Pandemic-related depression, the death of an infant son, job loss, and family feuds have rendered a couple homeless, forcing Anakay Thomas Peart and her husband, Parnel Peart, to pitch a tent along the shore of Bob Marley Beach in Nine Miles, Bull...
Nineteen-year-old Jellisa Williams, who has club foot and suffers from seizures, has never sat in a classroom in all her life. Her mother, Brenda Ramsay, told The Gleaner that she was not aware, two decades ago, of affordable options for...
After it was recently announced that full face-to-face classes would resume in all schools next Monday, twins Timesha and Kimesha Warren sprang into action to resume hosting their annual back-to-school treat in Westmoreland. The treat, which is the...
Nearly five months after Clifton Boys’ Home was rocked by an abuse scandal, the childcare facility has imposed strict operational standards to guard against a recurrence. Vincent Guthrie, chairman of the board, disclosed that greater emphasis has...
In an effort to boost the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ outsourcing of vaccination administration plan, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded grants totalling US$600,000 to nine private-sector healthcare...
The Ganja Growers and Producers Association Jamaica (GGPAJ) has called for an immediate two-year incentive programme for marijuana cultivators, especially for small, traditional, Rastafarian and indigenous farmers, many of whom have been excluded...
The depreciated 17-year-old bus that previously served Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS) has been replaced with one of its latest models, valued at US$43,000. The 2021 Toyota Hiace bus, which was purchased through Toyota Jamaica, was handed over to the...
Dane Coburn and Evadnie Smith, a couple who recently received a house from Prime Minister Andrew Holness, are not only elated about the dwelling gifted to them, but especially his announcement that there will be full resumption of face-to-face...
The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has been hauled to court for J$3.267 million in uncollected rent for residential premises in Harbour View, Kingston. The claimant, Michelle Knott-Neckles, has accused the SERHA, which manages state...
Dr Pauline Watson-Campbell, the woman who started Jamaica’s first inclusive early childhood institution 36 years ago with special needs students, has welcomed Monday’s long-awaited effecting of the Disabilities Act. Watson-Campbell, an occupational...
With ways to go in making public spaces and buildings more disabled-friendly, chairman of the Combined Disabilities Association, the Reverend Arthur Taylor, is hailing Monday’s long-awaited effecting of the Disabilities Act as a “bittersweet moment...
Marlene Myers, mother of a 38-year-old intellectually disabled woman, was elated on Tuesday as the Disabilities Act came into effect, offering hope for the full protection of the rights of many who have lived on the fringes of society. Myers...
Despite the flare-up of violence and murders in the August Town division in St Andrew, African Gardens – one of the five communities within the division – has not recorded a single murder in the last four years. For this, the model community topped...
Were it not for creativity, a shifting of target market and riding the tides of the pandemic, Recycling Partners of Jamaica (RPJ) said it would not have increased its 2021 collection of plastic bottles by 49 per cent when compared to the previous...
A day after 13 guns, including 10 high-powered rifles, were seized by cops in Florence Hall, Trelawny, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has appealed to Jamaicans to support the Government’s latest ‘Operation Get Every Illegal Gun’ campaign. Speaking...
Illegal cabbies who ply the St Mary to Half-Way Tree route have lamented being locked out of regularisation as hackney taxi operators for the last 30 years. That shutout has been partly blamed for the prosecution of their colleague, 26-year-old...
Jamaican lawmakers have been urged to overhaul decades-old legislation and update fines deemed out of step with modern-day trends. Karyl Thorpe, 2021 national youth parliamentarian from St Catherine South Eastern, used the platform of Gordon House...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding has pushed back at claims by former People’s National Party (PNP) Chairman Phillip Paulwell that the organisation would suffer dire consequences for its decision not to support the extension of states of emergency (...
Even as the hierarchy of Jamaica’s police force has cited mounting gun seizures at the Stadium East field in St Andrew as evidence of incremental gains, security chiefs consulted with Cabinet on a response to an avalanche of murders. Killings have...
Lenworth Fulton, president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), is warning consumers to brace for an increase in the price of chicken from small farmers across the island beginning month-end. This follows the announcement by Jamaica Broilers...
Maureen Dwyer, acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education and Youth, has acknowledged the concerns of disgruntled staff of the Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI) but said that she could not give a timeline for their...
Farmers are being courted for registration in the National Identification System (NIDS), the one-stop database through which the Holness administration aims to formalise thousands of Jamaicans who are off the grid. That intervention is expected to...
Glenmuir High School has been announced as the top value-added traditional/secondary school in the island based on a recent study conducted by the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission. On Thursday, the Jamaica Education Transformation...
Former Education Minister Ronald Thwaites yesterday expressed satisfaction with the findings of the Professor Orlando Patterson-led Jamaica Education Transformation Commission as its long-awaited report was launched after a comprehensive review of...
Christmas Day, for the second consecutive year, was disheartening and filled with regret for Jash Gray*, a prisoner at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston. Gray, who called The Gleaner on Christmas Eve directly from his phone...
