WESTERN BUREAU: Ricardo Chambers left his car at a community garage in John’s Hall, St James, on Saturday morning before heading to work. However, he did not imagine that the next time he would see the vehicle would be on a video, being washed...
Close to 70 per cent of the 217 educational institutions across Manchester have been dubbed satisfactory, based on public health requirements, but the remaining schools have been struggling with issues including pest control, sewage leaks, and...
Eastern Portland In what has been described by some educators as a remarkable display of academic prowess, 15-year-old student, Shaynel Hines, of Titchfield High in Portland has successfully completed Unit 1 of all three Caribbean Advanced...
Last Wednesday’s graduation ceremony at the National Police College of Jamaica would have been a special occasion for the more than 100 new Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) members who are now certified law-enforcers. For one new policewoman, 23-...
Four years after Jaden Henry suffered his first episode of epilepsy, the 12-year-old child knows what he wants to become in the future. That is a neurologist, the professionals he goes to for care and treatment. Jaden, one of the 41 Courts Dare to...
The urgency to prepare for the new academic year was clear at several schools in southern Manchester last week. Many were still grappling with the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, which had caused significant damage to their facilities. School...
One household. Eighteen mouths, including those of eight children to feed; and a Jamaica Public Service (JPS) electricity bill for some $37,000 after the passage of Hurricane Beryl. Then there are the back-to-school expenses that must be met –...
Monique Grant-Facey, principal of the Happy Grove High School in Portland, walked the school’s corridors last Friday, annoyed, frustrated, and on the brink of “losing it”. It was 2:45 p.m. and still, a contractor assigned to the school by the...
As the clock winds down on Dr Nigel Clarke’s tenure as finance minister, opinions are divided on which critical decisions he must seal before he takes his exit. The 52-year-old, credited with deepening Jamaica’s macroeconomic stability since his...
Dr Mark Smith’s story of overcoming a tough upbringing is built on resilience and a drive to succeed in order to do good, not just for himself and his family, but for the wider community. For him, lessons were learnt the hard way. And he learnt...
President of Guyana Dr Irfaan Ali hailed Sir Shridath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal as an outstanding statesman, a regionalist par excellence, and a committed internationalist. Sir Shridath, a former Guyana government minister and Commonwealth secretary general...
Jamaica to receive over US$1 billion from IMF Jamaica is to receive more than US$1 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the fund’s executive board concluded the third reviews yesterday under the country’s Precautionary and...
The authorities are seeking to identify a woman who was killed in a bizarre hit-and-run involving two motor vehicles on Thursday night along the busy Marcus Garvey Drive thoroughfare in Kingston. They are also imploring the driver who left the...
A local human rights group is urging Prime Minister Andrew Holness to reconsider his decision to put on hold the construction of a maximum security prison, and instead make it a top priority. The prime minister, in the wake of the August 11 mass...
Principals across the Corporate Area are anticipating a smooth reopening of school on Monday, after putting in weeks of preparation. At the New Providence Primary School, Principal Nicole Thompson was relieved that damage to the sewerage system at...
WESTERN BUREAU: School administrators in western Jamaica are expressing mixed feelings about the readiness of their institutions ahead of Monday’s start of the new academic year, with availability of school supplies and poor road conditions among...
WESTERN BUREAU: In a world where the fight against cancer deserves steadfast support, many patients are, instead, grappling with a different struggle: the battle to maintain their jobs while undergoing life-saving treatment. Cancer survivor and...
Dr Kenneth Russell, deputy opposition spokesperson on education and community development, has expressed concern that some schools lack the basic resources to operate when they reopen next week. “It’s one thing to reopen and to have the doors open...
WESTERN BUREAU: Alarming statistics outlined by the executive director of the National Health Fund (NHF), Everton Anderson, show that some 7,500 new cancer cases were reported in 2022 in Jamaica, with 1,327 of these being breast cancer. Anderson,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hugh Grant, president and chief executive officer of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), is being hailed after electricity was finally ‘fully restored’ to customers in St Elizabeth, a month after he took office and almost two months...
The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) has announced Christopher Zacca, president and chief executive officer of Sagicor Group Jamaica, as the newest honoree to be inducted into the PSOJ Hall of Fame. Zacca’s induction comes as the...
Waynette Strachan, the Opposition’s junior spokesperson on education and community development, on Wednesday, called on the Ministry of Education to provide clarity on the plans for schools with delayed openings as a result of damage from Hurricane...
Britney Graham’s worst fears were realised yesterday when she found the headless decomposing body of a woman, who she strongly believes is her aunt, Suzette Clarke, who went missing last Thursday. “Me did in shock. Mi heart start race. Mi did a...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has indicated it has no legal interest in the shooting death of Private Ejay Domville despite a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) statement yesterday indicating that authority over the probe into the...
Alfred Thomas, principal of Brown’s Town High in St Ann, has less than a week to fill nine vacancies on his teaching staff after facing the bulk of teacher resignations in late August. However, he is not very optimistic that he will be able to...
