LONDON/NEW YORK – US President Joe Biden deserves congratulations for committing the United States to rejoin global efforts to combat climate change. But America and the world must respond to the challenge efficiently. Here, Biden’s...
NEW DELHI – The European Union has changed its economic policy for the better by agreeing on a €1.8 trillion ($2.2 trillion) post-pandemic stimulus plan to be financed directly through the EU budget. In particular, more than half of the...
WASHINGTON, DC – The US Senate’s failure to convict Donald Trump for instigating the January 6 riot in the Capitol, for which the House of Representatives had impeached him, leaves the question of whether the US Congress has any...
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 story of extortion forcing the closing of a government project for a week is only shocking to those who don’t live here, but The Gleaner has rightly posited that the lack of surprise, and the wide-reaching nature of extortion is all the...
It is no surprise that Education Minister Fayval Williams is not willing to close schools, even in the face of mounting COVID-19 cases. The education system, like the entertainment industry, has taken a proper beating over the last year and it is...
Businesses have immediately felt the pushback from Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s attempt to arrest an alarming spike in COVID-19 cases, as well as the Ministry of Health’s ability to cope, with an earlier curfew that, in a word, hurts...
The efficiency of areas of special operations has come in for more questions this week with the release of a report that seems to suggest, innocent residents of these areas are the ones who feel the brunt of any pain the police force attempts to...
When Senior Parliamentary reporter Edmond Campbell released an Independent Commission of Investigation’s report alleging abuses by those who run the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre, he unleashed the ire of Minister Without Portfolio in...
The Gleaner’s Livern Barrett has issued an early warning to Jamaicans that the crime problem it has faced for the last 20 years is getting towards an apex. There is no doubt, that even with less than two months gone in 2021, there must be...
Veronica Campbell Brown could easily be described as one of Jamaica’s sprinting icons who brought several firsts to the tiny island in the athletic world. Born in Clark's Town, Trelawny, the diminutive Campbell-Brown was quoted in the...
Marcia Llyneth Griffiths is one of Jamaica’s famous female songbirds, immediately recognisable as one of Bob Marley’s trusted backup singers from the group, the ‘I Three’s’. Growing up in the tough neighbourhood of...
The constitutional advance of May 5th 1953 established the Council of Ministers to replace the Executive Council. A Chief Minister along with seven ministers were appointed, with each minister heading a separate ministry with Jamaican Permanent...
Lorna Goodison could be described as the quintessential scribe and a consummate professional in the literary sphere. The long list of accolades and honours signifies a distinguished and dignified career, it would be difficult to deny anywhere...
Failure seems to have an allergy to the political career of Minister of Education, Youth and Information, the Honourable Fayval Williams. That career has been littered with a number of firsts and she has turned those firsts into stories of success...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 1:09 AMBANG Bizarre
A Norwegian runner has unofficially broken a world record for running a half marathon barefoot in the snow. Jonas Felde Sevaldrud revealed that he was keen to make a record attempt after his early attempts at running on the ice weren't as...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 1:06 AMBANG Bizarre
A map of the world has been created with flour to highlight cocaine use. The map has been created by Nathan Wyburn to mark the launch of the NOW TV series 'ZeroZeroZero' and is constructed from flour – the street name for the drug....
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 1:03 AMBANG Bizarre
A man has been reunited with a wallet he lost in Antarctica 53 years ago. Paul Grisham was serving as a US Navy meteorologist in 1968 when he lost the wallet, but he was only reunited with it recently after a building was demolished on Earth's...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 12:59 AMBANG Bizarre
A cow named after a Spice Girl has sold for a world record price. Wilodge Poshspice was sold for £262,000 at an auctioneer in Carlisle, doubling the previous record of £131,250 that was paid out for a heifer in 2014. Breeder Christine...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2021 | 12:55 AMBANG Bizarre
Migratory birds are getting drunk on berries in Texas. The cedar waxwings return to the US state at this time every year but have caught the attention of residents after getting intoxicated on the fermented fruit. The birds have been seen acting...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, DC – The toxic cocktail of climate change, conflict, and COVID-19 is making itself felt most intensely in the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries. As a result, a record 235 million people worldwide will...
LONDON – COVID-19 has exposed the myriad weaknesses of modern capitalism. And in many countries, past cuts to social services and public health have amplified the damage wrought by the pandemic, while other self-inflicted wounds to the state...
NEW YORK – In his autobiography, Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, told the story of how leadership and grit transformed a tiny nation on a sandbar into an open, competitive, and prosperous metropolis. In the decades since,...
PARIS – In September 2000, 189 countries signed the “Millennium Declaration,” shaping the principles of international cooperation for a new era of progress toward common goals. Emerging from the Cold War, we were confident about...
CAMBRIDGE – Economic development relies on the creation of more productive jobs for an ever-rising share of the workforce. Traditionally, it was industrialisation that enabled poor countries to embark on this transformation. Factory work may...
