SHADOW MINISTER for Land, Environment and Climate Change, Senator Sophia Frazer Binns, has scolded the Holness administration for its handling of the Clifton land matter and has called for a change in the national approach to allocation of land and...
Elon Higgins, overseer of the Horizon Adult Remand Centre, called Sunday for investigators to double their efforts to arrest the perpetrators who killed correctional officer Shannon Briscoe three months ago. Briscoe, 38, went missing on August 11...
Despite the expenditure of $130 million for a new water supply system in the community of New Building in Nain, St Elizabeth, numerous residents complain that they still do not see themselves benefitting immediately. On Thursday, minister without...
Sugar cane farmers and their associates believe that the closure of farms and factories is a major factor fuelling Jamaica’s crime crisis, tapping the ranks of vulnerable, unemployed youths. Garfield Salmon triggered the discussion at Thursday’s...
Several senior government officials, among them Ambassador Sheila Sealy Monteith, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and Wayne Robertson, acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Legal and Constitutional...
As Jamaica was placed under tropical storm watch earlier this week, elderly couple Basil and Mavis Solomon stood in their crack-riddled house in Zion Hill, St Mary, praying and hoping that it would not slide away if pelted by heavy rains and winds...
Kiano Chance’s parents are in a race against time as the head to the United States Embassy in Liguanea, St Andrew, petitioning on his behalf for a visa to fly him to Florida with the hope of saving his life. Since his birth on July 15, the three-month-old has...
When breast cancer survivor Jeffena Fullcott-Dorman lost all hope of living in 2010, her husband, Michael Dorman, drilled into her mind the need to speak victory over her life. And that the Christian woman listened and did. Now she is able to...
Residents of Comfort Castle, Portland, are calling for the Government and other relevant authorities to impose an extended ban on fishing in the Rio Grande in their community as the treasured black janga/black Betty crayfish may soon become extinct...
The Government and private sector are being urged to partner on asset-building programmes and index-based agricultural and livestock insurance for Jamaicans, especially women. Index-based agricultural and livestock insurance is said to be a...
AGAINST THE background of Education Minister Fayval Williams’ plan to have greater engagement with uniformed groups, Jamaica Boys’ Brigade President Sydney England has appealed for state assistance, saying it needs a budget of approximately $15...
The Government is pumping $2 billion into a project which will see the construction of eight new fire substations along the south coast of the island. Prime Minister Andrew Holness made the announcement on Wednesday during the official opening of...
Two weeks after a lobby claimed that Rastafarian families were at risk of being evicted from Bob Marley Beach in St Thomas, Prime Minister Andrew Holness castigated critics as being mischief makers who are inimical to the progress of the eastern...
In an effort to combat the climate-change challenges of small island developing states (SIDS) such as Jamaica, Britain has returned to the island with its Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) model in an effort to woo investors to tap...
When the pandemic struck in early 2020 and resorts saw tourist figures plummeting and many shuttered their doors, an accompanying ban on large gatherings and restrictions on operating hours meant restaurants also significantly scaled back on...
Sixteen thousand students in 25 primary and high schools located in zones of special operations (ZOSOs) will be targeted for behavioural interventions later this month. Fayval Williams, minister of education and youth, made this announcement...
When Christina Palmer, a 34-year-old farmer from Comfort Hall, Manchester, saw the Joseph Wilson Young Farming Entrepreneurs Grant up for grabs, she quickly applied online, even though she had passed the required age limit. And, as fate would have...
Days ago, when a spiritual leader strolled between the zinc fences in the community of Frog City, St Andrew, trying to warn residents of dreadful violence that would soon befall the area, some persons reportedly threw water on her and chased her...
When the new $40-million Sister Susan Frazer, R.S.M. Educational Complex was officially opened recently at the St John Bosco Boys’ Home in Hatfield, Manchester, the 74-year-old nun in whose name the building is dedicated cried tears of joy. After...
Eight years ago when Kayon Samuels went to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) for laser eye surgery, she thought it was the saving grace she needed to restore her vision. However, it did the total opposite. The mother of boys at the time said she...
Three years after the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) should have certified 300 basic schools, the goal has finally been achieved. In May 2016, there was a three-year engagement of a new board of commissioners for the ECC targeting 300 early...
The Government is cracking down on a criminal gang accused of a land grab on the outskirts of Clifton, St Catherine, and will today start the demolition of 30 illegally erected houses. The lands, which fall within the Government’s Greater Bernard...
Dorraine Duncan and Jhordan Channer, co-founders of Island City Lab, have called for the Government to urgently establish cycle lanes in the Corporate Area. The youthful duo, who argued on the second day of a Jamaica Institution of Engineers’...
Before entering Digicel Rising Stars, not many people knew 17-year-old Camperdown High School fifth-former Mozein Sutherland – the eventual winner of the 2022 staging of the contest – could hold a note. Sutherland told The Gleaner on Monday that...
A leading trade unionist has expressed opposition to the plea for a moratorium on the payment of statutory contributions for security guards as well as the proposed amendment of the Minimum Wage Act to change the workweek from 40 to 60 hours. Those...
