiced great hope for the future of the...
The tourist destinations in Jamaica are notorious for attracting the very rich and the very famous. One of those destinations, the Rio Grande, grabbed the attention of British royal, Princess Margaret. The Gleaner was there to document the...
When The Gleaner sat down with Martin Luther King in 1963, he was impressed. Not with the grandeur of the institution, but with the people of an island that resembled a patchwork rather than a solid entity, but yet found a way to be one. Dr King,...
Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 11:58 PMBANG Bizarre
A rooster will be presented in court as evidence after killing its owner. Thangulla Satish died during a cockfight in Telangana, India last week and the animal was photographed after being taken to a police station. Satish reportedly passed away...
Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 11:51 PMBANG Bizarre
A plastic surgeon is under investigation after attending a Zoom court hearing while operating on a patient. Dr. Scott Green reportedly took part in the hearing - which concerned a traffic offence - while in an operating room and wearing surgical...
Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 11:44 PMBANG Bizarre
Elections make people miserable, new research has discovered. A landmark study of three decades worth of polls of over a million adults in 24 European countries has found that elections cause dissatisfaction to rise by an average of 16 per cent....
Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 11:33 PMBANG Bizarre
A runaway cat has been reunited with its owners after 14 years. Mandy Prior revealed that her moggy Taz vanished after escaping through a bathroom window of her family home back in 2007. Prior admits that she is "shocked" that the cat has...
Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 11:23 PMBANG Bizarre
A McDonald's addict has eaten a burger from the fast-food chain every other day for the past two decades. David Geyer has eaten over 4,000 burgers from the restaurant and has even had a tattoo inked on his leg to mark his devotion to the Golden...
NEW YORK – The report issued Friday by the US intelligence community on the murder of Saudi journalist and permanent US resident Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey mostly confirms what we already...
NEW YORK – The US economy’s K-shaped recovery is underway. Those with stable full-time jobs, benefits, and a financial cushion are faring well as stock markets climb to new highs. Those who are unemployed or partially employed in low-...
CAMBRIDGE – When China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, recently called for a reset of bilateral relations with the United States, a White House spokesperson replied that the US saw the relationship as one of strong competition that...
LONDON – While they stare quietly at their models, macroeconomists are hearing the distant rumble of revolt. A year ago, the Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz announced that capitalism was undergoing “yet another existential...
OXFORD – In a recent letter to her G20 colleagues, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen argued that a truly global COVID-19 vaccination programme “is the strongest stimulus we can provide to the global economy.” With rich...
This week there has been much to talk about but The Gleaner chose to focus on what hasn’t been spoken about. According to Saturday’s editorial, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Audley Shaw, while pointing to the issues...
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...
